Aviation research, sourced & cited.

Curated index of aviation-relevant research from NASA NTRS, NTSB safety studies, FAA CAMI, and academic sources. Every record links back to its original — we don't host PDFs, we describe each paper and credit the authors. Built for cross-link with the rest of Atlas: search by topic, drill into a CFR section or airframe and see the research that bears on it.

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Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons

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NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Proceedings

Analyses of flight model spacecraft performance during thermal-vacuum tests.

Malfunction data from the thermal-vacuum tests of 39 flight-model spacecraft have been analyzed. These data are compared to the data listed in the 1968 Technical Note, NASA TN D-4908, 'Time Required for an Adequate Therm…
NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Technical Memorandum (TM)

Water/glycol temperature control circuit failed in the automatic mode: Apollo 16

An anomaly report concerning failure of the water/glycol temperature control circuit during the Apollo 16 flight is presented. The anomaly is described and diagrams of the system are presented.
NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Technical Memorandum (TM)

Apollo 15 mission main parachute failure

The failure of one of the three main parachutes of the Apollo 15 spacecraft was investigated by studying malfunctions in the forward heat shield, broken riser, and firing the fuel expelled from the command module reactio…
NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Paper

Safety in flight operations.

Manned space flight safety, discussing system design, operations planning, staffing, training and simulation
NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Conference Paper

Mission design for flight safety.

Manned space flight safety through mission trajectory design, considering hardware, software and operational constraints
NASA NTRS 2019 CDMS Contractor Report (CR)

Engineering design of a pitot-static probe payload Engineering report no. 2

Engineering aspects of instrumentation and circuitry for pitot-static probe payloads for Nike-Cajun rockets