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Leisure Travel Market Potential for a High Speed Civil Transport

A second-generation supersonic airliner, known as the High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT), is now on the drawing boards to replace mid-life Concorde and to expand into longer-range markets beginning early next century.

Success in Aviation Education: A National Survey of Secondary Aviation Magnet Programs

In 1925, Galt High School in California established the first recorded public school flight-training program. The flight and aviation education offered there quite likely represents the first application of aerospace edu…

Learning Takes Flight ’93: Award-Winning Educators Use Aviation to Spark Student Achievement

Nine teachers from six states were chosen as 1993 winners of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) annual Award for Excellence in Aviation Education.

Graduate Education in Airport Administration: Preparing Airport Managers for the 21st Century

Growing numbers of students pursuing management careers in aviation are seeking graduate degrees to prepare for the complex and evolving challenges in the aviation industry.

Analysis and Results of National Study on Women in Collegiate Aviation

This research investigation collected and analyzed information that can be used to examine the reasons for the seemingly low number of women in the U.S. collegiate aviation educational system.

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Darwin Would Be Justifiably Proud

As the international aviation community awaits U.S. government action on the report of the National Commission to Ensure a Strong Competitive Airline Industry (1993), Charles Darwin would be justifiably proud.

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Testing for the Existence of the Pilot Personality Profile in Collegiate Professional Pilot Candidates

This study explored the existence of the so-called pilot's personality profile in collegiate professional pilot candidates, based on selected factors of the Edwards Personality Preference Schedule (EPPS).

Professional Pilot Studies: Proposed Content

Professional pilot collegiate aviation curricula vary not only in depth of information, but also in topical content area. Although fundamental flight-related skills are clearly important, future graduates must be familia…

Training Pilots or Educating Captains? A Framework for Collegiate Ab Initio Programs

During the past five years, several studies have been conducted to assess the future availability of airline pilots and other aviation professionals (McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Co., 1989; Sypher-Mueller International, 19…

An Evaluation of Cockpit Resource Management Training in Qantas

This study reports an evaluation of a Cockpit Resource Management (CRM) training program at Qantas Airlines in Australia. Four sets of survey data were gathered: Two from crew involved in CRM and a specific Line Oriented…

A Comparative Analysis of Airline Pilots’ Approaches to Learning

This paper reports a study investigating approaches to learning (deep, surface, achieving) by airline pilots. Three hundred and forty-six respondents from five international airlines and an institute completed the Pilot …

Too Little Too Late

Few readers of this page would disagree that the U.S. air carrier system is in a shambles and the situation has gotten no better in the most recent past.

Airway Science (AWS): A Promise Kept or an Opportunity Missed?

It seems like only yesterday that J. Lynx Helms, then administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), proposed a plan to develop a baccalaureate-level education program intended to better prepare future FAA m…

Airline Quality Rating 1994

The Airline Quality Rating was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method of comparing airlien performance on combined multiple factors inportant to consumers.

Mission Operations and Command Assurance: Automating an Operations TQM Task

A long-term program is in progress at JPL to reduce cost and risk of mission operations through defect prevention and error management.

A Human Factors Guide for Aviation Maintenance

Airline Quality Rating 1993

The Airline Quality Rating was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method of comparing airline performance on combined multiple factors important to consumers.

Air Transportation Challenges of the 1990s, Part III

This is the final of a series of three editorials about the challenges of the air transportation system in the 1990s. The first of the series appeared in the fall 1992 issue of JAAER covered traffic demand, profitability…

Availability of Proficient Entry-level Airline Pilots: A Factor in Four of Six Hiring Criteria Tested

This study was conducted to determine if a relationship exists between the availability of proficient entry-level airline pilots and the level of flight training required of new-hire pilots at regional airlines.

Aviation Education - Why?

I will outline four areas which I believe encompass the reasons the industry has formed the National Coalition for Aviation Education (NCAE).

Cross-Cultural Underpinnings of the Taiping Rebellion: Potential Modern Applications

This paper enlarges our understanding of the Chinese culture by exploring the Taiping Rebellion, a bloody uprising in China that resulted when two cultures crossed.

Personality and Hazardous Judgment Patterns Within A Student Civil Aviation Population

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality profiles and hazardous judgment patterns within a student civil aviation population.

The Airline Quality Rating: Developing an Industry Standard

This article presents a brief summary of the Airline Quality Rating (AQR) methodology, AQR results for 1991 and 1992, an overview of the Statistical Process Control (SPC) method, and its application to AQR data.

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Transfer of Learning Effectiveness: PC-Based Flight Simulation

Sixty college students with no previous flight experience performed a designated aircraft maneuver so transfer of learning between a computer-based training device (CBTD) and an aircraft could be analyzed.

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The Demand for Aviation Activities at General Aviation Airports: An Empirical Study

This paper develops two models that relate the number of aircraft operations and number of based aircraft at general aviation airports to certain socioeconomic variables and characteristics of the counties where the airp…

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Learning Takes Flight: Award-Winning Educators Use Aviation to Spark Student Achievement

Eleven teachers from eight different states were chosen as 1991 winners of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) annual Award for Excellence in Aviation Education.

Determinants of Underrepresentation of Women in Aviation Education

This analysis will study demographics regarding women aviation pilots/educators to ascertain the past, present, and future participation of women in all aspects of the aviation field.

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A Cost Analysis: Re-Engining a Boeing 727-200 (Advanced) Versus Buying a New Boeing 757-200

The Boeing 727-200 and 757-200 are both narrowbody aircraft designed for short- to medium-range flights carrying 164 to 214 passengers.

Aerospace Education vs. Aviation and Space Education

There are many different organizations involved in developing programs and teaching materials which use aviation and space concepts in education.

The Tilted Playing Field

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What Evidence Exists to Verify That Learning through Aviation Works?

Educators and advocates for change of our schools in general and to increase student performance in particular are increasingly turning to aviation education, learning through aviation, and/or aerospace education.

Pass It Along

Among the growing number of aviation educators in this country is the know-how and the background of skills needed to cope with the multiplicity of problems faced by less experienced professors of aviation education.

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