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From Contributor: achantle (47704678):
Edward Aikman, 63, a retired chief of the Federal Aviation Administration's airport pavement and lighting standards division, died of emphysema March 3 at his home in Chevy Chase.
Mr. Aikman was born in El Paso, Tex. He grew up in the Washington area and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and George Washington University, where he received a degree in mechanical engineering. During World War II, he was a navigator with the Army Air Forces.
After the war, he homesteaded in Alaska, where he worked for the FAA on air field construction projects. He returned to Washington in 1953, and joined the architectural and engineering firm of Mills, Petticord & Mills, where he was a site planning engineer. Mr. Aikman resumed his employment with the FAA in 1958, and was a civil engineer with the office in charge of the construction of Dulles International Airport. He transferred to the agency's national airports planning division in the late 1960s. He retired in 1985. He had written numerous articles about airports and airport construction. He published an account of his travels in Alaska in Holiday Magazine and had written about walking and about being a Washingtonian for the Smithsonian and Washingtonian magazines. Mr. Aikman was a member of the Friendship Heights Citizens Association.
From Contributor: achantle (47704678):
Edward Aikman, 63, a retired chief of the Federal Aviation Administration's airport pavement and lighting standards division, died of emphysema March 3 at his home in Chevy Chase.
Mr. Aikman was born in El Paso, Tex. He grew up in the Washington area and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and George Washington University, where he received a degree in mechanical engineering. During World War II, he was a navigator with the Army Air Forces.
After the war, he homesteaded in Alaska, where he worked for the FAA on air field construction projects. He returned to Washington in 1953, and joined the architectural and engineering firm of Mills, Petticord & Mills, where he was a site planning engineer. Mr. Aikman resumed his employment with the FAA in 1958, and was a civil engineer with the office in charge of the construction of Dulles International Airport. He transferred to the agency's national airports planning division in the late 1960s. He retired in 1985. He had written numerous articles about airports and airport construction. He published an account of his travels in Alaska in Holiday Magazine and had written about walking and about being a Washingtonian for the Smithsonian and Washingtonian magazines. Mr. Aikman was a member of the Friendship Heights Citizens Association.
US Army Air Corps
From Contributor: achantle (47704678):
Edward Aikman, 63, a retired chief of the Federal Aviation Administration's airport pavement and lighting standards division, died of emphysema March 3 at his home in Chevy Chase.
Mr. Aikman was born in El Paso, Tex. He grew up in the Washington area and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and George Washington University, where he received a degree in mechanical engineering. During World War II, he was a navigator with the Army Air Forces.
After the war, he homesteaded in Alaska, where he worked for the FAA on air field construction projects. He returned to Washington in 1953, and joined the architectural and engineering firm of Mills, Petticord & Mills, where he was a site planning engineer. Mr. Aikman resumed his employment with the FAA in 1958, and was a civil engineer with the office in charge of the construction of Dulles International Airport. He transferred to the agency's national airports planning division in the late 1960s. He retired in 1985. He had written numerous articles about airports and airport construction. He published an account of his travels in Alaska in Holiday Magazine and had written about walking and about being a Washingtonian for the Smithsonian and Washingtonian magazines. Mr. Aikman was a member of the Friendship Heights Citizens Association.
From Contributor: achantle (47704678):
Edward Aikman, 63, a retired chief of the Federal Aviation Administration's airport pavement and lighting standards division, died of emphysema March 3 at his home in Chevy Chase.
Mr. Aikman was born in El Paso, Tex. He grew up in the Washington area and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and George Washington University, where he received a degree in mechanical engineering. During World War II, he was a navigator with the Army Air Forces.
After the war, he homesteaded in Alaska, where he worked for the FAA on air field construction projects. He returned to Washington in 1953, and joined the architectural and engineering firm of Mills, Petticord & Mills, where he was a site planning engineer. Mr. Aikman resumed his employment with the FAA in 1958, and was a civil engineer with the office in charge of the construction of Dulles International Airport. He transferred to the agency's national airports planning division in the late 1960s. He retired in 1985. He had written numerous articles about airports and airport construction. He published an account of his travels in Alaska in Holiday Magazine and had written about walking and about being a Washingtonian for the Smithsonian and Washingtonian magazines. Mr. Aikman was a member of the Friendship Heights Citizens Association.
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