As commercial aviation changes, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also must change by adopting new processes for certifying novel aircraft designs, developing new standards, and improving data collection and analysis, the Transportation Research Board (TRB) says.
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‘Not Suited to Transformative Changes’
Current FAA methods of aircraft certification, standards development, and data analysis must be changed to deal with new types of aircraft, transportation researchers say.