Intro Aviation Vocabulary
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- Cockpit Resource Management (CRM)
- Designed to rid the flight crew of authoritarian attitudes, open communication between pilots, extending to all flight and maintenance personnel
- National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)
- independent agency, whose roll is to determine the probable cause of transportation accidents and to promote safety through recommendations
- Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- regulates air commerce to promote safety and development, controls use of navigable air space, promotes civil aviation, installs/operates facilities
- Douglas DC3
- first piston powered aircraft to be placed in regular civilian air trans. for which a company could make a profit, criteria for acceptance: aircraft fly from CO to NM on single engine
- Airmail (fostered:...)
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1. night flying
2. instrument flying
3. aviation weather services
4. airway development
5. runway and airport development
6. communication development
7. aircraft development - Air Mobility Command (AMC)
- controls overall mission and each air carrier operates and maintains its own aircraft with its own personnel and resources
- Social Impact
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"Transportation is civilization"
understanding of geography
speed and efficiency
saved man-hours
employs thousands of workers
- General Aviation
- all aviation activities except those of the military and commercial air transportation
- Aerostat
- lighter than air, buoyancy from the surrounding air; balloons
- Aerodyne
- heavier than air, aircraft deriving lift from motion; gliders, airplane, rotorcraft