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The findings from a decade of wake turbulence research are helping reduce airport delays, shorten final approaches to airports, and reduce fuel burn and emissions. Wake turbulence, the movement of air created by an aircraft in motion, may be an esoteric field of study, but the body of knowledge...
The sun is shining, skies are clear, and you remember seeing a weather map free of storms. Yet your flight sits on the taxiway for what seems to be a long time, queued for takeoff. A recent study completed for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) suggests that your delay is likely caused by...
To reduce the probability of airport accidents, Volpe recently completed the technical performance on-site testing of a new low-cost ground surveillance system at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.
For a number of years after the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was created in 2002, the agency generally screened all passengers in the same way, following a model of risk-based security that screened general passengers to the same degree as elected officials or travelers with top-...
The aviation community is taking on ambitious goals for alternative jet fuels, tackling complex scientific, economic, and environmental issues to find sustainable alternatives to petroleum in the near future.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Volpe are poised to launch a new environmental analysis tool that will offer a robust, integrated way to quantify the environmental impact of aviation—from a single flight up to full-scale global impacts.