Economics modelling for systems engineering in aircraft

Collection of Technical Papers - AIAA 5th ATIO and the AIAA 16th Lighter-than-Air Systems Technology Conference and Balloon Systems Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 600-618

  Curran, R ^a   Early, J ^a   Price, M ^a   Castagne, S ^a   Mawhinney, P ^a   Butterfield, J ^a   Raghunathan, S ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRFRAMES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING;

AIRFRAME ASSEMBLIES; DIRECT OPERATIONAL COST (DOC); WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE (WBS);

AIRCRAFT;

EID: 33644502870     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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