Jackson - Systems Engineering for Commercial Aircraft

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING FOR COMMERCIAL AIRCRAFT

Note: The above quotation is included for its applicability to systems theory and not for any theological reason.

A Domain-Specific Adaptation

Second Edition

SCOTT JACKSON
University of Southern California and
Burnham Systems Consulting, USA

ASHGATE

Scott Jackson 2015

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Jackson, Scott, author.

Systems engineering for commercial aircraft : a domain-specific adaptation / by Scott
Jackson.

pages cm

Second, revised edition of: 1997.

Summary: Explains the principles of systems engineering in simple, understandable terms and describes to engineers and managers how these principles would be applied to the development of commercial aircraft--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4724-3921-5 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-3922-2 (ebook) -- ISBN 978-1-4724-3923-9 (epub) 1. Aeronautics--Systems engineering. 2. Transport planes--Design and construction. I. Title.

TL671.2.J18 2015

629.135--dc23

2014039548

ISBN: 978-1-4724-3921-5 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-4724-3922-2 (ebk-PDF)

ISBN: 978-1-4724-3923-9 (ePub-ePUB)

For the first edition, I continue to be grateful to Jim Kehres who, in about 1963, advised me to learn more about systems engineering. I am also especially grateful to Gary Burgess who, at the Douglas Aircraft division of McDonnell Douglas, saw the need for systems engineering in commercial aircraft. The following people were especially helpful in the preparation of this book: First, Tom Nagle and Archie Vickers were helpful for their overall knowledge of the systems engineering process. In addition, the following people contributed much: Gary Bartz, certification; Peter Camacho, top-level sizing of aircraft; Darlene Carpenter, electrical; Madrona Geisert, interior systems; Fred Gray, propulsion; Stu Hann, safety and reliability; Don Hanson, aircraft development; Brian Keeley, airframe; Dr Noreen McQuinn, human factors; Christine Ostrowski, maintainability; Mo Piper, avionics and software; Bob Rich, functional analysis; Todd Strong, mechanical systems; Matt Vance, QFD; Steve Wiles, environmental control; and Beth Clark, integration and life-cycle analysis. Finally, my wife Carole provided invaluable advice regarding syntax, diction, and organization.

For the second edition I am indebted to Jim Hines for further insight into functional analysis; John Hart-Smith, composite structures; Ashok Jain for the supplier perspective; Derek Hitchins for systems theory and cluster analysis; Ed Conrow for risk management; Tim Ferris for assistance with resilience analysis; Wellington Oliveira for the regional jet perspective; and Karin Mayer for help with grammar, spelling, and diction.