Aviation and aerospace – computing and flight

This portal contains articles showing how computer scientists and computing (sensing, decision-making, handling data etc) can help get us safely from A to B.

An Airbus A380, whose wingspan (~260 feet) is more than twice the
distance flown by the Wright Brothers in their first flight (120 feet).

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Computer Science in Space
Pepper’s Ghost: an 1860s illusion used in ‘head-up displays’
Pilots can see the information they need – just by looking at the window!
In space no one can hear you …
Understanding the challenges of communication helped Johanna work
with her team to develop early warning systems for aircraft safety.
Let the brain take the strain
Automated systems like autopilots are a great help, but for safety pilots need to be able to manually override.
Sabine Hauert: Swarm Engineer
Seeing how birds flock led Sabine to develop drone equivalents.

Click the Portals image below to uncover our other themed pages.

Image showing concentric luminous green circles and radial lines on a black background which converge into a central dip in the middle, to evoke a gravity well or black hole. Overlaid is white text saying Portals.
Image credit: Adapted spacetime image by Johnson Martin from Pixabay

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What CS4FN Air might look like if we ran an airline 🙂