In 2010 the Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) published a paper titled ‘Biomathematical Fatigue Modelling in Civil Aviation Fatigue Risk Management: Application Guidance’. In March 2014 an updated version of this document titled ‘Biomathematical Fatigue Models Guidance Document’ was released. The intent of the documents is to provide the aviation industry with updated guidance o...

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” Latin Proverb The aviation community is undergoing a reappraisal of progress made in automated cockpits. This gives the shipping community the opportunity to learn from someone else’s mistakes and successes. Aviation has invested more heavily in automation than shipping, and in some respects can be considered to be ‘ahead’. The re...

A Delphi panel of aviation experts is used to anticipate probable and wildcard scenarios on the future of aviation in 2025. According to the experts’ estimations, the passenger, business aviation, and air cargo segments will be faced with 27 probable high-impact developments. These include long-haul growth primarily linked to emerging countries, a number of substitution threats, liberalization ...

The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) is the main knowledge enterprise for aerospace technology in the Netherlands. NLR carries out commissions for government and corporations, both nationally and internationally, and for civil and military aviation. The overarching objective is to render aviation safer and more sustainable and efficient. In this way, NLR has been making essential contributio...

SEATTLE – Aviation Partners announced that as of 2:56 pm PST on Sunday, January 15, 2012 its blended winglets have saved the worlds commercial and business aircraft operators an estimated three billion gallons of jet fuel. This represents a global reduction in CO2 emissions of more than 32.2 million tonnes. Aviation Partners’ winglets are now flying on more than 5,000 individual airplanes, and ...

This report is divided into five major sections. The Background outlines the role of training in inspection and individual differences in inspection performance. The next section details the methodology used to conduct the individual differences study. These results are then discussed in further detail. Finally, the conclusion outlines the implications of this study for improving inspection per...

Since its emergence, at the beginning of the 20th century, the national aviation industry was considered one of the top industries. Acknowledging the potential of the industry, we try to focus our attention towards the status of several long established aviation company and the wellbeing of the economy as a whole. The purpose of this paper is to establish a correlation between the turnover of t...