Flightcrew training is a cornerstone of aviation safety, ensuring that pilots and other crewmembers possess the skills and knowledge required to navigate complex aircraft and respond effectively to non-normal situations. As technology continues to advance and new training demands continue to emerge in the aviation industry, the use of modern traini
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Aviation Administration. Center of Excellence for Alternative Jet Fuels and Environment
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2023-10-01
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This report covers the period October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023. The Center was established by the authority of FAA solicitation 13-C-AJFE-Solicitation. During that time the ASCENT team launched a new website, which can be viewed at ascent.aero. The next meeting(s) will be held during the months of April and May 2024.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are the main precursors to soot particles in combustion systems. A lack of direct experimental evidence has led to controversial theoretical explanations for the transition from gas-phase species to organic soot clusters. This work focuses on sampling infant soot particles from well-defined flames followed by analys
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The primary goal of this research was to analyze operational data to study flightcrew response to system failures, malfunctions, and systems not functioning as expected. Data from normal flight operations show that pilots are exposed to such situations regularly. We reviewed 20 records from the Aviation Safety Reporting System (ASRS) public databas
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National-scale analyses showed non-monotonic trends in mean exposed areas that peaked in 2000, followed by a 37% decrease from 2005 to 2010 and a subsequent increase in 2015. We identified four distinct trajectory groups of airports sharing latent characteristics related to size and activity patterns. Those populations identifying as minority (e.g.
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This paper describes an initial investigation on the reflection of secondary sonic booms, based on the surface topography. It is hypothesized that the type of secondary sonic booms resulting from a primary boom surface reflection could be substantially affected by the topography. A primary boom impacting a flat ocean will provide for a coherent ref
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) uses the Aviation Environmental Design Tool (AEDT) to assess the impact of airport emissions on air quality in and around an airport. AEDT incorporates EPA's (Environmental Protection Agency) regulatory model, AERMOD. The area/volume source algorithm in AERMOD is currently used to treat most airport so
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This project will evaluate potential methods for replacement of worn seat cushions used in energy absorbing seats. Streamlined approaches to the replacement of worn cushions in aircraft seats have been requested by the aviation industry. The FAA developed a method for seats that do not require energy absorption (Part 25 and Part 23 passenger) based
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The Federal Aviation Administration Airport Technology Research and Development Branch sponsored a study of pavement surface treatments with two main objectives: to identify best practices and to propose guidance for selecting surface treatments as the appropriate treatment strategy for airport pavements. Twelve airports and agencies with surface t
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Due to the importance of understanding the aeroacoustics of rotorcraft with continually changing noise sources, this paper presents a new technique for source separation from ground-based acoustic measurements. The source separation process is based on combining a time-domain de-Dopplerization method with the Vold-Kalman (VK) order tracking filter
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The need for rapid mitigation of climate change and aviation-related emissions has been the driving force behind the development and deployment of alternative jet fuels (AJFs). Research efforts have mainly focused on hydrocarbons (and their blends) derived from non-petroleum feedstocks, designed to act as a direct replacement for conventional disti
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Sustainable aviation fuel pathways do not generally yield selective synthetic blend components in the aviation turbine fuel distillation range. Here we discuss a methodology for maximizing the sustainable aviation fuel yield from a pathway and the respective blend ratio with a petroleum-derived fuel by varying distillation cut points. These cut poi
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has undertaken research programs to support streamlining various facets of the seat certification process. Previous research evaluated potential methods to qualify replacement of worn seat cushions used in low G applications (Part 25 and Part 23 passenger) and better quantify variability in vertical testing
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There is limited research examining aircraft noise and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. The objective of this study was to investigate associations of aircraft noise with CVD among two US cohorts, the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and Nurses’ Health Study II (NHSII).
he commercial aviation sector is seeking to reach net zero CO2 emissions by 2050, with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) being the most important lever. However, SAF is currently limited by ASTM specifications to a maximum of 50%v blending with conventional jet fuel. One reason for the current blend limit is motivation to maintain o-ring swelling con
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Fuel properties of oil-bearing kukui (Aleurites moluccana) nuts, a commonly found crop in Hawaii and tropical Pacific regions, were comprehensively studied to evaluate their potential for bioenergy production. Proximate and ultimate analyses, heating value, and elemental composition of the seed, shell, and de-oiled seed cake were determined across
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This study is intended to identify genetic biomarkers associated with consumption of cannabis in order to expand thresholds of detection and ability to detect use of drugs that are difficult to assay with traditional biochemistry-based toxicology assays. This project will produce a method of genetics-based detection of drug use in sample specimens
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Data management plan for study on hypoxia training is a standard facet of military aviator training, performed to familiarize airmen with the symptoms of hypoxia.
Cannabis is the third most commonly used drug of abuse following alcohol and tobacco in the United States. Cannabis is federally classified as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 but is legal for medicinal and/or recreational purposes in 39 US states. However, cannabis use by safety-sensitive personnel, including cert
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Many turbulent flows exhibit time-periodic statistics. These include turbomachinery flows, flows with external harmonic forcing, and the wakes of bluff bodies. Many existing techniques for identifying turbulent coherent structures, however, assume the statistics are statistically stationary. In this paper, we leverage cyclostationary analysis, an e
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