Absolutely inspired by the official’s video project of the new AICM, I remembered the project’s magnitudes of Adolfo Suarez-Madrid Barajas Terminal 4 and Terminal 4S building (opened in 2006) this is one of the projects that if you are lucky to be part of, as I was in MAD airport. You’ll be absolutely sure…
Category: MISC
On the potential of Biofuels
It is a pleasure to welcome the first external collaborator of aeriaa.com Rui Carapeto, economist, university professor and independent consultant. He is also an Ultralight aircraft pilot. As Rui, if you want to send us articles related to aviation’s technologies, please send them to info [at] aeriaa.com. Environmental issues have become a major topic of…
On learning to fly (Gliding)
aeriaA as a website about aviation tries to cover all the topics. But there is one basic topic that is the primary reason of writing about airports, technologies applied to them, aviation history, interviews to experts, mobile apps, etc. The reason is that we fly, on a plane, on parachutes, delta wings, whatever, so…
On Project Management and Joint Strike Fighter Program (part II)
In the first post (On Project Management and Joint Strike Fighter Program (part I)) I introduced the JSF contract competition and I started to talk about Project management thoughts related to the Nova documentary about the JSF program. In this post I would like to continue with it. Writing as a scriptwriter of interlaced movies,…
On Project Management and Joint Strike Fighter Program (part I)
I highly recommend you to view the following video about the Joint Strike Fighter contract competition for building the new All-in-one fighter for the USAF, Marines and Navy. You almost need two hours for watching it (you have the audio transcription in this site Nova Transcript). But please, read first this post. It’s about competition,…
On airport models
Today I want to delve into a passion since I was a kid, the models. I think I made more than 100 airplane models, mainly in 1/72 scale, every Xmas I wrote a letter with 10 models, fun for months 🙂 The best brand I bought those days were Hasegawa and the worse probably Italieri (I didn’t…
That’s one small instruction for a machine, one giant leap for computing
Let’s me take the most famous quote in the Space Race history from Neil Amstrong. “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” One month ago, an ex-colleague @mt_aertec shared a link that fascinated me instantly. It was about the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) that put Apollo 11th on the Moon. Then…