Gina's storming

A Comparison of AH-64D and OH-58D Pilot Attitudes Toward Glass Cockpit Crewstation Designs
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This is a ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LAB FORT RUCKER AL report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A439804. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Computers and multifunction displays are an integral part of several current Army rotary-wing aircraft. The cockpit design with these types of systems is sometimes called the "glass cockpit." Multifunction displays and computers are also an integral part of the cockpit designs for planned future aircraft. A recent study by Rash et al. (2001) noted that aircraft with a glass cockpit design have higher accident rates than corresponding aircraft with the traditional cockpit design. This finding suggested that the details of crewstation design needed to be examined. To identify significant differences, this study assessed pilots' attitudes toward glass cockpit designs in the AH-64D Apache and OH-5SD Kiowa helicopters. The study compared the opinions of pilots in these two glass cockpit designs to identify which aspects of their respective cockpits were most favorable or troublesome to the pilots. The results of the study identify which areas of cockpit design require further investigation.

Synthesis, Characterization, and Ion Exchange Properties of a Sodium Nonatitanate, Na4Ti9O20*xH2O
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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A557633. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: During the Cold War, the Hanford Weapons Site in Richland, Washington, produced weapons grade plutonium which first needed to be separated from the other products using the PUREX process (plutonium and uranium extraction). As a byproduct of this process, millions of cubic meters of highly acidic radioactive waste were produced which are now stored in million gallon tanks at the Hanford site. Over the years, some tanks have been known to leak and some are even in danger of exploding. Because of these problems, the waste needs to be removed from these tanks and given permanent, safe storage. The purpose of this research is to produce a more efficient ion exchanger to separate the highly radioactive isotopes (90Sr, 137Cs and transuranics) from the large quantities of inert salts. The smaller volume of high level waste produced can then be vitrified in glass and stored, while the low level waste can be poured into less expensive cement and glass.

A Comparison of AH-64 Pilot Attitudes Toward Traditional and Glass Cockpit Crewstation Designs
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This is a ARMY AEROMEDICAL RESEARCH LAB FORT RUCKER AL report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A256504. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Computers and multifunction displays (MFDs) are an integral part of several current Army rotary-wing aircraft. The cockpit design with these types of systems is sometimes called the "glass cockpit." MFDs and computers are also an integral part of the cockpit designs for planned future aircraft. A recent study noted that aircraft with a glass cockpit design have higher accident rates than corresponding aircraft with the traditional cockpit design. This finding suggested that the differences of crewstation design needed to be examined. To identify significant differences, this study assessed pilots' attitudes toward traditional and glass cockpit designs in the AH-64 Apache helicopter. The study identified which aspects of the different cockpit designs were most favorable or troublesome to the pilots, and identified differences in opinions across pilots who flew traditional or glass cockpit designs. The results of the study showed that in general pilots prefer the glass cockpit design of the AH-64D. However, AH-64D pilots did identify issues of higher mental workload and greater difficulty maintaining proficiency after long periods away from the aircraft.

Muslims in the United States Military : A Role Theory Analysis of Conflict and Integration
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This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSONAFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release. It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A250953. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: The purpose of this thesis was to look for the existence of role conflict in Muslim military members. Both the military and Islam were argued to be "greedy institutions" (Coser 1974) in that each demands its members to enact "master statuses" (Hughes 1945: 357). This thesis focuses on three potential areas in an effort to determine the existence of role conflict: military policies, military chaplains, and Muslim military members. Although evidence was found of role conflict, many Muslim military members were able to integrate these two roles by viewing their work as a calling or looking forward to opportunities to change existing policies.