Aviation research, sourced & cited.

SOME MEASURED CHARACTERISTICS OF SEVERE STORM TURBULENCE

Severe storm turbulence

AUTORADIOGRAPHY OF FATIGUE FRACTURE IN ALUMINUM

Autoradiography of fatigue fracture in aluminum

Factors Affecting the Use of Emergency and Abnormal Checklists: Implications for Current and NextGen Operations

The purpose of the current study was two-fold: 1) identify current practices associated with the design and content of checklists used to guide pilot response to emergency and abnormal situations, particularly those know…

Transition flight control room automation

The Workstation Prototype Laboratory is currently working on a number of projects which can have a direct impact on ground operations automation.

Improving situation awareness displays for air traffic controllers

Situation awareness displays play a critical role in the performance of air traffic controllers, but present versions are far from ideal.

EMS helicopter incidents reported to the NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System

The objectives of this evaluation were to: Identify the types of safety-related incidents reported to the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) in Emergency Medical Service (EMS) helicopter operations; Describe the ope…

FLIGHT SAFETY ASPECTS OF MANNED SPACE FLIGHT

Flight safety program for mercury manned space vehicle consisting of development engineering and factory rollout inspections, interface control, flight safety reviews, and mission simulation

Stellar evolution.

Stellar evolutionary phases from gravitational contraction to exhaustion of nuclear fuel

Windshear detection - Airborne system perspective

Functional requirements for airborne windshear detection and warning are discussed based on performance criteria of remote sensor devices such as Doppler radar, Doppler laser radar, and infrared radiometric techniques.

Radar detection of the tropopause and clear air turbulence.

Radar detection of tropopause and clear air turbulence

The effects of pilot stress factors on handling quality assessments during US/German helicopter agility flight tests

Flight tests were conducted with two helicopters to study and evaluate the effects of helicopter characteristics and pilot and task demands on performance in nap-of-the-earth flight.

Simulators and training for manned space flight.

Requirements for training and training simulators associated with advanced space flight projects

Manned space flight program management.

Manned space flight program management noting system efficiency, cost factors, reliability and performance reports based on Apollo project

NASA System Wide Safety Project Safety Metrics Research

This is a short set of PPT slides that we will use when we visit several US airlines to provide an introduction to a data collection task supporting the System Wide Safety Project.

A Toolset for Supporting Iterative Human Automation: Interaction in Design

The addition of automation has greatly extended humans' capability to accomplish tasks, including those that are difficult, complex and safety critical.

Physiological Based Simulator Fidelity Design Guidance

The evolution of the role of flight simulation has reinforced assumptions in aviation that the degree of realism in a simulation system directly correlates to the training benefit, i.e., more fidelity is always better.

A Simulation-Based Approach to Training Operational Cultural Competence

Cultural knowledge and skills are critically important for military operations, emergency response, or any job that involves interaction with a culturally diverse population.

Simulation Based Training Improves Airway Management for Helicopter EMS Teams

The use of paralytic medications in the performance of RSI intubation is a high risk intervention used by many HEMS crews. There is no margin for error in RSI intubation as the results can be fatal.

Transition Flight Control Room Automation

The Workstation Prototype Laboratory is currently working on a number of projects which we feel can have a direct impact on ground operations automation.

International Space Station Powered Bolt Nut Anomaly and Failure Analysis Summary

A key mechanism used in the on-orbit assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) pressurized elements is the Common Berthing Mechanism.

Improving Airline Safety

Under a NASA-Ames Space Act Agreement, Coryphaeus Software and Simauthor, Inc., developed an Aviation Performance Measuring System (APMS).

Parachuting to Safety

NASA's Langley Research Center awarded Ballistic Recovery Systems, Inc., three Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts to research and develop a new, low cost, lightweight recovery system for aircraft in both…

Battlespace Forecasting of Aviation Icing Hazards

Aircraft icing endangers aviators, restricts surveillance opportunities, and reduces combat effectiveness.

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Adequate performance was achieved relatively early in the development of ion engines and most subsequent development programs have focussed on demonstrating adequate engine life.

JPL software training plan

The purpose of this document is to define the software training approach and plans for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Single-event upset in advanced PowerPC microprocessors

Proton and heavy-ion single-event upset susceptibility has been measured for the MotorolaPowerPC7400. The results show that this advanced device has low upset susceptibility, despite the scaling and design advances.

Single-event upset in advanced commercial power PC microprocessors

Single-event upset from heavy ions in measured for advanced commercial microprocessors, comparing upset sensitivity in registers and d-cache for several generations of devices.

Single event upset susceptibility testing of the Xilinx Virtex II FPGA

Heavy ion testing of the Xilinx Virtex IZ was conducted on the configuration, block RAM and user flip flop cells to determine their single event upset susceptibility using LETs of 1.2 to 60 MeVcm^2/mg.

Small Airframe Manufacturer's Icing Perspective

This viewgraph presentation describes the icing effects, risk mitigation practices, and icing certifications for various Cessna small aircraft models.

Materials on the International Space Station - Forward Technology Solar Cell Experiment

This paper describes a space solar cell experiment currently being built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in collaboration with NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC), and the US Naval Academy (USNA).

NASA Airframe Icing Research Overview Past and Current

This slide presentation reviews the past and current research that NASA has done in the area of airframe icing. Both the history experimental efforts and model development to understand the process and problem of ice for…

Inflight and Preflight Detection of Pitot Tube Anomalies

The health and integrity of aircraft sensors play a critical role in aviation safety. Inaccurate or false readings from these sensors can lead to improper decision making, resulting in serious and sometimes fatal consequ…

Scale Model Icing Research Tunnel

NASA Lewis Research Center's Icing Research Tunnel (IRT) is the world's largest refrigerated wind tunnel and one of only three icing wind tunnel facilities in the United States.

Compressor Stall Recovery Through Tip Injection Assessed

Aerodynamic stability is a fundamental limit in the compressor design process. The development of robust techniques for increasing stability has several benefits: enabling higher loading and fewer blades, increasing safe…

Characterizing the Hazard of a Wake Vortex Encounter

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is conducting research with the goal of enabling safe improvements in the capacity of the nation's air transportation system.

CFIT Prevention Using Synthetic Vision

In commercial aviation, over 30-percent of all fatal accidents worldwide are categorized as Controlled Flight Into Terrain (CFIT) accidents where a fully functioning airplane is inadvertently flown into the ground, water…

NASA Lewis Helps Company With New Single-Engine Business Turbojet

Century Aerospace Corporation, a small company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is developing a six-seat aircraft powered by a single turbofan engine for general aviation.

Aeronautical Satellite-Assisted Process for Information Exchange Through Network Technologies (Aero-SAPIENT) Conducted

Broadband satellite communications for aeronautics marries communication and network technologies to address NASA's goals in information technology base research and development, thereby serving the safety and capacity n…

Training Data Optimized and Conditioned to Learn Characteristic Patterns of Vibrating Blisks and Fan Blades

At the NASA Glenn Research Center, we have been training artificial neural networks to interpret the characteristic patterns (see the leftmost image) generated from electronic holograms of vibrating structures.

Crew/Automation Interaction in Space Transportation Systems: Lessons Learned from the Glass Cockpit

The progressive integration of automation technologies in commercial transport aircraft flight decks - the 'glass cockpit' - has had a major, and generally positive, impact on flight crew operations.

Preliminary Integrated Safety Analysis of Synthetic Vision Conducted

The goal of the NASA Aviation Safety Program is to develop and demonstrate technologies that could help reduce the aviation fatal accident rate by a factor of 5 by the year 2007 and by a factor of 10 by the year 2022.

A Numerical Simulation Study to Develop an Acceptable Wake Encounter Boundary for a B737-100 Airplane

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is conducting research with the goal of enabling safe improvements in the capacity of the nation's air transportation system.

A Formal Methods Approach to the Analysis of Mode Confusion

The goal of the new NASA Aviation Safety Program (AvSP) is to reduce the civil aviation fatal accident rate by 80% in ten years and 90% in twenty years.

Piloted Flight Simulator Developed for Icing Effects Training

In an effort to expand pilot training methods to avoid icing-related accidents, the NASA Glenn Research Center and Bihrle Applied Research Inc.

Ceiling Fires Studied to Simulate Low-Gravity Fires

A unique new way to study low-gravity flames in normal gravity has been developed. To study flame structure and extinction characteristics in low-stretch environments, a normal gravity low-stretch diffusion flame was gen…

National Transportation Safety Board Aircraft Accident Investigation Supported

The main purpose of this investigation was for NASA to help the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) gain better understanding of the events that led to the loss of Comair Flight 3272 over Monroe, Michigan, on Jan…

Machine Learning to Assess Pilots’ Cognitive State

The goal of the Crew State Monitoring (CSM) project is to use machine learning models trained with physiological data to predict unsafe cognitive states in pilots such as Channelized Attention (CA) and Startle/Surprise (…

The Effect of Line Maintenance Activity on Airline Safety Quality

One of the arguments against deregulation of the airline industry has been the possibility that financially troubled carriers would be tempted to lower line maintenance spending, thus lowering maintenance quality and dec…

Incident reporting: Its role in aviation safety and the acquisition of human error data

The rationale for aviation incident reporting systems is presented and contrasted to some of the shortcomings of accident investigation procedures.

Assessment of simulation fidelity using measurements of piloting technique in flight

The U.S. Army and NASA joined together on a project to conduct a systematic investigation and validation of a ground based piloted simulation of the Army/Sikorsky UH-60A helicopter.