PROFESSOR PUGSLEY was the first to have popularized the term ‘philosophy’ in connexion with airworthiness. Generally, unless structures are completely safe they are regarded as unsafe. A flying machine, however, can at best be only approximately safe. Hence the need for an a priori definition of safety. Not only is it necessary to make a statistically definable sacrifice of safety to obtain a machine which will fly at all, let alone lift an economical payload, but this sacrifice must be spread in a certain manner to give acceptable returns.


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    Title :

    Airworthiness Requirements and Fatigue of Helicopters


    Subtitle :

    Some Unconventional and Controversial Reflexions on the True Significance of Failures and How to Avoid Them


    Contributors:
    Shapiro, J. (author)


    Publication date :

    1951-02-01


    Size :

    23 pages




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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