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Aviation News

Nowadays, aviation news is all over the mainstream press. One of the biggest stories nowadays has to do with the rising cost of fuel. It is a pretty complicated situation really, but basically it boils down to oil-producing companies and countries taking advantage of consumer insecurity about the market. Everyone feels threatened about the oil supply, so they exploit that fear to drive prices up. Unfortunately, this means more expensive tickets for most people, which in turn means less commercial air travel..

Fortunately, not all of the aviation news is bad. I have a friend who has been in the aviation industry for decades, and he is pretty excited about some of the developments he is seeing. All the drives towards maximizing fuel economy caused by the coming oil crisis and the rising prices has led to some pretty neat stuff. There are a number of different developers working on commercial airplanes that are meant to be more efficient than ever before. These work on a few different principles.

According to one of my favorite aviation news sources, the first principle is pretty simple. Basically, bigger is better when you’re talking about transportation. A bus which carries 50 people is more efficient than a car. A train which can carry hundreds is more efficient than the bus. It goes the same way with airplanes. For some of the major carriers on the major routes, they are currently developing super jumbo airplanes that will carry nearly twice as many people as your typical flight. This will save fuel on full flights by allowing the plane to maximize its capacity.

Of course I’ve read aviation news sources that talk about much more high-tech developments in airline efficiency. You see, by using more sophisticated aerodynamics you can also improve efficiency – even for smaller planes. Airplanes get lighter all the time as the materials needed to make them get stronger, but design philosophies change too. There are people working on lifting bodies – basically, airplanes that work on the same principle as the space shuttle. With these current airplanes, the whole fuselage acts as one giant wing. This makes for a more efficient design, although they can be a little bit more difficult to engineer. I’ve been reading the aviation safety news for months looking for any details, and to me it looks like they are going to be approved for sure. Apparently, when serviced by properly trained technicians, they will be as safe as any other commercial planes.

How to find archived newspaper articles online

While you may subscribe to a daily newspaper, history is not made every day. Today’s news sometimes simply becomes fuel to kindle tomorrow’s cozy fire. However, there are newspaper stories that, ten years from now, you wish you’d saved.

Let’s say you’re writing a paper on the 1969 American astronaut’s walk on the moon, or the 1875 outbreak of typhoid fever. You need detailed, rather than summary information you’d typically find online. You’d really like to take a look at some of the original newspaper articles on this historic event. Where do you go online to find archived newspaper articles dating this far back?

Prior to the 1990’s, there were no digitally created newspaper articles. Some newspapers have retyped the exact verbiage of a limited number of historic newspaper articles in a digitized format to compile online archived newspaper articles, but most newspapers have found this to be a costly and time intensive effort. While some newspapers continue to forward this effort, you will often find that accessing these articles will cost you money.

One good place to start your search is The Internet Public Library. This organization posts plenty of good leads, tips and urls on their FAQs page on archived newspaper articles.

The Library of Congress has compiled a limited number of now digitized archives of specific newspapers published from 1900 to 1910, plus a fairly complete directory of newspapers published in the United States from 1690 until the present.

Google has recently begun to champion compilations of archived newspaper articles of historical events, spanning some 200 years. This is truly a rich resource for the researcher. For example, in the case of the 1875 typhoid epidemic, you’ll find thousands of results. Google also offers an advanced search feature, allowing you to zero in on geographic results, as well as a time line feature, a definite asset to that class-A college paper.

Google also has their official Google blog, dedicated to historical events recorded in archived newspaper articles. Just go to blogspot.com and search on ‘googleblog archived history’ for a plethora of valuable resources. You’ll find archived news articles on that 1969 moon walk.

Once you begin to search, you’ll be amazed to discover the diversity of topics and periods for which someone has made the effort to digitize archived newspaper articles. Want to know all about the FBI’s historic cases? Are you a Titanic buff? A sports fan? Are you researching asbestos poisoning? How and where did AIDS first come to public attention? Do you want to know everything about Abraham Lincoln? Maybe you’re writing a school paper on your state’s history. Are you going for a degree in the culinary arts? There are search engines which specialize in trade publications, showcasing archived newspaper articles which can earn you an ‘A’!

You don’t even need to have an academic purpose to make use of and enjoy researching resources of archived newspaper articles. Haven’t you ever wondered about what really transpired in historic events of long ago? Read those newspapers.