Fighters pilot helmet design for 5th generation aircraft

Fighter pilots’ helmets have become more complex and heavier resulting in long term implications to pilots musculoskeletal systems as they fly and experience high g-load. Current research has identified design changes to the helmet to accommodate the ancillary items fitted to assist pilots but at the expense of comfort and additional loading. Its manufacturing requirements and adaptations to offer bespoke solutions are addressed to allow for training and operational usage. To produce the next generation of helmets that reduce long-term injuries, from g-loads and asymmetrical ancillaries requires individual considerations, unique manufacturing requirements and the ability to support with service spares anywhere in the world at short notice. This paper will describe how manufacturing requirements are matched to ergonomic needs and bespoke components can support global demands

Book Review: Foundations of Aviation Law

This review provides insight on the content and a review of the quality of the recent release of Foundations of Aviation Law from Ashgate Publications. This review does not reflect the views of IJAAA or ERAU. This work was not peer reviewed

The Structure of Bargaining under the Employment Contracts Act

Under the Employment Contracts Act 1991, the stucture of contracting is left for negotiation beteeen the parties, rhetorically so that the parties can fashion mutually satisfactory arrangements attuned to their particular ne,eds and circumstances. This paper presents survey data that dernonstrates thatJ while the extent of employee concessions differs benveen individual and collective contracts patterns of contract structures are developing by workforce size and pre-Act union strength and show no relationship to the market circunzstances or cost pr,essures under "which firms operate. "Decisions on bargaining structure are at the hean of the management of industrial relations" (Kinnie, 1987:463). The purpose of this paper is to report, through the presentation of research data, on the structure of bargaining, and associated contract structures, emerging under New Zealand's Employment Contracts Act of 1991

Employers, Unions and Workplace Partnership in New Zealand

In 2005 the Partnership Resource Centre of the Department of Labour commissioned a comprehensive review or ‘stock take’ of union-management workplace partnership practices and behaviors in New Zealand. The Study found that the penetration of partnership practices has been sporadic and/or experimental, set in an environment that is oftentimes abrasive to the concept. Nonetheless, in many workplaces where collective bargaining has existed for a significant period, both unions and management are adopting some key features of a partnership approach. The study concluded that prospects for further penetration of partnerships behaviors in unionized firms are positive as the attitudes of may officials on both sides are relatively open to the approach and to the practices it encompasses. This paper offers empirical insights into the attitudes ad behaviours of New Zealand employers and union officials in single-employer collective bargaining relationships regarding collective bargaining, other consultative measures, as well as collaborative versus competitive approaches to their relationships with one another

Bargaining structure and bargaining scope in New Zealand: the climate of employer opinion

The Labour Relations Act 1987 removed legal restrictions on the subject matter of bargaining. This article reports the results of a survey of employer opinion on current union involvement in plant decision making and on future bargaining scope. Little current union involvement is reported in either operational decisions or more basic management strategy decisions. Some limited employer support is found for the notion that bargaining scope should expand with decentralization of the bargaining structure

Lift & Drag Reductions on Iced Wings During Take Off and Landing with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

This research paper addresses an novel problem that has not been addressed in detail for many decades. Ice formation on aircraft has procedures and protocols to deal with expected and actual problems. Complex modern aircraft are equipped with a variety of techniques to remove Ice formation on an aircraft, especially the wings. The introduction of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles has added an old problem, that of low speed and the lack of power to overcome losses in lift through ice formation. In this research the different types of Ice formation, how they combine and affect Lift and Drag are also addresses in theory and application. Furthermore, practical design and operational recommendations are made for take-off and landing

Weekly Discussion Board Questions Relationship to Grades

To encourage in-class participation with online students and simulate face-to-face class experiences the weekly Discussion Board questions have been developed and applied as an integrated part of online learning. This research has investigated the relationship between grades for Discussion Board work and student achievement within a course. In particular how these findings can be used to meet ERAU’s Ignite’s objectives are addressed. Keywords: Discussion Board questions, on-line learning, statistical analysis, research and student result

Reviews

Reviews of Structural adjustment in the Federal Republic of Germany, Managing change in British industry, Adjustment and economic performance in industrialised countries: a synthesis, Working hours: assessing the potential for reduction, Public service labour relations: recent trends and future prospec

Reforming labour relations: what southern employers say

Broad based employer organizations have successfully advocated deregulation of New Zealand labour relations on the basis that employers have felt unduly restrained by predominantly national occupational awards and existing union structures and activities. This paper examines this premise through ·an interview survey of South Island employers. Little support is found for the contention that unions or the award system place significant restraints on smaller or medium sized firms that are the foundation of much New Zealand industry and employment, or that such employers have felt moved to demand the sort of labour relations reform now advocated by the central organization of employers

Southern employers on enterprise bargaining

With recently proposed amendments to the 1987 Labour Relations Act, the Government has moved another step towards embracing enterprise bargaining as a cornerstone of future New Zealand labour relations. This paper reports the opinions on enterprise bargaining of a sample of 92 employers in Otago and Southland. The employers are found to be equally divided in their preferences between enterprise bargaining and the award system. However, there is no evidence of widespread overt dissatisfaction with the functioning of the award system