Citation

Fielding JP, Meng XZ. Reliab. Eng. 1986; 15(1): 61-78.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1986, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/0143-8174(86)90055-7

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The College of Aeronautics adopts a pragmatic approach to the teaching of aircraft design. Students will only be awarded an MSc degree if they have proved that they have the ability to produce workable, realistic designs in which all of the major problems have been addressed. Each student is given responsibility for the design of a major part of the aircraft, such as the subject of this paper--the flying control system of a supersonic vertical take-off fighter aircraft. This task involved the performance of many design tasks, an important one being the derivation of safety performance of the original system using empirical electronic and mechanical reliability data, augmented by MIL-217 and other generic reliability data.