Neighbors of Sea-Tac Airport feel powerless over airport’s sweeping expansion plans
Smith Introduces Legislation to Support Aviation Impacted Communities
Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Adam Smith introduced the Aviation Impacted Communities Act. As airline travel has increased, communities near airports across the country have been experiencing an increased and disproportionate share of noise and other environmental impacts stemming from commercial aviation. This has been the case even as many other areas have experienced reduced
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Legal
ISSUE ON PAGE May 15, 2018: The City of Phoenix, the Historic Neighborhood Petitioners and the Federal Aviation Administration jointly submitted this Status Report. May 23, 2018: The FAA has posted an update dated May 24, 2018 announcing the implementation of nine replacement Area Navigation (RNAV) data-sf-ec-immutable=”” Standard Instrument Departure (SID) procedures for aircraft that depart
Q13 Fox TV – Port of Seattle, citizens criticize FAA at Sea-Tac meeting
04/25/2017
West Side Seattle – New Opportunity Zones include North Highline, Burien and SeaTac; Investments made there will save on taxes
Parts of North Highline, Burien, and most of SeaTac have been declared Opportunity Zones by Governor Jay Inslee. Opportunity Zones allow investments made through special funds to defer or eliminate federal taxes on capital gains.
Photos: What did Sea-Tac Airport look like in 1949? Think Stratocruisers and an old-timey diner.
Rarely seen photos from the Seattle Times archives show the earliest days of the airport. By Colin Diltz Seattle Times photo staff In 1942, Seattle’s Boeing Field and other airfields had been taken over by the Army to support the World War II effort. Commercial passenger flights were only being allowed temporarily. The region desperately
Sea-Tac airport’s new international facility is running over budget and behind schedule
The cost of the new International Arrivals Facility at Sea-Tac airport has swelled by another $40 million to $830 million, and the project is running five months late. By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter The expected cost of the new International Arrivals Facility at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has swelled since last August by a
FQUROH: A Flight Demonstration Project for Airframe Noise Reduction Technology
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