Choices towards air transportation among the student in UiTM: the comparison studies of MAS and Air Asia / Azuwan Abu Seman ... [et al.]

The topic for this research is focus on Perception towards air transportations among the student in UiTM Negeri Sarawak Campus Samarahan: the comparison studies of MAS and Air Asia. First of all is about the history of the Air transportation. It began on the modem age of aviation began with the first untethered human lighter-than-air flight on November 21, 1783, in a hot air balloon designed by the Montgolfier brothers, and balloon flight became increasingly common over longer and longer distances throughout the 19th century, continuing to the present The practicality of balloons was limited by the fact that they could only travel downwind. It was immediately recognized that a steerable, or dirigible, balloon was required. Although several airships, as steerable balloons came to be called, were built during the 1800's, the first aircraft to make routine flights were made by the Brazilian aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont. Santos- Dumont effectively combined an elongated balloon with an internal combustion engine. On October 19,1901 he became world famous when he flew his airship "Number 6" over Paris to win the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize. Santos-Dumont's success with airships proved that controlled and sustained flight was possible.