The aircraft is a means of transportation that operates mainly in the air; however, it starts and ends its journey on ground. Due to aircraft’s structural complexity, simulation tools are used understand predict behavior movements Simulation allow adjusting observation parameters gather greater amount data than real tests explore interactions their individual components with external objects su...

The investigation of ice formation found important applications in many different fields. For instance, the accretion of ice is a common occurrence on the aircraft, due to the high velocity and humidity, and low temperature at upper air. The detection of ice formation on aircrafts is a critical issue since not only the aerodynamics change, but there is also the possibility of ice liberation fro...

Until recently, there was not a strong need for networking inside aircrafts. Indeed, the communications were mainly cabled and handled by Ethernet protocols. The evolution of avionics embedded systems and the number of integrated functions in civilian aircrafts has changed the situation. Indeed, those functionalities implies a huge increase in the quantity of data exchanged and thus in the numb...

The future of aircrafts is in unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and any improvement in UAVs will play an important role, especially when it comes to intelligence and capabilities for air combat manoeuvring. The ultimate goal in such work is to bring computers to the level of a pilot’s intelligence capability in air combat. In order to achieve this goal, operations research is required. The prese...

Today’s highly competitive environment in the commercial air transportation business instigates airline companies to continue operating their aircrafts beyond the design life, as long as the maintenance ascertaining their safe operation is more cost-effective than the investment into a new aircraft. In the context of damage tolerance of aging aircrafts, the residual strength of the fuselage ski...

Ever increasing demand from structures makes them to work more in adverse environments. For example, engine components in high performance, high speed new aircrafts are being exposed to much higher temperatures than those in old aircrafts, in different control devices the continuous trend to pack more transistors on a single chip have resulted in an unprecedented level of power dissipation, and...

Aviation disaster prevention has always been of interest to homeland security, especially after the recent use of aircrafts as weapons by terrorists. With better understanding of the deficiency of different types of aircraft and their corresponding effects on the craft’s safety, better maintenance and response plans can be devised to prevent disasters from occurring. In this paper, we present a...

This paper deals with evaluation and analysis of carbon footprint an airline operator, Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) by using its actual flight maintenance data from 2016 to 2019. NAC is a multi-fleet both turboprop turbofan aircrafts. Carbon in terms Dioxide (CO2) emission has been calculated for NAC’s operations per individual aircraft, fleet-type operating sector (i.e., international dome...