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.

NASA NTRS

1,277

NTSB Safety Studies

NTSB Aircraft Accident Reports

Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons

1,981

2 matches · Suborbital

Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2018 ERAU Journal article (JAAER)

Space Operations in the Suborbital Space Flight Simulator and Mission Control Center: Lessons Learned with XCOR Lynx

This study was conducted to better understand the performance of the XCOR Lynx vehicle. Because the Lynx development was halted, the best knowledge of vehicle dynamics can only be found through simulator flights.
Embry-Riddle Scholarly Commons 2016 ERAU Conference paper

08. Suborbital Spaceflight: A Student Team's Plan to Send a Rocket to Space