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April 10, 2009

Klyde Morris (04.10.09)

TSA Brings New Meaning To 'Take The Money And Run!'

Aero-Linx!

The Naval Air Station Wildwood Foundation is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to restore Hangar #1 at the Cape May Airport, Cape May County, New Jersey, into an aircraft museum honoring the Navy airmen who died while training during World War II.

Aero-Terms!

The idea that the universe is finite but has no boundary (in imaginary time). The no boundary proposal, proposed by Stephen Hawking, predicts that the universe would start at a single point, like the North Pole of the Earth.

"It's out of control. We have a large maintenance operation here with 400 people. We have a large interagency fire-fighting operation here, with maintenance facilities."

Source: Rex Tippetts, Manager of Walker Field (GJT) in Grand Junction, CO. A recent story in The Denver Post outlined concerns about the new TSA requirement for each of Colorado's 13 commercial airports to develop its own, incompatible system of security badges and background checks for pilots entering secure areas. Tippetts alone estimates he'll need 2,000 additional security checks and badges for personnel, and pilots based at GJT.