TagGreener Skies(25)
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STOP THE NOISE! Ears and a Voice for Beacon Hill & SE Seattle Citizens
Erik Stanford started this petition to Federal Aviation Administration & Port of Seattle Beacon Hill and Southeast Seattle have 80,000 residents. The community has the city’s largest populations of children, the elderly, disabled persons, people of color, and first-generation Americans who do not speak English as their first language. We are impacted by THREE airports; Renton Airport, -
2012-06-10
Sea-Tac airliner tests could yield quieter, more efficient landings
Four passenger flights into Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Monday evening will launch a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) test project that promises to leave Seattle’s skies quieter and greener. By Dominic Gates Seattle Times aerospace reporter Shortly after 11 p.m. Monday evening, Alaska Airlines flight 432 from Los Angeles will be the first passenger flight into -
2009-08-30
Seattle Times: Quieter skies ahead: Seattle at forefront of high-tech plan to change airplane traffic
The new technology steers air traffic on autopilot along a smoothly descending, satellite-guided path, avoiding the stair-step approach and constant interplay with air traffic controllers now required to bring in planes.