- Author
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Blake, D.
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O'Sullivan, J.
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Hammann, S.
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Kolleck, M.
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Cleary, T. G.
- Title
- Aircraft Cargo Area Fire Detection.
- Coporate
- Federal Aviation Administration, Atlantic City International Airport, NJ
British Airways, London, England
Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, Seattle, WA
Booz-Allen and Hamilton, Bethesda, MD
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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NISTIR 6146
March 1998
34 p.
- Distribution
- AVAILABLE FROM National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, VA 22161. Telephone: 1-800-553-6847 or 703-605-6000; Fax: 703-605-6900. Website: http://www.ntis.gov
- Book or Conf
- Nuisance Alarms in Aircraft Cargo Areas and Critical Telecommunications Systems: Third (3rd) NIST Fire Detector Workshop. Proceedings. National Institute of Standards and Technology. December 4-5, 1997,
Gaithersburg, MD,
Grosshandler, W. L., Editors,
9-13 p.,
1998
- Keywords
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fire detection
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fire detection systems
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cargo space
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telecommunications
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smoke detectors
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false alarms
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decision making
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commercial aircraft
- Abstract
- Overviews of fire deteciton in aircraft cargo areas were presented by David Blake of the Federal Aviation Administration, John O'Sullivan of British Airways, Scott Hammann of Boeing Company, and Matt Koleck ofBooz-Allen & Hamilton. The breakout discussion sessions were headed by Thomas Cleary of NIST and Davis Blake of the FAA. The following sections are a synthesis of their comments.