Aerospace and aviation technology

This book analyzes the commercial space activities and commercialization processes of the last fifteen years and maps the future challenges that NewSpace companies will face developing commercial space markets.

In the fast-changing theatre of air transportation, the strategic development of airlines and the operating economics of scheduled airline services have been transformed, following the profound impact of US deregulation.

This SpringerBrief discusses the determination and classification of the ambient temperature corrosion and stress corrosion properties of aerospace structural alloys, with emphasis on (1) aluminium alloys, modern (3rd generation) aluminium-lithium alloys, stainless steels and titanium alloys and (2) some of the issues involved.

The book constitutes a valuable guide to the implementation of the CNS/ATM system towards ensuring safe, efficient and orderly evolution of international air transport.

During the last decade, a rapid growth of knowledge in the field of re-entry and planetary entry has resulted in many significant advances useful to the student, engineer and scientist.

This book highlights the latest developments and the author's own research achievements in high speed pneumatic control theory and applied technology.

This book focuses on smart materials and structures, which are also referred to as intelligent, adaptive, active, sensory and metamorphic.

The book provides deep insights into the operations and business of the air transport system, i.

The high accuracy of modern astronomical spatial-temporal reference systems has made them considerably complex.

No one could doubt that Frederick Warren Merriam was one of the earliest and most important of Britain's aviation pioneers.

Complete coverage of modern electrical and electronics systems for aircraftFully updated for the latest technological advances, this comprehensive text describes design concepts, FAA certification requirements, and aerospace-quality maintenance and repair techniques for aircraft electrical and electronics systems.

Aeromedical psychology is that branch of psychology pertaining to the assessment, selection and evaluation of aviation personnel.

Aviation remains one of the most active and challenging domains for human factors and applied psychology.

The interdisciplinary research and development work carried out in the last ten years which is presented in this book aimed at replacing the conventional airport control tower by a new "e;remote tower operation"e; work environment (RTO) which should enhance work efficiency and safety and reduce costs.

Manual flight control system design for fighter aircraft is one of the most demanding problems in automatic control.

Unprecedented social changes, accelerated by facilitating technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic, are calling for airlines to think deeply and non-conventionally on what will be important to existing and new travelers, as they change their lifestyles.

The advantages of airline competition to consumers are clearly apparent.

A systematic computer-aided approach provides a versatile setting for the control engineer to overcome the complications of controller design for highly nonlinear systems.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book focuses on the fault-tolerant cooperative control (FTCC) of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (multi-UAVs).

Aerodynamic design, like many other engineering applications, is increasingly relying on computational power.

Building Safe Systems in Aviation provides a single source for those who need to progress beyond current models of Crew Resource Management (CRM) to developing safe systems in critical industries.

This book contains the selected papers from the 7th China Aeronautical Science and Technology Conference.

Innovation in aerospace design and engineering is essential to meet the many challenges facing this sector.

This book describes the technology, history, and future of rocket planes.

This book introduces design techniques developed to increase the safety of aircraft engines, and demonstrates how the application of stochastic methods can overcome problems in the accurate prediction of engine lift caused by manufacturing error.

This report assesses the operational performance of explosives-detection equipment and hardened unit-loading devices (HULDs) in airports and compares their operational performance to their laboratory performance, with a focus on improving aviation security.

This book shows engineers and scientists how to create new products that are income-producing for themselves and for investors.

Accelerating Sustainable Aviation Initiatives: Markets, Economics, and Social Issues examines the twin challenges of clean aviation and the industry's ongoing recovery from the COVID-19 crisis.

The book presents a unified and well-developed approach to the dynamics of angular motions of rigid bodies subjected to perturbation torques of different physical nature.

This volume examines the connection between culture and defence by providing an inside look at Brazil's aerospace strategies.

A little-known yet critical part ofNASA historyLife in Space explores the many aspects andoutcomes of NASAs research in life sciences, a little-understood endeavor thathas often been overlooked in histories of the space agency.

A primary mission of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the assurance of safety in civil aviation, both private and commercial.

This brief presents a concise description of the existing spaceport market, the technologies being tested and developed at them, and the private companies that are making them possible.

This is the third edition of a now-renowned guide that provides an extensive account of the state of the aviation industry and the law that regulates it.

Sport flying is about to take off.

Frequently it is suggested that the 'golden age' of television was during the period 1950-1960.

This book is intended for students and engineers who design and develop liquid-propellant rocket engines, offering them a guide to the theory and practice alike.

Leadership and organisational structures which are not adjusted to the cultural background of the employees concerned are most likely to produce sub-optimal results (House, 2004).

The flight of Gemini 4 in June 1965 was conducted barely four years after the first Americans flew in space.

This volume addresses challenges and solutions in transport and mobility of people and goods with respect to environment, safety, security and socio-economics issues, exploring advanced computational research work and the latest innovations in transport.

Time-Critical Cooperative Control of Autonomous Air Vehicles presents, in an easy-to-read style, the latest research conducted in the industry, while also introducing a set of novel ideas that illuminate a new approach to problem-solving.

Australia has an enviable record for airline safety - No one has ever died in an accident involving a commercial jet aircraft in Australia.

Aviation noise remains the primary hindrance to expansion of airport and airspace capacity in the United States.

This textbook provides details of the derivation of Lagrange's planetary equations and of the closely related Gauss's variational equations, thereby covering a sorely needed topic in existing literature.

The Magnesium Technology Symposium, the event on which this collection is based, is one of the largest yearly gatherings of magnesium specialists in the world.