DRAGS FEET ON TANK INERTING

The FAA's foot-dragging on fuel tank inerting is deplorable (AW&ST Nov. 21, 2005, p. 46). To say recent "technological innovations were allowing affordable and efficient . . . systems" is a bureaucratic smoke screen. Given a mandate, engineers easily could have done this decades before the TWA...

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