The Proposed EC Regulation on Air Accident Investigation; the Criminalisation of Air Accidents and the “Just Culture”

Few would dispute that the main purpose of air accident investigation should be to discover the causes of the accident, with a view to avoiding accidents happening for similar reasons again in future.

Flight Simulation Technology: Future Potential

40th Anniversary of the First RAeS International Flight Simulation Symposium

The Royal Aeronautical Society’s Flight Simulation Group Conferences are both well established and highly successful. In 2010, it will be 40 years since the first such international symposium. To mark that anniversary, a special Conference will be held to examine the latest flight simulation technology, consider trends, define the challenges and review future opportunities.

U-2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union on the 1st May 1960, provoking a major Cold War incident and ruining a summit meeting of the superpowers two weeks later.