Hazardous weather in the terminal area is the major cause of aviation system delays as well as a principal cause of air carrier accidents. Several systems currently under development will provide significant increases in terminal safety. However, these systems will not make a major impact on weather-induced delays in the terminal area, meet a number of the safety needs, such as information to s...

The objective of the study was to determine the biomechanics of post mortem human subjects (PMHS) in lateral impact with a focus on lower extremity trauma and aviation safety for side-facing seat applications. Four male three-point belted intact PMHS were seated upright with the Frankfurt plane horizontal on a custom seat, covered with aircraft cushion. The seat had an armrest. The change in...

During the investigation of aviation accidents, postmortem specimens from accident victims are submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration's Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) for toxicological analysis. A case recently received by CAMI screened positive for the anticonvulsant medication carbamazepine (CBZ; Tegretol(®)) by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). The CBZ found d...

1 Introduction 7 2 How fast is the aviation industry growing? 8 3 Noise pollution 11 4 Local air pollution 14 5 The impact of aviation on global warming and climate change 18 6 Is aviation and airport development good for the economy? 23 PART 2: A new aviation policy 7 A new aviation policy based on transport demand management 27 Summary of part 1: The impact of aviation on the environment 35 S...

During the investigation of aviation accidents, postmortem specimens from accident victims including blood, urine, and tissue are submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration's Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) for toxicological analysis. The first, and perhaps most important, step in the analysis process is the initial screening of biological specimens for illicit, medically prescri...

To meet the expected increases in air traffic demands, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) are researching and developing Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) concepts. NextGen will require substantial increases to the data available to pilots on the flight deck (e.g., wake projections) to support more precise and...

Software is becoming increasingly significant in today's critical avionics systems. To achieve safe, reliable software, government regulatory agencies such as the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Department of Defense mandate the use of certain software development methods. However, little scientific evidence exists to show a correlation between software development methods and pro...

This study proposes a systems-level approach to airport and runway availability assessments and prediction, and addresses the problem of the aging or continuously degrading aviation infrastructure. Although the availability block diagrams are often used in the availability assessment of aerospace and electronic systems, their application to the airport availability problem on a systemlevel, dev...

Reducing fuel consumption is a major goal for the aviation community due to environmental concern and fuel price uncertainty. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently developing and implementing Air Traffic Management (ATM) technologies to ensure reliable operational performance that is robust to delays caused by congestion and weather. These technologies will reduce planned and u...

According to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the number of runway incursions are rising. The configuration of runways and taxiways at airports has been identified by the FAA as possibly being related to the number of incursions. In this paper, the relationship between airport geometry factors and the number of runway incursions at specific United States airports is explored using sta...