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Databases and alerting services Adobe PDF Online This search facility enables you to search the summaries of over a million Adobe Acrobat (PDF) documents made available on the Internet, and is provided by Adobe itself. The documents have been produced freely and independently by web sites all over the world using the Adobe software, so the company makes no claims for the validity or accuracy of the documents it has indexed. AePortal This service has been produced at the recommendation of the the United Kingdom Department of Trade and Industry's Aerospace Innovation and Growth Team (AeGIT) by the Society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC). This information portal is designed to help UK aerospace companies find their way around the plethora of business support initiatives. New initiatives from organisations which provide direct or indirect business support are tracked along with specific sources of funding. The service is aimed at members of the UK aerospace industry and Government and it is necessary to submit an online form in order to register. AHR International : Bearing Technical Database AHR International Ltd is one of Europe's premier exporters of ball bearings, roller bearings and plain bearings to all overseas industries. The product range covers everything from the classic deep groove bearing types to complex aerospace bearings and are supplied directly from virtually all the leading commercial and aerospace bearing manufacturers. This bearing technical database allows you to search by part number, bore, outside diameter, internal diameter, width or weight or a combination. There are also links to product information, manufacturer information and further technical help. AHS Online Documents Catalog The web site provides access to a searchable database of articles and other documents, published by AHS International (formerly the American Helicopter Society). The database contains bibliographic details and abstracts of documents derived from the following: AHS Journal, Vertiflite; AHS Annual Forum Proceedings; Specialist conference proceedings; AHS book and report collection. AIAA Meetings Papers Searchable Citation Database The AIAA Meetings Papers Searchable Citation Database, updated quarterly, contains author, title, paper number, and conference date and location information for papers presented at AIAA meetings from 1996 to today. The database offers a number of search options including: paper title or title keyword; author name or affiliation; AIAA paper number; year of paper's presentation; database accession number; conference name keyword, and, complete conference title. A number of sort options can be used to display records. Copies of AIAA papers can be ordered online as a charged service. Aicraft Engine Exhaust Emissions Databank The DataBank contains information on exhaust emissions of only those aircraft engines that have entered production. The information was provided by engine manufacturers, who are solely responsible for its accuracy. It was collected in the course of the work carried out by the ICAO Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) but has not been independently verified unless indicated. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is hosting this DataBank on behalf of ICAO and is not responsible for the contents. The site provides access to a background information document, Aircraft Engine Emissions Individual Datasheets, a downloadable version of the DataBank (MS Excel Worksheet, 600 Kb) and a record of DataBank changes. Air Traffic Control Specialist (ATCS) Performance Measurement Database The database is produced by the Human Factors Branch of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) National Airspace System (NAS) System Engineering and Analysis Division. The database provides a compilation of techniques that have been proven effective for use in human factor research related to air traffic control. The site includes an overview of the database, a description of its value to ATC, and its main features and layout. A technical note which serves as a user manual is available for downloading. The database itself is available for free download on completion of a registration form. The file is in Microsoft Excel 97 format and is approximately 350Kb. Air Transport Intelligence Air Transport Intelligence (ATI) is an online subscription service for the global air transport industry. It provides 24 hour news coverage, extensive databases on airlines, airports, aerospace manufacturers, aircraft and flight schedules. It also contains searchable archives of its sister publications Flight International, Airline Business and Flight Daily News. A premium service is also available allowing access to further specialist data and information. A free trial can be requested. Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) This is the electronic version of the Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) provided by the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). The AULIMP is a subject index to significant articles, news items and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals. The Index contains citations since 1990 and is updated quarterly. A list of subject headings is available, as well as a list of periodical titles contained in the index. Links to available electronic journals are provided within the citation. In addition DTIC has indexed the URL addresses of full-text articles located on ten journal websites to assist the retrieval of the corresponding full-text article. Air University Research Database Air University conducts professional military education, graduate education and professional continuing education for officers, enlisted personnel and civilians. This database contains information on all research being conducted at Air University and provides access to completed research products. Each research record contains the title, a brief description, a list of authors and faculty advisors, standard keywords, and an abstract for that project. Each research record also has hypertext links to the expertise records for the faculty involved with that research. These expertise records can be used to contact these individuals for further information about the project. Many of the documents contained in the database are available in full text in PDF format. The database includes research documents from the following Air University Schools: Air Command and Staff College; Graduate School of Engineering Air Force Institute of Technology; Graduate School of Logistics and Acquisition Management Air Force Institute of Technology; Air War College; College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education; and, School of Advanced Airpower Studies. Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association : Air Safety Foundation : Accident Database The Air Safety Foundation (ASF) database is comprised of NTSB accident reports dating back to January 1983. It includes only accidents involving fixed wing aircraft weighing 12,500 pounds or less. Most recent accidents are described as "preliminary" status, which is a very brief description of what happened. According to the accompanying text, there are occasional errors and generally limited data. The database is compiled with the assistance of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Aircraft Performance Database - Airplane Performance Data For General Aviation Aircraft This is a database which contains performance data for many general aviation aircraft. The database can be searched by manufacturer and model, or browsed by the Index of Aircraft Manufacturers. The site provides a range of supporting information resources including US weather data, discussion forums, practice FAA tests, listings of aviation books and a link to an indexed, searchable database of Federal Aviation Regulations. There are also links to various aircraft pictures and aviation news. Aircraft Turbine Engine Cost Model Provided by the Johnson Space Center, this cost model is intended to aid the estimation of the development, production costs and time of arrival of aircraft turbine engines. The model is written in JavaScript. The site also links to the full text of a handbook entitled 'Parametric cost estimating handbook' and links to other cost models. Airliners.Net : Aircraft Data and History This section of Airliners.net provides information on a large range of commercial aircrafts currently in use or under development, organised by aircraft name. It contains brief specifications (such as country of origin, powerplants, performance, weights, dimensions, capacity and production), development histories and photographs. Archives Hub : Iraq The Archives Hub is an initiative that provides a single point of access to descriptions of archives held at universities and colleges in the United Kingdom and provides details on how to access the collections. This selection of archives forms the March 2003 collection of the month which looks at Britain's connections with Iraq over one hundred and fifty years. It includes descriptions of the papers of T.E. Lawrence, the British Liason officer also known as Lawrence of Arabia during the 1916-1918 Arab Revolt, archives from the British Army in Iraq during World War One and World War Two, and the Scott Inquiry papers (1980-1988) that looked at Britain's supply of weapons to Iraq. There are also links to further related collections such as the Mesopotamia Campaign section on the Public Record Office web site. ASCE'S Civil Engineering Database The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has produced this searchable database of over 80,000 bibliographic and abstracted records, from its publications, including twenty-five journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines and newsletters, going back to 1975. The database allows keyword, author, title, and date searching. Terms may be combined using and/or/not (boolean) operators, and words can be stemmed, eg structur*, in order to retrieve multiple word-endings. A list of keywords is available, and these can be "cut & pasted" into the keyword search field. Search tips are available. Aerospace Engineering is one of the subject areas included. ASME Digital Library This service allows you to search ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) journal articles back to 1985 and conference proceedings back to 2002. Search results provide bibliographic information and an abstract, with the option to purchase the full text, if you are not a subscriber. Australian War Memorial Collection Databases This site provides online access to the AWM collections of art, photography, film, sound, private records, military heraldry and technology. It covers major conflicts from the colonial period 1788 to the present, these include Iraq 2003, Afghanistan 2001, East Timor 1999-2000, Gulf War 1990-1991, Vietnam War, Korean War and the First and Second World Wars. There is a very large collection of Gallipoli images during World War One - with over 3000 in the database. The database is keyword searchable and also contains browseable collection highlights which include the attack on Sydney Harbour by Japan, the Battle of El Alamein, the Battle of Milne and the Kokoda Campaign during World War Two. Images are available for download but copyright permission must be sought from AWM. Aviation and Environment Research Database (AERD) This is a compilation of current research activities in aircraft design that will result in improved environmental performance. It was created by the society of British Aerospace Companies (SBAC), on behalf of the Greener by Design, Science and Technology sub-group. The AERD catalogues research from the UK, Europe and USA and can be used as a tool by researchers, industry, government and the public to find out about research being carried out in the area of aviation?s impact on the environment and the atmosphere. The data is presented in an MS Excel file (660 Kb) along with a separate MS Word document (41 Kb) which provides information on how to use the database. Aviation Job Search This is an international database of current vacancies in the aviation industry, both in the air and on the ground. It is possible to search by category of employment and/or country, and you can also find out what specific employers and agencies currently have to offer. There is a facility to register personal CVs on the site so recruiters can contact potential employees directly and you can also subscribe to a free email job alert. Aviation Safety Network : Aviation Safety Database The ASN Safety Database, updated every week, contains descriptions of over 10,000 airliner, military transport category aircraft and corporate jet aircraft safety occurrences since 1943. The database can be accessed in different ways - type indexes (jets, turboprop aircraft and piston aircraft), geographical region/country index, (contributory) cause index and airlines index (alphabetical listing by country), and by year of accident. It is provided by the Aviation Safety Network. Aviation Safety Network Aviation Safety Network (ASN) is a privately maintained personal interest web site aimed at anyone with a professional interest in airline accidents and safety. The site provides access to a range of information resources. The Airliner Accident Database contains descriptions of over 5900 airliner write-offs in accidents since 1945. A list of aircraft types that have been included can be found in the Type Index. This provides brief aicraft specifications, plus a chronological list containing all aircraft accidents for that model in which the aircraft has been damaged beyond repair. ASN also provides links to a wealth of safety related information sources including: aircraft accident reports; Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) / Air Traffic Control (ATC) transcripts; features on a number of significant accidents and safety issues; accident statistics, publications; and an image gallery. The site also includes an Aircraft Accident Digest notification e-mail list and a moderated electronic discussion forum. Aviation Safety Reporting System This is a cooperative program established by the FAA, and administered by NASA. The ASRS collects, analyzes, and responds to voluntarily submitted aviation safety incident reports in order to lessen the likelihood of aviation accidents. ASRS data are used to: Identify deficiencies and discrepancies in the National Aviation System (NAS) so that these can be remedied by appropriate authorities; Support policy formulation and planning for, and improvements to, the NAS; Strengthen the foundation of aviation human factors safety research. The web site provides access to a range of information resources. There are twenty-seven ASRS Database Report Sets on topics of interest to the aviation community. Each Report Set consists of 50 ASRS Database records, preceeded by a note of introduction, caveats on use of ASRS data, and standard abbreviations and definitions used in ASRS Database records. ASRS produces two regular safety publications, CALLBACK and ASRS Directline. The site provides HTML and Adobe Acrobat versions of CALLBACK from December 1994 to present, and HTML and Adobe Acrobat versions of all ASRS Directline issues. The site also contains an ASRS programme overview and a more detailed briefing. Balloon Technology Database The site provides access to a NASA Wallops Flight Facility database of items contained in a special collection of materials related to the construction of scientific balloons. The database includes over 2000 entries. The database contains mainly bibliographic references, although some full text (PDF) items are also included. It is possible to browse a list of all the items held in the database. There is also a full text search interface which will only search a subset of the Balloon Technology documents that have been converted to electronic format. Converting these documents to an electronic format is an ongoing project. Biodynamics Database The database is produced and maintained by the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). It contains data from approximately 7,000 acceleration impact tests conducted at the Biodynamics and Acceleration Branch of AFRL, as well as information on the associated test facilities, test programs, and test subjects. The test data include measured forces, accelerations, and motions of both human and manikin subjects. Tables containing peak values of the data, along with restraint parameters and acceleration profiles for each test, are also available. General information on test programs such as objective, investigators, test matrix, and results, as well as Subject anthropometry measurements and manikin mass properties data are also provided. There is an online registration form which users must complete in order to apply for an ID and password. Britain's Small Wars This presents an overview of the conflicts involving Britain since 1945, including details of weapons and aircraft. Malaya, Kenya, Korea, the Gulf, the Falklands, Cyprus, Suez and Northern Ireland are all discussed. There is a web museum at the site including many first hand accounts of veterans and memorabilia from the wars. There is a chat room and a page containing details about books on the subjects and related reading. Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) The Centre is responsible for the provision of a national service for the reception, processing, archiving and dissemination of remotely sensed data for Canada and, in conjunction with the private sector, for the development of remote sensing technology and applications. The information about CCRS which presented on the site includes an extensive history section. The main themes being addressed by the work of the CCRS are described, and these include: climate change; hyperspectral techniques; natural hazards; nothern development; and The Canadian Spatial Reference System. CCRS publications are made available via the GEOSCAN database, which comprises more than 50,000 records of publications released by CCRS or Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) authors. GEOSCAN is the repository for all Earth Sciences Sector (ESS)bibliographic information. There is also a large learning resources section containing a number of tutorials covering topics such as Digital Images and Digital Analysis Techniques, Fundamentals of Remote Sensing, Radar Polarimetry, and Radar Remote Sensing. Canadian Military History Gateway This is a gateway to websites and digital resources about Canada's military history, developed by the Department of National Defence and supported by National Defence Online and the Canadian Culture Online Program. The site can be searched by using keywords, or browsed by subject or type of resource. There is also a timeline of Canada's military history, and the online reference book, Canadian Military Heritage, a three volume work which provides a summary of Canadian military history from 1000 to 2000 AD. The site is also available in French. Civil Aviation Authority : Aircraft Registration The Aircraft Registration Section of the United Kingdom's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is responsible for maintaining The UK Register of Civil Aircraft; The UK Register of Aircraft Mortgages, and The Registers of Births, Deaths and Missing Persons on UK Registered Aircraft. The Section is also responsible for the provision of information and statistics from these registers and the databases used to support them. The web site provides a link to G-INFO: The Aircraft Register Database. The UK Register of Civil Aircraft currently holds details of over 16,000 currently registered aircraft (42,000 aircraft in total). On an annual basis there are changes of registered information to approximately 30% of the currently registered aircraft. G-INFO is a database extract taken directly from the United Kingdom Register of Civil Aircraft and other data sources maintained by the Civil Aviation Authority. The information held on G-INFO is updated nightly from the UK Register of Civil Aircraft. The site Aircraft Registration site also provides access to Aircraft Registration Statistics. These include the Total number of UK registered aircraft as at 1st January since 1985 by aircraft class and weight group; Pie chart by aircraft class of UK Registered aircraft; and Total number of UK Registered aircraft broken down by Certificate of Airworthiness Category, aircraft class and weight group. CNN.com The web site provides access to a searchable database of CNN news stories. A selection of subject and topic browse headings is also provided. One of these headings covers news stories related to science and space. The search engine can be used to locate current aerospace and aviation news items. The records contained in a results set from the search include a brief summary. A link is provided to the full text of the news item. Each full text record provides links to related stories. Comrades and Colleagues Armed forces reunion site based on units in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand for members of the armed forces. The site contains a database of military units from which contact details of colleagues and comrades can be found. The service is free, but it is necessary for users to register their details of where they have served first. The site also contains lists of links to other sites which help with reunions and finding people in the services and ex-servicemen. Concise Aerospace : Russian and CIS Airline Database This database is produced by Concise Aerospace as part of its market intelligence and business to business information (b2b) coverage of the aerospace and air transport sector in Russia, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Eastern Europe. The database is searchable and there is also a facility to browse through all of the airlines listed. The information provided for each entry includes (where available) address information, names of managers and other contacts, fleet composition, route details, financial and ownership information. Cream of Science This service contains over 41,000 publications by leading Dutch scientists and researchers. It is freely available to all and about 25,000 of the publications are in full text. It is searchable, and can be browsed by academic name, discipline (including physical sciences and technology) or research institute. It is available in both English and Dutch. DebrisWeb The site is hosted by the German aerospace company, eta_max space, and is intended as a knowledge base for space debris related topics on the World Wide Web. It includes an online pinboard for user contributions, a diary of events, and access to a searchable bibliographic database of space debris and meteoroid publications. The latter draws primarily on reference information provided by NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service and the Institute for Flight Mechanics and Spaceflight Technology of the Technical University of Braunschweig, although user suggestions are also incorporated. Information on the space debris collision risk in earth orbits is also provided in the form of a series of online presentations. Defence Research Reports This site provides access to a database of scientific and technical research produced by and for Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) over the past 50 years. The search form allows you to search the database by title, author or keyword. You may also limit your search by date, or sort hits by report date or title. The content of the database is a combination of citation/abstract and full-text. The availability of full text (PDF format) is indicated by an active download button in the description of each report record. There is also an online order facility. Defence Systems Daily This facility provides a daily electronic news service and includes current and archived news stories and features. It offers a breakdown of these by industrial sector, including air, commercial air, space, land, sea and technology. News is organised under these main subjects systems, sectors, regions and facilities. The site also makes news available from South and Southern Africa and Australia and New Zealand. A search facility is also provided. It is also possible to register to receive daily news headlines by email. Selected articles from a publication called Defence Analysis are provided ahead of its monthly publication. An 'ownership jigsaw' is offered - this allows the complex relationships between the main industry players (who owns whom) to be tracked. In addition, stock prices are also available. The site is published by Defence Data Ltd and its format is HTML. Delphion Patent Search Form This site allows you to search for United States patents, European patents and patent applications, Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) application data from the World Intellectual Property Office, the Patent Abstracts of Japan and INPADOC data. The service can be searched in several different ways, including patent number, US classification and Boolean keyword search. It is possible to view to the bibliographic information of granted US patents free of charge, all other services are payable. You will need to register to use this service, which is free of charge. DLR Publications The DLR is the German space agency. It plans Germany's space activities, carries out space-flight programmes and activities and represents its space community's interests. This service provides the facility to search its publications in both German and English. It is possible to search by keyword and/or author, restrict by department within the DLR, document type, or by year back to 1990. Bibliographic information only is available. Docket Management System Docket Management System (DMS) is an electronic, image-based database in which all US Department of Transportation regulatory and adjudicatory docketed information is contained. The DMS holds information about proposed and final regulations, copies of public comments on proposed rules, and related information. Specific documents covering the same issues are stored together in a docket, therefore, a docket may contain several documents which are all related to the same subject matter. A docket is an official public record. DoD Index of Specifications and Standards (DODISS) The DoD Index of Specifications and Standards (DODISS) lists the unclassified Federal and Military specifications, standards, and related standardization documents, and those non- government standards adopted for DoD use. Users may now link directly to full text DoD Specifications and Standards located on the Defense Automated Printing Service (DAPS), eAccess database. Full text documents available in Portable Document Format, (PDF) may be downloaded by clicking on the title in your DoDISS search results. The title acts as a link to the corresponding full text document. Please note that certain specifications and standards canceled prior to 1986 may not be available. Dryden Technical Reports Server (DTRS) This service is available to search as part of the NASA Technical Reports Server, or on its own from this site. It is possible to search for and view details of reports, and view the full text of reports in PDF format from this service. Reports are available back to 1947 and up to the present day. Dynamics Explorer Project Information This is a NASA Goddard Spaceflight Center web site, which brings together information on the two Dynamics Explorer (DE) missions. The main purpose of these missions was to investigate interaction between the hot convective plasmas in the magnetosphere, and cooler, denser plasmas and gases in the ionosphere, upper atmosphere, and plasmasphere. The site contains information on the DE spacecrafts, and on the various investigations carried out in the course of the project. The site also enables the retrieval DE mission datasets from the Coordinated Data Analysis Web (CDAWeb) and the Space Physics Catalog (SPyCAT). Eldis : Conflict and Security Resource Guide This site is a resource guide from Eldis, a gateway to development information provided by the Institute of Development Studies in Sussex and funded by Sida, Norad, SDC and DFID. It provides access to online full text documents in the areas of global security, complex emergencies, post conflict reconstruction, refugees and forced migration, pastoralism and conflict, gender and conflict and business and conflict. It also provides the latest news headlines in these areas and a news feed service. The site links to the rest of the Eldis gateway and further full text documents, resource guides and country profiles. Electronic Legal Resources on International Terrorism The United Nations Office for Drug and Crime (UNODC) has created a comprehensive database containing counter-terrorism conventions, national criminal laws and case laws relating to terrorism. The database contains model laws, legislative guides and legal tools to assist in adopting the legislation required to implement the global legal framework against terrorism. The database contains: + legal resources section including full texts of Security Council and General Assembly documents on terrorism and jurisprudence of international courts on terrorism. + National legal resources which includes legislation from more than 190 countries. + Links to other databases, model laws, treaties and practical guides developed by United Nations bodies and other international organizations. Search options are by keyword, country and criterion. Source: United Nations Office for Drug and Crime (via UN Pulse) ESDU International ESDU create and maintain over 22 series of validated engineering design data covering structural, mechanical, aeronautical and chemical process engineering. They are produced by committees of independent experts who ensure that each Data Item is a sound technical document which presents a clear explanation of the recommended approach. The bulletins that each committee produce are available for viewing using Adobe Acrobat. Subscribers to the service can access the full text of all data items. Non subscribers may view abstracts of each Data Item. An FAQ, glossary and technical notes are also available. EUR-Lex Directory of Community Legislation in Force and Preparatory Acts : Air Transport This is the part of the European Union (EU) EUR-Lex database which contains the full text (excluding tables) of legislation in force and Community preparatory acts regarding air transport. Specific areas covered are: competition rules, market operation, market access, route distribution, prices and terms, air safety, structural harmonization, international relations, consultation procedures and conventions with non-member countries. EUR-Lex This site covers legislation in force in the European Union (EU) and new legislation as it is enacted. The site is available in all the official languages of the EU. The site contains full text versions of all of the treaties, free access to the C and L series of the Official Journal for a period of 45 days after publication, the electronic version of the legal acts in force which appear in the Official Journal, all instruments adopted by the European institutions pursuant to provisions of the basic treaties, legislation in preparation, community preparatory acts, parliamentary questions and case law. The site is searchable and browseable and full text documents can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat in PDF format. European Security and Defence Policy This is a portal from the Council of the European Union which provides access to full text documents, information, resources and web sites related to the security and defence policy of the European Union, EU. There are legal documents, press releases, fact sheets, audiovisual galleries and web links on EU police and military operations in the Western Balkans, South Caucasus, South East Asia, Middle East, and Africa. The full text of the European Security Strategy is available along with an area on ESDP support to peace and security in Africa which provides documents, EU Council conclusions, factsheets, and details of ESDP operations and EU - Africa international relations. The capabilities section provides documents and information on European Union military cooperation, civilian crisis management and the EU's emergency and crisis response capacities. There are also details of European Union permanent military and political structures; the Political and Security Committee, the European Union Military Committee, and the European Union Military Staff; and key documents. There is also a news section which contains new stories related to the ESDP, a newsletter, and reports. The portal is available in several different languages. FAA : Data and Statistics This is part of the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) web site. The site provides access to a number of aviation safety resources including accident and incident data, aviation data and statistics, aviation forecasts, funding and grant data, passenger and cargo information and safety resources. FAA Aviation Safety Information : Aviation Safety Data Accessibility Study This is a report on issues related to public interest in aviation safety data. It is dated January 20th, 1997, and was prepared for the Office of System Safety, Federal Aviation Administration. This study examines the issues related to increasing the accessibility of aviation safety data. The issues addressed include identification of safety data resources, format of safety data, analysis and interpretation of safety data, experiences of other Federal agencies with safety data, and public access to safety data. It is available in HTML format. FAA Office of Accident Investigation The Office of Accident Investigation (AAI) is the principal organisation within the FAA with respect to aircraft accident investigation and all activities related to the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). As such, AAI's mission is to investigate aviation accidents and incidents to detect unsafe conditions and trends and to coordinate the corrective action process. The site provides access to new NTSB Safety Recommendations. The Office of Accident Investigation is responsible for coordinating and tracking FAA responses to safety recommendations issued by the National Transportation Safety Board. The FAA's responses to these safety recommendations will be made available through the FAA's National Aviation Safety Data Analysis Center's (NASDAC) internet site, which is updated monthly. The Office of Accident Investigation also provides Preliminary Accident Data and Incident Data, which is available as ASCII text in several report categories for the last ten working days. The 10 days of data is also available in dbf format (dBase and FoxPro) for downloading and use in databases or spreadsheets. FedBizOpps - Federal Business Opportunites FedBizOpps.gov is the single US government point-of-entry (GPE) for Federal government procurement opportunities over $25,000. Government buyers are able to publicise their business opportunities by posting information directly to this site. There are two areas - one for buyers and one for vendors. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is the element of the U.S. government with primary responsibility for the safety of civil aviation. The FAA was originally designated the Federal Aviation Agency when established by the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. The present name was adopted in 1967 when the FAA became a component of the Department of Transportation. The FAA's major functions include: regulating civil aviation to promote safety and fulfilling the requirements of national defense; encouraging and developing civil aeronautics, including new aviation technology; developing and operating a common system of air traffic control and navigation for both civil and military aircraft; research and development with respect to the National Airspace System and civil aeronautics; developing and implementing programs to control aircraft noise and other environmental effects of civil aviation; and regulating U.S. commercial space transportation. The site provides access to a range of information resources. These are grouped under the following functions: Aviation Support and Regulation and Safety, Security, and System Efficiency. There are links to constituent FAA organizations. The Newsroom contains press releases and fact sheets. There is a section on careers and education opportunities. There is also a 'More' section, which includes information for and about Airline Operators; Airport Operators; Designees and Delegations; General Avaition; and Mechnanics and Repairmen. Federal Aviation Administration : Regulatory and Guidance Library (RGL) The FAA's Regulatory and Guidance Library (RGL) provides access to a set of searchable databases which contain regulatory and aviation product information. These include: Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs) from 14 CFR both in their current version as well as historical versions. The RGL contains certain Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRMs) and Final Rules (with all preamble explanatory material) which led to the actual Rule changes. It also contains make/model information for all civil aviation products including all current type certificate data sheets, Airworthiness Directives (ADs) both final and proposed; aviation safety Advisory Circulars (ACs) both final and draft; and Aircraft Certification Service Orders. Federal Aviation Regulations - FAR Index Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) - Chapters I and III, Federal Aviation Regulations. This is the offical Federal Administration Agency web site for Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs). Access to the full text documents is provided by the FAA Flight Standards Service. Chapter 1 contains parts 1 through 199. Chapter III, parts 400 through 440, relates to Commercial Space Transportation. The site also provides access to related information and links to other regulatory web sites. This includes a table of the most recent FAR amendments in PDF format. FIREDOC FIREDOC is a searchable bibliographic database about fire research and contains the holdings of the Fire Research Information Services (FRIS). It is provided by the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL), part of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The database gives bibliographic information about each item it contains, and an abstract if it is available. It is searchable by author, title and keywords. Forces Reunited Maintained by ex-forces personnel for people serving in the Armed Forces and ex-services personnel. This site aims to help memebers of the Army, Navy and Royal Air Force and their friends get in contact with one another. It enables users to register details about themselves for free and search the database for information on others. There is also a links directory with useful sites for forces personnel and further sites which will help with organising reunions. GDI Online GDI (Global Defense Information) Online is a daily defence and aerospace news service (commercial for fee) that provides organisations with comprehensive global coverage of events in the military and aerospace fields. Every business day GDI editors scan print journals, Internet-based news sites and others for relevant defence and military information. All retrieved data is then verified, filtered, summarised and classified by product, topic, country and company. GDI editors track and review information from multiple sources on military technologies, key defence contracts, geopolitical and strategic alliances and related developments to keep you fully informed on developments in your area of interest. From printed journals, GDI generates approximately 700 news article abstracts each month. Each is manually produced and classified by GDI's editorial staff. The GDI database contains over 130,000 news record abstracts compiled since 1986. General Accounting Office Reports The General Accounting Office is the investigative arm of Congress. GAO's mission is to help the Congress oversee federal programs and operations to assure accountability to the American people. GAO accomplishes its mission through a variety of activities including financial audits, program reviews, investigations, legal support, and policy/program analyses. The GAO Reports databases contain reports on audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of Federal programs conducted by the GAO from fiscal year 1995 through the present. All published reports, with the exception of correspondence and reports that are restricted or classified, are included. The current year's database is updated within two business days of a report's release. Reports are available as ASCII text and Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Globemaster US Military Aviation Database of US military aviation, aircraft operating units and military bases. It covers the United States Air Force, Navy, Army, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. The site provides a database of US military air bases worldwide including links and maps; US aircraft operating units; tail codes; a dictionary of US military abbreviations and acronyms; links to units and organisations; facts and news. Goddard Distributed Active Archive Center (GDAAC) Provided by the Goddard Space Flight Center, this page provides access to Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) datasets on the following subjects: ocean colour, hydrology and precipitation, field experiments, land biosphere, atmospheric dynamics, atmospheric chemistry, and interdisciplinary topics. Brief descriptions of the datasets and links to the sources listed are included. Goddard Technical Reports Server (GTRS) This database is available to search as part of the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) or on its own from this site. It can be searched in a number of ways including title, author, NASA report number and keyword. Some reports are available in full text as PDF files, others have an abstract. The database covers space sciences, technology and earth sciences. GPS/MET Program The objective of the GPS/MET experiment is to use signals from GPS satellites occluded by the Earth to demonstrate active limb sounding of the atmosphere. The experiment is observing more than one hundred 60-to-100-second-long globally distributed occultations of GPS signals every day. Dual-frequency GPS occultations are extracted from these signals by the orbiting receiver and sent to a ground station where they are processed into different levels of data products. These GPS/MET data products are available to the scientific community on a timely basis for weather, climate, and other scientific research. The site offers both technical and non-technical introductions to the data. Note: users wishing to download data from the site have to complete a request form for a user identity and password. The data available includes: decimated GPS/MET level 3 data for an entire day, alongside profiles at the same time and location taken from other data sources. These files are in NetCDF format. GPS/MET data is combined with data from ancillary sources to compensate for water vapor's effect on refrativity. Also available is an ASCII-formatted file containing the same variables as the Megafile, but limited to the range of 0 to 60 km altitude, and decimated to 200 meters. Ground Systems Index GroundSystems-Index is a database of ground systems manufacturers aimed at ground forces professionals in the civil and military communities. It allows searching or browsing of the directory by product/service, name or country. The products and services include ground equipment and systems, weapons and munitions, information technology, ground-based platforms, personnel systems, communications and medical. The site also provides access to articles, press releases, company and government news, details on exhibitions and conferences and a job centre. The site is also available in Spanish and Arabic. How Stuff Works : Weapons Site provided by the HowStuffWorks media company which gives explanations on how things work, links to other relevant sites, and provides a forum for discussion of topics. This site is devoted to weapons and covers subjects such as Apache helicopters, fighter aircraft, body armour, missiles and bombs, grenades, guns, camouflage, and missile defence systems. ICRC Databases on International Humanitarian Law Provided by the International Committee of the Red Cross, this site provides access to a treaty database that provides the full text of international humanitarian law treaties and documents including the Geneva Conventions and Protocols and details of which countries are signatories. There is also a national implementation database which provides documents on the implementation of humanitarian laws in nation states. IEEE Xplore Provided by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), this is the Web site of IEEE Xplore. This facility allows IEEE members to search for and access the abstracts and citations of IEEE publications since 1988. Non members may browse and view the tables of contents of IEEE transactions, journals, magazines, conference proceedings and standards. IEL Online IEL Online is provided by the IEEE (Institution of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and the IEE (Institution of Electrical Engineers). The service allows subscribers to search for, browse and access the citations, abstracts and full text of all journal articles, conference papers and standards published by both bodies back to 1988. The site provides access to the service, support and an FAQ. Inspec This database is produced by the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and allows the world's literature on physics, electrical engineering, electronics, communications, control engineering, computers and computing, and information technology to be searched back to 1969. This site provides background information on the database itself, subscription information, news and support documentation. Italian Aerospace Research Centre This is the homepage of the Italian Aerospace Research Centre (CIRA), a non-profit making research consortium which carries out the Italian National Aerospace Research Programme (PRORA). The site gives an introduction to the organisation and the scientific and the educational areas covered. It describes CIRA's aerospace activities (which include fluid dynamics, air structures, flight systems and computer science) and testing facilities (which include a plasma wind tunnel, an icing wind tunnel, a transonic research wind tunnel and an aerospace structures impact facility. The projects area of the site describes work being carried out on unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned space vehicles. The educational area covers topics such as flight safety, pssengers comfort, air transportation and access to space. The general support area provides access to the Library Catalogue. The CIRA Newsletter is also available. Jane's Aerospace Discovery Provided by Jane's, this service is a specialist Internet search engine for the aerospace industry. It allows keyword searching for sites with the option of restricting the search to particular categories such as aerospace manufacturing, defence forces, and centres of learning and research. Once a search has been performed, it is possible to further refine it by selecting suggested keywords or by choosing sites which are particularly relevant. Jane's Defence Glossary This web site provides access to a glossary of defence terminology, and is produced by Jane's Information Group. The database contains over 20,000 defence-related acronyms and abbreviations. It can be searched, or browsed alphabetically. There is also an online form for the submission of acronyms that do not already appear in the glossary. Registration is required. Jet Airliner Crash Data Evaluation Center (JACDEC) This web site has been created by two air accident specialists, C.Wolf and J.Richter. JACDEC provides a range of aviation data and information services. The site provides up to date accident / incident news. An archive is also available. The site includes a hull loss database which contains details of civil jet aircraft write offs arranged by year. A statistics section brings together data relating to airlines, aircraft types, regions / countries, a Worldmap of hull losses, commerical airliner fatalities, worst 25 airliner accidents, and an ageing aircraft tables which shows the ages of hull lost aircaft. The media section contains details of books and other publications, and there is a page of links and a site map. Jet Propulsion Laboratory : Beacon eSpace BEACON eSpace is JPL's document repository where you can find full-text items (usually in PDF) JPL-authored reports and externally published papers and reprints. The archive can be browsed by author, titel, date or collections or you can search the repository with a quick or advanced search facility. Johnson Technical Reports Server This database can be searched on its own from this site, or as part of the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS). The service allows searching of official technical reports released by the Johnson Space Center. The reports can be searched by free text, or browsed by year and abstract or citation. The service covers reports published from 1993 to the present day. There is an active listing of the reports that are available in full for downloading in PDF format. Joint Forces Staff College Library Terrorism Hotlinks Provided by the Joint Forces Staff College Library, Norfolk, VA, this site brings together websites that provide documentation on terrorism. There is a summary about each site and a link to them. Land Forces of Britain, The Empire and Commonwealth This searchable website is devoted to charting the history of British and Commonwealth land forces from the inception of the British Army in 1660 to the present day. The site is divided into sections including; regiments, nations, wars, formations and traditions. The regimental section provides details on the regimental system and its organisation, battalion service histories, and national and regional indexes of regiments. The nations section contains a clickable world map and list of continents which covers all the nations, territories and colonies that were once part of the British Empire. Each country page contains internet links divided into government, military news, general reference, military history, regiments and corps, wars, campaigns and operations and many more subjects. Landings : Regulations and AIM This web site provides access to the Landings Federal Aviation Regulations Database. This offers on-line access to most of the FARs. They are in HTML format with one file per paragraph. They contain hyperlinks between paragraphs and sections, making cross-references possible. A link is also provided to the official Federal Aviation administration FAR source. Landings also provide the searchable FAR Navigator to assist the identifaction and retrieval from different parts of the FARs. Landings Landings is an established aviation directory service. It provides access to a wide variety of aviation related resources. It includes mediated expert forums covering topic areas such as GPS, maintenance, aviation medicine and law. There are listings of newsgroups and e-mail groups. An extensive reference section includes links to various databases of FAA Regulations, Canadian Regulations, Service Difficulty Reports, Airworthiness Alerts, NTSB Briefs, N Numbers and many more. The reference section also includes coverage of aerospace companies, museums, reports and other publications. Landings also has sections devoted to aircraft/parts; air transport/airports; services; general aviation; government/military: and pilot supplies. Landings: Federal Aviation Regulations This is an information resource provided by the Landings aviation directory service. It provides online access to most of the FARs. They are in HTML format with one file per paragraph. They contain hyperlinks between paragraphs and sections, making cross-references possible. There is now a search capability for the FARs. Please note this is not an official FAA server, so the FARs provided here are not the official FARs. You cannot rely on them being accurate. Landings: Reports and Alerts This resource is provided by the Landings aviation directory services. It contains links to a wide variety of reports and alerts, from sources such as the FAA (Service Difficulty Reports (SDRs), Airworthiness Directives, Airworthiness Alerts, aviation safety databases, continued airworthiness information); NTSB (Accident Briefs, Aviation Accident Synopses, Accident Abstracts) and NASA (ASRS Program, ASRS Callback Program ); UK Air Accident reports (AAIB); Bureau of Air Safety Investigation - Australia (BASI), Transportation Safety Board of Canada Aviation Occurrence Reports, and many others. For many of these resources, Landings has developed its own search interfaces. LANL Astrophysics e-Prints This service can be searched from this site on its own, or as part of the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS). The site provides access to six months worth of preprints which have been submitted to astronomical journals and conference proceedings. They expire after 6 months, as this is the average time it takes for publications to accept them for publication. The service can be searched by author, date, words in title and words in text. The full text can be viewed in a variety of formats, including PDF, Postscript and DVI. Leicester Database and Archive Service (LEDAS) The Leicester Database and Archive Service is located in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester, UK. The LEDAS provides an online astronomical database service and access to archive data from high energy astrophysics missions. The five main datasets available on LEDAS are as follows: X-Ray Data Archives (online data archives for ROSAT, Ginga, ASCA and Chandra), Catalogues (3000+ astronomical catalogues searchable via ARNIE, BLASTA and VIZIER), sky images from the Digitised Sky Survey, the SIMAD bibliography and downloadable X-ray data reduction/analysis software. Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library Online Catalogue This site provides access to the Library catalogue of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). LANL is operated by the University of California for the US Department of Energy. The facility allows the collections to be searched by many different fields including author, title, subject, conference, journal and publication year. It does not appear to be possible to make use of the mark and download records function. Maritime Index Maritime-Index is a database of maritime systems manufacturers aimed at professionals in the civil and military communities. It allows searching or browsing of the directory by product/service, name or country. The products and services include marine equipment and systems, weapons and munitions, information technology, marine platforms, personnel systems, communications and medical. The site also provides access to articles, press releases, company and government news, details on exhibitions and conferences and a job centre. The site is also available in Spanish and Arabic. Marshall Technical Reports Server (MTRS) This service can be searched on its own from this site, or as part of the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS). The service is made up of selected full text and abstracts and citations of NASA reports from the Technical Publications Office. Most of the recent reports are available in full as PDF files, older reports have only citations and abstracts. The service can be searched by keyword, or browsed by date. Materials Safety Data Sheets This web site provides access to a large, searchable archive of Materials Safety Data Sheets (MSDS). It includes links to many new MSDS archives provided by manufacturers concerned about the safe use of their products. The archive contains details of hazardous materials used in the aerospace industry - eg lubricants, coatings, cleaning compounds etc. The whole MSDS archive can be downloaded. The site also features a searchable database of toxicology reports, which can be accessed by entering a chemical name, or the CAS or RTECS number. MedWeb MedWeb is a resource provided by the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library of Emory University. It takes the form of a catalogue of health related Web sites and is both searchable by keyword and browseable by subject area. One of the subjects is Aerospace Medicine. A link to the resources and a brief description are provided. There is also a facility to suggest a site for inclusion. Meteoroid and Debris (MD) Database The Meteroid and Debris (MD) Database contains over 20,000 records of information related to impacts documented on the Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF) spacecraft, which spent 5.7 years in Earth orbit. The database contains information on features documented at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) during LDEF's deintegration in 1990, data generated at JSC over several years following LDEF's return, as well as data provided by various Principal Investigators from specific experiments. The online search offers the user the ability to search for impact feature information based on the LDEF Bay (A-H), Row (1-25*) location, component type (e.g., frame, experiment tray, etc.), substrate material type (e.g., Al, Teflon, etc.), and feature size (diameter in microns); the resulting data can be sorted by either feature number or feature size. The downloads offer the user the ability to download the entire database, or one of several statistically significant sub-sets of the data. The three, downloadable sub-sets (i.e., Intercostals, the Space Debris Impact Experiment, and the Chemistry of Micrometeoroids Experiment) contain the best, and most statistically significant and complete data sets from all of LDEF. [Taken from the introduction]. Last update: 10/02/97. Meterological Office Library - Monthly Accessions List (MAL) This site provided by the Met Office Library takes the form of a monthly accessions list covering the last three months' additions to the library. The information is browseable under the following headings - general meteorology, practical meteorology, meteorological phenomena, climatology, aqueous vapour and hydrology, pressure and wind, radiation and temperature, physical composition and structure of the atmosphere, oceanography, natural sciences, and conferences. Bibliographic information about each item is available. Military Ink Guide to recently published military books. Provides monthly listings of new titles and the opportunity to sign up to a newsletter to receive email alerts about books devoted to military related topics. Military Policy Awareness Links : North Korea MiPALs are published by the National Defense University for the Military Education Research Library Network, MERLN. It provides links to full text documents and resources with a primary focus on United States military policy towards North Korea, or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The topics covered include general background information; United States policy; the Department of Defense; Department of State; US Congress; current news; human rights and refugees; the nuclear weapons programme; politics and government; reunification; terrorism; research and analysis; news sources and online journals; and web gateways. The MiPAL can be browsed or searched and an RSS feed is available. Mission and Spacecraft Library This service is provided by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and takes the form of a database of space mission information. The resource is comprised of several different parts. 'Launch facts' provides overview information about all orbital spacecraft launches and launch attempts. Launch facts can be searched by completing a Web search form which returns information on satellite name, organisation, launch site, launch vehicle, spacecraft mass, orbit class and mission type. 'Orbit ephemeris' allows users to search for TLEs (Two Line Elements) and the 'Quicklook Pages' provide more indepth information. This can include a brief description of the mission's objectives, a picture, launch and orbit notes, and brief descriptions of the spacecraft and its payload. Links are often included to a satellite's sponsor, user, manufacturer, and related Web sites. The resource is both searchable and browseable. NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service This page provides access to four abstract services in the following subjects: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Physics and Geophysics, and the Los Alamos Preprint server. They include abstracts from all major journals, conference proceedings, NASA reports and many PhD theses. All the services are searchable, and between them they contain roughly two million abstracts. There is also a European mirror site. NASA Astrophysics Data System : Query Form This database is available to search as part of NASA's Technical Reports Server, or on its own from this Harvard University site. The coverage of the resource includes astronomy, lunar and planetary exploration and space radiation, instrumentation, physics and geophysics. The database can be searched in a number of ways, such as author name, title words, text keywords and publication date. The database covers material back to 1975 and provides report abstracts. NASA Fact Sheet Library The site provides access to an extensive document library of fact sheets, articles and papers on the Space Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) programmes. It includes: Space Shuttle astronaut fact sheets, Space Shuttle/Mission fact sheets, including individual mission highlight reports; Space Station overviews and assembly information, Space Station first flight and early components; Space Station research and scientific facilities; and historical and miscellaneous information. All of the documents are in PDF format. NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies : GISS Publications Online This database service can be searched as part of the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) or on its own from this site. The resource contains citations and abstracts of reports produced by Goddard during the past 40 years, although the emphasis within the database is on work done in the 1990s. Some of the papers are available in full as either postscript or PDF files. The database can be searched or browsed by year back to 1974. NASA Image eXchange (NIX) The NASA Image eXchange (NIX) provides a single point of entry to various photographic databases of six NASA centers (Langley, Lewis, Ames, Dryden, Goddard and Johnson). Search capabilities of NIX include simple searches, complex searches, and browsing. NIX returns thumbnail sized images, textual descriptions, image numbers, links to higher resolution images, links to more information, and links to the NASA Center that stores each image. NIX also provides tips to users on searching, copyright information, and a comments section. NIX is currently being expanded to include additional photos from the remaining centers. NASA Langley Research Center - Multimedia Repository This web site provides access to NASA Langley Research Center's library of digital images. The objective of the service is to facilitate online access to digitised photographs, computer-generated images and other digital sources such as movies and videos. All of the images are in JPEG format.Thumbnail (~96x96), Small (~544x480); Medium (~1280x1024) (if available); and Large (~3072x2432) (if available). The repository can be browsed or searched. Browse headings include aircraft, devices, education, events, laboratories, people, projects, space transportation, wind tunnels and new multimedia. The site also contains a Frequently Asked Questions, and a comments/question section. NASA Langley Technical Library Digital Repository LTRS (Langley Research Center Technical Report Server) is a service which allows users to search available online NASA Langley published documents, including Meeting Presentations, Journal Articles, Conference Proceedings, and Technical Reports. All documents are unclassified and publicly available. You can browse by author, title, date or collection and a simple and advanced search form are also available. You can also sign-up to receive email updates. NASA Online Cost Models and Calculators These Online NASA Cost Models allow the user to produce estimates of various cost categories for specified technical performance criteria and the estimate learning curve performance. Models include the following: Advanced Missions Cost Model (AMCM) for spacecraft, space transportation systems, aircraft, missiles, ships and land vehicles; Aircraft Turbine Engine Cost Model for aircraft turbine engines; Airframe Cost Model for aircraft airframes; Cost Estimating Cost Model for cost estimating Deep Space Network (DSN) projects; Expendable Launch Vehicles; Mission Operations Cost Model (MOCM) for mission operations of manned, unmanned and planetary spacecraft; Spacecraft/Vehicle Level Cost Model (SVLCM) for spacecraft, launch vehicle stages, engines and scientific instruments; inflation index calculator; and labor and materials worksheet. These models are written in JavaScript and require Netscape Navigator 2.01, Internet Explorer 3, or another browser with JavaScript capability. There is also a link to the NASA 2005 Cost Analysis Symposium Paper Presentations. NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) STI provides access to basic and applied research and development conclusions and analyses in the areas of scientific, technical, and related engineering subjects. It provides access to databases including the NASA Technical Reports Server, NATO Research and Technology Organization (RTO) Quarterly Listing and Index of Technical Publications, the NASA Multimedia Gallery and NASA Image eXchange (NIX). There are also full text journals including Spinoff and the Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Bulletin Online. NASA STI RSS Web Feeds This page explains what RSS feeds are, then describes the RSS feed services provided by NASA. They are updated daily and contain headlines that access citations and abstracts of the most recent additions to the NASA Aeronautics and Space Database. When available, citations will link to other sites for access to the full-text document. The page also allows you to subscribe to these feeds. NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) The NASA Technical Report Server is an experimental service that allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs. Specifically, it is a unified interface to many separate WAIS servers. NTRS is both a superset of the of the various servers, and a canonical listing of the servers. Clicking on "select the databases you would like to search", provides a summary of NTRS holdings including the number of abstracts, number of complete reports, and frequecy of update of each server.A Frequently Asked Questions provides additional information on how to search and obtain documents. NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) This website is the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS), containing 14,457 NACA reports of which nearly 12,000 are in PDF format available online. It also contains publicly available NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) many that are available in PDF format. NASA Technical Reports Server This the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) containing 14,457 NACA reports of which nearly 12,000 have PDF images online. It also contains publicly available NASA Scientific Technical Information (STI) many that have PDF images too. NASA Technical Reports Server This the NASA Technical Report Server (NTRS) containing 14,457 NACA reports of which nearly 12,000 have PDF images online. It also contains publicly available NASA Scientific Technical Information (STI) many that have PDF images too. National Aviation Safety Data Analysis Center (NASDAC) The purpose of this web site is to provide the public with access to several of the principal aviation safety data and information sources the Federal Government uses for various purposes. Subjects covered by this site include aviation accident information, aircraft information, statistical data and voluntary reporting systems. Several databases are available for interrogation, including the Air Registry, the Aviation Safety Reporting System, Bureau of Transportation Statistics and the FAA Incident/Accident Data System, amongst others. There are reports available on studies like Aviation Safety Data Accessibility; NTSB Weather Related Accidents; Review of Aviation Accidents occuring in the State of Alaska, 1992-2001; and Turbulence Study. National Technical Information Service (NTIS) The National Technical Information Service is the official source for U.S. scientific, technical, engineering, and business-related information. This web site includes a searchable database which enables retrieval of bibliographic references to items added to the NTIS (National Technical Information Service) database since 1990. The service can also be browsed by specific topic areas. Items available include technical reports, CD-ROMs, datafiles, videotapes, and audiocassettes. NTIS is concerned with the sale and distribution of US Government funded research reports. Aerospace is one of the key subject areas covered by the database. National Transportation Library The National Transportation Library is administered by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in cooperation with the Transportation Administrative Services Center (TASC), the operating administrations, and the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The National Transportation Library contains documents and databases provided from throughout the transportation community. The Library contains links to full-text documents. It can be searched, or browsed by subject. The Aviation section can be browsed under the following headings: Air traffic control, Airports and facilities, Aviation economics and finance, Aviation energy and environment, Aviation planning and policy, Aviation safety / Airworthiness, Aviation laws and regulations, Aviation human factors, Newsletters. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) Aviation Accident/Incident Database The NTSB is an independent Federal agency charged by Congress with investigating every civil accident in the United States and significant accident in the other modes of transportation -- railroad,highway, marine and pipeline.NTSB accident/incident database is the official repository of aviation accident data and causal factors. In the database, an event is classified as an accident or an incident. "Aircraft accident" means an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and until all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage. The NTSB defines "incident" as an occurrence other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft, which affects or could affect the safety of operations. The NTSB database contains only selected incident reports. The database is updated monthly. National Transportation Safety Board : Aviation Accident Database and Synopses The NTSB aviation accident database contains information from 1962 and later about civil aviation accidents and selected incidents within the United States, its territories and possessions, and in international waters. Generally, a preliminary report is available online within a few days of an accident. Factual information is added when available, and when the investigation is completed, the preliminary report is replaced with a final description of the accident and its probable cause. Full narrative descriptions may not be available for dates before 1993, cases under revision, or where NTSB did not have primary investigative responsibility. National Wildlife Strike Database Developed for the FAA by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, this is a database of reported bird strike incidents in the US. It contains a strike summary by wildlife species and state, or by ALL states and ALL species, by wildlife species and state by year. It also allows location of strikes on US map by species, and locate strikes on selected state/province map by species, and US Time Sequenced Mapping by Species. NATO Research and Technology Organization (RTO) : Full Text Publication Library The web site provides access to a collection of full text documents produced by the NATO Research and Technology Organization and its predecessor, Advisory Group for Aerospace Research & Development (AGARD). The collection includes the following report series: RTO-AG (Advanced Guidance for Alliance Research and Development); RTO-MP (Meeting Proceedings);RTO-EN (Education Notes); RTO-TR (Technical Reports); RTO-TM (Technical Memoranda); RTO-Misc (Miscellaneous Publications); AGARD-AG (AGARDographs); AGARD-R (Reports); AGARD-AR (Advisory Reports); AGARD-CP (Conference Proceedings); AGARD-LS (Lecture Series); and AGARD-Misc (Miscellaneous Publications). The browse facilityprovides access to abstracts, Tables-Of-Contents and Full Text. Currently the search option is under construction. NBC Links This site provides a comprehensive collection of links to sites concerning nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. These are divided into areas including NBC warfare, chemistry and chemical engineering, conferences, domestic preparedness and terrorism and the Gulf War. There are also links to details on general NBC defence information, graphics and links to other NBC sites, plus medical information, NBC defence equipment and organisations. Links are given to professional development, proliferation and disarmament, smoke and obscurants, publications and threat informaiton. NLR Technical Publications This service from the library of the NLR (National Aerospace Laboratory) in The Netherlands allows for searching of the NLR technical publications database for publications published since 1997. Noise Pollution Clearinghouse NPC is a US national non-profit organization which seeks to raise awareness of noise pollution, to facilitate information access and communication, and to assist the work of government and other regulatory bodies, as well as activist groups concerned with noise pollution issues. The site provides access to an extensive range of noise related information sources. It is possible to cross-search a number of collections these resources including the NPC Hearing Loss and Occupational Noise Library, NPC Online Law Library, and the NPC Online Library. North Korea WWW Virtual Library Provided by the World Wide Web Virtual Library, this site provides information and links to web resources on North Korea, or the Democratic Republic of Korea, DPRK. Topics covered include the economy, background information, public and political policies, and security issues. Notifications to Congress of Pending U.S. Arms Transfers Provided by the Federation of American Scientists Arms Sales Monitoring Project, who are working for transparency and accountability in the US arms trade and major reductions in global conventional weapons production and trade. This database lists proposed transfers of excess defense articles (EDA), government-negotiated Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreements, export licenses for industry-negotiated Direct Commercial Sales (DCS), or leases of military equipment from 1992 to the present. The database can be searched by region, country, date, weapon system and transfer type. Old Oppos Armed Forces reunion site which contains a database of Royal Air Force, Navy and Army military units from which contact details of colleagues and comrades can be found. The service is free in a read only format or members can subscribe for additional services, although users must register their details first in order to access this service. Parts of the site can be accessed by non-members - it is divided into Army, Navy and Air Force and from each category a gallery of images, film clips, stories, links to associations and details of reunions can be accessed. There is also a section titled Family Help which provides links and tips on how to research service careers of ex-servicemen and women. ONERA Publications Database ONERA (Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiale) is the French national aerospace establishment which has expertise in all the disciplines involved in aircraft, spacecraft and missile design. The ONERA database allows for searching of journal articles, papers delivered at conferences, theses, Technical Notes (NT), and other publications. Unpublished ONERA research reports are not included. The full text of selected recent documents is available in PDF format. It is possible to search by author name, information contained within the bibliographic record or the full text (if it is available). Searching in the full text field will return full text reports only. Online Index of Objects Launched into Outer Space This service is provided by the United National Office of Outer Space Affairs (OOSA). It offers a fast way of finding information on satellites launched from 1957 onwards and provides links between objects and their relevant documents of registration with the United Nations. It can be searched in a number of ways including names and international designators in the public domain, launch date and place and launch vehicle. Details returned include launch date, date of decay or change and function. Optics.Org Technical Library - Optics and Photonics Library Optics.Org is an industry service provided by SPIE - the international society for optical engineering. The Optics.Org database is offered jointly by SPIE, and NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service. Over 1,400,000 technical citations and abstracts from 4100 are included in this searchable database. The database comprises five elements: optics and photonics, astronomy and astrophysics, physics and geophysics, instrumentation and SPIE publications only (including online paper ordering). Outgassing Data for Selecting Spacecraft Materials Online This site features a database of outgassing data of materials intended for spacecraft use, obtained at the Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Materials Engineering Branch, and utilising equipment developed at Stanford Research Institue (SRI) under contract to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The site provides a system description, and the possibility to download the entire Outgassing database. The Outgassing Materials Search function provides the capabilility to search all across materials tested at GSFC for determining the mass loss in a vacuum and for collecting the outgassed products. A Manufacturer Lookup allows to search on manufacturer name or code, or to browse the manufacturer list. There are also category and alphabetical listings and a report documentation page. Periscope This site gives access to various databases providing information about defence and military issues. The databases are usni military and pentagon blue tops. A daily defence news service is also available. The site can only be accessed by payment, but there are several options available. For a one-off search there is a pay as you go service, an intranet service is available for large organisations, or a licensee service where access can be gained to all records for an annual subscription. Physics and Geophysics This service can be searched separately from this site, or as part of the NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS). The site provides access to approximately 275000 engineering and astronautical abstracts back to 1975. The abstracts can be searched by author, keyword, date and words in the title and abstract text. PlaneCrashInfo This site is a personal interest site maintained by Richard Kebabjian. It contains a lot of information relating to aircraft accidents around the world. The site includes a searchable database of aircraft accidents, details about the 100 worst accidents of all time, photographs, transcripts of cockpit voice recordings with some sound (requiring RealPlayer), statistics, safety ratings by airline, accidents by aircraft type and by airline, and links to other relevant sites. PORT : Maritime Information Gateway Port is a subject gateway of quality maritime related internet resources catalogued by National Maritime Museum staff. The site allows users to search the database, browse subject headings and view research guides created by National Maritime Museum Staff. There is also a calender of events and online exhibitions. PrePRINT Network : Department of Energy This service is a searchable gateway to preprint servers provided by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI). It is possible to search one site, a group of sites, or all the sites, or to browse an alphabetical listing of all preprint sites included on the service. An additional feature notifies individuals of new preprints that match a personally defined profile of subject interests. Subject areas covered include physics, mathematics, computer science, nonlinear sciences, engineering, and materials science. Propulsion Information Retrieval System (PIRS) This database is the web version of the Chemical Propulsion Information Agency's (CPIA) unlimited-distribution Propulsion Information Retrieval System (PIRS) and contains over 18,000 citations of unlimited-distribution DoD - military services, NASA - contractor technical reports and JANNAF and AIAA conference papers covering 25 years of propulsion technology. CPIA distributes the full capability PIRS on CD-ROM with the BRS search engine. The web version has propulsion and Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board (DDESB) meeting paper citations in two databases. The required information can be searched using the standard and advanced search engines. PsycINFO This is the home page of PsycINFO, a database of abstracts to psychological literature from 1887 to the present day. The subscription service includes journal articles, books, book chapters, technical reports, and dissertations. It is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA). The site provides background information to the database including the journal coverage lists and classification codes and categories and online search guides. RAND Abstracts RAND (a contraction of the term research and development) is a nonprofit institution in the US that aims to improve public policy through research and analysis. The web site provides access to a database of abstracts of all RAND documents that are available for unrestricted distribution. Searches can be performed on author, title, abstract and document number. RAND was created at the urging of its original client, the Air Force (then the Army Air Forces). Although RAND is supported by a wide range of sources, the database contains references to many Air Force related interests and activities. Rapra Polymer Bulletin : Aerospace Applications This Polymer Bulletin is a current awareness service from the Polymer Library, the world's largest database dedicated to polymer literature. Each time the abstracts database is updated with new records (approx. every two weeks) you will be sent a bulletin alerting you to any items that relate to aerospace applications. This is a service that requires an annual subscription of £250. Redstone Scientific Information Center The Redstone Scientific Information Center (RSIC) is a comprehensive scientific and technical library serving researchers and engineers at the U.S. Army Missile Command (MICOM ), Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC-- NASA ), and their contractors. RSIC's Scientific and Technical Information Library Automation System (STILAS) lets you browse over 320,000 books, journals, and government technical reports. Login by using "guest" in the "alt-id" field with "GUEST" as the PIN (only available to US citizens) . Note in addition to its collection of books, journals and technical reports, RSIC also has a collection of technical reports and papers created by German Scientists at Peenemunde during World War II. Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) RITA coordinates the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DoT) research programs and brings together important data, research and technology transfer assets of the DoT. Research and Technology Organization Technical Publications : a Quarterly Listing This site is provided as part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Web site. The site contains quarterly listings of new Research and Technology Organization publications. They are available back to June 1995 and are PDF documents. Each listing contains the bibliographic information and an abstract of every report. RGW Cherry & Associates : Aeronautical and Safety Engineers R.G.W. Cherry & Associates Limited is a consultancy company formed from widely experienced Aeronautical Engineers, established in 1992. The company delivers reports to airworthiness authorities, academic bodies, aircraft manufacturers and equipment suppliers. It has technical expertise in the following areas: Independent Safety Auditing, Cabin Safety research, Aircraft certification and design support, Flight Test Support. The company also develops and maintains the International Cabin Safety Research Technical Group Aircraft Accident Database under the sponsorship of Transport Canada, the FAA and the UK CAA which is freely available to use. The database currently contains information on 3,164 accidents and of these, textual information is available on 954. RMA Debate Sponsored by the Project on Defense Alternatives, this site is a subject gateway to full text resources on the internet about the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA), information and asymmetric warfare. The site is divided into subjects relating to RMA, U.S. defence transformation, terrorism, information warfare, strategic information warfare, asymmetric warfare and future war. The site links to full-text online books, provides contact details for specialists in this area, links to research sites and provides a bibliography. Rongstad's Worldwide Military Pages This site provides links to a wide range of military sites. These links are grouped into subject areas, which include war and the history of war, the art of war, battles, military news, military books, information warfare, civilian internment, Iraq War, blogs, military web rings, the United States and weapons. Russian Navy Weapons Catalogue This site lists information on all aspects of Russian naval vessels and the weapons they carry. It is divided into discrete areas:- Cruisers, Destroyers, Frigates, Corvettes, Submarines, Aircraft and Missiles. There are images and detailed specifications on each item. There are links to other Russian military web sites, some in English, some in Russian. School of Aeronautical Engineering at Queen's University, Belfast The School of Aeronautical Engineering has research interests in the following areas: aerodynamics, aircraft structures and integrated aircraft technology. The Web site provides information about past and current projects that are being undertaken in these fields and selected papers produced by staff. It also contains details of the courses on offer by the department as well as a full staff list with biographies. Scientific and Technical Information Network (STINET) This web site provides access to citations, as well as unclassified unlimited documents that have been entered into the Technical Reports Collection of the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) from late December 1974 to present. The resource has been significantly enhanced with the addition of a growing full text collection. This includes all recently added unclassified, unlimited (September 1998 to Present) and unclassified, limited full text reports (December 1999 to Present). The site offers individual and multiple database searching. As well as DTIC's own databases, the multiple database searching functionality offers access to other US federal servers, including NASA, DOE etc. It is possible to "cut & paste" terms from the DTIC thesaurus to enhance retrieval from the reports database. The site now also provides access to the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory (NAMRL) database. This contains technical report citations added by DTIC since late December 1974 and full text documents available since September 1998. The content covers a wide range of aviation medicine, allied sciences research, and development projects conducted at NAMRL, NAS Pensacola, Florida. SearchMil.com Internet search engine covering US military websites. It has indexed over one million web pages with the domain name .mil and ranks results in order of popularity. Selected Current Aerospace Notices Provided by NASA, this service is an electronic current awareness journal which is published twice a month. The aim of the service is to alert users to recently published report and journal literature about aeronautics and aerospace research. It is divided into broad topic areas (aeronautics, astronautics, chemistry and materials, engineering, geosciences, life sciences, mathematical and computer sciences, physics, social sciences and space sciences) which are further subdivided into 191 specific subject topics to aid browsing and identification of relevant publications. The service is also searchable. Small Wars Journal This site is a web portal and online resource for small wars researchers. The site provides access to the full text of the journal SWJ Magazine. There is also a reference library which provides access to full text books, articles and web site links on small wars, professional military education, terrorism, insurgency, urban operations, interagency operations, Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, Chechnya and the Vietnam War. There is also a listing of useful web sites for researchers in the field of small wars, a suggested reading list, blog and events calendar. Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Technical Papers The web site provides access to a database of Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) ground vehicle papers and aerospace papers published since February 1998. The database provides bibliographic information including, title, paper number, author, meeting where presented, and associated book number. The database can be searched by keyword or paper number. Papers published since February 1998 can be downloaded as a charged service. Society of Flight Test Engineers Online Symposium Paper Search The Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE) is a fraternity of engineers, whose principal professional interest is the flight testing of aircraft and missiles. This web page facilitates access to citations and abstracts of SFTE symposium papers. Papers can be listed by title, or can be retrieved using a keyword search (symposium number, paper number, paper title, author, affiliation, abstract, report year). There is an online ordering facility, based on credit card payments, for the full-text papers. Space Physics Data Availability Catalog (SPDAC) This catalog is an attempt to summarize the kinds and extent of data now being made available in current flight programs sponsored by the Sun-Earth Connection theme. This catalog and associated reports serve as a focused information source for NASA HQs management interests in availability and accessibility of mission data. As a secondary purpose, the catalog can also be used as an alternative way for the NASA science community to locate data of interest from current missions. The Sun-Earth Connection (SEC) Data Availability Catalog (SECDAC) interface starts with a Mission Overview Matrix where the mission names (and subsequent investigation names) link to the next level of SECDAC information. Appropriate updates (to edit existing information or to add entries) are possible at each level. Please note that updates submitted are manually reviewed and, while immediately acknowledged, will not be immediately reflected in the displayed catalog. Last modified: 05/17/2005 Spaceline SPACELINE is a cooperative venture of NLM and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Its purpose is to consolidate the growing body of space life sciences research into a single, easily accessible resource. It should be noted that not all records in SPACELINE are directly attributable to space flight research. There are many citations in the database which discuss basic research related to the space life sciences. Examples of these include basic bone and muscle physiology, psychological effects of isolation, and gravitational effects on plants. Updates and document types - Weekly, with approximately 500 new citations added each month; the file contains about 140,000 records. Document Types: Journal articles; technical reports; books and book chapters; conference proceedings, conference papers, and meeting abstracts; bibliographies; and audiovisuals. Special Operations Weapons Focus The site contains a wide range of information and links to other sites concerned with sniper rifles, handguns/pistols, combat shotguns, grenade launchers, light and medium machine guns, and assault weapons, SMGs and carbines. SPIE Digital Library The SPIE Digital Library currently includes more than 120,000 technical papers from SPIE journals and conference proceedings, including full coverage from 1998 to the present. It is possible to both browse tables of contents, and search, and members may full the full text. Non-members can view the bibliographic information and abstracts free of charge. SPIE Web Bookstore SPIE is a non-profit professional society dedicated to advancing research, engineering, and applications in optics, photonics, imaging, and electronics. The SPIE Web bookstore offers search and browse access to bibliographic citations and abstracts from SPIE proceedings and SPIE scholarly journals, including: Optical Engineering; Journal of Electronic Imaging, and Journal of Biomedical Optics. The search facility provides simple and fielded search options. It is possible to browse by technology, and headings for this include: aerospace, remote sensing and astronomy, automation, inspection and product engineering, communication and fibre optics, and lasers and applications. Standard Atmosphere Computations Produced by the Aircraft Aerodynamics and Design Group at Stanford University, this database uses JavaScript to compute properties related to the 1976 standard atmosphere up to 230,000 ft. Data can be calculated in imperial or metric units. The computations require Netscape 2.0 or later. STAR : Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports This site provides access to cumulative listings of NASA reports which are published biweekly as an electronic journal in PDF format. The journal announces the following types of document - NASA, NASA Contractor and NASA grantee reports, reports issued by other US Governmental agencies, domestic and foreign institutions, translations in report form, NASA-owned patents and patent applications, other US Government agency patents and domestic and foreign dissertations and theses. Documents can be located by an author and a subject index and cover the following subject areas - aeronautics, space, energy development, conservation, oceanography, and environmental protection. It is available back to January 1996 STARnet : The NATO Science, Technology and Research Network This web site is being developed by the NATO Research and Technology Agency (RTA) Information Management Committee (IMC) and provides access to a virtual library of information. The site is divided into defence related subject nodes which provide access to organisational web sites and Internet based resources within the subject area. The nodes are: Aerospace and Aerospace Related Information Network (ARIN); Defence Against Terrorism Information Node (DTIN); Environmental and Biological Sciences Information Node (EBSIN); Information Science Information Node (INSCIN); Land Based Operations Node (LBON); Naval Marine and Sea Node (NAMAS); and the Resource Planning Node (RESPLAN). Submarine World Network A submarine directory with over a thousand links to information on submarines, covering all nations and all periods of history. There is also a Directory of Online Submariners which provides names and email addresses of submariners. Terrorism Incidents and Significant Dates Calendar Provided by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) and Lawson Terrorism Information Center (LTIC), this database provides brief information on terrorism incidents. The databank integrates resources from RAND, CIA, State Dept and OSAC. The Incomplete Guide to Airfoil Usage This web site was created in order to help answer the question of what airfoil or airfoils were used in the wing design of a particular aircraft. The entries are listed under three sections: Conventional aircraft; Canard and three surface aircraft, and, Helicopters, tilt rotors and autogyros. This list is titled as "Incomplete", as there are many aircraft that are still not included. Theses Canada Portal This is the central access point for locating informating relating to theses produced at Canadian Universities. A national programme to make theses and dissertations that have been accepted by Canadian universities easily accessible to researchers has been operating since 1965. The portal provides access to AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, containing metadata (bibliographic details) of all theses contained in Library and Archives since the establishment of the programme. It also provides free access to full text versions of theses and dissertations digitized between 1998 and 2002. In April 2004 a pilot project was started with Université Laval and the University of Waterloo to harvest theses metadata and electronic theses in PDF format. The option to submit electronic theses directly to Theses Canada should be available to universities with electronic theses submission programmes by the end of 2004. Transport Canada : Aircraft Certification Aircraft Certification establishes and regulates standards for aeronautical products designed and operated in Canada, and guides the aerospace industry with respect to certification in areas such as aircraft design, structures, avionics, electrical and mechanical systems, power plants, equipment, and engineering flight tests. The site provides access to a variety of information resources. These include databases of Airworthiness Notices, Airworthiness Directives, and (still pending) Service Difficulty Reporting. The full text of Air Certification Policy Letters and Canadian Aviation Regulations (CARs) are also available. Transport Canada : Civil Aviation Directorate The Civil Aviation headquarters directorate determines program contents, policy and standards, while the regions deliver the Civil Aviation Program. The site links to information on the Directorate's various areas of responsibility including aerodrome safety, aircraft certification, aircraft maintenance and manufacturing, air navigation services and airspace, aviation learning services, commercial and business aviation, civil aviation medicine, General Aviation, international aviation and technical programmes, quality assurance, regulatory services, strategic issues and communication, and system safey. Specific resources of note include databases of air operators, airworthiness directives applicable in Canada, approved maintenance, manufacturing and distributor organisations, the Canadian Civil Aircraft Register, Master Minimum Equipment Lists, and an index of Canadian Type Certificates. Other related full text documents include: Flight 2010 which is a safety planning framework for the future. Transport Canada : Transportation Development Centre (TDC) As Transport Canada's Research and Development branch, the TDC manages a multimodal R&D program aimed at improving the safety, security, energy efficiency, and accessibility of the Canadian transportation system, while protecting the environment. The site contains background information, descriptions of active and completed programmes and projects, news and event information, and provides access to TDC technical reports and other publications. The results of TDC research are published in the form of technical reports and most are available in electronic format at no charge. There is an index which provides a comprehensive listing of documents published since 1995. Transportation Board of Canada (TSB) The Canadian Transportation Investigation and Safety Board Act provides the legal framework governing the TSB's activities. Basically, the TSB has a mandate to advance safety in the marine, pipeline, rail, and aviation modes of transportation by: conducting independent investigations and, if necessary, public inquiries into transportation occurrences in order to make findings as to their causes and contributing factors; reporting publicly on its investigations and public inquiries and on the related findings; identifying safety deficiencies as evidenced by transportation occurrences; making recommendations designed to eliminate or reduce any such safety deficiencies; and conducting special studies and special investigations on transportation safety matters. The site provides access to the full-text of Aviation Occurrence Reports. These are HTML format documents. Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database The Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS) Database is the world's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information. TRIS is produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) at the National Academies of Sciences. TRIS contains over 640,000 records of published and ongoing research on all modes and disciplines in the field of transportation. Each year over 25,000 new records are added to TRIS. Other features to note about the resource include the following: selected links to full text or sources of full text; links to the IRRD database for further coverage of international transportation; and searching by author, title, and subject. TranStats : Aviation Data Library This is a compilation of air transport related statistical data sources which are contained within the TranStats database produced by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT) Burueau of Transportation Statistics. Access is provided to the following set of resources: Air carrier financial reports, (Form 41 Financial Schedule), consisting of financial information on large U.S. certified air carriers including balance sheet, income statement, cash flow, aircraft inventory, aircraft operating expenses and operating expenses. Air Carrier Statistics (Form 41 Traffic), contains monthly data reported by certificated U.S. and foreign air carriers on passengers, freight and mail transported. Also includes aircraft type, service class, available capacity and seats, and aircraft hours ramp-to-ramp and airborne. Other resources include: Air Carrier Summary Data, Airline On-Time Performance Data, Airline Origin and Destination Survey, American Travel Survey (ATS) 1995, Aviation Accident Database and Synopses, Aviation Support Tables, Commodity Flow Survey, Hazardous Material Incident Reporting System (HMIRS), Small Air Carrier Statistics (Form 298C Traffic Data), Air Carrier Employees, Aviation Accident Statistics, Canadian Travel to the U.S., Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries, Commercial Space Licensing and Launches, Employment by Industry and Occupation, Federal Transit Administration Grant Assistance Programs, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by Industry, International Visitor Arrivals Program (I-94), U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, and U.S. International Air Traveler Statistics (I-92). TranStats : The Intermodal Transportation Database TranStats aims at providing transportation researchers and analysts, with a "one stop shop" solution for access to transportation statistical data. Produced by the United States Bureau of Transport Statistics, TranStats offers a number of features including: a Searchable Index of over 100 transportation-related data bases across every mode of transportation, with many social and demographic data sets that are commonly used in transportation analysis; Selective download, the ability to choose variables of interest and download the data directly to your PC for analysis using any data base, spreadsheet, or statistical package; Online data documentation, profiles on each data base, summary information about the tables that comprise a data base, data definitions and code information for data variables; Interactive analytical tools, the ability to do simple statistical summaries, create time series or cross tabulations, generate graphics online, and cut/paste results into reports; Interactive mapping, to help visualize geographic data and a Mapping Center with the full National Transportation Atlas Data Base, as well as applications for easily mapping US Department of Transportation (DOT) Grants and several other key data sets. These is a data finder which presents a view of the the individual databases organised by transport mode, by subject and by transport agency. U.S. Department of Commerce : Office of Aerospace and Automotive Industries : Aerospace Team The Aerospace Team is part of the International Trade Administration, a bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce. It's role is to monitor the implementation of trade agreements that are specific to the aerospace industry; identify constraints on the trade performance of the U.S. aerospace industry and recommend ways to neutralise such constraints; monitor and describe the economic and technological health of the aerospace industry in the U.S. as well as worldwide; and provide advice, counsel and support for the international marketing efforts of aerospace firms. The site contains brings together information relating to and provides links to the following: aerospace trade associations, U.S. aerospace industry statistics, aerospace industry publications, and U.S. aerospace company websites. The site also includes news stories, and links to several studies on different aspects of the US aerospace industry. The site also provides access to Aerospace and Defense e-Market Express, an alerting service for market research, trade leads and event information that the U.S. Department of Commerce receives from U.S. Embassies and Consulates around the world. Through the Aerospace and Defense e-Market Express, U.S. firms can electronically submit requests for aerospace and defense market research. There is no fee to receive these reports. The only requirement is that requesters must be providers of products or services that involve at least 51% US originated content. US Army ERDC Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory CRREL is part of the Engineers Research and Development Center, ERDC, of the US Army Corps of Engineers. Through scientific engineering and research, their aim is to increase knowledge of the world's cold regions in order to help the Army, Corps of Engineers and the Department of Defense operate in these conditions. The site provides information about CRREL and gives details on research branches and their projects. There are full text technical reports from 1995, fact sheets on current research projects, and an online manual 'Methods Manual for Detection of Propellant, Explosive or Pyrotechnic Compounds'. There is also an ice jam and bibliography database as well as computer simulations of models. There is also access to the ERDC Library with access to the library catalogue, publications, cold regions bibliography and related links. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University : Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Collection The site provides access to a growing collection of electronic theses and dissertations approved by the Virginia Tech Graduate School since 1995. The collection includes many titles that are relevant to aerospace and defence research. The ETD collection can be searched, and there are both quick and advanced search options available. The collection can also be browsed alphabetically by author. Each record includes a bibliographic citation and abstract in HTML format. The full text of most of the titles can be accessed online in PDF format. This collection is part of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. Volpe Center Final Reports Database The Volpe Center Final Technical Reports Database documents the reports prepared for the John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center from 1970 to present. The database has two sections. The Browse mode allows you to view a recent subset of Volpe reports (1990 - Present) sorted first by publication year and then by modal administration. The entire database (1970 - Present) is searchable by title, keyword, author, year and modal administration. The database covers research on air transport as well as surface transportation. War Report : Iraq War and Afghan Aftermath This site provides links to key reports, articles, documents and websites relating to the war and its aftermath in Afghanistan and the conflict in Iraq. It is frequently updated by the Project on Defense Alternatives which is part of the Commonwealth Institute. The resources include international news sites such as Reuters, BBC News and the Washington Post; United Nations reports; and non governmental organisations such as ReliefWeb. Warwick Air Accident Database The database contains accidents in which aircraft were totally lost or sustained major damage, and covers commercial fixed wing aircraft engaged in both scheduled and non-scheduled flights. Details of accidents related to passenger, cargo, positioning and ferry flights are included for jet, turboprop and piston aircraft which seat at least 15 passengers and/or have a maximum take-off weight of greater than 12,500lbs. The current database, which contains accidents from 1977 to the end of 1997, includes about 2000 accidents. The database includes information on the nature of the accidents and the events that contributed to them, together with details of the location, airline, phase of flight and environmental conditions. Please note that the information provided in this database is intended for workers and researchers within the aircraft industry, and is provided free of charge. Eligible individuals may apply for access by clicking the 'Register' icon. West Virginia University : Electronic Theses and Dissertations The site provides access to a growing collection of electronic theses and dissertations approved by West Virginia University. The collection includes a titles that are relevant to aerospace and defence research, especially those produced by students in the Department of Mechanical/Aerospace Engineering. The ETD collection is both searchable and browsable. Each record includes a bibliographic citation and abstract in HTML format. The full text of the documents can be accessed online in PDF format. This collection is part of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. William J Hughes Technical Centre Library The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) William J. Hughes Technical Center Library web site which allows access to their catalogue of technical reports, and related documents. Many documents (over 400 titles) are in Adobe Portable Document Format (pdf). To search for full-text (pdf) items only use the 'show search options' and limit media option to 'electronic file'. The library also disseminates information proactively by making available an RSS news feed which can be used with suitable news reading software to provide access to newly available FAA reports. Borrowing privileges for the Technical Center Library are limited to current active FAA Technical Center employees and contractors with current FAA contracts (COTR authorization required). WorldSecurity-index.com Provides a database of manufacturers, products and services related to defence and security. Product categories include; security, law enforcement and counter-terrorism, personnel systems and equipment, technology, medical, aircraft, and sub-systems and equipment. The database is searchable by company, country or product. Worldwide Incidents Tracking System (WITS) Hosted by the United States National Counterterrorism Center; this is the NCTC's database of worldwide terrorist incidents. It enables searches for data and statistics on significant terrorist incidents by date; location; event type e.g. armed attack, hijacking, suicide bomb; perpetrator characteristic e.g. Christian extremists, hindu, Islamic extremist, neonazi; facility target by type, characteristic, nationality, and damage costs; victim target by type, characteristic and nationality; and a statistics search. There are also full text reports available which summarise major terrorist incidents in 2004 and 2005. |
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