Browsing Flight Transportation Laboratory Reports by Subject "Aeronautics"

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    • An application of advanced statistical techniques to forecast the demand for air transportation 

      Mathaisel, Dennis F. X.; Taneja, Nawal K. (Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1977], 1977)
      Introduction and objectives: For some time now regression models, often calibrated using the ordinary least-squares (OLS) estimation procedure, have become common tools for forecasting the demand for air transportation. ...

    • Aviation safety analysis 

      Ausrotas, Raymond A.; Hansman, Robert John. (Cambridge, Mass : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1984], 1984)
      Introduction: Just as the aviation system is complex and interrelated, so is aviation safety. Aviation safety involves design of aircraft and airports, training of ground personnel and flight crew members' maintenance of ...

    • A comprehensive assessment of air transportation in Mainland China 

      Tam, Koon-Ho Joseph ([Cambridge, Mass.] : Flight Transportation Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [1975], 1975)
      This study attempts to obtain an overall picture of air transportation in Mainland China, domestic and international, past and present, so as to lay the ground for further studies. A brief history of early aviation development ...

    • An experimental and theoretical study of the ice accretion process during artificial and natural icing conditions 

      Kirby, Mark Samuel; Hansman, Robert John (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1986], 1986)
      Real-time measurements of ice growth during artificial and natural icing conditions were conducted using an ultrasonic pulse-echo technique. This technique allows ice thickness to be measured with an accuracy of ł0.5 mm; ...

    • Flight tests of a digital data acquisition system for analysis of ultrasonic pulse-echo signals used to measure ice accretion 

      Ryan, Justin Mark; Hansman, Robert John. (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1986], 1986)
      A number of signal processing algorithms were developed for analyzing ultrasonic signals used to measure aircraft ice accretion in flight. A high speed digital signal acquisition system was designed and constructed to ...

    • On the numerical solution of simultaneous, non-linear equations in computer-aided preliminary design 

      Kolb, Mark A. (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Flight Transportation Laboratory, c1986, c1986)
      In the solution of problems in preliminary design, it often becomes necessary to solve systems of equations. An immediate example from aeronautical design is the frequent need to perform several iterations around the gross ...

    • Toward the definition and measurement of the mental workload of transport pilots 

      Sheridan, Thomas B.; Simpson, R. W. (Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1979], 1979)
      This report describes work performed in the first year of a continuing research project aimed at developing useful methods for measuring the workload of pilots operating aircraft in the ATC system. Good methods of measuring ...

    • The U.S. aviation system to the year 2000 

      Ausrotas, Raymond A. (Cambridge : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1982], 1982)
      Introduction: 1.1 The Future of the Aviation System. It is nothing if not presumptuous to look ahead twenty years in any phase of human activity. This seems particularly true in civil aviation where the certificated airlines ...