Medical Aspects of Aerospace Travel

Medical Aspects of Travel: Editorial Overview

Interest in tropical medicine began several hundred years ago, when Europeans, primarily, traveled to Africa, Asia, and Latin America in search of land, adventure, and riches. They often returned from their travels with tropical diseases. The diagnosis and treatment of these diseases became an important part of medicine in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Eventually, interest expanded from treat...

Challenges in Software Aspects of Aerospace Systems

For many years, NASA Langley Research Center has cooperated with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in research about software engineering methods for aerospace applications. Recent research has focused on software aspects of the FAA’s certification process. In this paper, the results of the Streamlining Software Aspects of Certification (SSAC) program are examined to provide insight int...

MEDICAL ASPECTS OF ISLAMIC FASTING

Usaf Aerospace Medical Division ( Afsc )

Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory

It is important to resolve the issue of whether extra infonnation can help assign the probability for failure of a pilot or Naval Flight Officer (NFO) in some phase of flight training. This assigned probability for failure could be based simply on empirical data gathered over some relatively long period of time. However, if scores from selection tests, personality tests, vision exams, psychomot...