Airport Lighting Research Articles

Airport marking and lighting systems: a summary of operational tests and human factors : Lybrand, W.A., Vaughan, W.S. Jr., and Robinson, J.P. May 1959, 30pp; abstr in Government Reports Announcements (Report No AD-756 678)

Abstract : A condensed version is presented of a final report on the state of the art in airport marking and lighting, and recommendations are made for future research and development.

Human engineering analysis of airport lighting control panels and a proposal for a new design : Grambart, J.E. Interim Report Jan. 1971 – July 1972, Nov 1972, 39pp, abstr in Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (Report No N73-12108)

Human engineering analysis of airport lighting control panels and a proposal for a new design : Grambart, J.E. Interim Report Jan. 1971 – July 1972, Nov 1972, 39pp, abstr in Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports (Report No N73-12108)

The phenomenon of ferroresonance

The presence of an iron-cored inductor in an a.c. circuit can in certain circumstances result in phenomena known as ‘ferroresonance’, and these phenomena have been the subject of much study. Over the years, ferroresonant circuits have been used in power-system applications such as airport lighting and servomotors, and in the early 1950s were considered as a serious rival to thermionic valves for use as switching devices in early computers.

Some aspects of airport lighting

The extent of the lighting required at an airport depends on the landing and takeoff characteristics of the aircraft that will use it, and on the visibility conditions in which it will be operational. The problems of airport lighting are discussed here with particular reference to the installation for the new runway at Liverpool Airport, which is one of the most elaborate and up to date in Britain.

A Simple Effective Current Regulator for Airport Lighting

Feedback regulators are well known for maintaining given parameters such as current, voltage, speed, torque, etc. Frequently the controlled variable is converted by a transducer to a direct voltage which is compared to a reference potential. This simple technique becomes difficult and/ or expensive in designing an alternating current regulator. The use of a magnetic amplifier to control the output results in a waveform of varying form factor. Thus, maintaining its average value does not result in a constant effective value.

E-1.3.3 Signal Colors, E-3.3.1 Street Lighting, E-3.3.2.1 Air-port Lighting E-3.3.3 Airborne Lighting and Signals, E-3.3.7 Traffic Signals

E-1.3.3 Signal Colors, E-3.3.1 Street Lighting, E-3.3.2.1 Air-port Lighting E-3.3.3 Airborne Lighting and Signals, E-3.3.7 Traffic Signals

Recent Developments in Airport Lighting

Recent Developments in Airport Lighting

Discussion of “Recent Developments in Airport Lighting””

Discussion of “Recent Developments in Airport Lighting””

Jet Airport Lighting Requirements

Future developments in airport lighting will, in large part, result from its use together with electronic equipment to give better control of aircraft when airborne or on the ground. Future airport lighting fixtures will frequently be installed in heavy-duty paved surfaces and thus provision for them must be included in early phases of planning. Aids for approach, landing and ground control traffic are discussed, and the special needs for controls and circuiting are reviewed.

Airport Runway and Approach Lighting

Rapid and extensive changes in airport lighting have been made within the last ten years. The necessity for providing elevated high intensity runway and approach lights as an aid during low visibility conditions, both day and night, has been generally recognized. With the advent of adequate runway lighting, boundary lights and floodlights (for runways) have become unnecessary. The provision of high intensity runway and approach lights of the latest type results in a 10,000 per cent increase in power consumption per runway.

Advances in airport lighting

Developments in airport lighting for combat purposes initiated a trend toward much higher candlepower for contact lights and much more expensive lighting equipment generally for commercial airports. The new tendency is a welcome departure from the all-too-common prewar practice of allotting only one per cent or less of the airport's cost for lighted landing aids in spite of the failure of radio to provide adequate control in heavy air traffic. A combination of improved lighting with radio is offered as the only feasible method of affording the pilot the necessary margin of safety for landing or take-off.

Airport lighting under wartime conditions

As a wartime expedient, certain restrictions have been placed on airport lighting. How the lighting of airports in compliance with these restrictions may be accomplished is explained here. Distinction is made between normal wartime operation of lights and black-out operation.

Airport lighting

Many of the recent developments in airport lighting are exemplified at the new National Airport at Washington, D. C.; these and other types of modern practice are presented in engineering detail.

Airport Lighting System Enables Landings on Bad Days

Airport Lighting System Enables Landings on Bad Days

New Developments in Airport Lighting

Abstract The principles of airport lighting have been covered in many papers which have varied slightly and only in details, says the author, these principles now having been standardized through the medium of the Department of Commerce. These requirements are stated, and then the author points out some new developments which make it possible for airports to obtain maximum ratings for lighting equipment and also some of the new systems or devices brought out to supplement these requirements.