DELHI PUBLIC SCHOOL BHOPAL
Key Words
HAPPY GO LUCKY ERA
OF FLYING CRATES Rishabh Garg
[email protected]
miles
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Air crafts
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Aviation
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Brace strut
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Flivvers
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Gyro
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Propellers
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Gone are the days when past generations
Arctic,
learned to fly by the seat of their pants.
human settlement with a broken wing
There was, obviously, a certain romance
bracing strut or undercarriage. In the
attached to flying in those days. The
olden days, flyers were acknowledged for
pilots were gentleman explorers pitting
their terrific wits and in countless tragic
their wits against something mysterious.
episodes, they made a successful come
The unknown was virtually everything
back on hand whittled propellers, ad hoc
that had to do with the airplanes, the
struts and other ingenious make-shift
engines and the conditions under which
repairs.
they flew.
500
Aero plane
from
the
nearest
Time marches on and aviation has since
A compass was a device filled with a
swept ahead with giant strides. The pre-
precision fluid known as alcohol - a gadg-
sent day aircrafts, the modern master-
et as meaningless as most of others that
pieces of precision workmanship & class,
littered the entire instrument panel with
signify
misinformation. There was no point in
research and aerodynamic experience in
relying
in
their design. Many a flyers indifferently
those days. The birdcages they flew were
climb abroad everyday on airlines can
over
mechanical
minutiae
so unpredictable they let the pilots down every few hundred kilometers in any affair. It was a slapdash, happy go lucky era of aviation but it rooted a skyward
the
attainment
of
years
of
never chew over the heroic (larger-thanlife) mission of the early birds. Today, we are
equipped
with
information
and
knowledge that over six decades of trial & error, of toil & effort and human sacri-
obsession in the public.
fice have placed at our disposal. TomorToday,
the
sky-scrapers
may
never
experience the dilemma of being down in
row we can blast off into space with equal equanimity.
