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Aviation Organisations Launch Safety Information Exchange

31 March 2010 | By IATA

IATA, along with three governmental aviation safety organizations, took the first step to creating a global information exchange to improve aviation safety...

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ATA Urges Constructive, Forward-Thinking FAA Reauthorization; House Bill Lacking

25 March 2010 | By The Air Transport Association of America (ATA)

ATA the trade organization for the leading U.S. airlines issued the following statement in response to the U.S. House of Representatives...

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Nashville International Airport Aces Annual FAA Inspection

23 March 2010 | By Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority

Underscoring its commitment to passenger safety and security, Nashville International Airport received perfect marks during the FAA annual air carrier airport certification inspection.

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NextGen

31 March 2009 | By Steve Bradford, Chief Scientist for Architecture and NextGen Development, FAA

Airports play a critical role in the transformation of the nation's airspace system to the Next Generation Air Transportations System (NextGen). As we move toward NextGen, airports are serving as partners to the FAA in terms of rolling out new technologies and procedures, but they are also a focus for…

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Airport pavement rehabilitation by rubblisation

30 September 2008 | By Dr. Navneet Garg, Project Manager, Airport Technology R&D Branch, William J. Hughes Technical Center, Federal Aviation Administration

Concrete pavements exhibiting distresses such as cracking, joint deterioration, spalling, and joint faulting can be rehabilitated by constructing a concrete or asphalt overlay. The ‘crack and seat’ technique is the most prevalent method for deteriorated concrete pavement rehabilitation. However, ‘rubblisation’ is fast becoming a popular method of concrete pavement rehabilitation.

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Light emitting diodes for airport applications – not just ‘plug and play’

30 September 2008 | By Donald W. Gallagher, Visual Guidance Program Manager, Airport Safety Technology R&D Section, FAA

When people think of a new technology to produce light, it is widely thought of as ‘just another light bulb’. This has been true, in a general sense, since the invention of the incandescent light over 100 years ago. This incandescent technology, while improved over the years, has not changed…

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Sustainable aviation: Managing the challenge of growth

1 August 2008 | By Dan Elwell, FAA Assistant Administrator for Policy, Planning and Environment

Aviation has become an essential element of the U.S. and the world’s economy in the last 60 years. It has made the world a neighbourhood and redefined the nature of opportunity. Aviation is a crucial driver of economic development in large areas of the world and supports the world’s largest…

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New loading modules for the pavement test vehicle

28 March 2008 | By Donald Barbagallo, Project Manager, FAA

From its dedication in 1999, the National Airport Pavement Test Facility (NAPTF), of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), has been tasked with conducting research on both rigid and flexible airport pavements. The facility offers a unique opportunity to study, instrument and record full-depth soil and pavement interactions under a…

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Foreign Object Debris (FOD) detection research

28 March 2008 | By Jim Patterson Jr, Airport Safety Specialist, FAA

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is conducting research to evaluate various technologies capable of detecting Foreign Object Debris (FOD), that may have fallen onto a runway or taxiway. The research being conducted under this program is very aggressive, calling for the installation of different detection technologies at major United States…

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Enhancing aviation security – How TSA is using technology, innovation, and collaboration to redefine screening operations

4 February 2008 | By Mike Golden, Assistant Administrator for Operational Process and Technology/Chief Information Officer/Chief Technology Officer, FAA

How TSA is using technology, innovation, and collaboration to redefine screening operations The fundamental challenge of protecting passengers and transportation networks against an act of terrorism is a constantly changing, unpredictable threat environment. TSA knows that terrorists seek to exploit our weaknesses. We also know that terrorists attempt to adapt…

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ProFAA – Software for Analysis of Airfield Pavement Roughness – and the Boeing Bump

28 September 2007 | By Gordon Hayhoe, General Engineer, Airport Technology R&D Branch, FAA

Until recently, the primary interest in measuring and evaluating the properties of airport pavement surface profiles has been, at least in the US, in characterising the vertical geometry and the smoothness of newly constructed pavements.

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The Takeoff Hold Light

7 June 2007 | By Jim Patterson, Jr. Airport Safety Specialist, FAA

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is developing a system called the Runway Status Light (RSL) System that is designed to automatically warn pilots of the ‘status’ of the runway on which they are about to land, depart, or cross. The system accomplishes this task by illuminating a series of red,…

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Runway Friction Measurement Activities in the US

7 June 2007 | By Thomas J Yager, Senoir Research Engineer, NASA

During the past year, several new runway friction measurement activities have been initiated and progress has been made to improve measurement equipment, techniques and recommended procedures. The purpose of this article is to acquaint you, the reader, with recent developments including...

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New FAA pavement design software

3 April 2007 | By Dr. David R. Brill, Program Manager, Airport Pavement Technology and William J. Hughes, Technical Center, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

After a 10-year research and development effort, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is set to debut a new software package for airport pavement thickness design. The new program is called FAA Rigid and Flexible Iterative Elastic Layered Design, but is known by its acronym, FAArfield. In addition to putting the…

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Aircraft rescue fire fighting history

3 April 2007 | By Marc Tonnacliff, ARFF Specialist, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Since the early existence of man and the advent of fire, there has been a need for fire prevention and fire control. Fire fighting has an established history dating back to the ancient times of our ancestors. We have evolved from bucket brigades to horse drawn pumpers to highly sophisticated…

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