Air passenger attitudes towards pilotless aircraft

Air quality in passenger aircraft

2 Aircraft cabin ventilation In early commercial jet aircraft, passenger cabins were ventilated with 100% outside air. In more recent jet aircraft, approximately 50% of the ventilation air is outside air and the remaining 50% is filtered recirculated cabinair. This development has allowed for fuel savings as well as a supposed improvement in the relative humidity of cabin air. With typical pass...

Airflow Rate Requirements in Passenger Aircraft

Air-crew exposure to cosmic radiation on board of Polish passenger aircraft

In 1991, the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) recommended that exposure of air crew to cosmic radiation be considered as occupational exposure [10]. This was followed by the European Directive 96/29 and recommendations [5, 6] which, among other considerations, state that for air-crew members whose annual effective doses may exceed 1 mSv, dose estimates should be procur...

Reducing the risks associated with the manual handling of air passenger baggage for narrow bodied aircraft

This report is an update of the review for ramp-based baggage handling related literature undertaken in 2005 (Tapley and Riley, 2005). The aim of this review is to present information relating to alternative methods of loading narrow-bodied aircraft that reduce the manual handling related injury and ill-health risks to the handlers, and to identify knowledge gaps. This was used to inform subseq...

Securing passenger aircraft from the threat of man-portable air defense systems (MANPADS).

In this article, we develop a model for the expected maximum hit probability of an attack on a commercial aircraft using MANPADS, as a function of the (random) location of the attacker. We also explore the sensitivity of the expected maximum hit probability to the parameters of the model, including both attacker parameters (such as weapon characteristics) and defender parameters (such as the si...