IEE 1020: Technical Communication
Searching for aviation articles
The two boxes below show you where to look for articles in the aviation literature. There are two main categories of aviation articles - the technical and scholarly literature (about aircraft and pilots) and the aviation business literature (about airlines and business). Hence the article databases below are divided into those two main categories.
For keywords and topics related to aviation safety, check out SKYbrary Aviation Safety.
Searching the aviation/business literature
For more possibilities, please visit the Business guide.
- Aviation Human Factors Publications (FAA)Publications and articles about human fatigue, shift work, maintenance personnel fatigue, and fatigue risk management.
- IBISworld This link opens in a new windowSearch hundreds of U.S. and state industry reports, including Core NAICS, Industry Market Research, Reports on the Business Environment, Industry Risk Ratings, and Global Industry Research.
- MarketLine This link opens in a new windowContains over 10,000 company, 2,000 industry, and 50 country profiles, as well as relevant news, company histories, and a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) within company profiles.
- ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new windowALSO a good place to search for trade magazine articles.
- Statista This link opens in a new windowSearch for user-friendly statistical tables and infographics on more than 80,000 topics drawn from over 22,500 sources, covering market and consumer data and many more areas of interest. Sources of information include market researchers, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.
Searching the technical literature
- Aerospace Research Central This link opens in a new windowThis searchable database provides access to AIAA Meeting Papers for the current year and five AIAA Journals.
- Archive.orgA repository of manuals and handbooks not easily found elsewhere. Search using keywords such as "aviation manuals" to find PDF copies for download.
- Engineering Village This link opens in a new windowEngineering Village features access to the Compendex and PaperChem databases.
- Knovel Engineering eReference Books This link opens in a new window
Knovel Engineering e-books provides access to hundreds of authoritative engineering reference books providing materials property data and industrial process information with interactive capabilities that include data searching and retrieval into Excel, interactive graphing, unit conversion and a widget that makes it easy to access and use these features from anywhere.
- NASA Technical Reports ServerAn online database to technical reports published by various NASA centers and programs. Full text PDFs of many NASA technical reports are available from 1958 onward. In addition, full text PDFs of reports from NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics or NACA, are available from 1917-1958.
- SAE Mobilus This link opens in a new window
Contains detailed summaries and citations to more than 85,000 conference papers and standards published by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) since 1906, with full text of conference papers going back to 1998. Covers research in all areas of mobility engineering including ground vehicle, aerospace, off-highway, and manufacturing technology. Note that the SAE standards are not available in full text in this database.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowDatabase for scientific research that contains the citations and abstracts of more than 1,800 Elsevier journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences as well as selected full text articles. Science Direct can be searched as a database or browsed by individual title. Coverage varies.
Aviation Reference Materials
- Airport Design and Operation (2007)This book "explains principles and relationships important for the design of airport facilities, for airport management and for the safe and efficient control of operations" (p.xv).
- Aviation Handbooks and Manuals (FAA)Contains links to full text aviation manuals.
- Flight Theory and Aerodynamics - A Practical Guide for Operational SafetyThis book is the essential pilot's guide to the physics of flight, designed specifically for those with limited engineering experience. From the basics of forces and vectors to craft-specific applications, this book explains the mechanics behind the pilot's everyday operational tasks.
- Human Factors in Aviation and Aerospace (2022)Offers a comprehensive overview of human factors in aviation, including pilot performance, human factors in aircraft design, aviator attention and perception, accident investigations, automated systems in civil transport airplanes, and vehicles and systems.
- SKYbrary Aviation SafetyGood source of topics and keywords.