Before aircrafts were developed, people used to travel by train, vehicles or sail across the sea. These methods of transport posted much troubles to commuters, which often require them to travel over a long period of time. With the invention of aircraft, it changed the way people travel across great distances. This is an example of a disruptive innovation, with monumental benefits for traveller, allowing them to shorten travelling time. In today’s context, it is common for people to travel around in a plane.
Over the years, there are many evolutionary changes in the aviation industries, planes have increased in capacity, speed and improved on reducing negative externalities. In my opinion, there might be a revolutionary change soon to come. With the invention of unmanned aerial vehicle, will it be possible for people to travel in an airplane without a human pilot but a computer software taking full control of the plane instead?
1) Timeline on significant aviation technology
2) Brief background on how it came about
History of other methods of travelling before airplanes were invented.
Include problems and constrains.
3) Historical Perspective
The revolutionary change that arose from invention of Airplanes
Benefits and Disadvantages
Failed revolutionary change (jetpack)
Why such innovation failed
4) Current Situation
Further improvement on Airplanes (evolutionary change)
- Safety (Blackbox)
- Capacity (Double Deck planes A380)
- Speed
5) Future Consideration
Revolutionary change
- Possibility of planes without human pilot
- Benefits and Disadvantages
Evolutionary change
- Hypersonic planes
Hi Keith,
ReplyDeleteI think you could extend your scope a bit, and touch on any improvements to airplanes with regards to its impact on the environment, like how they've become more fuel efficient or made of lighter materials. Then for future considerations, you could mention the solar-powered plane.
Also, perhaps under Current Situation, you could talk about how the reliance on technology and automated systems has reduced pilots’ flying proficiency that they’re “forgetting how to fly”. You can view the article here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/8732414/Airline-pilots-so-reliant-on-computers-they-forget-how-to-fly.html
And then from there you could link to how it may pave way to the revolutionary change of planes without human pilots, since they’re already forgetting then we might as well do away with them (haha).
Your outline is clear and straightforward, and wverall, I think it's an interesting topic, especially about the jetpack and the hypersonic plane. All the best!
Regards,
Eliza
Hi!
ReplyDeleteAs the topic is close to my heart, I am intrigued by it especially the future considerations part! :) For the current situation, maybe you can briefly talk about why certain planes are different from the others? Some airlines use higher technology to build it? What will be the positive and negative impacts on it? You could also compare what technology did airplanes use, that consumers feel is much better than other modes of transport?
I was also thinking you can also consider the technology that have been employed to make the airplane ride a much smoother and comfortable one that will attract consumers to take plane. Eg previously there's no mini tv in airplane, now there is one for each consumer, maybe next time, under future consideration, the tv will become 3d or able to detect our motions? Moreover we could also have robotic stewardess next time as well?
Overall, I can follow your outline although it will be better if you could expand a little bit on it. ;)
Georgina
Hello Keith, Chloe here!
ReplyDeleteI like how you included a timeline to give your future paper readers a brief overview of the development of aircraft and other aviation technologies. As for suggestions, I think you can use the segment on failed technologies to also compare them to successful ones at the part where you were going to discuss their reasons for failure (assuming you haven't yet). Maybe another thing you can take note of as you begin on your paper also is that the language doesn't get too technical/make it simple and understandable to the layman, because personally, having little contextual knowledge on aviation technology, I don't recall hearing about the blackbox (oops). But that small matter aside, maybe you can also expand on how people will receive potential future aviation tech as well- how will they view pilot-less airplanes? Will there be any concerns about emergency situations/unforeseen circumstances that a computer would be less equipped to deal with compared to a human pilot?
Other than that I think your outline looks quite solid and clear because I can really see your thought process and how your intro leads into your topic of interest. Just keep working on your paper, I'm very keen to see how you develop it! Will let you know if I think of any more suggestions as well :)