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January 07, 2015

Airborne 01.06.15: New Boss At AAA, McWherter Offers Thanks, Hybrid Triplane!

Also: O-100 Engine Update, Chinese Mooney, DoT Loves Music, Stangarone Starts Consultancy, Airbus/AgustaWestland/Sikorsky Compete

Sixty-one years ago Robert L. Taylor - pilot and mechanic - saw the future and saved the past. He formed the Antique Airplane Association in Ottumwa, Iowa at a time when many of the airplanes we now consider classics hadn't even been built. Now, after six decades serving as AAA president, the AAA Board of Directors has elected pilot/mechanic and AAA Executive Director, Brent Taylor, to become the new AAA President. ANN’s Jim Campbell wrote, in part, “One of the most distr

“This proposed rulemaking allows us to manage delays in this high-demand airspace and encourage competition at the same time.” Source: FAA Administrator Michael P. Huerta.

An FAA air traffic control service to aircraft arriving and departing or transiting airspace controlled by the facility. TRACONs control IFR and participating VFR flights.

FAA Air Transportation Oversight System (ATOS)

The Air Transportation Oversight System (ATOS) implements FAA policy by providing safety controls (i.e., regulations and their application) of business organizations and individuals that fall under FAA regulations.