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Showing 1 to 20 of 417 for “"Flights"”.
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Flights of love
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1983.
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Developing computational intelligence for helicopter flights control.
… computational intelligence for helicopter flights control, a system that learns to fly a helicopter in the way a human pilot would. The work is being carried out because of increased pilots’ workloads and the reward in terms of cost and safety, in a dangerous flight mission. The project …
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Low-Fare Flights Across the Atlantic: Impact of Low-Cost, Long-Haul, Trans-Atlantic Flights on Passenger Choice of Carrier
… renewed interest in low-cost, long-haul (LCLH) flights was prompted by efficient aircraft, low fuel prices, liberalization of air markets, and low-cost carriers’ growth opportunities. Since 2013, multiple LCLH carriers have commenced trans-Atlantic operations, and their market share has grown to …
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Trajectory planner for agile flights in unknown environments
Planning high-speed trajectories for UAVs in unknown environments requires extremely fast algorithms able to solve the trajectory generation problem in real-time in order to be able to react quickly to the changing knowledge of the world and that guarantee safety at all times. In this thesis, we …
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Trajectory Planning for Flights in Multiagent and Dynamic Environments
… time, and in real-world experiments, showcasing flights up to 5.8 m/s in unknown dynamic environments with only onboard computation.
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Collaborative rescheduling of flights in a single mega-hub network
… at SMH (iv) The airline operates only non-stop flights (v) Passengers accept longer travel times in exchange for economic benefits (vi) Airline and airport owners work together to achieve collaborative flight schedules. This research focuses on the network structure of SMH airports to identify …
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Nocturnal Flights of TRIATOMA (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) in Sabino Canyon, Arizona
… fly, effects of various physical factors on flights and distances flown.</p> <p>This research was conducted at lights in Sabino Canyon, northeast of Tucson, Arizona. A black light was operated 4 to 6 nights per week during the summers of 1972 and 1973. For each Triatoma bug collected physical …
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Human-UAV Collaborative Search with Concurrent Flights and Re-Tasking
This thesis discusses a system that allows an operator to use two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to search an area. Prior work accomplished this in separate survey and search missions, and this work combines those two missions into one. The user conducts a search by selecting an area to survey, …
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Allocating banks of flights to arrivals slots in reduced-capacity situations
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Airline revenue management with dynamic offers : bundling flights and ancillary services
Airline revenue management will have to adapt to a new world of airline retailing enabled by the New Distribution Capability. One area of interest is Dynamic Offer Generation (DOG), in which airlines respond to every booking request in real-time with a customized set of offers and prices. In these …
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Does Firm Performance Impact Perk Usage? Evidence From Flights of Corporate Jets
This paper studies the connection between a firm's stock returns and financial performance as it relates to corporate jet usage. I identify changes in corporate equities and financial ratios to look for a resulting shift in detailed flight activity. For firms that are considered large based on …
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A comparison of control design options for high angle-of-attack flights
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1991, and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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System design and optimization of an aerial refueling system for transcontinental flights
Currently, intercontinental flights are long-haul flights, and commercial aircraft are not refueled during the flight. As a result, the fuel consumption of intercontinental flights increases exponentially with the distance travelled, because these long-haul flights consume extra fuel due to their …
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Direct Regular Flights: Policy Effects on Competition in the Taipei-Hong Kong Market
… China. Since Aug 31, 2009, regular direct flights between Taiwan and China resumed. The paper looks at whether this policy change has an impact on the air passenger service market between Taipei and Hong Kong, a major layover for people traveling from Taiwan to China prior to the policy …
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Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization of Advanced Air Traffic Procedures to Improve Oceanic Flights
… the United States. According to the FAA, oceanic flights generate 31% of passenger revenue and 40% of cargo revenue in U.S.-controlled airspace. New NextGen procedures offer the opportunity for aircraft to save fuel consumption by allowing oceanic flights to fly at more efficient routes and flight …
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Intimate places and flights of fancy : gender, space, and movement in contemporary costume drama
… contrasted with dynamic journeys into the past ("flights of fancy") frames this cycle of film and televisual texts through the problematic of space and movement. A popular and formally interesting case study, costume drama charts nineteenth-century historical spaces embedded with gender, class, …
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Crisp and Fuzzy Signal Detection Theory and Pilot Weather Judgment: Implications for VFR Flights Into IMC
<p>Weather represents one of the greatest hazards to general aviation (GA), accounting for 15% of the GA accident fatalities. Of the fatal weather accidents 90% are attributed to visual flight rules (VFR) flight into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC). The situation assessment hypothesis …
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The Use of Videotape during Post-Flight Debriefing of Simulator Flights to Improve Student Learning and Reduce Instructional Time
… if videotaping students during simulator flights and using the results as a teaching tool would improve student learning and require less instructional time. Thirty subjects were randomly selected from students enrolled in an instrument rating flight course at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical …
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A Mixed Method Approach to Collegiate Aviation Risk Assessment for Dual Cross-Country Flights at the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences
… of the actual risks perceived during training flights. The study also found that the role of participant, the flight instructor, placed more emphasis on risk assessment before a flight. The flight instructor also applied more mitigation techniques prior and during a flight compared to the …
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