Aerospace and aviation technology

A true revolution has rocked the space industry, as Silicon Valley and new startup companies around the world have shaken up the status quo.

This book provides readers with a basic understanding of the concepts and methodologies of sustainable aviation.

This textbook provides students and the broader aviation community with a complete, accessible guide to the subject of human factors in aviation.

Sensors and Instrumentation, Aircraft/Aerospace and Energy Harvesting, Volume 7:  Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the seventh volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book introduces readers to the topical area of CSI: critical space infrastructure, which is defined as an emerging domain of systems-of-systems encompassing hardware, workforce, environment, facilities, business and organizational entities.

This book gathers contributions addressing issues related to the analysis of composite structures, whose most relevant common thread is augmented numerical efficiency, which is more accurate for given computational costs than existing methods and methodologies.

Robust and Fault-Tolerant Control proposes novel automatic control strategies for nonlinear systems developed by means of artificial neural networks and pays special attention to robust and fault-tolerant approaches.

This book introduces readers to the latest findings on disaster robotics.

This book includes a selection of 30 reviewed and enhanced manuscripts published during the 15th SpaceOps Conference held in May 2018 in Marseille, France.

This book serves as an introduction to cryocooler technology and describes the principle applications of cryocoolers across a broad range of fields.

This book presents advanced case studies that address a range of important issues arising in space engineering.

This book provides a detailed insight into how space and its applications are embedded, and can be further embedded, into African society in support of the SDGs, while taking into account the specific features, needs, and diversity of that society.

This book provides an overview of the space sector in African countries, from a legal and policy point of view, analysing how the African Union's Space Policy and Strategy (ASPS) is implemented and highlighting the various space activities in each country.

This book is about the American moon-landings - and about the doubts expressed ever since concerning the reality of these landings.

The book describes the recent trends in space policy and the space sector overall.

This book introduces readers to the latest findings on disaster robotics.

Japan has a rich history of human spaceflight, flying in space with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

This book consolidates decades of knowledge on space flight navigation theory, which has thus far been spread across various research articles.

This report describes recent trouble-shooting results in aircraft engineering concerning a self-induced fault mechanism of a hydraulic servo-valve.

Luna 2, launched by the USSR in 1959, was the first spacecraft from Earth to land on the moon.

A manned mission to Mars is faced with challenges and topics that may not be obvious but of great importance and challenging for such a mission.

This contributed volume addresses the future development of space law in light of our ever-growing space activities, the multiplicity of new space actors and the challenges posed by novel space technologies.

This innovative monograph explores a new mathematical formalism in higher-order temporal logic for proving properties about the behavior of systems.

This volume of the series Space Life Sciences provides insights into the latest findings of gravity research and the effect of gravity on biological systems, specifically on a cellular and molecular level.

Japan has a rich history of human spaceflight, flying in space with both NASA and the Soviet/Russian space agencies over the years.

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

This book provides a broad overview of state-of-the-art research at the intersection of the Koopman operator theory and control theory.

Robust and Fault-Tolerant Control proposes novel automatic control strategies for nonlinear systems developed by means of artificial neural networks and pays special attention to robust and fault-tolerant approaches.

In this compelling memoir, Erich Sommer recalls his life in pre-war Germany and the adventures he had flying for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.

Born into a family of aviators, Merrill Wien was destined to become a pilot.

Over a thirty-two-year military flying career which spanned a period when the RAF regularly replaced its fighter/bombers, Ian Hall had seven front-line flying tours on five different types.

In this compelling memoir, Erich Sommer recalls his life in pre-war Germany and the adventures he had flying for the Luftwaffe during the Second World War.

Spacecraft Power Technologies is the first comprehensive text devoted to the technologies critical to the development of spacecraft electrical power systems.

The purpose of this book is twofold.

Tony Blackman OBE, MA FRAeS was educated at Oundle School and Trinity College Cambridge, where he obtained an honors degree in Physics.

This book provides an in-depth treatment of the study of the stability of engineering structures.

A Vertical Empire provides a description of the British rocketry and space programme from the 1950s to 1970s, detailing the Medium Range Ballistic Missile Blue Streak and its conversion to a satellite launcher as part of the European Launcher Development Organisation (ELDO).

Introduction to Aircraft Structural Analysis is an essential resource for learning aircraft structural analysis.

A one-stop Desk Reference, for engineers involved in all aspects of aerospace; this is a book that will not gather dust on the shelf.

Implementing Competency-Based Training and Assessment in Aviation explains in detail, with examples, how to implement Competency Based Training and Assessment in aviation.

This book, a collaborative endeavour by experts from various disciplines, meticulously investigates the increasing reliance on drones in conflicts across Africa, delving into their geopolitical, tactical, and ethical ramifications.

On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines.

Corrosion control in the aerospace industry has always been important, but is becoming more so with the ageing of the aircraft fleet.

Major operational elements of the world's air transport system are examined in this important book, which provides a rare overview and an invaluable single information source to managers in all sectors of the air transport industry.

Demonstrating safety for the application of ever more complex technologies is a formidable task.

The lack of widespread education in space safety engineering and management has profound effects on project team effectiveness in integrating safety during design.

The lack of widespread education in space safety engineering and management has profound effects on project team effectiveness in integrating safety during design.