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- Analysis of Mid-Air Collisions in Civil Aviation
- Mid Air Collisions MAC are tragic events, with the potential of multiple fatalities. Despite the improving trends in aviation safety, the rate of MAC has remained stable for the past few years. There is an absence of published literature on MAC and related human performance issues. Consequently, the study presented...
- White papers 2001-08-21
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- Union says FAA outage led to near collisions
- LOS ANGELES AP -- Airplanes passed dangerously close to each other in at least five instances after a computer failure knocked out radio contact between pilots and air traffic controllers across the West, a union official said Wednesday. Two flights during the outage Tuesday "were almost near-mid-air collisions,"...
- Research articles 2004-09-16
- Visual lookout with advanced avionics
- In the air-to-air arena, with all the advances in technology that make a more lethal killing machine, the threat is still able to reach out and touch us. No, I am not speaking of the poor adversary you have locked up ready to launch your missile at. I am referring...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Low-Tech Answers For Improved Runway Safety
- An NTSB Forum Pinpoints Solutions While high-tech solutions now being tested around the country promise to put runway incursions into the same "solved" category as Controlled Flight into Terrain, Wind Shear and Mid-Air Collisions, it was the low-tech solutions that speakers at last week's National Transportation...
- Research articles 2007-04-16
- Northern Provides Aviation Backup.
- Parsons Infrastructure & Technology Group Inc. has chosen Northern Power Systems subsidiary Distributed Energy Systems Corp. (10 Technology Drive, Wallingford, CT 06492; Tel: 203/678-2000, Fax: 203/949-8016, email: pes@protonenergy.com) to supply three Northern TelePower remote power systems for the FAA's Capstone Ground Based Transceiver GBT Program in Southeast Alaska. Designed to...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- Not cleared to fly: worries about mid-air collisions keep civilian drones grounded.(Battlefield Surveillance)
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SAN DIEGO -- Local governments and unmanned aircraft suppliers look forward to the day when legions of drones can fly over the national airspace to survey fires, spot displaced citizens in a natural disaster or pinpoint criminals in a police investigation. ...
- Research articles 2008-05-01
- Collision Avoidance Systems Proposed for Cargo Aircraft
- Initiative responds to legislation enacted to force action A significant step has been taken toward the oft-proclaimed goal of a "single level of safety" that should greatly help reduce the threat of mid-air collisions. Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System TCAS technology must be installed in all-cargo aircraft...
- Research articles 2001-11-19
- Near Misses Prompt Call For Ground-Based Conflict Alert System
- Canadian regulators are poised to mandate a high-technology ground-based solution identified a decade ago to keep safe separation of aircraft after two recent mid-air collisions have stressed the need for more layers of collision avoidance defense. Because of a near-miss between two Boeing 767s in January 1999 west of...
- Research articles 2000-10-09
- Nissan Bases New Technology on Bees
- Greentech Media submits: You don’t see bees get into collisions often. Nissan NSANY and the Advanced Science and Technical Department at the University of Tokyo are studying the ways bees navigate in mid-air to see if it could be applied to cars to prevent crashes. by Greentech Media
- External links 2008-10-03
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