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May 17, 2007

Reports: FAA Approved Rocket Launches In LEX Airspace

Aircraft Allowed To Fly Over Launch Area

Lexington (KY) Blue Grass Airport air traffic controllers say the Federal Aviation Administration should not have issued a waiver allowing the Bluegrass Rocketry Society to conduct rocket launches Saturday into LEX airspace.

ANN Special Feature: Dr. Bruce Holmes, DayJet - 05.17.07

ANN's Jim Campbell talks with Dr. Bruce Homes, a retired NASA strategist who just became an executive at DayJet.

ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (05.17.07)

Aero-Linx!

NORAD is a bi-national United States and Canadian organization charged with the missions of aerospace warning and aerospace control for North America, including the monitoring of man-made objects in space, and the detection, validation, and warning of attack against North America by aircraft, missiles, or space vehicles.

Aero-Terms!

Located in a Maryland suburb outside of Washington, DC, the GSFC is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists and engineers dedicated to learning and sharing their knowledge of the Earth, solar system, and Universe.

"As disappointing as this one vote is, I still consider it a win for the long term. In Washington, it's not always about the result but about how you play the game, and in this case pilots disrupted the airlines' attempt to smoothly have user fees pass."

Source: AOPA President Phil Boyer, reassuring members following the narrow defeat before the Senate Commerce Committee of an amendment that would have stripped a $25-per-flight charge for turbine aircraft from the FAA Reauthorization Bill.