Collegiate Aviation Students Perceptions of Female Representation in Collegiate Aviation and the U.S. Aviation Industry

US Army aviation medicine.

In February 1912, the Surgeon General of the United States Army prepared a special preliminary physical examination for candidates who were to receive instruction in the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps. This examination and those devised over the next four years were too demanding and few candidates could pass. In response to the need to revise medical standards for aviators, Colonel Theod...

Story Generation and Aviation Incident Representation

This working note discusses the topic of story generation, with a view to identifying the knowledge required to understand aviation incident narratives (which have structural similarities to stories), following the premise that to understand aviation incidents, one should at least be able to generate examples of them. We give a brief overview of aviation incidents and their relation to stories,...

Lufthansa aviation standard: developing an open group reference architecture for the aviation industry

Since March 2016, architects from Lufthansa and Capgemini have been collaborating on developing an Aviation Reference Architecture (RA), designed to serve as the basis of an Open Group Standard. Central to the development and description of the RA is an Architecture Definition Document (ADD), which explains the RA in its four TOGAF-specific architecture domains, namely the Business Architecture...

What Should Aviation Safety Incidents Teach Us?

Accidents and incidents involving safety-critical software systems often provide lessons to the systems’ users and designers, to industry, and to the software engineering community at large. Proper identification and documentation of these lessons is critical in order to prevent the recurrence of an untoward event. In this paper we examine two commercial aviation incidents involving failures of...

Aviation Medicine