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  • Open Access
200 Citations
17,599 Views
21 Pages

15 March 2021

Metaverses embedded in our lives create virtual experiences inside of the physical world. Moving towards metaverses in aircraft maintenance, mixed reality (MR) creates enormous opportunities for the interaction with virtual airplanes (digital twin) t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,547 Views
19 Pages

3 February 2023

Digital twins have revolutionized manufacturing and maintenance, allowing us to interact with virtual yet realistic representations of the physical world in simulations to identify potential problems or opportunities for improvement. However, traditi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,751 Views
37 Pages

Runway Safety Assistant Foreseeing Excursions: Calculating Means

  • Georgios Alogdianakis,
  • Ioannis Katsidimas,
  • Athanasios Kotzakolios,
  • Anastasios Plioutsias and
  • Vassilis Kostopoulos

29 August 2024

Runway Safety Assistant Foreseeing Excursions (RUNSAFE) is a complete embedded system solution, that predicts a potential runway overrun of a civil aviation aircraft during takeoff and landing. This work examines the feasibility of such a system, thr...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
12,085 Views
17 Pages

7 September 2022

The application of the wings with a high aspect ratio for future-oriented transport category aircraft is being considered. Such a solution makes it possible to increase fuel efficiency by reducing induced drag. This goal is achieved by increasing the...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
10,206 Views
25 Pages

Estimation of Stability Parameters for Wide Body Aircraft Using Computational Techniques

  • Muhammad Ahmad,
  • Zukhruf Liaqat Hussain,
  • Syed Irtiza Ali Shah and
  • Taimur Ali Shams

26 February 2021

In this paper, we present the procedure of estimating the aerodynamic coefficients for a commercial aviation aircraft from geometric parameters at low-cruise-flight conditions using US DATCOM (United States Data Compendium) and XFLR software. The pur...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,723 Views
15 Pages

5 May 2021

Climate change requires the reduction of energy consumption in transport and the associated fuel consumption, and emission of pollutants into the atmosphere. This issue is particularly relevant to air transport. Referring to the current legislative a...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,720 Views
19 Pages

5 February 2022

The Boeing 737 MAX crisis and COVID-19 pandemic have seriously influenced the development of China’s aircraft leasing industry in the past two years. This paper applies system dynamics theory to explore the sustainable development of China&rsqu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
9,267 Views
25 Pages

Innovative Box-Wing Aircraft: Emissions and Climate Change

  • Andrea Luca Tasca,
  • Vittorio Cipolla,
  • Karim Abu Salem and
  • Monica Puccini

16 March 2021

The PARSIFAL project (Prandtlplane ARchitecture for the Sustainable Improvement of Future AirpLanes) aims to promote an innovative box-wing aircraft: the PrandtlPlane. Aircraft developed adopting this configuration are expected to achieve a payload c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
17,389 Views
15 Pages

Psychological Safety in Aviation New Product Development Teams: Case Study of 737 MAX Airplane

  • Michael Naor,
  • Nicole Adler,
  • Gavriel David Pinto and
  • Alon Dumanis

29 October 2020

The goal of current study is to discern the antecedents of two airplane accidents involving the Boeing MAX 737. The theory of normal accidents serves as a lens to comprehend the hazard stemming from MAX design with dissonance between two critical sys...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,057 Views
24 Pages

Prognostics and health management is an engineering discipline that aims to support system operation while ensuring maximum safety and performance. Prognostics is a key step of this framework, focusing on developing effective maintenance policies bas...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,128 Views
25 Pages

11 June 2021

Downslope windstorms are known sources of hazardous weather, such as severe gusty winds, rapid temperature changes, ship icing, strong turbulence and others, posing a great danger to people and infrastructure. This paper investigates the risks of shi...

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  • Open Access
1,338 Views
17 Pages

20 March 2025

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, understanding airborne pathogen transmission within confined spaces became critically important. The release of infectious aerosols through activities such as breathing, speaking, and coughing poses significant health risk...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,677 Views
23 Pages

14 October 2020

Safety is of paramount concern in aerospace and aviation. Safety has evolved over the years, from the technical era to the human-factors era and organizational era, and finally to the present era of systems-thinking. Building upon three foundational...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,359 Views
18 Pages

In order to realize the detection and recognition of specific types of an aircraft in remote sensing images, this paper proposes an algorithm called Fine-grained S2ANet (FS2ANet) based on the improved Single-shot Alignment Network (S2ANet) for remote...

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  • Open Access
1,353 Views
23 Pages

24 September 2025

Aviation’s sustainability discourse often centres on flight emissions, but production and end-of-life phases also carry material, energy, and pollution impacts that are large enough to merit systematic intervention. With ~13,000 aircraft projec...

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  • Open Access
1,885 Views
33 Pages

Brute Force Computations and Reference Solutions

  • Mihail Mihaylov Konstantinov,
  • Petko Hristov Petkov and
  • Ekaterina Borisova Madamlieva

In this paper, we consider the application of brute force computational techniques (BFCTs) for solving computational problems in mathematical analysis and matrix algebra in a floating-point computing environment. These techniques include, among other...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,626 Views
21 Pages

A Multi-Head Attention-Based Transformer Model for Predicting Causes in Aviation Incidents

  • Aziida Nanyonga,
  • Hassan Wasswa,
  • Keith Joiner,
  • Ugur Turhan and
  • Graham Wild

The timely identification of probable causes in aviation incidents is crucial for averting future tragedies and safeguarding passengers. Typically, investigators rely on flight data recorders; however, delays in data retrieval or damage to the device...