FAA Conducts Crash Tests For Airport Frangibility Guidelines

Credit: CK Composites
The FAA is staging ground collisions between representative aircraft wings and landing gear with approach lights and landing aids to develop standardized test procedures for evaluating the “frangibility” of landing aids and light towers near runways. A structure is considered frangible if it snaps...

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