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The purpose of this paper is to consider the role of computer simulation models as a tool in the aviation industry. The paper considers the development and formation of simulation programs from their origins at MIT in the 1960's as well as their application to commercial airlines. Topics include how computer simulation is used to reconstruct airline accidents to help find the causes of these accidents and how the industry uses these to make air travel safer. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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The paper considers the development and formation of simulation programs from their origins at MIT in the 1960s as well as their application to commercial airlines. Topics include how
computer simulation is used to reconstruct airline accidents to help find the causes of these accidents and how the industry uses these to make air travel safer. THE HISTORY
OF SIMULATION PROGRAMS The history of simulation programs started at MIT in the 1960s. In fact, MIT has one of the finest aeronautical engineering facilities of any in the
United States. Known as the Wright Brothers Facility, MIT has been working with every part of simulation and aeronautical safety study that is known. As early as 1896
the Institute had wind tunnels that were used to simulate the amount of pressure that could be exerted on parts of the wings and body of the airplanes. Since
that time prototypes of all sorts of simulation have evolved up to and including the most advanced of computer graphics simulators. MILITARY USE Perhaps nowhere in the world is
information more critical than in the military. If pertinent information is not retrieved in a timely manner, it could spell disaster for global interaction. This is precisely why
real-time computing is essential within military aviation systems. The ongoing threat of global discord warrants military utilization of the most technologically advanced computer components and simulation excercises; without the
aide of such elements, the military could find itself caught in an unsafe and compromising situation. "Real-time command, control, and communications (C3) systems are being used in many industrial,
medical, business and military applications. Real-time systems differ from conventional, general purpose computer systems in that the consistency and correctness of the controlling process is dependent on the timeliness
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