Word: faa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FAA approves a new system to avoid collisions...
Largely an outgrowth of work done at M.I.T.'s Lincoln Labs in collaboration with the FAA and private industry, the winning system meets two basic requirements. It can be produced in a relatively cheap (as little as $2,500) bare-bones version suitable for small private aircraft, yet it will also be compatible with sophisticated versions (costing $50,000) for larger commercial aircraft. In whatever form, no assistance is needed from controllers or radar stations to determine when planes veer dangerously close...
...Soderberg points up at the FAA registration number painted in huge characters on the wing. "There's no X there, for experimental. Hughes had it taken off. It's a registered airplane. It flies...
...Administration's approval of a two-person crew for one new craft, the 155-passenger DC-9 Super 80, A.L.P.A. pilots last week picketed the White House to show their frustration with the agency and its handling of the cockpit-manning question. Left to its own devices, the FAA would almost certainly give the green light to two-member crews for the forthcoming Boeing 767 and 757 airliners, which will each seat about 200 passengers. But for now, longer-range jumbo jets like the 747 or the DC-10, which accommodate 300 to 400, are likely to continue flying...
...flood of technical documents has long forced the FAA to use the expertise of so-called designated engineering representatives, or DERs; they are actually employees of aircraft manufacturers used by the agency to help in all aspects of the design review process. This is unavoidable, says the report, even though it puts the agency at less than arm's length from the companies it is overseeing, and it recommends continued use of DERs. But it also says that the system breeds "only a cursory review" of the DERs' work and urges that a better way be found...