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Jet Engines
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NATURAL SCIENCE
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8 / 1986 |
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Ron David
Ron David is a commercial pilot, and a free-lance writer and
filmmaker in the areas of aviation, safety, and history who
resides in Arlington, Virginia. |
Seventy-year-old Arnesta Ocepek was sitting in her car waiting for a friend when the pain began. First it felt like indigestion. Then the pressure began to build and Mrs. Ocepek decided to drive the few blocks back to her apartment and rest for a while.
By the time she got to her door, she felt absolutely horrible and called her neighbor across the hall for help. The neighbor took one look at her ashen face and called the rescue squad. Arnesta Ocepek was dying. During the next several hours, however, a series of events were to take place that would save her life.
Arnesta was transported to a nearby hospital, where it was determined she had an aneurysm. A blood vessel near her heart was badly damaged, and the attending physician explained that the only place her particular problem could be handled was at the Methodist Hospital in Houston more than a thousand miles away. A Lear jet equipped as a mobile intensive care unit was chartered, and today, after successful surgery, Arnesta Ocepek is home again. She is not completely well, and another trip to Houston will be necessary for follow-up treatment, but thanks in part to speedy jet transportation, Arnesta is making plans for the future.
This is an example of the benefits that have become commonplace through the jet airplane.
When a vital part on one of the Ford Motor Company's assembly lines in Detroit broke down, a courier jet picked up a replacement in Atlanta and delivered it to Michigan in less than three hours. Two thousand assembly line workers were back on the job before lunch time.
Jet flight has reduced our planet to the size of Manhattan Island if you consider that it took about a day to send a messenger halfway round the island when Dutch traders purchased it from the Indians. Today, anyone can fly to almost any location on the earth in a day, giving rise to the concept of the Global Village.
Until the early part of this century we were obliged to cross the oceans by ship, requiring travel times measured in weeks. Today we can do so in jumbo jets in one-twentieth of the time. Jet travel is comfortable, convenient, and per passenger mile by far the safest mode of transportation known to man. As a result, millions of travelers cross the oceans every year and tens of millions travel by jet continentally. Through air travel, the term 'remote region' has almost become
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