The accident rate for general aviation remains high. While most general aviation accident studies have been pilot-focused, there is little research on the involvement of aircraft maintenance errors. We undertook a study to answer this question. The Microsoft Access database was queried for accidents occurring between 1989 and 2013 involving single engine piston airplanes operating under 14CFR P...

Wiegman and Shappel (26) described years ago a practical and comprehensive model of human factors which can be applied to every accident. The so named HFACS or Human factors Accident Classification System model followed the causative models described by previously by Reason (17) and later by AGARD WG-23 (19). Nowdays it constitues a handy taxonomical tool to identify and determine causal facts ...

An account is given of a theoretical flutter investigation in connection with an accident to a Sea Venom aircraft. The investigation covers both symmetric and antisymmetric flutter of the tailplane-elevator-tab system. The main (symmetric) calculations include six degrees of freedom, comprising three structural modes and movements of elevator, spring-tab and trim-tab respectively. The parameter...

This paper details the design and development of the Airborne Subscale Transport Aircraft Research (AirSTAR) test-bed at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC). The aircraft is a 5.5% dynamically scaled, remotely piloted, twin-turbine, swept wing, Generic Transport Model (GTM) which will be used to provide an experimental flight test capability for research experiments pertaining to dynamics model...

The objective of the NASA Aviation Safety Program is to improve the safety of current and future aircraft operating in the National Airspace System. Research under this program has focused on vehicle design, construction, operation and maintenance. Reducing aircraft loss of control accidents is critical to increasing aviation safety as it is the largest and most fatal aircraft accident category...