FQUROH: A Flight Demonstration Project for Airframe Noise Reduction Technology – YouTube To make future aircraft quieter, JAXA has been developing airframe noise reduction technologies. The footage introduces JAXA’s FQUROH flight demonstration project for airframe noise reduction technology. (March 2018) (FQUROH stands for the “Flight Demonstration of Quiet Technology to Reduce Noise from High-lift Configurations”)
Washington Post: Inspector general’s report says the FAA has bungled a $36 billion project
…the fourth inspector general’s critique in as many years of a program known as NextGen, on which more than $7 billion in federal funds has already been spent.
How To Fuck Up An Airport
A podcast series about what went wrong at BER, Berlin’s unfinished airport. Subscribe on Itunes here. Every Berliner knows the new airport is late. Few know exactly why. We’re here to explain. BER is the international airport code for Berlin Brandenburg Airport, nickname Willy Brandt. It has also become a signifier of failure, incompetence, corruption
How Loud Noise Exposure Is Linked to Heart Disease
BY AMANDA MACMILLAN If you live near an airport, railroad tracks or a busy road, you might be concerned about how fumes from those planes, trains and automobiles are affecting your health. But according to a new review in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, there may be another threat to worry about: high levels of
Citylab – Airport Communities Make a Plea for Quieter Skies
02/06/18
KUOW: Sea-Tac wants to curb carbon without limiting your travel. That’s a steep climb 01/29/18
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and Mt. Rainier KUOW Photo/Megan Farmer Business at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has been booming, and so has its carbon pollution. Airport officials say they can eliminate the climate-wrecking emissions without limiting the airport’s rapidly growing business. But whether the wonder of air travel can be divorced from the global harm it does —
The Des Moines Creek Business Park – The Right Development at the Right Time
The Des Moines Creek Business Park – The Right Development at the Right Time January 24, 2018adminProjectsNo Comments After more than 2 decades of frustration and disappointment, an abandoned ghost town south of SeaTac Airport is being reborn. Development of the Des Moines Creek Business Park (DMCBP) is well underway. Soundview Consultants LLC provided wetland
The Des Moines Creek Business Park – The Rebirth of a Modern Ghost Town
The new Des Moines Creek Business Park (DMCBP) is the $125 million redevelopment of a site that spent decades as a modern ghost town. For more than twenty years the site was an abandoned residential area containing nothing but exposed foundations and empty asphalt and concrete streets. The area is now home to K2 Sports,
Century Agenda: Strategic Objectives
(As amended December 19, 2017. Goals are intended to reflect attainment in 2037, unless explicitly noted otherwise.) Strategy 1: Position the Puget Sound region as a premier international logistics hub Objectives: 1. Grow seaport annual container volume to more than 3.5 million TEUs. 2. Structure the Port of Seattle’s relationship with Washington ports to optimize infrastructure
Beacon Hill Experiences More Pollution Than Other Seattle Neighborhoods
Boxed in by loud vehicles, plane traffic, and their fumes, its residents just want to breathe easy. By Hayat Norimine 12/19/2017 at 8:00am Published in the January 2018 issue of Seattle Met From the rain-soaked garden where a Spanish-speaking mother and her children sat on an early November morning, whiffs of rose and lavender reached