25th Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, 3 - 8 September 2006, Hamburg, Germany
Paper ICAS 2006-9.5.1

NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR REDUCING AVIATION WEATHER-RELATED ACCIDENTS

H. P. Stough, J. F. Watson, M. A. Jarrell*
NASA Langley Research Center, USA; *NASA Glenn Research Center, USA

Keywords: aviation, safety, weather, turbulence, data link, cockpit systems

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has developed technologies to reduce aviation weather-related accidents. New technologies are presented for data-link and display of weather information to aircraft in flight, for detection of turbulence ahead of aircraft in flight, and for automated in-situ reporting of atmospheric conditions from aircraft.

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