Abstract :
American Engineering Council jointly with the American Road Builders Association and Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce, is conducting a study of airport drainage and surfacing. This study promises to render an unusual service to the engineering profession as well as to the public and the Federal agency charged with the responsibility of maintaining statistical information concerning airports. The development of airports is of such recent date and is playing such an important part in our present-day civilization, that it is felt there is need for the collection of handbook information upon this subject, and the involved problem can be adequately solved only by the employment of the most skilled engineering services from among engineers who have had experience in such matters. The Aeronautics Branch of the Department of Commerce maintains a list of consulting engineers who are available for such work and it will make the results of this study available to them and other engineers.
