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Gary/Chicago Airport runway expansion project delayed

2013-07-04 01:00:00| Airport Technology

Gary/Chicago International Airport has delayed the final phase of construction on its $166m runway expansion programme until September 2014 due to higher than expected ground contamination.

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FAA Invests in New Logan Airport Runway Safety Improvements

2013-06-28 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

FAA and Massachusetts Port Authority unveiled 2 safety enhancements to Logan Airport's longest runway. Totaling $50 million, FAA Airport Improvement Project (AIP) grants helped fund crushable concrete safety area, which includes 300 ft wide concrete pier that extends 470 ft into Boston Harbor at end of Runway 33L, to prevent planes from overrunning runway. FAA also installed navigational aid improvements that will help planes land safely in bad weather. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations

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Tackling runway wake turbulence

2013-06-26 01:00:00| Airport Technology

A new system promises to dissipate the runway wake vortices that force wide separation between landing aircraft. Alongside technologies to model and predict these turbulence-causing vortices, could this innovation unlock a new wave of airport capacit

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Gatwick second runway 'more feasible' than Heathrow expansion

2013-06-25 13:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: An increasingly confident Gatwick is to tell the Airports Commission that its proposed second runway is the only major expansion that would be politically feasible to deliver in the south-east. The chief executive, Stewart Wingate, contrasted the expense of a new hub airport, and the population affected by noise and pollution at Heathrow, with a solution he said offered "certainty" of delivery. The Gatwick "constellation" vision three two-runway airports around London, including an eventual...

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