Miles O'Brien To Be Master Of Ceremonies At EAA AirVenture
Museum Gala
Lester Brown, founder and president of the Earth Policy
Institute, and founder of the Worldwatch Institute, along with
Terry and Mary Kohler, of Windway Capital Corp., will be the
recipients of the 2009 Lindbergh Award in recognition of their
dedication to the environment.
Antilles Seaplanes Is Building NEW 'Super Goose' Amphibs
The ANN crew (thanks to ANN refugee, Kevin O'Brien) has a slightly rude name for those intensely visual images and stories that come our way involving certain 'special' aircraft that are unusually exciting, interesting and abnormally attention-getting... we call such images "Plane Porn."
Shortfield.com is an online community for backcountry aviation
and airplane camping enthusiasts working together to create a
comprehensive database to document and share information about
backcountry airstrips.
TACCO is the military abbreviation for "TACtical COordinator"
(pronounced 'TACK-oh') and is the aircrew member responsible for
coordinating the activities of the part of the crew responsible for
the tactical operation of the aircraft and its systems.
"The fuel loading was the primary contributing factor
in the crash. It is astounding -- and criminal -- that owners and
operators of jet aircraft would repeatedly engage in such a
dangerous game with passengers and airplanes loaded to the brim
with jet fuel."
Source: Acting US Attorney Ralph J. Marra, Jr.
Six executives of a Florida-based air charter service face federal
criminal charges in connection with the crash of an overloaded jet
which couldn't get off the runway at Teterboro, NJ in 2005. Marra
asserts Platinum Jet Management of Fort Lauderdale claimed to be a
luxury charter service, but didn't hold the required certificate;
falsified flight records; and routinely overloaded planes with fuel
at airports where the price was cheaper, a pr
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