"The FOD*BOSS is a nice piece of equipment and it lives up to the name of Rapid Response. We get military helicopters that come in and it cleans up. I make a few passes and it saves work after a helicopter landing. The FOD*BOSS is easy to set up and use. It's a one man operation that saves time."

Sky Sarosi,
Silver Springs Airport, Nevada

"We tested The FOD BOSS on Friday. This thing is unreal! Picks up everything."

Barksdale AFB, Louisiana

"We've got our 2 FOD BOSS units on-line and sweeping just about every day. They work great."

Boeing C-17 Program—Long Beach

"The first time we used the FOD BOSS we swept a total of seventeen miles and picked up one hundred sixty four pounds of debris on our asphalt ramp. The next time, we used it right after a FOD walk by about fifty people. It took them right around forty five minutes total time to get out there, do the FOD walk, and then get back to work. That's just about thirty-seven man-hours. The exact same area was then swept by one guy pulling the FOD BOSS. It took him about one hour. The people picked up around five pounds of FOD. The FOD BOSS picked up forty-four pounds of FOD. That's close to ten times the amount of debris in one-twentieth the man-hours."

Air National Guard Unit

"By my reckoning, with more turbine traffic using many of California's General Aviation airports, inexpensive and easily done FOD clean up and control at the G.A. airports is an important "customer service" activity.  Who wants to use an airport where their expensive turbine engine lunched on bolts, screws, and nuts that routinely fall of off aircraft."

"Keep on keeping on, Tim.  FOD BOSS is a necessary airport management tool."

R. Austin Wiswell,
Chief, Division of Aeronautics,
Department of Transportation,
State of California (2000-2005)

Naval Air Station,—Patuxent River, MD

"The FOD BOSS demonstrations went very well on Friday. A total of three were held. All individuals who observed this product agreed that it would play a key role in keeping the facilities clean and FOD free. The commercial group (facilities & production) expressed interest in at least 3 of these units (1 west side, 2 east side). Military also has interest in this product. Attached are some pictures of the product after it was used on the west ramp... very impressive!"

The Boeing Company
Commercial Division

"We have been using the FOD BOSS for almost a year now. Four months since I took over this position and I must say that it works extremely well for us. I keep all metal and hard plastic FOD after every area is swept and bag and tag it. It has given me a good history of where we need to concentrate our efforts. Also it impresses our pilots and will be used as support to procure more FOD BOSSes in the future."

Eglin AFB, Florida

"Our FOD BOSS arrived just prior to Christmas and what a Christmas present it was. We are delighted with it. See the attached photos of the first time we used it. This was done after a FOD walk had been performed, all of this had been missed."

Oregon Air National Guard

"We have three powered sweepers. They sit parked more than we use them now that we have a FOD*BOSS duplex version sweeper."

Airfield Manager
USAF Soto Cano Air Base
Honduras

"We have already purchased two FOD BOSS.  We use them every week at our Base and we carry one with us every time we deploy!  They work GREAT!"

FOD Program Manager
South Carolina Air Natl. Guard

"We have been using the FOD BOSS at the Los Alamitos Army Airfield for over two years, it is a great piece of equipment."

Airfield Operations Dept.

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