Word: faa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idea took hold, and Moss and Flynn spent a year and $1.5 million in a mind-mangling fight to get a plane, a license to operate from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and landing rights at major airports...
Airport planning, under the engineering firm of Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton (TAMS), was so far ahead of its time that many features resulted in an updating of FAA regulations. New patterns of lighting for both centers and edges of runways, as well as brighter, low-glare runway signs for pilots, will now become mandatory. TAMS also persuaded the FAA that conventional twelve-inch runways were not thick enough. DFW uses 17 inches of concrete, enough to receive million-pound aircraft (a fully loaded, stretched 747 weighs 880,000 lbs.). Furthermore, the runways are designed for thickening to 24 inches...
...that. Whatever the final figure, the burden will fall especially heavily on some regional carriers; Ozark Air Lines, which in the first nine months of 1972 earned only $1,981,000, calculates that it will have to pay $2.5 million a year. Airline and airport managers argue that the FAA, the Department of Transportation or some other Government agency should pick up the tab. But the Nixon Administration regards even its current budget for air security as merely temporary. The Government is spending $28 million a year to pay the 1,500 sky marshals who now inspect baggage instead...
Passengers themselves will probably wind up paying most of the cost of increased protection. Though federal authorities will not say how large a fare increase they might approve, FAA officials estimate that a boost averaging $1 a ticket would raise $180 million of the money needed. The airlines figure that they would then have to dig into their depleted coffers for yet another $120 million a year...
...flyers may soon be subjected to more stringent testing, however, for the FAA is now considering requiring some of the checks Sauer incorporated into his study. One of them is the Master "two-step" test designed to measure how the heart reacts to the physical stress of repeatedly ascending and descending two steps in the testing room. Although such tests have become routine additions to many physical examinations, the Air Line Pilots Association, which represents 31,000 pilots, objects to the proposal. One of its arguments is that the two-step test could produce misleading results. In fact, ALPA...