Airworthiness, as a field, encompasses all those technical and non-technical activities required to design, certify, produce, maintain and operate safely an aircraft throughout its lifespan. The evolving technology, scientific and engineering methods and, most importantly, aviation regulation, offers new opportunities and creates new challenges for the aviation industry.
This Special Issue assembles a diverse selection of research and review papers on topics of interest to the modern industry practitioners and researchers. These topics span across the initial and continuing airworthiness spectrum, discussing problems in the broader thematic areas of aircraft maintenance [1,2,3,4,5,6,7], safety management [6,8], human factors [1,4,5], cost analysis [3,7,9], structures [7,10,11], risk assessment [2,4], unmanned aerial vehicles [8,12] and regulations [6,12].
Reflecting on the list of targeted themes, communicated through the call for papers [13], I was pleased to see that most have been covered in the Special Issue, as indicated with the italic format in Table 1. I trust the readers will enjoy this variety of high-quality research and review papers.
Table 1.
Coverage of Special Issue’s targeted theme areas, as indicated with the italic format.
Funding
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Acknowledgments
I wish to thank all authors for their contributions.
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