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  2. FAA airport categories - Wikipedia

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    The categories are: [2] Nonhub primary – airports handling over 10,000 but less than 0.05% of the country's annual passenger boardings. Small hub primary – airports with 0.05–0.25% of the country's annual passenger boardings. Medium hub primary – airports handling 0.25–1% of the country's annual passenger boardings.

  3. Metabolic syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Metabolic syndrome is a clustering of at least three of the following five medical conditions: abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high blood sugar, high serum triglycerides, and low serum high-density lipoprotein (HDL). Metabolic syndrome is associated with the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. [1]

  4. Federal Aviation Regulations - Wikipedia

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    Title 14 CFR – Aeronautics and Space is one of the fifty titles that make up the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Title 14 is the principal set of rules and regulations (sometimes called administrative law) issued by the Department of Transportation and Federal Aviation Administration, federal agencies of the United States which oversee Aeronautics and Space.

  5. Aircraft rescue and firefighting - Wikipedia

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    Aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) is a type of firefighting that involves the emergency response, mitigation, evacuation, and rescue of passengers and crew of aircraft involved in aviation accidents and incidents. Airports with scheduled passenger flights are obliged to have firefighters and firefighting apparatus on location ready for ...

  6. Aspen/Pitkin County Airport - Wikipedia

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    Aspen/Pitkin County Airport (IATA: ASE, ICAO: KASE, FAA LID: ASE), also known as Sardy Field, is a county-owned public-use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Aspen, in Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. [1] Aspen/Pitkin Co. Airport/Sardy Field covers an area of 573 acres (232 ha) at an ...

  7. Glucose tolerance test - Wikipedia

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    The glucose tolerance test was first described in 1923 by Jerome W. Conn. [4]The test was based on the previous work in 1913 by A. T. B. Jacobson in determining that carbohydrate ingestion results in blood glucose fluctuations, [5] and the premise (named the Staub-Traugott Phenomenon after its first observers H. Staub in 1921 and K. Traugott in 1922) that a normal patient fed glucose will ...

  8. AC 25.1309-1 - Wikipedia

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    Aviation safety. AC 25.1309–1 is an FAA Advisory Circular (AC) (Subject: System Design and Analysis) that identifies acceptable means for showing compliance with the airworthiness requirements of § 25.1309 of the Federal Aviation Regulations. Revision A was released in 1988. In 2002, work was done on Revision B, but it was not formally ...

  9. Ferguson v. NTSB - Wikipedia

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    Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California. Ferguson v. NTSB, 678 F. 2d 821 (9th Cir. 1982) is a landmark aviation ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed down on June 2, 1982. On July 31, 1979, Lowell G. Ferguson was the captain of a Western Airlines Boeing 737-200 jetliner operating as Flight ...