Architecture and Information Requirements to Assess and Predict Flight Safety Risks During Highly Autonomous Urban Flight Operations [PDF]
As aviation adopts new and increasingly complex operational paradigms, vehicle types, and technologies to broaden airspace capability and efficiency, maintaining a safe system will require recognition and timely mitigation of new safety issues as they ...
Ancel, Ersin +15 more
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Second Annual Transformative Vertical Flight Concepts Workshop: Enabling New Flight Concepts Through Novel Propulsion and Energy Architectures [PDF]
On August 3rd and 4th, 2015, a workshop was held at the NASA Ames Research Center, located at the Moffett Federal Airfield in California to explore the aviation communities interest in Transformative Vertical Flight (TVF) Concepts.
Antcliff, Kevin +21 more
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Civil applications of high-speed rotorcraft and powered-lift aircraft configurations [PDF]
Advanced subsonic vertical and short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft configurations offer new transportation options for civil applications.
Albers, James A., Zuk, John
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V/STOL aircraft configurations and opportunities in the Pacific Basin [PDF]
Advanced aircraft configurations offer new transportation options for the Pacific Basin. Described is a range of vehicles from low-disk to high-disk loading aircraft, including high-speed rotorcraft, subsonic vertical and short takeoff and landing (V ...
Albers, James A., Zuk, John
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Wind Tunnel Testing of a 120th Scale Large Civil Tilt-Rotor Model in Airplane and Helicopter Modes [PDF]
In April 2012 and October 2013, NASA and the U.S. Army jointly conducted a wind tunnel test program examining two notional large tilt rotor designs: NASA's Large Civil Tilt Rotor and the Army's High Efficiency Tilt Rotor.
Amy, Alexander R. +4 more
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Forward Flight Rotor Performance at Martian Atmospheric Densities and Sensitivity to Low Reynolds Numbers [PDF]
Much effort has been made to enhance exploration on Mars. In addition to a rover and Mars-orbiting satellites, a Mars Helicopter Technology Demonstrator was proposed by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to augment planetary research for the Mars ...
Perez Perez, Brenda NAtalia
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Vertiport Navigation Requirements and Multisensor Architecture Considerations for Urban Air Mobility
, 2023 Communication, Navigation and Surveillance (CNS) technologies are key enablers for future safe operation of drones in urban environments. However, the design of navigation technologies for these new applications is more challenging compared to e.g ...
Crespillo, Omar Garcia +5 more
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Design and implementation of a vertiport network at the AMB and feasibility study as an addition to the TMB public transport network [PDF]
This work aims to study the feasibility of implementing a network of vertiports in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, as well as the overall design of one of the infrastructures.
RodrÃguez Fernández, Raquel
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Simulating the Integration of Urban Air Mobility into Existing Transportation Systems: A Survey
, 2023 Urban air mobility (UAM) has the potential to revolutionize transportation in metropolitan areas, providing a new mode of transportation that could alleviate congestion and improve accessibility.
Bulusu, Vishwanath +7 more
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This study focuses on identifying suitable locations for highway-transfer Vertiports to integrate Urban Air Mobility (UAM) with existing highway infrastructure. UAM offers an effective solution for enhancing transportation accessibility in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, where conventional transportation often struggle to connect suburban employment zones
Yoon, Donghyun +4 more
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