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The Airworthiness of Supersonic Aircraft*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

H. C. Black
H. C. Black*
Affiliation:
Air Registration Board
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Summary

The safety target for the Supersonic Transport has been set by the governments sponsoring the project. This is to achieve a safety level at least as good as that of subsonic aircraft at the same time. An analysis of present accident trends is used to give more precision to this statement. If the present rate of improvement in safety continues, the accident rate in the early 1970's can be expected to be some 20% to 25% below today's figures and the target for the SST must be for an improvement of at least 30%. To achieve improvements of this order in a safety record which is already good requires considerable effort by all concerned and necessitates a more scientific approach to safety requirements, especially airworthiness requirements. Some examples of the way this is being done in the United Kingdom and f ranee are given.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 72 , Issue 686 , February 1968 , pp. 115 - 122
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1968 

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Footnotes

*

One of the papers given at the Tenth Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference–at Los Angeles on 19th October 1967. Also, the basis of a Main Lecture of the Society to be given before the Coventry Branch on 21st February 1968.

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