From the International Editorial Board

to the 15^th Anniversary of International Scientific Edition

 

International scientific Journal "Actual Problems of aviation and aerospace systems" (APAAS) was founded in 1995 on the initiative of the scientists from KAI - A.N.Tupolev KSTU (representatives of Kazan scientific Chetaev School of mechanics and stability) together with their foreign colleagues - the scientists from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU, Daytona Beach, USA). It was a real step in the framework of Treaty of cooperation signed by the Rectors of both Universities.

"In accordance with the deepening collaboration between our Universities and the Treaty of cooperation, I hail the first issue of Russian-American Journal with great pleasure:, the whole generations of American and Russian people devoted themselves to aviation and pushed aviation and aerospace technology forward to a very high level:, the global economy dictates its demands to international cooperation in technology, especially in the fields of permanently developing aviation and astronautics:, with great pleasure I support this joint scientific initiative of our countries and look forward to witness the successes of this collaboration:" - Steven M.Sliwa, President of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

":on the pages of our Journal you will find some useful and timely information on the newest achievements,: this will promote generation of new Knowledge, new technologies, and development of cooperation between the scientists from our countries, and ultimately promote further understanding and consolidation of our peoples:" - G.L.Degtyarev, Rector of A.N.Tupolev Kazan State Technical University.

": today, when the state of aviation in the world is far from optimistic, we witness and participate in the promising initiative: of foundation of new scientific periodical aimed at integration of concerned representatives of science, engineering and higher education:, such tripartite alliance: will enable to establish extraordinary Edition:, will promote attraction of experienced and wise older generation and energetic young intellectuals to the resurgent aviation" - E.S.Neimark, Head of Aviation Industry Department.

The past period of edition and development of the Journal highlights the changing look and effect of applied science on the World evolution. The Journal was initiated in the times when scientific and educational relations between the East and West, between Russia and the United States, between KAI and ERAU were starting and extending. Possessing only general ideas that outlined our joint efforts and were directed by our intuition, we were sure that these joint efforts in the framework of "APAAS" Journal would be successful.

We hoped that having chosen the broadened non-traditional approach, we would be able to found the Journal as an Edition of a new type, i.e. bilingual, with multi- and interdisciplinary research objects referred to our special complex sphere - Aviation and Astronautics.

Today "APAAS" is an International scientific Journal covering a wide range of problems in aviation and aerospace of interdisciplinary nature. It is published with two issues in a year, in two languages (in Russian and in English) and two versions: printed and electronic.

The Journal supported by all our Partners has been regularly issued since 1996 under the aegis of the Academy of Aviation and Aeronautics Sciences, K.E.Tsiolkovskiy Russian Academy of Cosmonautics, in cooperation with MAI, N.E.Bauman MSTU, Institute of Control Problems of RAS, with support from the Ministry of Education and Science, and Federal Space Agency; it has a good reputation among the specialists both in theoretical and applied aspects.

The articles presented in this Anniversary Journal issue (No.1(30), Vol.15, 2010) and the list of works published in 1996-2009 illustrate this interdisciplinary spectrum in Aviation and Astronautics.