And speaking of the JetBlue incident. Saw an article today stating the pilot lives in Raleigh, NC, and wants NO publicity about his role in the incident. If it wasn't for the mayor of Los Angeles, we wouldn't have even known his name (which I forget and for which I think the LA mayor should be chastised for mentioning. If the guy wants to shy away from the publicity, then, Mayor V, let him be). David R http://home.comcast.net/~damiross/books.html www.sequoians.com www.chanticleers.org -----Original Message----- From: The Airline List [mailto:AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Dr. Alastair T. Gardiner Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2005 09:37 To: AIRLINE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Jet Blue incident - foam? Hi all, A different angle on the JetBlue LAX incident ... If a plane is about to land with it's nosewheel perpendicular to the normal direction, then its pretty obvious that there is going to be lots of sparks flying about. So my question is, don't airports foam up runways any longer? Fortunately this time there was no fire but a foamed runway would (I would have thought) have reduced the likelihood of any fire even further. So why didn't they put a layer on the rw - any opinions? Regards to all, Alastair *************************************** Dr. Alastair T. Gardiner Microbial Photosynthesis Lab 217 Division of Biochemistry & Mol. Biol. Institute of Biomedical & Life Sciences Davidson Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8QQ Scotland Tel. (+44) 141 330 6449 Fax. (+44) 141 330 4620 E-mail. atg3v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gla.ac.uk/ibls/BMB/rjc/agardiner.html http://www.e-mep.org ************************************** Have a look at my airliner photography at http://airliners.net/search/photo.search?emailsearch=atg3v@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx