Says Staffing Levels Have Dropped For Third Consecutive
Year
Citing the FAA Administrator's Fact Book in a press release
today, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA)
says controller staffing levels have dropped for the third
straight year, to a new low of 14,206.
Lockheed Martin designed the X-35/F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Designed with a primary mission of air to ground combat and
secondary mission of air to air, the F-35 Lightning is designed
with use by all the armed forces and our allies.
Hot air at high pressure, usually from the bypass section of a
gas turbine engine after the compression stage, prior to fuel being
injected into the burner, for de-icing, heating, pressurization and
other uses.
Source: Captain Jeffrey Clay, speaking the
final intelligible word from the cockpit voice recording from
Comair Flight 5191. The ill-fated regional jet with 50 persons
onboard ran off the end of Runway 26 at Kentucky's Blue Grass
Airport on August 27, 2006.
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