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BSU professor will help with airplane safety

Engineering professor Sin Ming Loo can’t get on an airplane these days without thinking about what is floating inside the cabin air around him.

That’s because the federal government has given the Boise State University professor $500,000 over the next three years to design a system that will detect contaminants in an airplane cabin and then alert the pilot to any danger.

Officials from the Federal Aviation Administration were at BSU Wednesday to dedicate the school’s new research center, which is officially called the FAA Center of Excellence for Airliner Cabin Environment Research.

Melissa McGrath
The Idaho Statesman

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