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Subsonic Aircraft Safety Icing StudyNASA's Integrated Resilient Aircraft Control (IRAC) Project is one of four projects within the agency s Aviation Safety Program (AvSafe) in the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD). The IRAC Project, which was redesigned in the first half of 2007, conducts research to advance the state of the art in aircraft control design tools and techniques. A "Key Decision Point" was established for fiscal year 2007 with the following expected outcomes: document the most currently available statistical/prognostic data associated with icing for subsonic transport, summarize reports by subject matter experts in icing research on current knowledge of icing effects on control parameters and establish future requirements for icing research for subsonic transports including the appropriate alignment. This study contains: (1) statistical analyses of accident and incident data conducted by NASA researchers for this "Key Decision Point", (2) an examination of icing in other recent statistically based studies, (3) a summary of aviation safety priority lists that have been developed by various subject-matter experts, including the significance of aircraft icing research in these lists and (4) suggested future requirements for NASA icing research. The review of several studies by subject-matter experts was summarized into four high-priority icing research areas. Based on the Integrated Resilient Aircraft Control (IRAC) Project goals and objectives, the IRAC project was encouraged to conduct work in all of the high-priority icing research areas that were identified, with the exception of the developing of methods to sense and document actual icing conditions.
Document ID
20080008836
Acquisition Source
Langley Research Center
Document Type
Technical Memorandum (TM)
Authors
Jones, Sharon Monica
(NASA Langley Research Center Hampton, VA, United States)
Reveley, Mary S.
(NASA Glenn Research Center Cleveland, OH, United States)
Evans, Joni K.
(ATK Space Hampton, VA, United States)
Barrientos, Francesca A.
(Research Inst. for Advanced Computer Science Mountain View, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 24, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2008
Subject Category
Air Transportation And Safety
Report/Patent Number
L-19435
NASA/TM--2008-215107
Funding Number(s)
WBS: WBS 457280.02.07.07.02
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Public Use Permitted.
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