Karl Radison P.

Abrea November 10, 2022

AeE – 2103 Aerospace Vehicle Performance

Reaction Paper “Airbus H130”

Humans are envious of birds' wings. For thousands of years, we've concocted wild plans
to soar like birds. As the ancient Greeks imagined Icarus and Daedalus, who created wings out of
bird feathers, strings, and wax. With all of our curiosity and dedication to achieving our greed, a
man named Leonardo da Vinci put a little more thought into this particular subject, a subject in
which humans are capable of soaring into the air, and his work became the stepping stone of the
new era, drafting plans for a mechanical winged contraption known as the ornithopter.

After a couple of years of human hard work and dedication to striving for efficiency in
life, we are now basically capable of making machines, technologies and etc. that make our
everyday tasks as easy as possible. Like if you want to travel or visit your relatives who live very
far away from your place, we have a solution for that. We build a machine that we can ride on to
go to places we want, which makes every transportation more efficient than walking or riding a
horse like we used to do before cars are invented. And if you want to cross across the country we
have aircraft that can fly to the places you want to go. My point is, as of now, most of the
problems we encountered now were given a solution and as we all know we don't stop there, we
always want to improve or enhance a particular solution we create because we humans always
have this greed for development. One of those is aircraft, there are a lot of models of aircraft that
are designed for specific jobs, like the Airbus H130. It is an intermediate single-engine helicopter
tailored for passenger transport, sightseeing, and VIP duties, as well as medical airlift and
surveillance missions. As a multi-role rotorcraft, the H130 has a spacious cabin for one pilot and
up to seven passengers. It has a lot more to offer than it looks, this piece of its greatness is just a
few that I've learned in the webinar. But the most thing I've learned in the 4-5 hours of discussion
is that our country is inclined toward this topic, and the aviation industry of the Philippines will
do its best to be better. This Webinar opened my eyes to a new perspective of what my life
would be after I graduate.