| Gravity-Wave Dynamics in the Atmosphere |
01 Feb 2010 |
79 pages |
| Authors:
Triantaphyllos R Akylas; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE
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 | Motivated by reports of accidents in high-altitude aircraft flights due to unforecast turbulence caused by gravity waves over mountain ranges, this research program aimed to advance the theoretical understanding of physical mechanisms responsible for the generation of gravity waves by wind over orography. Specifically, a systematic study was made of the Earth's rotation under various atmospheric conditions. It was found that rotation can contribute to significantly increased gravity-wave activity when ... |
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| Active Control of High Reynolds Number Supersonic Jets Using Plasma Actuators |
Feb 2010 |
65 pages |
| Authors:
Mo Samimy; Igor Adamovich; OHIO STATE UNIV COLUMBUS DEPT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
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| Active flow control of jets with Localized Arc Filament Plasma Actuators (LAFPAs) is conducted over a wide range of the fully expanded jet Mach numbers (M(J) or simply jet Mach number). The jet Mach numbers covered in the present research are 0.9 (with a converging nozzle), 1.2 (overexpanded), 1.3 (perfectly expanded), and 1.4 (underexpanded) with a design Mach number 1.3. Additionally, limited experiments are carried out for an M(J) = ... |
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| Model-Based Optimization of Airborne Collision Avoidance Logic |
26 Jan 2010 |
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| Authors:
M J Kochenderfer; J P Chryssanthacopoulos; L P Kaelbling; T Lozano-Perez; MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH LEXINGTON LINCOLN LAB
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 | The Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) is designed to reduce the risk of mid-air collisions by providing resolution advisories to pilots. The current version of the collision avoidance logic was hand-crafted over the course of many years and contains many parameters that have been tuned to varying extents and heuristic rides whose justification has been lost. Further development of the TCAS system is required to make the system ... |
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| Air Force KC-X Tanker Aircraft Program: Background and Issues for Congress |
22 Dec 2009 |
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| Authors:
Jeremiah Gertler; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| On September 24, 2009, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced its proposed strategy for conducting a new competition between Boeing and a team consisting of Northrop Grumman and the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS, the parent company of Airbus) for a program to build 179 new KC-X aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force. The estimated total value of the 179-aircraft KC-X program is roughly $35 billion. Boeing ... |
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| Air Force KC-X Tanker Aircraft Program: Background and Issues for Congress |
07-Dec-2009 |
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| Authors:
Jeremiah Gertler; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| On September 24, 2009, the Department of Defense (DOD) announced its proposed strategy for conducting a new competition between Boeing and a team consisting of Northrop Grumman and the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS, the parent company of Airbus) for a program to build 179 new KC-X aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force. The estimated total value of the 179-aircraft KC-X program is roughly $35 billion. Boeing ... |
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| An Analysis of the United States Naval Aviation Schedule Removal Component (SRC) Card Process |
Dec 2009 |
118 pages |
| Authors:
Anthony Staffieri; Eric Holsti; William Gray; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| SRC cards provide aviation part information such as flight hours accumulated, last installed date, last removal date, and last depot level inspection or overhaul date. When a naval aviation squadron receives an SRC card designated part not accompanied by its respective paper card, naval instruction restricts the part from being installed on the aircraft. This prevents the aircraft from flying, which directly affects squadron readiness levels and mission capability. The ... |
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| A Human Systems Integration Perspective to Evaluating Naval Aviation Mishaps and Developing Intervention Strategies |
Dec 2009 |
162 pages |
| Authors:
Shawn R Cowan; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis analyzed both the human factors involved in Naval Aviation mishaps and the results of a survey of the safety concerns of Naval aircrews. Naval Aviation mishap data between 2000-2008 revealed skill-based errors and coordination/communication/planning factors to be the leading causes of mishaps. In contrast, the Naval aircrews surveyed in 2008 believed ops tempo/workload, proficiency, complacency, and motivational exhaustion (burnout) to be the most likely causes of future mishaps. ... |
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| Mitigation Approaches for Optical Imaging through Clouds and Fog |
Nov-2009 |
191 pages |
| Authors:
Mohsen Kavehrad; PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIV UNIVERSITY PARK
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| This report offers novel designs for active optical imaging through clouds and fog, motivated by many military applications, such as laser range-finder, target designation for seekers and laser radar. The report focuses on jointly-optimized wireless optical multi-input multi-output (MIMO) transceivers for through-clouds airborne active optical imaging systems. Photolithographic techniques are employed in designing the optical transceiver subsystems. Our design goal is to select the diversity receiver branches field-of-view (FOV) in ... |
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| Air Force C-17 Aircraft Procurement: Background and Issues for Congress |
19-Oct-2009 |
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| Authors:
Ronald O'Rourke; LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE
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| A total of 213 C-17s have been procured through FY2009, including eight that were procured in the FY2009 supplemental appropriations act (H.R. 2346/P.L. 111-32 of June 24, 2009). The Administration's proposed FY2010 defense budget proposes to end C-17 procurement and does not request any funding for the procurement of additional C-17s. The Administration argues that enough C-17s have now been procured to meet future operational needs. Supporters of procuring additional ... |
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| Briefing on Air Force's Response on Fee-For-Service Aerial Refueling |
05-Oct-2009 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE WASHINGTON DC
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| Section 1081 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 calls for the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct a pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of utilizing commercial fee-for-service air refueling tanker aircraft for Air Force operations.1 In response to your May 2009 letter to the Secretary of the Air Force requesting an update on the status of this pilot program, the Air Force ... |
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| Application of DNA Profiling in Resolving Aviation Forensic Toxicology Issues |
Oct-2009 |
15 pages |
| Authors:
Dennis Burian; Arvind K Chaturvedi; Kristi J Craft; Doris M Kupfer; Dennis V Canfield; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION OKLAHOMA CITY OK CIVIL AEROSPACE MEDICAL INST
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| Biological samples from the victims of aviation accidents are submitted to the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) for toxicological evaluation. Body components of aviation accident fatalities are often scattered, disintegrated, commingled, contaminated, and/or putrefied at accident scenes. These situations may impose difficulties in victim identification and tissue matching, thereby in the toxicological analysis of authentic samples and the interpretation of the associated analytical results. The use of DNA typing has ... |
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| An Experiment to Evaluate Transfer of Upset-Recovery Training Conducted Using Two Different Flight Simulation Devices |
Sep-2009 |
20 pages |
| Authors:
Albert Boquet; Rodney O Rogers; Richard Leland; Scott Glaser; ENVIRONMENTAL TECTONICS CORP SOUTH HAMPTON PA
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| Air transport training programs provide simulator-based upset-recovery instruction for company pilots. However, no prior research demonstrates that such training transfers to an airplane in flight. We report on an FAA-funded research experiment to evaluate upset-recovery training transfer. Two groups of participants were given simulator-based training in upset-recovery, one in a high-end centrifuge-based device, the other using Microsoft Flight Simulator running on desktop computers. A third control group received no upset-recovery ... |
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| CFD Prediction of Magnus Effect in Subsonic to Supersonic Flight |
Sep-2009 |
46 pages |
| Authors:
James DeSpirito; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| The aerodynamic coefficients of the 7-cal. U.S. Army-Navy Spinner Rocket were characterized using computational fluid dynamic (CFD) calculations and validated using archival experimental data. The static aerodynamic coefficients, roll-damping, and pitch-damping moments were accurately predicted by steady-state Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) as well as unsteady hybrid RANS/large-eddy simulation (LES) CFD. The Magnus moment was overpredicted in the subsonic and transonic regime. Unsteady RANS/LES computations did not improve the prediction of Magnus ... |
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| Probabilistic Treatment of Airlift Delivery |
Sep-2009 |
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| Authors:
W L Greer; A I Kaufman; INSTITUTE FOR DEFENSE ANALYSES ALEXANDRIA VA
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| Traditionally, a deterministic simulation is used to estimate airborne cargo and passenger delivery in wartime scenarios. Deterministic models address reliability by removing the number of non-mission capable aircraft from the total possessed numbers at the very beginning of the delivery process. Only mission capable (MC) aircraft, minus any special mission withholds, are used in the model. Most important, once an aircraft is deemed to be MC, it never fails anywhere ... |
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| Analysis of Navy Flight Scheduling Methods Using FlyAwake |
Sep-2009 |
85 pages |
| Authors:
Ryan P Beshany; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Sleep-related fatigue has negative effects on both human performance and decision making. Pilots are particularly vulnerable to these adverse effects due to the environment and operational requirements, which entails both long and irregular duty cycles. The Air National Guard received funding from Office of the Secretary of Defense, Defense Safety Oversight Council to create FlyAwake, a software application that predicts aircrew fatigue based on circadian cycles. FlyAwake uses the Sleep, ... |
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| Integrating Test and Evaluation into the Acquisition Process for Naval Aviation |
Sep-2009 |
80 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher J Barrett; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Test and evaluation is incorporated throughout both the systems engineering and Department of Defense system acquisition processes. It is the mechanism for accomplishing verification in the systems engineering process and characterizing technical risk of achieving a proper final design solution. Test and evaluation is a critical and continuous activity throughout the Department of Defense systems acquisition process to ensure that cost, schedule, and performance requirements are satisfied with acceptable levels ... |
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| The Air University Pantheon of Air, Space, and Cyberspace Power Thinkers |
Aug-2009 |
124 pages |
| Authors:
Vicki J Rast; AIR UNIV PRESS MAXWELL AFB AL
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| This compendium offers a broad sweep of some of the United States Air Force's most remarkable and memorable figures in the context of an evolving center for airpower education. 'Air University Pantheon of Air, Space, and Cyberspace Power Thinkers' is an effort to identify the intellectual roots of Air University. By giving us a glimpse of the synergism of the exchange of progressive, nontraditional ideas among AU faculty and students, ... |
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| Designing Collaboration Tools to Optimize Distributed Battlespace Synchronization |
Aug 2009 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
Joseph B Lyons; Alexander D Nelson; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH HUMAN EFFECTIVENESS DIRECTORATE
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| Military organizations rely on teams to accomplish complex task objectives. One way to promote team effectiveness is through team training such as cross-training. The current study investigated the influence of cross-training on performance and team process factors (collective efficacy, communication, cohesion, and team trust). Thirty participants engaged in a command and control air defense simulation and team process measures were assessed across four days of data collection. Cross-training influenced trust ... |
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| Overcoming Information Overload in the Cockpit |
15-Jul-2009 |
102 pages |
| Authors:
Robert H Kewley; Thomas Deveans; MILITARY ACADEMY WEST POINT NY OPERATIONS RESEARCH CENTER
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| This study is focused on finding new technologies that will convey the most important information to pilots, when they need it, and in a more efficient and effective way than is currently being done across Army Aviation. The ever increasing complex nature of flying and managing an aircraft, especially during an event which degrades pilot awareness, demands a constant search for better ways of portraying aircraft data to the crew ... |
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| A Limited Rotary-Wing Flight Investigation of Hyperstereo in Helmet-Mounted Display Designs |
Jul-2009 |
111 pages |
| Authors:
Clarence E Rash; Melvyn E Kalich; Brian K Viskup; Nekkeya N Tillman; John G Ramiccio; William E McLean; ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LAB FORT RUCKER AL WARFIGHTER PERFORMANCE AND HEALTH DIV
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| A number of currently proposed helmet-mounted display (HMD) designs relocate image intensification (I2) tubes to the sides of the helmet. Such a design approach induces a visual condition referred to as hyperstereo vision (or hyperstereopsis). This condition manifests itself to the user as an exaggerated sense of depth perception, causing near- to mid-range objects to appear closer than they actually are. Hyperstereopsis is potentially a major concern for helicopter operations ... |
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| A Summary of Proceedings for the Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation Symposium |
Jul-2009 |
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| Authors:
Keith K Niall; DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT TORONTO (CANADA)
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| The Advanced Deployable Day/Night Simulation (ADDNS) Technology Demonstration Project was initiated to design, develop, and deliver transportable visual simulations that jointly provide night-vision and high-resolution daylight capability. The project includes research and development on deployable display technologies for realistic day and night training operations, extends the knowledge of human factors with night vision devices, and the ability to represent dangerous or extreme scenarios for day and night operations in general. ... |
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| Stress Effects on Transfer from Virtual Environment Flight Training to Stressful Flight Environments |
01-Jun-2009 |
226 pages |
| Authors:
Christopher K McClernon; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects that stress training has on stressful flight operations to mitigate the human factors preconditions to aircraft accidents. In addition, stress training implementation strategies were investigated in order to develop pedagogy pertinent to stress training. A series of three empirical experiments were performed to test the transfer of both human emotional states and task skills from a virtual environment to subsequent ... |
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| Rotor Smoothing and Vibration Monitoring Results for the US Army VMEP |
Jun-2009 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
Paul Grabill; Tom Brotherton; Bob Branhof; John Berry; Lern Grant; INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION CORP POWAY CA
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| Automated systems to perform aircraft diagnostics and prognostics are of current interest. Development of those systems requires large amounts of data (collection, monitoring, manipulation) to capture and characterize fault events, and to ensure data is captured early-on in a fault progression to support prognostic system development. Continuous data collection is also required to capture relatively rare, potentially catastrophic events. Data collected can then be analyzed to assist in the development ... |
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| Point Density Effects on Digital Elevation Models Generated from LiDAR Data |
Jun-2009 |
73 pages |
| Authors:
Richard L Duldulao; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The use of Airborne LiDAR Systems (ALS) to obtain topographical information of the earth's surface and generate Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) has grown extensively in the field of Remote Sensing. Selected areas of point cloud LiDAR data collected from Honduras in 2008 was used to produce DEMs with varying densities to show the effects of lower resolution LiDAR data. An IDL code was utilized to reduce the selected LiDAR point ... |
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| An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of U.S. Naval Aviation Crew Resource Management Training Programs: A Reassessment for the Twenty-First Century Operating Environment |
Jun-2009 |
127 pages |
| Authors:
Douglas W Jones; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| This thesis describes a multi-faceted evaluation of the U.S. Naval Aviation Crew Resource Management (CRM) program. CRM training is used to instruct naval aviators in safety critical, non-technical behaviors. Reactions were evaluated by using a single item from command safety climate questionnaires (n=51, 570 observations over nine years). Attitudes were assessed using a 37-item survey (364 responses). Knowledge was evaluated using a 10-item multiple-choice test (123 responses). Finally, the causes ... |
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| Reengineering Joint Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training |
Jun-2009 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
David R Hauck; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| The purpose of this research is to identify shortfalls in the current U.S. Air Force (USAF) joint specialized undergraduate pilot training (JSUPT) system and illustrate potential reengineering alternatives for future training programs to provide the USAF with the best possible graduate pilots. The three alternatives for future training programs include the current program (JSUPT), an extended T-6 only option, and a return to generalized undergraduate pilot training (UPT). After interviewing ... |
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| Implicit and P-Multi-Grid Algorithms for High-Order Spectral Difference Method on Unstructured Grids |
May-2009 |
6 pages |
| Authors:
Z J Wang; IOWA STATE UNIV AMES DEPT OF AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
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| The development of high-order methods (order of accuracy 2nd order) on unstructured grids is widely viewed as a major pacing item in computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Efficient high-order methods capable of handling complex geometries are required to compute vortex dominated flows, and to perform large eddy simulation and direct numerical simulation with complex configurations, and to predict aeroacoustic noise generation and propagation. The primary objective of the present research is ... |
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| Adversarial Intent Modeling Using Embedded Simulation and Temporal Bayesian Knowledge Bases |
Apr-2009 |
18 pages |
| Authors:
James Melhuish; Andy Seidel; Santos; Eugene Jr; Nicholas J Pioch; Deqing Li; Mark Gorniak; BAE SYSTEMS ADVANCED INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES INC BURLINGTON MA
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| To foster shared battlespace awareness among air strategy planners, BAE Systems has developed Commander's Model Integration and Simulation Toolkit (CMIST), an Integrated Development Environment for authoring, integration, validation, and debugging of models relating multiple domains, including political, military, social, economic and information. CMIST provides a unified graphical user interface for such systems of systems modeling, spanning several disparate modeling paradigms. Here, we briefly review the CMIST architecture and then compare ... |
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| A Review of Australian and New Zealand Investigations on Aeronautical Fatigue During the Period April 2007 to March 2009 |
Apr-2009 |
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| Authors:
Graham Clark; David Saunders; DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA) AIR VEHICLES DIV
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| This document has been prepared for presentation to the 31st Conference of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue scheduled to be held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 25th and 26 May 2009. Brief summaries and references are provided on the aircraft fatigue research and associated activities of research laboratories, universities, and aerospace companies in Australia and New Zealand during the period April 2007 to March 2009. The review covers fatigue-related research ... |
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| Future Design of the Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron |
Apr-2009 |
34 pages |
| Authors:
Robert L Wiser; MARINE CORPS COMMAND AND STAFF COLL QUANTICO VA
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| The current structure of the 11 active duty Marine Aviation Logistics Squadrons (MALS) was established in 1988. Since then several significant changes have occurred that will impact the design and functioning of the MALS in the future. This paper will explore how contemporary advances in technology, inventory management, and future aircraft design should be taken into account in redesigning the structure and functioning of the MALS. The paper is intended ... |
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| Aviation Foreign Internal Defense (AFID) in Vietnam |
Apr-2009 |
46 pages |
| Authors:
Nathan A White; AIR COMMAND AND STAFF COLL MAXWELL AFB AL
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| During the Vietnam conflict the United States Air Force (USAF) is perhaps most remembered for its bombing campaigns over North Vietnam, but it also performed a substantial amount of Aviation Foreign Internal Defense (AFID). U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam conflict began with the advise and assist mission -- an activity that would be known as FID in today's vernacular -- and, though USAF actions eventually became direct and intense, ... |
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| Army Aviation -- Back to Its Roots |
03-Mar-2009 |
44 pages |
| Authors:
Russell Stinger; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| U.S. Army Aviation was borne of necessity to expand the ground forces' battle space to the third dimension. The first aviators were a part of ground units, and the close fight in Vietnam fostered an air-ground team seamlessly integrated in the close fight. An incremental growth in mission corresponded to improvements in technology and capability. The increasingly complex aircraft and threat environment drove specialization of training, and a need to ... |
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| Army Aviation in the National Guard: Assessing for Efficiency and Effectiveness |
01-Mar-2009 |
43 pages |
| Authors:
Karen D Gattis; ARMY WAR COLL CARLISLE BARRACKS PA
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| Since the events of 9/11/01, aviation in the Army National Guard has been simultaneously supporting strategic initiatives such as transformation, new equipment fielding, Homeland Defense and Security missions, State Active Duty requests, Counter-Drug Operations, and operations supporting the War on Terrorism (GWOT). This SRP examines Army National Guard Aviation to determine if the force structure can remain balanced as an effective and efficient operational force while maintaining the OPTEMPO in ... |
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| A Feasibility Study of A Persistent Monitoring System For The Flight Deck of U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers |
Mar-2009 |
205 pages |
| Authors:
Jeffrey S Johnston; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| This research analyzes the use of modern Real Time Locating Systems (RTLS), such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), to improve the safety of aircraft, equipment, and personnel onboard a United States Navy (USN) aircraft carrier. The results of a detailed analysis of USN safety records since 1980 show that mishaps which could potentially be prevented by a persistent monitoring system result in the death of a sailor nearly every ... |
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| Using Predictive Rendering as a Vision-Aided Technique for Autonomous Aerial Refueling |
Mar-2009 |
90 pages |
| Authors:
Adam D Weaver; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING
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| This research effort seeks to characterize a vision-aided approach for an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) to autonomously determine relative position to another aircraft in a formation, specifically to address the autonomous aerial refueling problem. A system consisting of a monocular digital camera coupled with inertial sensors onboard the UAS is analyzed for feasibility of using this vision-aided approach. A three-dimensional rendering of the tanker aircraft is used to generate predicted ... |
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| The Carrier Readiness Team -- Realizing the Vision of the Naval Aviation Enterprise |
Mar-2009 |
145 pages |
| Authors:
LeFon; Carroll F Jr; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| Naval aviation is a large and complex operation, with multiple stakeholders and an ingrained tension between generating combat readiness for current operations and procurement funds for future capabilities. Naval aviation leadership has developed an enterprise approach to managing these often competing requirements that uses modern business process tools under the fundamental principle of alignment. This process showed remarkable results at the factory-level, with production efforts generating significant savings and process ... |
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| A Comparative Analysis of the Army MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Takeoff Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) and Navy MQ-8B Manpower & Training Requirements |
Mar-2009 |
57 pages |
| Authors:
Michael K Raymer; NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL MONTEREY CA
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| The recent increased urgency to combat terrorism and asymmetric threats, combined with the environment in which field troops are forced to operate has created a unique demand for non-standard war fighting capabilities. Beginning in 2004, the U.S. Navy, in a joint effort with the U.S. Army, began jointly testing and evaluating the Northrop Grumman MQ-8B Fire Scout Vertical Take Off Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV). This platform has shown very promising ... |
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| A 21st-Century Concept of Air and Military Operations. Defense Horizons, Number 66 |
Mar-2009 |
7 pages |
| Authors:
Robbin F Laird; NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIV WASHINGTON DC CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY
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| The evolution of 21st-century air operations is unfolding under the impact of a new generation of fighter aircraft and a significant shift in the role of air operations in support of ground and maritime forces. So-called fifth-generation aircraft often are mistakenly viewed as simply the next iteration of airframes: fast, stealthy replacements of obsolescent legacy platforms. In fact, the capabilities of fifth-generation aircraft, and their integration into a network-centric joint ... |
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| A Gimbaled Platform for Micro Aerial Vehicle Autopilot Simulation and Calibration |
Mar-2009 |
24 pages |
| Authors:
Justin L Shumaker; Kamal S Ali; Lamarious Carter; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY DIRECTORATE
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| This report describes a 3-degrees-of-freedom gimbaled platform designed to be used as a hardware in the loop simulator. This platform is designed to aid in the calibration and synchronization of micro aerial vehicles' autopilot components. This platform can also be used as a simulator allowing the autopilot to fly a computer model of the airframe. This allows for the quick and efficient verification of autopilot behavior with different airframes under ... |
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| Determining the Orbit Locations of Turkish Airborne Early Warning and Control Aircraft Over the Turkish Air Space |
Mar-2009 |
167 pages |
| Authors:
Nebi Sarikaya; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| This research provides optimal orbit locations that can be updated according to the threats, for Turkish AEW&C aircraft in the combat arena. Three combat scenarios Turkey might encounter are examined. Turkey can expect threats from everywhere. The worst cases for these scenarios include bad weather conditions and in Electronic Counter Measure (ECM) environment, adversary Surface to Air Missile (SAM) sites which are located in areas unknown to Turkish intelligence and ... |
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| Evaluation of Air Force Aircraft Maintenance Metrics for Integration into the Expeditionary Combat Support System |
Mar-2009 |
159 pages |
| Authors:
Brian D Waller; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| Implementation of an ERP is a large time and resources consuming endeavor, with many areas the require evaluation and planning. One of these critical areas are Legacy Systems Evaluation and Conversion. This study will explore the transition of 28 current legacy Air Force Maintenance metrics into the ECSS ERP system. Evaluation of these metrics by operational maintenance managers will provide insight into the importance and effectiveness of the current metrics ... |
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| Developing a Tool for the Location Optimization of the Alert Aircraft with Changing Threat Anticipation |
Mar-2009 |
122 pages |
| Authors:
Okan Arslan; AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT
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| The threat to the airspace is posed by the outside world in conventional terms as well as hostilities from within the airspace such as hijacked aircraft. Alert aircraft are located with the sole responsibility of responding to any incident. Different regions of the airspace may have different alert states depending on current intelligence input. Due to non-constant states of threat level, the Turkish Air Force must deploy aircraft to cover ... |
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| Naval Aviation Enterprise Corrosion Prevention Team |
05-Feb-2009 |
26 pages |
| Authors:
NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND WASHINGTON DC
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| SUMMARY: Corrosion is a significant cost to the Navy -- NAVAIR's total annual budget is $40B; annual corrosion cost is estimated $3.0B * The Naval Aviation Enterprise Corrosion Prevention Team is attacking corrosion problems in all phases of aircraft life cycle * Solutions lie in the areas of leadership, training, policy, basing, materials, design, and documentation. |
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| Engineering Support / Corrosion Prevention and Control Evaluation |
05-Feb-2009 |
19 pages |
| Authors:
Don R Duran; ARMY RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND ENGINEERING COMMAND REDSTONE ARSENAL AL
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| AIRCRAFT CORROSION: Corrosion Prevention and Control Evaluation * 3D Mapping * Pressure Washing. ENGINEERING SUPPORT: Maintenance Engineering Calls * Maintenance Engineering Order * Corrosion Prevention Techniques * ACE/Corrosion website. |
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| Determination of Etomidate in Human Postmortem Fluids and Tissues |
Feb-2009 |
14 pages |
| Authors:
Robert D Johnson; Russell J Lewis; FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION OKLAHOMA CITY OK CIVIL AEROSPACE MEDICAL INST
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| Following an aviation accident, biological specimens from the operator of the aircraft are submitted to the Federal Aviation Administration's Civil Aerospace Medical Institute for toxicological analysis. During the course of medical treatment following an aviation accident, pilots who later died as a result of their injuries may have been administered etomidate as an intravenous anesthetic. Our laboratory has developed a sensitive method for the identification and quantitation of etomidate in ... |
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| Aging Aircraft Branch Overview |
Feb-2009 |
29 pages |
| Authors:
Steve Smith; COAST GUARD WASHINGTON DC
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| Corrosion Cell/AAB: Working specifically on supporting programs like sheltering, dehumidification and other corrosion prevention methods. Leveraging DoD and industry on joint initiatives to mitigate corrosion * Coordinate with CG Headquarters and Aviation Facility Manager to support initiatives which improve mission readiness and reduce life cycle costs. Among the challenges the services face in keeping their equipment and supplies in good operating condition is corrosion caused by exposure to the environment. ... |
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| Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM), Corrosion Program Update |
Feb-2009 |
40 pages |
| Authors:
Steven F Carr; ARMY AVIATION AND MISSILE COMMAND REDSTONE ARSENAL AL
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| FOCUS: Acquisition * Sustainment * Research and Development. ACQUISITION: CPC Plans * Corrosion Prevention Action Teams (CPAT) * Design for CPC Based Upon Lessons Learned * Implement New Technologies (APA/OPA Funding). SUSTAINMENT: Corrosion Maintenance/Procedures (TM, SOP, etc.) * CPC Training * CPC Sustainment Technology (Corrosion Repair Kits, DH, CPC's, Covers, etc.) * Dem/Val of Emerging CPC Technologies. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT: Development of New Technologies * Dem/Val of New Technologies * ... |
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| Joint Airspace Management and Deconfliction (JASMAD) |
Jan-2009 |
60 pages |
| Authors:
John Hitchings; DiLego; Francis A Jr; Chad Salisbury; Henry X Simmons; Joshua Sterling; Jialing Cai; AIR FORCE RESEARCH LAB ROME NY INFORMATION DIRECTORATE
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| Numerous Lessons Learned documents from Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Iraqi Freedom, and Hurricane Katrina have detailed the need for more timely and effective airspace coordination during planning and execution phases. Better coordination between components, agencies, and allies has the potential to reduce fratricide and promote air safety. The Joint Airspace Management and Deconfliction (JASMAD) Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) is an effort by the Air Force Research Laboratory to address these ... |
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| Multi-Agent Technology for Airspace Control in the Combat Zone |
Jan-2009 |
54 pages |
| Authors:
Victor A Skormin; ADVANCED TECHNICAL CONCEPTS BERKSHIRE NY
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| Successful airspace control is one of the key factors maximizing the effectiveness of air operations. It includes long and short-term planning and control that utilizes large and dynamic databases, and constitutes a combination of resource allocation, routing, scheduling, and deconfliction tasks performed repeatedly reflecting the battlefield dynamics. These tasks place heavy burden on personnel, leading to costly inefficiencies. Modern computing technologies are capable of expanding the share of airspace control ... |
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| AH-64D Apache Longbow Aircrew Workload Assessment for Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Employment |
Jan-2009 |
76 pages |
| Authors:
David B Durbin; Jamison S Hicks; ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD
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| This study assessed whether workload was tolerable for AH-64D pilots when they employed an unmanned aerial system (UAS) during simulated missions. Ten AH-64D pilots participated in the study. Pilot workload, situation awareness, crew coordination, crewstation interface, switch actuations, simulator sickness, visual gaze and dwell times (using a head-eye tracker), audio-video, and tactics, techniques and procedures data were collected and analyzed. Pilot workload was found to be tolerable for the tasks ... |
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Military Aircraft Operations
