Browsing Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics by Title
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The M.I.T. Blowdown Compressor Facility
(Cambridge, Mass. : Gas Turbine Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [1972], 1972)A Blowdown Compressor Test Facility has been developed which allows aerodynamic testing of full-scale compressor stages at low cost. The rotor is brought to speed in vacuum, a diaphragm is opened, and the test gas allowed ... -
Maintenance cost studies of present aircraft subsystems
([Cambridge, Mass.] : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1966], 1966)This report describes two detailed studies of actual maintenance costs for present transport aircraft. The first part describes maintenance costs for jet transport aircraft broken down into subsystem costs according to an ... -
Maintenance cost studies of rotary wing commercial transport aircraft
(Cambridge, MA : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Flight Transportation Laboratory, 1974, 1974)Introduction: The vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft market has had substantial growth in the period of the last ten years when one considers the overall number of aircraft in use. The military fleet has continued ... -
Man Vehicle Systems Research Facility : functional specification of the ATC subsystem.
(Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1980], 1980)The ATC subsystem will be designed to realistically simulate the present and future air traffic control environments in which the cabs will fly their experiments. -
Management processes in U.S. air traffic management modernization : a study of global navigation satellite system development
(Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1994], 1994)This thesis investigates organization and management issues associated with the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) efforts to modernize the nation's Air Traffic Management (ATM) system. Focus is placed specifically ... -
Market share model for a multi-airport system
(Cambridge : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, ©1993, ©1993)Because capacity at existing airports was limited and/or because the cost of congestion was becoming unacceptable, several large cities around the world have had to build a second or third major commercial airport to keep ... -
The marketing of international air transportation in the USA
(Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1980], 1980)Introduction: I am very honoured to have been invited to talk to you today at such a distinguished place of learning as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I understand that you have already had talks from several ... -
Mars atmospheric CO2 condensation above the north and south poles as revealed by radio occultation, climate sounder, and laser ranging observations
(Journal Of Geophysical Research-Planets, 2012-07-10)We study the condensation of CO2 in Mars' atmosphere using temperature profiles retrieved from radio occultation measurements from Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) as well as the climate sounding instrument onboard the Mars ... -
Massachusetts state airport system plan forecasts.
(Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1978], )This report is a first step toward updating the forecasts contained in the 1973 Massachusetts State System Plan. It begins with a presentation of the forecasting techniques currently available; it surveys and appraises the ... -
Massively Parallel Solver for the High-Order Galerkin Least-Squares Method
(Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-06)A high-order Galerkin Least-Squares (GLS) finite element discretization is combined with massively parallel implicit solvers. The stabilization parameter of the GLS discretization is modified to improve the resolution ... -
Measurement of the Mass Flow and Tangential Momentum Accommodation Coefficient in Silicon Micromachined Channels
(Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997-01)An analytic and experimental investigation into gaseous flow with slight rarefaction through long microchannels is undertaken in an attempt to obtain values of the Tangential Momentum Accommodation Coefficient (TMAC) ... -
Measurements of aerodynamic damping on the MIT transonic rotor
(Cambridge, Mass. : Gas Turbine & Plasma Dynamics Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [1981], 1981)A method has been developed and demonstrated for the direct measurement of aerodynamic forcing and aerodynamic damping of a transonic compressor. The method is based on the inverse solution of the structural dynamic equations ... -
Measurements of rotor stalling in a matched and a mismatched multistage compressor
(Cambridge, Mass. : Gas Turbine Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [1995], 1995)This paper presents the results from a set of experiments on stall inception in multistage axial flow compressors. The experiments were tailored to investigate phenomena having a wide range of time and length scales. This ... -
A method for determination of optimum vehicle size and frequency of service for a short haul V/STOL air transport system
(Cambridge, Mass. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1968], 1968)To compete successfully in short haul markets under 200 miles, an air transport system must offer a high daily frequency of service, N, as well as short air travel times. In a given market, N can be increased by using ... -
A method for governing spacecraft evasive maneuvering
(Cambridge, Mass. : MIT, Dept. of Aeronautics & Astronautics, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1986], 1986)A computer program is developed to govern the evasive maneuvering of a spacecraft in response to an anti-spacecraft missile threat in regions of space where drag is not significant. With a view to circumventing the need ... -
A methodology for determining the relationship between air transportation demand and the level of service
(Cambridge, Mass. : Flight Transportation Laboratory, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [1976], 1976)Introduction: Within the last ten years significant advances in the state-of-the art in air travel demand analysis stimulated researchers in the domestic air transportation field. Among these advances, researchers in ... -
A microprocessor driven liquid crystal graphics display for aircraft use
([Cambridge : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Technology Laboratory, 1984], 1984)A complete graphics system for use in modular avionics is built around a liquid crystal flat panel display. Screen refresh is handled by display controller that provides a bit mapped representation of the display in RAM. ... -
Minimax network location : theory and algorithms
(Cambridge, Mass. : Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Flight Transportation Laboratory, [1974], 1974)For a given network let P and N denote the set of all points and the set of all nodes respectively. Let G and T denote a cyclic network and a tree network respectively and let m denote the number of centers available. The ... -
Mitigation of Human Supervisory Control Wait Times through Automation Strategies
(MIT Humans and Automation Laboratory, 2005)The application of network centric operations principles to human supervisory control (HSC) domains means that humans are increasingly being asked to manage multiple simultaneous HSC processes. However, increases in the ... -
Mixed-Initiative Strategies for Real-time Scheduling of Multiple Unmanned Vehicles
(American Control Conference, 2012)Advances in autonomy have made it possible to invert the typical operator-to-unmanned vehicle ratio so that a single operator can now control multiple heterogeneous Unmanned Vehicles (UVs). Real-time scheduling and task ...
