Fri, Feb 28, 2003
Testifying Thursday before the Senate Subcommittee on Science,
Technology and Space, GAMA President Ed Bolen called for better
coordination among the federal agencies involved in aerospace
research. He also identified specific NASA research programs that
are important to the entire aviation industry including the general
aviation segment.
Bolen said that aerospace is too important to the future of the
United States for aerospace research to be determined on an ad hoc
basis by a patchwork of federal agencies. To make the point,
Bolen said that the Air Force plans to close its climatic center at
Eglin Air Force Base despite the fact that it is a critical
research facility for civil airplane manufacturers.
"We can no longer afford to have federal agencies making
decisions in a vacuum," Bolen said. "We have to find a way for us
to determine-as a nation-what our research needs are and how we can
best meet them."
According to Bolen, more federal research is
needed in areas like software certification, weather sensors, air
traffic modeling, vehicle-enabling technologies, supersonic travel,
and future air traffic management systems. Bolen also called
for more federal spending on quiet aircraft research saying,
"Today, the United States spends tens of millions of dollars on
aircraft noise research but hundreds of millions of dollars
soundproofing homes around airports. That is like spending
money buying mops instead of figuring out how to plug a
leak."
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