Aerospace & Air Transport Industries

Have you ever imagined what it would be like to work 11 miles above the Earth and on the edge of space, travelling at twice the speed of sound, ser...

Does the thought of flying fill you with dread? ­Do panic attacks leave you feeling scared and vulnerable?If so, this book could change your life. ...

Do you remember the time we used to do New York in three hours?Even twenty years after its final flight, Concorde remains the pinnacle of aviation ...

Since 2007, there have been four major airline mergers. As a result of this consolidation, about 85 percent of passengers in the U.S. flew on four ...

This book is about the intrinsic link between aviation and politics. It addresses the manner in which the world deals with aviation issues and the ...

Balancing the capacity enhancing needs of the national airspace system with the need to protect the environment can be challenging. The FAA estimat...

Responding to the need to reliably detect explosives, bomb-making components, and other potential security threats concealed by airline passengers,...

Although the U.S. aviation system is one of the safest in the world, hundreds of fatalities occur each year in general aviation, which includes all...

This book is composed of thirteen chapters. Chapter 1 provides a short overview of the Air Transport System, from both the micro- and macro-level s...

Aviation must be safe, efficient and sustainable both at home and abroad, so the Federal Aviation Administration''s (FAA) Air Traffic Organization ...

Most view the environment in its simplistic sense - that it is the overall summation of all things natural. In this context, the pervasive common v...

The Federal Aviation Administration''s (FAA) Air Traffic Organization (ATO) provides air traffic control (ATC) services within U.S. and certain int...

Each day, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) controls the take-offs, landings, and flights of over 50,000 aircrafts. To accomplish this miss...

The Airport Improvement Program (AIP) provides federal grants to airports for airport development and planning. The airports participating in the A...

Past communicable diseases, such as the recent Ebola epidemic, have resulted in many deaths and highlight the potential economic cost of disruption...

International flights bound for the United States continue to be targets of terrorist activity, as demonstrated by the October 2010 discovery of ex...

In 2014, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that the National Aeronautics and Space Administrations (NASA) major pro...