BACKGROUND The prevalence of medical symptoms in aviators has not been described in the medical literature. METHODS An anonymous questionnaire was handed to all Israeli Air Force aviators who went through the routine yearly examination. Because only two women filled the questionnaire, we excluded them. The questionnaire contained a list of 49 symptoms and the aviators were asked to mark sympt...

The Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program (SERDP) has initiated several programs to develop and evaluate techniques to characterize emissions from military aircraft to meet increasingly stringent regulatory requirements. This paper describes the results of a recent field study using extractive and optical remote sensing (ORS) techniques to measure emissions from six F-15 figh...

in Cerritos, California. She designs high-speed medium-voltage permanent-magnet machines. She began her career as an Integrated Drive Generator Design Engineer with Hamilton Sundstrand, designing an integrated variable speed transmission and AC generator for various military aircraft applications. Ms. Bailey graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. degree (Mechanical Engineering, 2003...

• Predicting the risk of mid-air collisions between aircraft in UK airspace [17]; • Predicting software defects in complex consumer electronic devices [2,6,8,9]; • Evaluating the reliability and availability characteristics of military systems [15]; • Modelling the warranty return rates of electronic components [3]; • Modelling operational risk in financial institutions and predicting resulting...

On Dec.12, 1985, a military charter DC-8 crashed shortly after takeoff at Gander, Nfld., Canada. All 256 aboard were killed, making this the deadliest U.S. military aircraft accident in history. The investigation team (consisting of forensic pathologists, odontologists, radiologists, anthropologists, graves registration personnel, and systems engineers) succeeded in identifying the remains of a...

"Where are the carriers?" The nation's leaders seem to ask that question whenever a crisis perceived to involve vital U.S. interests develops. According to the conventional wisdom, the aircraft carrier--because of its mobility, its versatility, and the capabilities that it affords the United States, particularly that of projecting air power without relying on overseas bases--is the best militar...

This paper explores discourses of automation as a key ethical concern in the development of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems for disaster response. We discuss problems arising from ‘humanistic’ dichotomies that pit human against machine, military against civil uses and experts against laypersons. We explore how it may be possible to overcome human-technology dichotomies.

Typical usage scenarios for wearable computers are support of users doing a certain task, e.g. aircraft repair or military applications. If the user is moving while using the wearable some restriction for the user interface apply. In this paper we present some of these restrictions and suggest a wearable user interface taking these findings into account.

Understanding the risks of using commercial off-theshelf (COTS) electronic components, specifically laptop computers, in a non-commercial environment is critical to designers of military systems. The environment studied in this paper is that of an unpressurized aircraft cockpit operating at 35,000 feet. During operation in this environment, COTS may be exposed to low atmospheric pressure and ma...

Pilots of high-performance military aircraft rely on enormous amount of information from various instruments, visual display from computer and audio communication from outside references. Under high-stressed, visibility-impaired or distracting conditions, even experienced pilots may fail to perceive the information correctly. In particular, a loss of situational awareness such as spatial orient...