Kids releasing balloons can be really dangerous for aviation,
but it's hard to contain the imaginations of kids who release them,
wondering where they'll travel.
AD NUMBER: 2007-11-12
MANUFACTURER: Airbus
SUBJECT: Airworthiness Directive 2007-11-12
SUMMARY: The FAA is superseding an existing airworthiness
directive (AD) that applies to all Airbus Model A310 series
airplanes.
Aerospace Blockset provides specialized blocks for modeling,
integrating, and simulating aerospace systems using mathematical
representations from references and first principles.
"There are two aspects to this. One is, is the patient
himself highly infectious? Fortunately, in this case, he's probably
not. But the other piece is this bacteria is a very deadly
bacteria. We just have to err on the side of
caution."
Source: US Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention Director Julie Gerberding, commenting on the case of an
unidentified airline passenger diagnosed with a particularly
drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis.