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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"inflight"”.
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Icelandair inflight
Verkefnið er alfarið unnið í samstarfi við Icelandair Digital Labs með þeirra hugsjón að leiðarljósi, sem snýst um að hanna og smíða snjallsíma smáforrit fyrir flugfreyjur og flugþjóna Icelandair. Markmiðið með notkun þess er að hækka gæðastig á þjónustu og auðvelda upplýsingaflæði um borð í …
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Inflight Characterization of Aircraft Icing
This thesis advances the development of the Ice Management System (IMS), which has been previously proposed as an additional layer of safety against aircraft icing accidents, by presenting and validating a conceptual design for the icing characterization function of the IMS. This icing …
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A novel method for inflight alignment of master-slave inertial platforms,
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1974.
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An Aviation Weather Preflight Decision Support Tool to Improve GA Pilots' Preflight and Inflight Performance
… these issues often attempt to introduce new inflight weather technology to assist pilots with weather avoidance. However, these interventions usually result in pilots using the information to strategically navigate closer to degraded weather conditions (Beringer & Ball, 2004; Burgess & …
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Development and inflight validation of an automated flight planning system using multiple-sensor windfield estimation
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1993.
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Development of a Sensor for Inflight Detection of Three-Dimensional Flow Separation on a Wing
A real need exists for a sensor capable of detecting flow-field separation on an airplane wing during routine flight operations. A sensor of this type could lead to both improved flight safety and increased performance. It would also contribute to future separation control technologies. A new idea …
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Passenger Traits That Predict the Bystander Intervention Model Steps During an Inflight Assault on a Flight Attendant
… major U.S. airline has experienced a violent inflight assault on one of their flight attendants. The problem is becoming more widespread, but industry leaders have few coping strategies. The first step toward addressing the issue is understanding the various aspects of the event, including the …
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The Aviation Illusion-Situational Judgment Test: Development and Evaluation
… is aeronautical decision-making (ADM) during inflight encounters with aviation illusions. However, a gap in research exists regarding how to measure pilots’ capacity to make judgments about illusions during flight.</p> <p>This dissertation aimed to develop and validate an SJT that evaluates …
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Cybersecurity Vulnerability Analysis and Countermeasures of Commercial Aircraft Avionic Systems
… and connecting to Wi-Fi and the embedded inflight entertainment system.</p> <p>Cyber technologies and connectivity expose aviation to a dangerous and costly world of cyber threats that pose a major challenge of an attack which makes the risks difficult to understand or to define. In …
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A Computational Fluid Dynamics Study on the Aerodynamic Performance of Ram-Air Parachutes
… presents challenges in the prediction of the inflight geometry, as there is a strong interaction between the flow field and parachute structure. This thesis presents the development of a CAD design and CFD methodology to the simulation of ram-air parachutes in steady-state conditions. Starting …
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FaaSRank: A Reinforcement Learning Scheduler for Serverless Function-as-a-Service Platforms
… is realized while reducing the average number of inflight function invocations by 59.62% and 70.43% freeing computational resources compared to the default scheduler for our experiments on two clusters, respectively.
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The design and development of Prometheus 1: Rice University's coded aperture faint object gamma ray telescope
… the remainder of the array independently viewed. Inflight calibration of the 121 individual PMTs will be handled by an on board computer in conjunction with LEDs attached to the crystals. The active shield is constructed of individual blocks viewed separately by one or more photomultiplier tubes …
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Comparison of Three Angle of Attack (AOA) Indicators: A Usability Study
… use of affordable AOA based systems to increase inflight safety. <a href="http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.libproxy.db.erau.edu/pqdtglobal/docview/1499890462/abstract/FA1346A9D964414CPQ/1?accountid=27203#">Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University</a>'s flight department decided to install AOA …
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An object-oriented method of mission profile input for aircraft design
… of an aircraft's flight path and its inflight mission activities. They are a vital aspect of the conceptual design process of an aircraft. The Mission Profile Input System (MPIS) created is general in nature and can be customized to be compatible with existing aircraft CAD systems. All …
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HEFT measurement of the hard X-ray size of the Crab Nebula and the hard X-ray optics of the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
… the instrument and the balloon campaign. The inflight calibration of the Point Spread Function (PSF) is done with a point source observation (~50 minutes of Cyg X-1 observation). With the PSF calibrated, I attempt to measuring the size of the Crab Nebula in this energy band. Analysis for …
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Aviation Propulsive Lithium-Ion Battery Packs State-of-Charge and State-of-Health Estimations and Propulsive Battery System Weight Analysis
… of electric and hybrid aircraft. Accurate inflight state-of-charge and state-of-health estimations of aviation battery packs still remain challenging. This thesis puts efforts on estimating the state-of-charge, state-of-health, and remaining energy of a lithium- ion propulsive battery pack …
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Redefining Creep: A Comprehensive Analysis of Aviation Accident Survivability
… such as aircraft equipped with ejection seats, inflight environmental factors, and high energy projectile strikes. To develop a more robust and comprehensive definition of CREEP, a mixed methods approach was conducted through a literature review, case study research, and conducting interviews. …
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Observations of aircraft proximity to weather for use in rerouting decision aids
… to be the largest cause of pilot initiated inflight replanning, and pilot reports appeared to be an influential information source in light weather. In moderate or severe weather the effects of pilot reports were decreased. Next, an analytical study was performed in which enroute flight …
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Effect of struts on aeroacoustics of axisymmetric supersonic inlets
… was tested statically without simulating the inflight speed effects. Steady state measurements were made in order to evaluate the aerodynamic performance of the inlet. The aerodynamic results show that the movement of the struts to a new location allowed the strut wake to diffuse significantly …
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A new approach to modeling aviation accidents
… identify the top types of accidents (e.g., inflight loss of control (LOC)), they usually cannot identify why these accidents are happening. Most NTSB narrative reports for GA accidents are very short (many are only one paragraph long), and do not contain much information on the causes …
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