Embry-Riddle is leading the development of the Next Generation Air Transportation System, working with the DOT, FAA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Mosaic ATM, and other high-tech companies.
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How Your Gifts Advance Aviation
Only five people showed up to watch the Wright brothers' historic flight. Clearly, not many people recognized the dawn of a new age in aeronautics.
Would you? In spite of challenging economic times, we remain on the verge of another era of rapid advancement. The total global market for aviation-related products and services over the next 20 years is expected to number in the trillions.
Not only can you watch it develop, you can help make it happen.
Embry-Riddle is training the pilots, engineers, aeronautical executives, and researchers of tomorrow. And our faculty and students already are working to solve many "real-world" problems. These are just a few examples:
- NASA selected two student teams to conduct experiments of their own design aboard the KC-135, a research aircraft that flies parabolic arcs to simulate weightlessness.
- Embry-Riddle researchers are studying the effects of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) on near mid-air collision rates of general aviation aircraft.
- At two major airports, faculty and student teams are field-testing alternative technology runway threshold lights that use specially designed light-emitting diode (LED) lamps.
- Various other projects have involved conducting business analyses of airport operations, testing the crash-worthiness of aircraft components, and studying debris that could be dangerous to spacecraft.
To continue our work in advancing flight, we need your help. Your gift will fund the most effective approaches to meeting challenges. According to NASA's Aeronautics Blueprint, using teams of people from various fields is the best way to develop solutions to many problems, and Embry-Riddle already is making this happen. Nearly every research project receives input from virtually every department, including engineering, computing, human factors, communication, and engineering physics.
All aeronautical professionals—both those on the job now and those who soon will take to the sky—will benefit when you support our mission.
Join us as we usher in a new era of progress. Please take a few minutes to learn more about the ways to give or make your gift online now.
