A brief history of developments in the field of low-speed aeroelasticity is provided in the context of application to long-span bridge structures. The paper begins with summary of some of the significant developments in aeroelasticity for low-speed aeronautical applications in the early 20th century. The role of the pivotal Tacoma Narrows failure and subsequent investigation is introduced. The ...

This paper presents results from analysis into the performance of Turbo Codes over the aeronautical satellite channel. Currently, only limited services (voice, fax, low rate data) are available for aeronautical travelers. A major constraint is the cost of providing an aircraft qualiied antenna with high gain. This limits the data transmission rates that can be supported. In the future, more pow...

In the last decade, the demand for reliable data, voice, and video satellite communication links between aircraft and ground to improve air traffic control, airline management, and to meet the growing demand for passenger communications has increased significantly. It is expected that in the near future, the spectrum required for aeronautical communication services will grow significantly beyon...

Aeronautical Telecommunication Network (ATN) has been developed by International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to integrate air-ground and ground-ground data communications for aeronautical applications into a single network serving air traffic control and aeronautical operational communications. The current ICAO ATN model specifies a standalone network with its own protocols, which requir...

The future aeronautical network will be based on IPv6 and the services over the aeronautical network will be classified into 3 domains: Air Traffic Services (ATS), Airline Operational Services (AOS) and Passenger Information and Entertainment Services (PIES), among which the ATS and AOS domains are important for aircraft safety and airline business operation. Some schemes have been proposed to ...

The introduction of network elements into telemetry systems brings a level of complexity that makes performance analysis difficult, if not impossible. Packet simulation is a well understood tool that enables performance prediction for network designs or for operational forecasting. Packet simulators must however be customized to incorporate aeronautical radio channels and other effects unique t...

The use of aeronautical thermosetting resins in the field structural materials is still limited because several drawbacks, such as absence electrical and thermal conductivity poor impact damage resistance. An important contribution for increasing composite application this can be given by implementing a strategy autonomous damage-repair other specific functions integrated into material structur...