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News & articles from International Airport Review covering the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the national aviation authority of the United States

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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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Preparing for new large aircraft

16 September 2005 | By Satish Agrawal, Ph.D., Airport Technology R&D manager, FAA

The next generation of aircraft creates new pressures for an airport’s pavements, consequentially engineers at the FAA’s Research and Development centre are continuing to develop systems to predict and assess requirements.

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Lighting the Way

10 June 2005 | By Paul Jones, Manager of Airport Safety Technology Section, Federal Aviation Administration

To help reach its 2015 prediction of a billion passengers travelling on commercial aircraft, part of the FAA’s Technology R&D program is concentrating on taxiway and obstruction lighting.