FAA rule aims to choke likelihood of fuel-tank explosions

摘要

SAE International is providing expertise to the U.S. FAA and to the aerospace industry at large regarding fuel-tank in-erting, which is mandated for certain aircraft under a long- in-the-making agency rule published in the July 21 Federal Register.rnIn addition to having recently released AIR1903, which is a history of fuel-tankrninerting systems, SAE's AE-5 Committee is working on a new aerospace recommended practice (ARP) "to define the requirements for a fuel-tank-inerting system that could be used by the FAA as guidance on how to design and qualify [such a] system," said Committee Chairman Sanford Fleishman.