Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology: Volume 78 Issue 1
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An International JournalTable of contents
Progress in the development of guidance strategies for the landing flare manoeuvre using tau‐based parameters
Michael Jump, Gareth D. PadfieldTo provide a progress report into research conducted to establish guidelines for the development of guidance vision aids.
Introduction: operational efficiency in aviation
Donald McLeanTo provide a brief introduction to the special section of papers.
The helicopter – efficiency or efficacy?
Simon NewmanThis paper reflects the design characteristics of helicopters and how each addresses the requirements of efficiency in operation and the ability to perform these operations…
The influence of human factors on operational efficiency
Don HarrisTo describe how airline operational efficiency may be improved by adopting a socio‐technical systems approach which emphasises and integrates the role of human factors within a…
Measuring operational safety in aviation
Andrew RoseThe paper seeks to outline the limitations and constraints in measuring operational safety in an aviation environment and provide an overview of the work being done at British…
The operational efficiency of passenger aircraft
Donald McLeanTo provide for the use of airlines and other civil aviation organizations a practical definition of operational efficiency and to show how it can be determined.
Dynamic mesh and heuristic algorithms for the design of a transonic wing
Ergüven Vatandaş, İbrahim ÖzkolTo outline a transonic wing design problem by applying real coded genetic algorithm (GA) and dynamic mesh technique to reduce the optimization time and cost.
Utilization of a COTS component in temperature measurement system for microgravity fluid experiment on SZ‐4 spaceship
Xiujie Jiang, Huixian Sun, Xiaomin Chen, Zhihua Wang, Li Zhang, Daxing WangThis paper presents a new multi‐channel temperature measurement system (MCTMS) with small size, light weight and low power consumption for the microgravity fluid experiment of…
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0002-2667Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- Prof Phil Webb