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76:, which was equipped with a rear research cockpit in place of the forward section of the passenger cabin. A modified Rockwell Collins model 708 X-band ground-based radar unit was used in the AWDAP experiments. The real-time radar processor system used during 1992 flight experiments was a VME bus-based system with a Motorola 68030 host processor and three DSP boards. 32:
condition. A reactive wind shear detection system is activated by the aircraft flying into an area with a wind shear condition of sufficient force to pose a hazard to the aircraft. A predictive wind shear detection system is activated by the presence of a wind shear condition ahead of the aircraft.
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On July 24, 1986, the FAA and NASA signed a memorandum of agreement to formally begin the Airborne Wind-Shear Detection and Avoidance Program (AWDAP). As a result, a wind-shear program was established in the Flight Systems Directorate of NASA's Langley Research Center. After five years of intensely
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On September 1, 1994, the weather radar model RDR-4B of the Allied-Signal/Bendix (now Honeywell) became the first predictive wind-shear system to be certified for commercial airline operations. In the same year, Continental Airlines became the first commercial carrier to install an airborne
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predictive wind-shear detection system on its aircraft. By June 1996, Rockwell Collins and Westinghouse's Defense and Electronics Group (now Grumman/Martin) also came up with FAA-certified predictive wind-shear detection systems.
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crashed on takeoff from New Orleans International Airport in similar weather conditions. Finally, in August 1985, wind shear and inadequate reactions by the pilots caused the crash of
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studying various weather phenomena and sensor technologies, the researchers decided to validate their findings in actual flight conditions. They chose an extensively modified
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In the predictive wind shear detection mode, the weather radar processor of the aircraft detects the presence of a
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crashed on approach to New York JFK Airport due to microburst-induced wind shear. Then, in July 1982,
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on approach to Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in a thunderstorm.
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is conducting research for further development of this system.
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aircraft
aurally
wind shear
Federal Aviation Administration
microburst
Electronic Flight Instrument System
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66
Pan Am Flight 759
Delta Air Lines Flight 191
Boeing 737
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society
USAir Flight 1016
Delta Air Lines Flight 191
Pan Am Flight 759
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66
Terminal Doppler Weather Radar
Low-level windshear alert system
"Making the Skies Safe from Windshear"
Airborne Wind Shear Detection and Warning Systems
Windshear Training Aid: 4.0 - Windshear Substantiating Data


"Making the Skies Safer"
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Avionics
Aircraft instruments
Warning systems

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