Electrifying the Future of Aviation [Pathways]

The Future of Aviation

NextGen Technologies Shape the Future of Aviation

Today, wireless technology forms the communications backbone of many industries—including aviation, transportation, government, and defense. The era of the Next Generation Air Transportation System, (NextGen), is upon us. The Federal Aviation Administration, in collaboration with industry, is deploying NextGen technology on the ground, in the air, at air traffic control facilities and in the co...

Aviation Safety Concerns for the Future

The Future Aviation Safety Team (FAST) is a multidisciplinary international group of aviation professionals that was established to identify possible future aviation safety hazards. The principle was adopted that future hazards are undesirable consequences of changes, and a primary activity of FAST became identification and prioritization of possible future changes affecting aviation. Since 200...

Electrifying symbiosis.

A role of ion channels in the interactions between bacterial pathogens and their animal hosts is well established. In some cases, regulation of endogenous channels in the target species is disrupted by bacterial toxins, resulting in an alteration of ion flux and a perturbation of cellular function (1). In a more extreme example, hemolytic bacteria actually insert poreforming proteins into the p...

The actual development of European aviation safety requirements in aviation medicine: prospects of future EASA requirements.

Common Rules for Aviation Safety had been developed under the aegis of the Joint Aviation Authorities in the 1990s. In 2002 the Basic Regulation 1592/2002 was the founding document of a new entity, the European Aviation Safety Agency. Areas of activity were Certification and Maintenance of aircraft. On 18 March the new Basic Regulation 216/2008, repealing the original Basic Regulation was publi...