BAC SP Air Pollution By Jet Aircraft At Sea-Tac Airport By Wallace Donaldson Usdoc Weather Bureau 0001

October 1970 US Department of Commerce Environmental Science Services Administration Weather Bureau “Air Pollution by Jet Aircraft at Seattle-Tacoma Airport" by Wallace Donaldson. "The advent of the commercial jet aircraft attracted the attention of the public through the visible smoke plume and noise.” (page 1) “At local airports there were strong kerosene odors, soot fallout, and occasional occurrences of eye irritating smogs.” (Ibid) Annual operations (takeoffs and landings) in 1960 were 55,000, 108,111 in 1969 with “Ninety percent of the total commercial traffic at the airport...jet-type aircraft” (page 5) and 178,000 in 1979. (table 3) “The Seattle-Tacoma Airport was constructed in 19zYI as an alternate airport to nearby busy Boeing Field. It was expected to be relatively fog-free due to its higher elevation, 400 feet above sea level as compared to near sea level at Boeing Field...The original terminal building was completed in late 1949 and most commercial carriers transferred their operations to the new location at that time.” (page 2) One of the very first studies on airport emissions was presented at the 62-d annual meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association in New York on June 26, 1968 titled “Jet Aircraft, A Growing Pollution Source”, by R. E. George, J. A. Verssen and R. L. Chass, published June 1969. Much of the work done for that study was used for this 1970 report which found; “Carbon is an important particulate emission, which is found in the form of smoke, the major particulate emission in jet engine exhaust. Engine…

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