Monitoring of tricresyl phosphate (TCP) contamination of cockpit air was undertaken in three types of military aircraft [fighter trainer (FT), fighter bomber (FB), and cargo transport (CT) aircraft]. The aircraft had a previous history of pilot complaints about cockpit air contamination suspected to originate from the engine bleed air supply through the entry of aircraft turbine engine oil (ATO...

Autonomous Search and Surveillance with Small Fixed Wing Aircraft by Timothy Garland McGee Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering-Mechanical Engineering University of California, Berkeley Professor J. Karl Hedrick, Chair Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have the potential to act as low cost tools in a variety of both civilian and military applications including traffic monitoring, border patr...

Iodotrifluoromethane (CF3I) has been considered to be a candidate replacement for bromotrifluoromethane (CF3Br), which is used in aircraft for fuel inerting and for fire fighting. In this study, the chemical effects of aircraftreleased CF3I on atmospheric ozone were examined with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign two-dimensional chemical-radiative-transport (UIUC 2-D CRT) model. Us...

The Impact Dynamics Research Facility (IDRF) is a 240-ft.-high gantry structure located at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The facility was originally built in 1963 as a lunar landing simulator, allowing the Apollo astronauts to practice lunar landings under realistic conditions. The IDRF was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985 based on its significant contributio...

Auditory warnings are used in a variety of settings such as hospitals and the cockpits of modern military aircraft. This paper describes a study in which sets of auditory warnings comprised of speech, auditory icons (environmental sounds) and abstract sounds were compared with respect to ease of learning and retention. Speech warnings and auditory icons were learnt and retained with equal ease,...

In military operations, logistics distribution involves the transportation of equipment, people and sustainment (resources) to various physical locations, known as distribution nodes. The quantity of items being transported is often very large and the resources need to be moved as quickly as possible using the available transportation assets. A complicating factor is that the airports at the di...