Date of Award
12-1996
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science
Department
Department of Operational Sciences
First Advisor
T. Glenn Bailey, PhD
Abstract
Previous work on personnel airdrop problems involving jumpers has been (1) event-oriented entanglement rates, (2) number of canopy bumps, (3) landing injuries, and (4) deaths. The thesis expands this area of research by developing cumulative distribution functions of maximum possible chute entanglement risk for the C-17 using bootstrap techniques. By comparing the effects of various C-17 aircraft configurations on the entanglement CDF, this thesis shows that under certain configurations the risk of centerline entanglement for the C-17 is less than for the C-141.
AFIT Designator
AFIT-GOR-ENS-96D-01
DTIC Accession Number
ADA320709
Recommended Citation
Kim, Wonsik, "Personnel Airdrop Risk Assessment Using Bootstrap Sampling" (1996). Theses and Dissertations. 5965.
https://scholar.afit.edu/etd/5965