Aviation research, sourced & cited.

Fatigue and Fatigue Countermeasures

Sleep can play an important role in alleviating health disparities, as inadequate sleep is associated with serious, adverse health conditions including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, and premature mor…

Validation of Proposed Go-Around Criteria Under Various Environmental Conditions

This paper evaluates the effects of environmental conditions on touchdown performance under varying approach states and validates proposed go-around criteria developed using data from a previously conducted study under t…

Training for Long-Duration Space Missions: A Literature Review into Skill Retention and Generalizability

In long-duration space missions, skill retention and generalizability become ever more important as mission length increases, for it is through these capabilities that astronaut crews achieve autonomy.

"Sensor Web Evolution - Webs of Webs for NASA Science - Focus on small Uninhabited Aerial Systems (sUAS)"

This paper will describe the evolution of information collection, derivation and delivery mechanisms in webs of NASA sensor webs, with a focus on recent advancements in small Uninhabited Aerial Systems (sUAS).

Combining GOES-16 and Surface Ceilometer Data to Improve Cloud Ceiling Estimates over the U.S.

To better address the low ceiling hazard to aviation, a hybrid approach is taken that utilizes satellite data to extend cloud ceiling information contained in surface station observations to much wider areas.

The Relationship between Workload, Performance and Fatigue in a Short-Haul Airline

Short-haul flights are associated with irregular work schedules and increased workload, due to frequent takeoffs and landings. We examined the relationship between pilot workload, performance and subjective fatigue durin…

Pilot Evaluation of Proposed Go-Around Criteria for Transport Category Aircraft

The primary objective of this study was to capture pilot feedback and decision-making with regard to proposed, hypothetical, go-around criteria that were developed based on previous research.

Molten Silicate Reactivity with Environmental Barrier Coating Materials for Gas Turbine Engine Applications

Rare earth (RE) disilicates are utilized in environmental barrier coatings (EBCs) to protect SiC-based ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) from destructive reactions with water vapor and other combustion species.

NASA research experience on jet aircraft control problems in severe turbulence

NASA research experience on jet aircraft control problems in severe turbulence

San Francisco Bar Pilot Fatigue Study

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the extent of fatigue among San Francisco Bar Pilots (Maritime Pilots) and its potential impact on safety, and to make recommendations concerning how the risk of fatigue could be…

Effect of resistance training on muscle use during exercise

This study examined the effect of resistance training on exercise-induced contrast shift in magnetic resonance (MR) images. It was hypothesized that a given load could be lifted after training with less muscle showing co…

Langley's 50th Year

This video gives an historical overview of Langley Research Center's major achievements in aeronautics and astronautics research between the years 1917-1967.

Pilot/Controller Coordinated Decision Making in the Next Generation Air Transportation System

Introduction: NextGen technologies promise to provide considerable benefits in terms of enhancing operations and improving safety. However, there needs to be a thorough human factors evaluation of the way these systems w…

Aircraft icing: Introduction

The objectives of the Workshop were as follows: (1) to assess the current understanding of fixed wing and rotorcraft operational icing environments and problems (2) to evaluate facilities requirements for R&D and certifi…

Applications of research on human decision making

Human decision making in manned space flight including topics on memory models, signal detection, and pilot performance

Flight simulators. Part 1: Present situation and trends. Part 2: Implications for training

The present situation and developments in the technology of flight simulators based on digital computers are evaluated from the standpoint of training airline flight crews.

Slewing maneuvers and vibration control of space structures by feedforward/feedback moment-gyro controls

This paper presents a moment-gyro control approach to the maneuver and vibration suppression of a flexible truss arm undergoing a constant slewing motion.

Range Flight Safety Requirements

The purpose of this NASA Technical Standard is to provide the technical requirements for the NPR 8715.5, Range Flight Safety Program, in regards to protection of the public, the NASA workforce, and property as it pertain…

Optimal recovery from microburst wind shear

The flight path of a twin-jet transport aircraft is optimized in a microburst encounter during approach to landing. The objective is to execute an escape maneuver that maintains safe ground clearance and an adequate stal…

Deep stall characteristics of MU-300

The deep stall characteristics of the MU-300 Diamond aircraft are described. The MU-300 obtained type certification from the FAA in 1981, and from Canada, West Germany, and England in 1983.

Antecedents and analogues - Experimental aircraft

The paper reviews the development of experimental aircraft from 1953 to the present. Consideration is given to the X-series experimental aircraft, to X-15 (the first aerospace plane), to the transition of experimental ai…

Human factors: Aeronautics

The objectives of the Aeronautics Human Factors Research and Technology program are to provide the technology base and capability to design effective crew-cockpit systems and to advance solutions to human problems affect…

The Sub-bureau for Atmospheric Angular Momentum of the International Earth Rotation Service - A meteorological data center with geodetic applications

By exchanging angular momentum with the solid portion of the earth, the atmosphere plays a vital role in exciting small but measurable changes in the rotation of our planet.

Ikhana: Unmanned Aircraft System Western States Fire Missions. Monographs in Aerospace History, Number 44

In 2006, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., obtained a civil version of the General Atomics MQ-9 unmanned aircraft system and modified it for research purposes.

NASA research experience on jet aircraft control problems in severe turbulence

Wind tunnel tests, flight simulation tests, and flight tests on jet aircraft control in severe atmospheric turbulence

Airline Safety and Economy

This video documents efforts at NASA Langley Research Center to improve safety and economy in aircraft. Featured are the cockpit weather information needs computer system, which relays real time weather information to th…

Certification

Objective 1: Provide regulators with a methodology for development of airworthiness requirements for certification of UAS. a) Rationale: a comprehensive methodology does not currently exist to support development of regu…

Spacebased Estimation of Moisture Transport in Marine Atmosphere Using Support Vector Regression

An improved algorithm is developed based on support vector regression (SVR) to estimate horizonal water vapor transport integrated through the depth of the atmosphere ((Theta)) over the global ocean from observations of …

Space Shuttle Corrosion Protection Performance

The reusable Manned Space Shuttle has been flying into Space and returning to earth for more than 25 years. The launch pad environment can be corrosive to metallic substrates and the Space Shuttles are exposed to this en…

N.A.C.A. Stall-Warning Device

With some airplanes the approach to the stall is accompanied by changes in the behavior, such as tail buffeting or changes in the control characteristics of the airplane so that the pilot obtains a warning of the impendi…

Dual Expander Cycle Rocket Engine with an Intermediate, Closed-cycle Heat Exchanger

A dual expander cycle (DEC) rocket engine with an intermediate closed-cycle heat exchanger is provided. A conventional DEC rocket engine has a closed-cycle heat exchanger thermally coupled thereto.

The Effects of Safety Information on Aeronautical Decision Making

The importance of aeronautical decision making (ADM) has been considered one of the most critical issues of flight education for future professional pilots.

Crash-Fire Protection System for T-56 Turbopropeller Engine Using Water as Cooling and Inerting Agent

A crash-fire protection system to suppress the ignition of crash-spilled fuel that may be ingested by a T-56 turbopropeller engine is described.

Thrust Characteristics of Multiple Lifting Jets in Ground Proximity

An investigation has been made to determine the thrust characteristics within ground proximity of a series of models which might represent vertical take-off-and-landing (VTOL) aircraft with multiple exit jet engines exha…

A Combined Water-Bromotrifluoromethane Crash-Fire Protection System for a T-56 Turbopropeller Engine

A crash-fire protection system is described which will suppress the ignition of crash-spilled fuel that may be ingested by a T-56 turbo-propeller engine.

Another Approach to Enhance Airline Safety: Using Management Safety Tools

The ultimate goal of conducting an accident investigation is to prevent similar accidents from happening again and to make operations safer system-wide.

Longitudinal Aerodynamic Characteristics of a Four-Propeller Deflected Slipstream VTOL Model Including the Effects of Ground Proximity

Results are presented of a wind-tunnel investigation of the longitudinal stability, control, and performance characteristics of a model of a four-propeller deflected-slipstream VTOL airplane in the transition speed range…

The Airline Quality Rating 2003

The Airline Quality Rating (AQR) was developed and first announced in early 1991 as an objective method of comparing airline quality on combined multiple performance criteria.

Pilot Program for the Development of Classification and Accuracy Assessment Methods and Improved Accessibility for Landsat and Related GIS Data and Technology Transfer of These Methods to State and Local Governments

This project has a single, comprehensive objective that is manifested in many tangible products and impacts throughout the state and the mid-south region.

Investigation of a Water-Pond Arresting of a Dynamic Model of a Jet Transport

Brief dynamic-model tests have been made at the request of the Federal Aviation Agency to investigate the use of a shallow pond of water at the end of a runway as a means of arresting jet-transport aircraft when they are…

The Conference Proceedings of the 1998 Air Transport Research Group (ATRG) of the WCTR Society

Thirteen papers (presentations) from the 8th World Conference on Transportation Research are presented. Topics include European Airline competition, cost analyses, performance evaluations, deregulation; aviation policy i…

Quality Training and Learning in Aviation: Problems of Alignment

The challenge of producing training programs that lead to quality learning outcomes is ever present in aviation, especially when economic and regulatory pressures are brought into the equation.

A Summary of Operating Conditions Experienced by Three Military Helicopters and a Mountain-Based Commercial Helicopter

The results of a survey of the flight conditions experienced by three military helicopters engaged in simulated and actual military missions, and a commercial helicopter operated in the mountainous terrain surrounding De…

Aviation System Safety and Pilot Risk Perception: Implications for Enhancing Decision-Making Skills

This research explores risk perception in a defined population of flight instructors and the implications of these views for flight training.

Cloudy 94 and Applications to Quasar Emission Line Regions

This review discusses the most recent developments of the plasma simulation code Cloudy and its application to the, emission-line regions of quasars.

Human Factors Certification of Advanced Aviation Technologies

Proceedings of the Human Factors Certification of Advanced Aviation Technologies Conference held at the Chateau de Bonas, near Toulouse, France, 19-23 July 1993.

The Effect of Corporate Influence in the Short Haul Business Travel Market

The importance of corporate involvement in the decision making process for business related air travel is being increasingly recognised in the literature. Business travellers consume air services (i.e.

Corporate Social Responsibility in Aviation

The dialog within aviation management education regarding ethics is incomplete without a discussion of corporate social responsibility (CSR).

Ditching Investigation of a Dynamic Model of a HU2K-1 Helicopter

Various configurations and approach conditions were investigated in order to determine the ditching behavior and the best ditching procedure.

Icing: Accretion, Detection, Protection

The global aircraft industry and its regulatory agencies are currently involved in three major icing efforts: ground icing; advanced technologies for in-flight icing; and tailplane icing.