Fleet Air Arm
(in the US) Federal Aviation Administration
Fellow of the Australian Academy (of Science)
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The FAA is close to giving Boeing’s 737 MAX 7 final approval as soon as late July, and Ortberg expects the MAX 10 to follow not long after that.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
On Thursday, Roth said he had shut down his business after the FAA halted his operation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
Some delays were due to shifts under the 2020 legislation that the FAA had to undertake for the first time, said Boeing Senior Vice President Mike Sinnett.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
An FAA spokesman said the tour company’s operating certificate remains suspended.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026
She gets a lifetime of being stopped by the FAA for random bag searches every time she flies.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
The faa is not in the business of privacy protection.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2013
Already the faa has permitted a handful of law-enforcement agencies to operate drones on a short-term basis.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 25, 2013
One area examined was an faa program that requires the periodic recertification of bomb-sniffing dogs by placing real chemicals on empty planes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Currently, the faa, which funds the project, is devoting only $2 million a year to it, barely enough to equip two volcanoes.
From Time Magazine Archive
I’ve had enough of travelling the turnpike, Houffling and hirpling like a cadging faa: And, but for you and your brat, I’d settled down, A respectable married man, this twenty-year.
From Krindlesyke by Gibson, Wilfrid Wilson
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