Soft Walls - Modifying Flight Control Systems to Limit the Flight Space of Commercial Aircraft

Edward A. Lee

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/ERL M01/31

2001

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Many things changed on September 11, 2001. Among them, civilian aircraft became potential enemy weapons systems, and air traffic control changed from a civilian problem to a military one. This working document describes a technological response that is practical and implementable and goes a long way towards ameliorating the risk of a repeat.

This is a working document in early stages; it contains several unanswered questions.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Lee:M01/31,
    Author= {Lee, Edward A.},
    Title= {Soft Walls - Modifying Flight Control Systems to Limit the Flight Space of Commercial Aircraft},
    Year= {2001},
    Month= {Sep},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2001/9591.html},
    Number= {UCB/ERL M01/31},
    Abstract= {Many things changed on September 11, 2001. Among them, civilian aircraft became potential enemy weapons systems, and air traffic control changed from a civilian problem to a military one. This working document describes a technological response that is practical and implementable and goes a long way towards ameliorating the risk of a repeat.

This is a working document in early stages; it contains several unanswered questions.},
}

EndNote citation:

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