Personnel Airdrop Risk Assessment Using Bootstrap Sampling.

Abstract

Previous work on personnel airdrop problems involving jumpers has been (1) event-oriented entanglement rates, (2) number of canopy bumps, (3) landing injuries, and (4) deaths. The thesis expands this area of research by developing cumulative distribution functions of maximum possible chute entanglement risk for the C-17 using bootstrap techniques. By comparing the effects of various C-17 aircraft configurations on the entanglement CDF, this thesis shows that under certain configurations the risk of centerline entanglement for the C-17 is less than for the C-141.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA320709

Entities

People

  • Wonsik Kim

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Characteristics
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Experimental Design
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Information Science
  • Knowledge Management
  • Random Variables
  • Risk Analysis
  • Sampling
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Inference

Readers

  • Aerial Delivery - Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Aviation Safety Risk Assessment.
  • Statistical inference.