Article: -- Tweed New Haven Regional Airport is forging ahead with its runway safety area project, despite East [Derived Headline]

Article: Airport to extend runway safety area.
High Point Enterprise (High Point, NC);  May 15, 2007 ;     343 words ......needed to upgrade their runway safety area to meet current standards...At 600 feet, the safety area along one end of the longest runway at Piedmont TriadInternational...safety mandate. The safety area work at PTIA should...When complete, the safety ...

Article: Tweed orders safety area work to begin?
New Haven Register;  April 23, 2008 ;     621 words ......on the airport's federally mandated runway safety area project. But work on the south area...the 1,000-foot, reinforced turf south runway safety area will be built. Work on the north runway safety area, which would require relocation of...

Article: Arrestor System Can Compensate If Runway Safety Area Is Lacking.
Air Safety Week;  August 8, 2005 ;     556 words ......Feasibility and Equivalency of Runway Safety Area Improvements and Engineered...in conjunction with a safety area of just 600 feet, is...pulled backward onto the runway and quickly repaired...depends on the amount of safety area. Depth varies to arrest...

Article: NSW: Airport to ignore criticism of runway safety upgrade
AAP General News (Australia);  January 2, 2008 ;     407 words ......to ignore criticism of runway safety upgrade By Andrew Drummond...will go ahead with a runway safety upgrade, despite pilots...the airport's east-west runway safety area by 90 metres at the Cooks...proposes a 240-metre safety area. "The federation's view...less ...

Article: BIA gets grant to upgrade runway safety
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;  May 11, 2004 ;     145 words ......1,036,008 will be used for the construction of a runway safety area and to modify service roads. Another $590,000 will...according to airport director Rebecca Hupp. Hupp said a runway safety area adjacent to the landing area will be created to...

Article: Planned Thirty-Foot Wall to Aid Pittsburgh Airport Runway Safety.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Pittsburgh, PA);  May 26, 2004 ;     317 words ......4 million plan to extend a runway safety area at Pittsburgh International...Aviation Administration required runway safety areas to be 1,000 feet long...Even with the new work, the safety area would come up short at 880 feet...

Article: Charleston, W.V., airport extends bidding period on runway safety contract.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 7, 2004 ;     423 words ......multimillion project to expand a runway safety area at Yeager Airport can now extend...feet of fill material to the runway safety area to make it level with the existing...Triad $500,000 to design the runway safety area project, Atkinson said. I'm...

Article: Tweed nears OK on runway safety areas
New Haven Register;  March 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ......at either end of the main runway at Tweed New Haven Regional...Haven to create the north runway safety area. It also calls for Tweed...reached for comment. "The runway safety areas mandated by the federal...letting aircraft begin in the safety area. That strategy would ...

Article: NIGHTTIME RUNWAY SAFETY AREA WORK BEGINS ON OCT. 30 AT ASPEN, PITKIN COUNTY AIRPORT
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 27, 2006 ;     201 words ......Monday October 30th, nighttime runway safety area work will begin at the Aspen...first phase of the airport's runway rehabilitation project, will...phase of the project entails runway safety area enhancements and installation...

Article: DEP tentatively OKs Tweed safety area
New Haven Register;  August 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ......mandated 1,000-foot, runway safety areas at either end...the reinforced turf runway safety areas would affect...information meeting on the runway safety areas. With regard to the runway safety areas, DeNardis said...the reinforced turf runway safety areas ...

Article: What runway safety area?
Air Safety Week;  March 27, 2000 ;     130 words ...Burbank's airport is among the many in the U.S. with an inadequate runway safety area (RSA), a situation raised with some concern at the National Transportation Safety Board's recent hearings in Little Rock about...

Article: RUNWAY SAFETY:JERRY F. COSTELLO
Congressional Testimony;  September 25, 2008 ;     685 words ......welcome everyone to our hearing today on Runway Safety: An Update. Runway safety continues to be an aviation safety concern...the FAA. At our February 2008 hearing on runway safety, I requested quarterly reports from the FAA...

Article: Do something for runway safety.
Air Safety Week;  May 19, 2003 ;     700+ words ......overrun. Normally, the so-called runway safety area (RSA) should extend 1,000 feet...Safety board calls for applying runway safety area (RSA) criteria retroactively...Order 5200.8, establishing its Runway Safety Area Program. It restates the FAA...

Article: GAO: FAA MUST DO MORE TO IMPROVE RUNWAY SAFETY
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 5, 2007 ;     649 words ......Safety Board has included improving runway safety on its Most Wanted List since the list...distressing. Despite spending billions on runway safety over the last five years, the GAO found...seriously hindered significant progress on runway safety." In brief, the GAO study found that...