What a year! 2007 was an amazing combination of so many good and bad things... but for sure, there was NO end of excitement. If there was a "reveal" of the year, it HAS to have been the first sight of the super-secret Eclipse Concept Jet program... which only Eclipse, ANN and a few others knew ANYTHING about until the opening morning of Oshkosh 2007.
Below is the unedited text of a speech given Tuesday by Acting
FAA Administrator Robert Sturgell, in which he gave an update (with
the theme "Moving The Chains Forward") outlining efforts made in
recent months by the agency, and commercial and general aviation
pilots, to decrease incidents of runway incursions and other
potential safety issues. Most notably, however, was the
announcement by Sturgell of a symposium on the hot-button topic of
late: controller and pilot fatigue.
This site is dedicated to trips taken and destinations discovered
in and around Southern California. Most of the trips on this site
were day trips reachable in two hours or less in the authors
Bellanca Super Viking, which cruises at about 160 knots (hence the
URL).
A classification of aircraft approved for limited aerobatics.
The maneuvers approved include spins, lazy eights, chandelles and
steep turns in which the bank angle exceeds 60 degrees.
"This letter was not coordinated with the
administrator's office and is in the process of being rescinded.
The administrator has unequivocally stated that no rover will be
turned off."
Source: A NASA statement issued Tuesday,
rescinding a letter sent last week by the agency to the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, asking the lab to put one of the Mars rovers
in hibernation, and limit the duties of the other. Both actions
would cut about $4 million combined from NASA's Mars budget, money
the agency would rather have available towards its upcoming Mars
Science Laboratory mission... but in the end, the long-lived rovers
Spirit and Opportunity will live to roam another Martian day.
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