I have this urge to travel, any ideas? Options

[BlackCelicaGT94]

I need some places to consider traveling to and also some reasons -such as places to see and go

please keep them within the US as my passport expires this spring and im not looking to travel with anyone at this moment and so i dont really wanna leave the country by myself


Talie

[orvillescelica]

History lesson: The Spruce Goose! was probibly one of the best worst planes ever, it was very cool and the biggest, but only actualy flew for like 30 sec, its cable/pully system that controled the flaps, ruters, etc maid it all but imposible to operate.

Australia is one of the places I have to see befor i die, (I wana go down under
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Engineering lesson: All planes, esp those back in the 1930s, basically use mechanical cable/pulley systems to manuever its control surfaces. Only in the past decade have planes been created with fly-by wire systems. There are some pretty lengthy equations that describe the correct control system feedback for cable driven flight controls. They are very scalable and was not the reason why the goose did not succeed.

History Lesson: The Spruce Goose was an insane project by the ecentric Howard Hughes. But it is marvel of ingeneous engineering. It was created to make trans-atlantic flights to aid in suppling the allied forces during WW2. But the war ended during its design phase. Only one was made. By the time that one was built, it had already sucked up so much money that congress forced Hughes to conceed. During a taxi test it which it was suppose to just be moved, Huges realized this would be the only oppurtunity he would have to ever see it fly. So he ignored tower orders and put her at full throttle. She lifted off the water surface and flew for about a mile. It didnt matter how long it flew. The point was that all the critics that said an aircraft that size couldnt fly were shut up. It proved that the same thoeries that made a toy airplane fly could be scaled to make anything, any size fly, there were no limits.