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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

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

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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.

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

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 – 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”)

…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.

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

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