RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ON FATIGUE AND CORROSION IN AGING AIRCRAFT. REPORT TO ACCOMPANY H. RES. 450, INCLUDING COST ESTIMATE OF THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE

The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, to whom was referred the resolution (H. Res. 450) to express the sense of the House of Representatives that the Federal Aviation Administration should immediately establish a research and development program to study structural fatigue, wear, corrosion, and damage to aircraft resulting from age and intensive utilization and to conduct nondestructive and destructive testing of older aircraft on a regular basis, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the resolution as amended be agreed to. The contents of this report are as follows: summary of committee actions; purpose of the resolution; background and need for legislation; explanation of the resolution; sectional analysis of the resolution; committee views; inflation impact; committee oversight findings and recommendations; summary of Government Operations Committee findings and recommendations; budget analysis and projection; Congressional Budget Office cost estimate and comparison; changes in existing law; and recital of record vote on reporting.

• Corporate Authors:

  United States House of Representatives

  Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
  Washington, DC  United States  20515
• Publication Date: 1988-9-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 5 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Age; Aircraft; Corrosion; Development; Fatigue (Mechanics); Legislation; Loss and damage; Mechanical tests; Nondestructive tests; Research; Wear
• Uncontrolled Terms: Destructive testing; Research and development
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Highways; Law; Research; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00477333
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Rept 100-895
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1988 12:00AM