In this paper, the variation transmission model is introduced to build the key quality characteristics identifying model in multistage manufacturing process. Then the PLSR (Partial Least Squares Regression) method is used to solve the multicollinearity problem of the quality characteristics, make model analyzing and identify the key quality characteristics. At last, the aircraft parts manufactu...

An analysis was conducted to examine the market visibility of small aircraft as a transportation mode in competition with automobile and scheduled commercial air travel by estimating the pool of users that would potentially switch on-demand air travel due to cost/time saving. These new aircraft greatly increase the practicality of regional aircraft as a transportation mode that can avoid the co...

In the present paper, an efficient method for three dimensional aircraft pattern recognition is introduced. In this method, a set of simple area based features extracted from silhouette of aerial vehicles are used to recognize an aircraft type from its optical or infrared images taken by a CCD camera or a FLIR sensor. These images can be taken from any direction and distance relative to the fly...

Abstract Aircraft manufacturing industries often evolve in the ecosystem of complex designs and processes associated with large volume information generated along lifecycle. Digital Twin (DT) technology has potential leveraging such to provide useful insights benefiting overall business many ways. Information Management (IM) for DT is still an ongoing challenge industries, thus leaving a consid...

This chapter describes potential roles of trust in future aviation information systems. The next-generation air transportation systems are envisioned to be a highly networked environment with aircraft digitally linked with ground systems and wireless technologies allowing real-time continuous sensing, collection and distribution of aircraft information assets. The resulting enhancements promise...

Manufacturing of aero-engine components has been improvised over the years, commensurate with technological developments in the aeronautics sector. Compressor blade plays a vital role in an aircraft engine and flaws in its production can have adverse impacts on the performance of an aero engine. Despite technological advancements, many defects arise in these single crystal blades, which are man...