A Study of Task Loading using a Four-Man Crew on a KC-135 Aircraft (GIANT BOOM).

Abstract

At the request of Strategic Air Command (SAC), human factors engineers and engineering psychologists participated in this KC-135 crew composition and task load analysis entitled GIANT BOOM. GIANT BOOM, a follow-on study to SAC's earlier GIANT CHANGE, determined the feasibility of a four-man KC-135 crew consisting of two pilots, a boom operator, and an enlisted Flight Systems Operator. This crew complement, with inertial navigation systems and radars for the pilots and Flight Systems Operators, demonstrated significantly reduced task loads on both pilots from those observed in GIANT CHANGE. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA044104

Entities

People

  • Richard Geiselhart
  • Richard I. Koeteeuw
  • Richard J. Schiffler

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Dead Reckoning
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Flight
  • Grids
  • High Latitudes
  • Horizontal Situation Indicators
  • Inertial Navigation
  • Inertial Navigation Systems
  • Inflight
  • Navigation
  • Navigational Equipment
  • Navigators
  • Radar
  • United States
  • Workload

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