Logistics support is a key element of aircraft transportation systems. This paper is concerned with the impact of aircraft spares provisioning decisions on the availability of aircraft. Spares provisioning in this context is complicated by the fact that spares may be shared across aircraft and that aircraft may have redundant systems. In addition, decisions concerning aircraft spares support re...

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Over the past 25 years, interest in thermoplastic composites aircraft has steadily increased. Combining winding and laser-assisted tape placement is a promising method to manufacture structures using in-situ consolidation, as shown recently by manufacturing variable stiffness, unitized, integrated-stiffener wingbox at University of Limerick. The corner regions are critical point structure requi...

We review the available information on the mechanisms of lightning-aircraft interactions based primarily on studies involving four different instrumented aircraft. Further, we present available statistics on lightning-related aircraft incidents as a function of aircraft altitude and of ambient temperature. Finally, we examine the most significant aircraft and launch vehicle accidents attributed...

ly, the runway scheduling problem (RSP) can be thought of as a job shop scheduling problem [11] with precedence and release time constraints, where the objective is to sequence a set of jobs (aircraft) in a particular order to be processed by a processor (runway) so that some cost function is minimized. For the runway scheduling problem, one wants to find an efficient schedule for aircraft to u...

Dispatch reliability is the key parameters to reflect the overall reliability of civil aircraft, and it is also the important technical parameters needs to be considered in the original design of civil aircraft. According to the actual delay rate data of airlines, combined with the relationship between delay rate and dispatch reliability, from the perspective of civil aircraft design, author fi...

A new facility seeks to manufacture inlets for the turbine of the new NDA' aircraft. The inlet is a new design and has never been built before. To complicate matters the manufacturer, Aeron 2 Company, has not traditionally produced any inlets, let alone at the expected production rates for the new aircraft that already has thousands of orders. It was decided that in order to meet demand product...