ANN Daily Touch N Go: 09.19.06 (ANN's
Short-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Daily Aero-Briefing: 09.19.06
(ANN's Long-Form Daily News Program)
ANN Special Feature -- The FAA Looks Again At
The 51 Percent Rule: 09.19.06 (ANN Special Feature, with
the EAA's Earl Lawrence.)
A recent press report describes an accident in Mexico. A
six-passenger Piper Malibu crashed after its pilot reported engine
trouble. The article says two aboard the PA-46 died, and five
others were hospitalized. Wait a minute -- that's seven people on
the six-passenger airplane.
"Having access to adequate supplies of jet fuel is a
national security issue, and with an assured source, price
fluctuations are reduced which provides stable planning and
budgeting."
Source: Bill Harrison, a fuels expert with the
Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in
Ohio, on Tuesday's planned test flight of a B-52 Stratofortress
using an ultra-clean fuel refined right here in the USA.
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