Nick Roome and Barry Kirby return live for Human Factors Cast Episode 321 after a month off. The main announcement is that Human Factors Cast has transitioned into a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation aimed at improving human factors visibility through education, outreach, community, grants, and research on human factors communication, with stated core values including accessibility, scientific integrity, public education, experimentation, community, transparency, sustainability, and passion for human factors.
This episode also includes two Aerospace Systems Technical Group segments covering US efforts to lift the overland supersonic ban, NASA’s X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology with a windowless cockpit using an external vision system, other supersonic programs, and business jet human factors topics including the Dassault Falcon 10X’s touchscreen avionics, combined vision system, and single throttle lever design
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