Hazards such as runway incursions, runway excursions, and in-flight loss of control, are appropriately well documented and emphasised within aviation safety literature given their catastrophic potential. Less well known, yet operationally significant, is Abnormal Runway Contact (ARC), a category of hazardous events encompassing tail strikes, nose-wheel-first contacts, and hard landings.
In technological applications of jets, such as fuel-air mixing in the combustion chamber, reducing the infrared signature and noise level of the jet, rapid mixing of the jet with the surrounding fluid is required.
The Aeronautical Journal February 2026 Vol 130 No 1344 Modern airline pilots operate in a highly proceduralised, wellregulated environment. It is often said that procedures are clear: if an approach is unstable, a go-around should be flown.…
Liquid hydrogen (LH2) is considered as a cornerstone of a low-carbon aviation future, yet the inevitable formation of hydrogen boil-off gas (BOG) is one of its main drawbacks.
If Virtual Reality (VR) can be such a game-changer in terms of the human experience of learning, then why don’t we see more of it on a daily basis? This was the question that launched our study of its effectiveness in delivering training, and also one that continued to puzzle us throughout its initial phases.
How useful is AI for aeronautical research? ROBERT E JOSLIN, Ph.D., FRAeS Associate Professor, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, asks whether AI - Loss of Critical Thinking (A-LOC) is a rising risk for students, academics and aerospace professionals.
Helicopter operations on offshore platforms represent one of the most safety-critical aspects of maritime and energy sector logistics. In such environments, even small variations in helideck surface conditions can profoundly influence helicopter performance during landing, take-off, and ground handling.
Deployable structures are a class of structures that can be stowed in a narrow envelope during the rocket launch phase and deployed after the spacecraft enters orbit. Coilable masts are among the most commonly used types of deployable structures because of their high packing coefficient and high strength-to-weight ratio.
Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is a burgeoning sector of the Aerospace industry exploring new design concepts from multi-passenger vehicles to small uncrewed autonomous systems for observations. These applications also expand operations into airspaces that were not previously engaged in commercial operations. The compounding of these with traditional aerospace vehicles and operations requires accuracy in aerodynamic analyses.
Hypersonic flight vehicles, capable of flying above Mach 5, represent a key breakthrough for the future aerospace industry. They promise transformative applications in ultra-fast transport, space access, and national defence.
The number of Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) or ‘drones’ in UK skies has increased significantly over the last decade and this trend is set to continue.
Reducing nitrogen oxides emissions from aviation has been an endeavor for the aeronautics industry for several decades along with increasing efficiencies of turbofan engines.
A major research focus of the Institute of Propulsion Technology at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) is increasing engine compressor efficiency. In this context, the intermediate compressor duct (ICD), which connects the low-pressure compressor (LPC) with the high-pressure compressor (HPC) in a civil jet engine is of eminent significance.
In this paper, “Off-Board Aerodynamic Measurements of Small-UAVs in Glide Flight Using Motion Tracking,” the effectiveness of using motion capture technology for aerodynamic testing of sUAVs is explored.
As unmanned aerial systems (UAS) become increasingly central to military and civilian operations, ensuring that their operators maintain optimal mental performance is critical.
Imagine training for a life-or-death situation, only to find that the skills you learnt do not translate when it matters most. This gap in training tragically became a reality in the case of Air France 447, where ineffective responses to an abnormal situation contributed to a fatal crash. While flight simulators have long been a cornerstone of pilot training, their limitations are pushing the industry to explore new technologies. Could virtual reality (VR) revolutionise how pilots are trained?
The Aeronautical Journal December 2024 Vol 128 No 1330 Global air transport is a significant contributor to anthropogenic environmental impact. The use of kerosene for propulsion produces carbon dioxide and water vapour, both greenhouse gases, plus a mixture of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide that changes the levels of atmospheric, ozone and methane, also greenhouse gases.…
Frederick W. Lanchester was a well-known automotive engineer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in England.
At the forefront of aviation evolution is the concept of the 'Hangar of the Future', a game-changing approach that redefines aircraft maintenance and operations
On the conditions for absolute minimum fuel burn for turbofan powered, civil transport aircraft and a simple model for wave drag
Beyond the Clouds There is Light. This is an appropriate descriptor of our industry. It is now emerging from the dark clouds of the Covid-19 pandemic, stronger and with a primary aim to improve environmental performance.
Fires are increasing in frequency, geographic extent and threat to infrastructure and people. Research described here in The Aeronautical Journal can inform fire fighters to improve the response.
The good, the bad, and the ugly: this article explores improving pilots' tactical decisions in air combat training using the critical decision method and introduces a paper published by Cambridge University Press in The Aeronautical Journal.
The Aeronautical Journal June 2024 Vol 128 No 1324 Over the past 30 years, the atmospheric science community has improved our understanding of how aviation affects the environment.…
This recent study enhances the understanding of alternative fuel atomisation characteristics for a more sustainable aviation industry.
The method and results explored in this research can provide a theoretical basis for the analysis of thermal vibration characteristics of the deployable fin for high-speed vehicles.
An investigation simulating the slice of a small aircraft cabin as an experimental facility, aiming to assess passenger comfort during exposure to high concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs).
A Pilot Study on the Awareness of Maintenance Personnel
A ground-breaking aviation evolution is underway, reshaping our approach to airship design. We're entering an era where multi-lobed hybrid airships promise to revolutionize both civil and defence applications.
Introducing the Special Issue of The Aeronautical Journal: a curated selection of peer reviewed papers from AIAC19 and AIAC20 events.
Sharing insight that could prove invaluable for optimizing delta wing configurations in diverse aerospace applications, opening doors to safer and more efficient aviation.
This post introduces the paper 'Establishing best practices in the use of an airborne teaching laboratory'
This post introduces an AER paper that aims to demonstrate the applicability of a machine learning method to identify a nonlinear model of a physical component of interest in the helicopter industry.
The Aeronautical Journal July 2023 Vol 127 No 1313 Separated and vortical flow in aircraft aerodynamics: a CFD perspective1Arthur Rizzi Separated and vortical flow occurs over every aircraft in flight.…
The Aeronautical Journal May 2023 Vol 127 No 1311 The contra-rotating propeller (CRP) is one of the most fascinating propulsion systems in aviation. …
Samaras, or better known as “helicopter seeds”, are common childhood memories of many people. Behind the simplicity of a planar wing and a seed, is a complex mystery of flight mechanics.
The Aeronautical Journal April 2023 Vol 127 No 1310 The paper instils a vanguardist discussion on Safety as Capacity within the context of air operations.…
Understanding how a pilot makes a decision when faced with an information conflict on the flight deck is important to ensure appropriate design of flightdeck information systems and effective pilot training.
At present, uncrewed aircraft (UA) are widely used around the world, in fields including aerial photography, express transportation, emergency rescue, electric power inspection, agricultural plant protection, border monitoring, mapping, fire monitoring and environmental protection.
The work described in this paper is part of the outcome of the MIDAS project, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada, which intends to optimise novel transport aircraft configurations where drag reduction is assumed as resultant of High Aspect Ratio Wings (HARW).
The Aeronautical Journal December 2022 Vol 126 No 1306 Remote sensing allows mapping of climate, vegetation and terrain features over large regions on the ground while repeating taking images consistently over years.…
The Aeronautical Journal November 2022 Vol 126 No 1305 Guided missiles are critical weapon systems with high precision and destructive power.…
This online collection commemorates 75 years of aerospace engineering teaching and research at the University of Bristol. However, interactions with the aircraft industry started long before the Department was formed in 1946 1, for instance when in 1918 the University began teaching a class in Aircraft Manufacturing .
The Aeronautical Journal October 2022 Vol 126 No 1304 In our paper, Safety is emphasised for a simple reason; for conventional fixed and rotary-wing aircraft, accidents linked to adverse aircraft-pilot-couplings (APCs) have continued to occur throughout the history of flight.…
ISABE started 50 years ago when the ICAS (International Council of Aeronautical Sciences) community identified the need for a bespoke propulsion forum and conference.
More than 99% of air molecules on Earth exist below 50km altitude and therefore, there is certainly an upper limit on altitude for an aircraft to reach, while there is a lower limit on an orbit for a spacecraft to operate, as even a low density of air causes large drag due to the high orbit velocity with an unfavourable effect on its operation duration.
The tactical systems and operational environment of modern fighter aircraft are becoming increasingly complex.
The first edition of The Aeronautical Journal predates the first human powered flight by the Wright brothers by some five years. Even back then it knew that there was to be a rich future for man in flight to come.
Much effort is currently being devoted to reducing the environmental effect of commercial jet aircraft, but this is not simply a case of replacing kerosine with synthetic fuels, batteries or hydrogen propulsion. A great deal of research needs to be focused on new air vehicle designs that will lead to emissions-free (not just C02) flight.
Beyond the dark clouds there is light. Is this a topical description for the past, present and future of our industry? In the past, it was our ambition to travel fast and above the weather that inspired the development of the jet engine by its inventors, Sir Frank Whittle and Dr Hans von Ohain in the late 1930s and early 1940s.
The Aeronautical Journal January 2021 Vol 125 No 1283 The Aerospace Education Forum was held in Manchester in July 2019, organised in collaboration with the Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), a C9 League (China’s Ivy League) university and the University of Manchester Aerospace Research Institute (UMARI).…
The Aeronautical Journal October 2019 Vol 123 No 1268 The Aeronautical Journal is unusual in ‘covering all aspects of aerospace’. This is something of a rarity nowadays, with conferences and journals aiming to attract high-profile experts by maximising specialist content – more ‘bang for the buck’, as the expression goes.…
Q. What do you think is distinctive about The Aeronautical Journal? A. The Aeronautical Journal (in its various previous forms) is the longest-running scientific journal devoted to Aeronautics.…
The Aeronautical Journal February 2017 Vol 121 No 1236 The paper, ‘21st century civil aviation: Is it on course, or is it over confident and complacent?…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
Why understanding contemporary youth militancy demands history Al-Shabaab fighters patrolling Afgooye-Mogadishu road (2025) In civil war-era Somalia in the early 1990s, global media headlines about ‘stoned teenagers’ cruising Mogadishu on jeeps mounted with machine guns became synonymous with the construction of Somalia as a ‘chaotic African country’ in which one could be killed for nothing more than ‘the clothes on your back’ (New York Times, 1992).…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
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