The Aircraft Airworthiness and Safety Standards Analysis

Abstract

The safety of the aircraft is assured by the airworthiness conditions laid down by national and international bodies. This chapter starts with a brief description of the framework in which these regulations are managed. The airworthiness regulations govern the ethos of the design. It is important to understand these aspects prior to the detailed consideration of aircraft component design as they may present constraints to the layout and performance of the aircraft. Although airworthiness is described under the separate headings of structural integrity, system integrity, operation integrity and crashworthiness there is considerable interdependence involved in the overall aircraft configuration.