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A Deadly Year for Malaysia Airlines
Battling the Blaze: A Look Inside Life at Station 17
Airline loses two passengerliners in four months Anthony Carpeneti Staff Reporter
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Matthew Rutowski Advertising Manager The Daytona Beach International Airport sees traffic from all walks of life from flight training, to corporate charters, and of course our scheduled air carriers. The airspace is some of the busiest in the southeast region according to the FAA in the recent 2013 reports. DAB ran over 80,000 local operations last year, and almost 210,000 itin-
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erant where 200,000 of which were General Aviation. This year alone, DAB has almost 150,000 operations completed to date. With the thousands of air carrier operations every year (over 5,000 in 2013), the FAA’s Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR’s) Pt. 139 requires that the airport authority staff an Airport Rescue and Fire Fighting Unit, or ARFF for short. ARFF units are seen across the globe at major airports with air carrier operations to ensure
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Forty five years ago last weekend, the men of Apollo 11 first stepped foot on the moon marking the unparalleled power of the human race. For the first time in history, a species has been able to leave their home planet and conquer a world not originally their own. July 20, 1969 was that defining day. The day that Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin changed
the protection of both life and property when it comes to airline operations. DAB’s ARFF team is actually not staffed by airport employees, but rather is another station of the Volusia County Fire Services office: Station 17. Most would think the boys at Station 17 have the easy job; with just a few incidents a year, it sounds like a retiree’s dream. However, the life of the DAB ARFF team is one in constant motion. Continued on A6 >>
Losing one plane in a year is bad, but when you have two deadly crashes in the span of a year, it is unbelievable. As we all know, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 went missing back in March and we have yet to find it. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was the second one to go down, and this one was blasted out of the sky by Pro Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine. Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was, and still is, the regularly scheduled flight for Malaysia Airlines between Amsterdam and Kuala Lumpur. The last two flights before this one had the flight going south of the area it was shot down in. Some people have said that the flight went to the north to avoid running into thunderstorms that were in the area. There were two other flights in the same area when MH17
was taken down. The rebels allegedly weren’t aiming for MH 17. Instead, they were attempting to shoot down a Ukrainian Ilyushin IL-76 transport jet bringing in supplies to besieged Ukrainian troops in the region. A Russian built Surface to Air missile system called the SA-11 BUK took down the airliner. This system utilizes three separate vehicles to take down aircraft. The first system that is used is called a Snow Drift, and that vehicle receives early warning notifications from surveillance radars. The Snow Drift then shares its data with the Command and Control vehicle, while working in tandem with it. When the target is confirmed, data used for missile launch is sent to the TELAR launch vehicle, which fires the missile. Once the missile is launched, the solid fueled missile utilizes monopulse Continued on A2 >>
Years Later
humanity forever. The United States landing on the moon effectively ended the space race held between the US and Russia. Though the US was second to orbit the earth and second to land an unmanned lunar module, the act of planting a US flag on lunar soil solidified the United State’s superiority in the space race. After Armstrong’s famous first step, the US continued landing astronauts and scientists on the face of the moon until 1972.
man first steps foot on the moon Due to a rapidly shrinking budget and the decisiion not to continue producing Saturn V rockets, three final Apollo missions, Apollo 18 though 20, were eventually cancelled, marking the end of the Apollo Program. Though this may have been the end of the Apollo program, the remaining budget was redirected to NASA’s next major project: the Space Shuttle Program. Captivating millions around the world and gathering a dedicated fan base
for their grace and beauty, the Space Shuttles defined the space program for three decades. Instrumental in the construction of the International Space Station and iconic missions such as the Hubble repair mission, the Space Shuttle allowed humanity the flexibility to do things never before possible. All good things must eventually come to an end; and in 2011, the Space Shuttle Program came to its conclusion.
Though to some its severance was painful, the Space Shuttle will fly again in NASA’s next chapter of space exploration. Dubbed the Space Launch System, or SLS for short, NASA’s next launch platform will return man to the moon. On December 17, 2017, SLS will launch from Kennedy Space Center propelled by one of the very RS-25D SSMEs which brought STS135 to orbit thereby marking the transition into the future of manned space flight.