Aircraft Exterior Lighting and Marking.
Abstract
The study investigates the contemporary state of human factors knowledge concerning aircraft exterior lighting and marking. Efforts to increase conspicuity or impart information through resort to exterior marking or painting are now and, in the absence of an unforeseen technological breakthrough, will probably continue to be essentially useless. An attempt to define a standardized exterior lighting system failed because sufficient hard data does not exist to compare system components. Large scale field research to compare all components of all major systems is urgently required. It is concluded that a contemporary standard lighting system is feasible at present and should be adopted on the basis of a massive field trial. At the same time, an imaginative exploratory research program is urgently needed. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1972
- Accession Number
- AD0741531
Entities
People
- Carl A. Silver
- George E. Rowland