Breaking the Mishap Chain by Peter W. Merlin; Gregg A. Bendrick; Dwight A. Holland

Author:Peter W. Merlin; Gregg A. Bendrick; Dwight A. Holland
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Aeronautics, aerospace vehicles, mishap, case studies, NASA, experimental aircraft
Publisher: NASA
Published: 2012-04-19T04:00:00+00:00

CONCLUSIONS

As flight research has progressed to entail increasingly complicated aerospace vehicles flying at higher altitudes and speeds (and at times featuring unusual aerodynamic properties, such as those of the lifting body concept), there have been corresponding increased demands placed on the cognitive resources of the pilot — the human in the loop — in order to maintain stability and control in even the best of flight conditions. When unanticipated events occur, as they often do in the flight-test and research environment, the demands of controlled flight can exceed the resources of even the most highly selected and well-trained humans. By the late 1960s, flight research vehicles had reached an extremely challenging level of complexity. Subsequent development of computerized FCSes has helped mitigate pilot workload with regard to the basic elements of stability and control.

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