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When Chris Tuan was a Department of Defense contractor in the early 1990s, the Air Force asked him to think of something that could de-ice its airfields around the world. Heavy cargo aircraft were landing on icy runways and skidding off, he says, "so they wanted to find out some innovative way to de-ice the runway."
The Federal Aviation Administration says the pilot of a Robinson R22 chopper reports that a passenger jumped from the aircraft about a mile south of the Malibu pier shortly after 1 p.m. Saturday. The Los Angeles County Fire Department says the man's heart wasn't beating when lifeguards rescued him.
Not long after the House passed legislation that included a provision to allow private flood insurance policies to satisfy flood coverage requirements, the Senate sidetracked the flood policy measure. The flood insurance policy provision was inserted in a bill that had to do with reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration's operation, which was set to expire Sept.
The Federal Aviation Administration is banning drone flights within 400 feet of several national landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore. The FAA announced the no-fly drone zones at 10 Department of the Interior sites on Thursday.
The Vintage Air Rally's next event will run for six weeks from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Lakeland, Florida. Setting off from the... I heard the aircraft part of this conversation to Grand Forks FSS at 21:05 local time recently.
Officials say improvement work at a Vermont airport is scheduled to start in March, with the airport hopefully reopening by June 1. The work at the William H. Morse State Airport comes after the Federal Aviation Administration approved a $3.5 million grant last week through their airport improvement program. John Likakis, representative of the nonprofit group that is overseeing the airport, tells the Bennington Banner they will do anything to make sure things go smoothly for the contractor.
What do I want to do? What do I love and how can I make that a profession? Those are some of the questions Kansas Commissioner of Education Randy Watkins encouraged students at St. Paul School to seek the answers to before they reach their senior year of high school.
The federal government will pick up 100 percent of the costs of debris removal and other emergency assistance to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. President Donald Trump made the change Tuesday as part of an amendment to his earlier disaster declaration authorizing federal aid.
The $8.8-million project to resurface the main runway is expected to start in April and will cause overnight closures at the airport Santa Barbara Airport's main runway will be resurfaced next year in a $8.8-million project. The Santa Barbara Airport Commission gets an update on the runway rehabilitation project at the Sept.
The U.S. House on Monday is set to vote on a package of tax relief provisions designed to help people who have suffered losses from damage associated with hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, also making it easier for others to donate money to charities to help with disaster aid. "My bill specifically helps hurricane victims keep more of their paycheck, deduct more of the cost of their expensive property damage, and have more affordable and immediate access to money they have saved for their retirement," said Rep. Kevin Brady , who heads the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee.
Several major airline CEOs, including American's Doug Parker and JetBlue's Robin Hayes, have been in D.C. this month to offer support for air traffic control reform. And someday, it might even happen.
In this March 16, 2017 photo, air traffic controllers work in the tower at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. President Donald Trump has embraced airlines' decades-long goal of removing air traffic control operations from the government and putting industry in charge, making it a key part of his agenda to boost the nation's infrastructure through privatization.
With the September 30 deadline looming, leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives and the White House are stepping up their efforts to build support for the AIRR Act, which would remove Air Traffic Control from the auspices of the FAA and place it in the hands of a private, non-profit corporation. The arguments on both sides are pretty well known by now, and it would appear that any FAA reauthorization bill that contains the ATC spinoff is "dead on arrival" in the U.S. Senate.
The White House nominated aviation safety expert Bruce Landsberg to serve on the NTSB, citing his impressive track record on aircraft safety issues. Landsberg is the former president of the AOPA Air Safety Institute, and currently serves as the senior safety adviser for the organization.
New research has shown that there's a wide variation in the risk that unmanned aircraft, or drones, pose to people on the ground. The study involved collecting drone impact data from test dummies whose head and neck contained sensors to measure acceleration and force.
A film crew captured video of a Cessna 206 attempting to land on Campbell Lake just south of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska on Saturday. The plane appeared to be briefly out of control, leading the videographer to say "she's going to crash", before returning to normal flight.
Two people aboard an airplane that was landing at Nehalem Bay State Park Airport in coastal Oregon were uninjured when the Vans RV8 they were aboard hit two elk that had wandered onto the runway. And while the people were OK, neither the animals or the plane fared so well.
The Sioux City Journal reports that South Sioux City is in the process of adopting a new drone ordinance. The city council passed a first reading last Monday.
Liberals love to portray the Republicans as the party of the rich and powerful. The GOP has tried valiantly to shed that criticism, but then why are so many in the party defending the special interest favors that go to private and corporate jet owners over the interests of all the rest of us? Do Warren Buffett and LeBron James really need a taxpayer subsidy to jet across the country? At issue here is the proposed modernization of the operations and pricing of America's air traffic control system.