TBE Leadership
This person serves as the President of TBE and provides the overall strategic direction for the company.
Who is Carl Ellington?
No, it's not a trick question! Some airplanes can actually travel this direction while still on ground.
What is backward?
This intern, after 10 weeks interning with TBE, humbly nominated himself as the 'Intern of the Decade'.
Who is Joseph Hanna?
TBE works primarily as this to plan, design, manage, and administer construction for airports.
What is engineers?
This federal agency regulates civil aviation, oversees airports, and manages the nation's air traffic system.
Who is the FAA (Federal Aviation Administration)?
This Charlotte-based leader oversees TBE's Mid-Atlantic operations.
Who is Jeff McSwain?
This type of runway is equipped with electronic navigation aids that allow pilots to land safely during periods of low visibility.
What is a Precision Instrument Runway?
Among this summer's interns, this person has a built-in friend ~ they're a twin!
Who is Aria Smith?
Our company is known as TBE, an acronym derived from these three founding partner's surnames.
What is Talbert, Bright & Ellington?
This abbreviation stands for the FAA's design standards and recommendations for airport planning and engineering.
What is an AC (Advisory Circular)?
This Vice President leads our Richmond, VA office.
Who is Jeff Tarkington?
Unlike magnetic north, this Civil 3D setting never changes over time because it is based on the Earth's rotational axis.
What is True North?
This intern controversially argued that oranges were better than tangerines, igniting weekly workplace polls in the Charlotte office.
Who is Owen Schmitz?
This is currently our largest client.
Who is the Charlotte Douglas airport?
This acronym refers to the electronic and visual systems that help pilots navigate safely from one location to another.
What are NAVAIDS (Navigational Aids)?
This leader oversees the TBE Wilmington office.
Who is John Massey?
These four lights located beside a runway help pilots maintain the proper glide path during landing by displaying combinations of red and white lights.
What are PAPI (Precision Approach Path Indicator) lights?
This civil engineering intern, shared on their first day at TBE that they play the Tuba.
Who is Alexander Patterson?
After the acquisition of the Wilmington and Richmond offices, the year which we are now known for being founded is this.
What is 1989?
This three-letter acronym stands for a technology used to collect, analyze, and visualize geographic and spatial data, helping engineers map utilities, environmental features, and airport infrastructure.
What is GIS (Geographic Information System)?
Often referred to as the President's "right-hand man," this leader works closely with Carl Ellington on company strategy and operations.
Who is Anthony Sholar?
Civil engineers design this stormwater feature to temporarily store runoff after a rain event and slowly release it to reduce downstream flooding.
What is a detention basin?
This intern visited Botswana before joining the summer intern program.
Who is Bryn Cribb?
TBE currently has offices located in these 5 cities.
What is Charlotte, Richmond, Wilmington, Columbia, and Miami?
This three-letter acronym stands for a technology which helps pilots land during poor visibility.
What is an ILS (Instrument Landing System)?