U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta announced on
Friday that the FAA will fund repairs at 12 additional
airports damaged by hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and
Jeanne.
On August 23, Heikki Tallila, a 51-year-old pilot for Finland's
national airline Finnair, got off a taxi that had brought him to
Manchester Airport. The driver of the taxi, however, didn't like
the smell of alcohol his passenger was tailing.
The Golden Palace.com Space Program, Powered by the da Vinci
Project, has completed construction and flight qualification of the
“Worlds Largest Reusable Helium Balloon” for its
planned manned flights to space.
The most dramatic findings so far from NASA's twin Mars rovers
-- telltale evidence for a wet and possibly habitable environment
in the arid planet's past -- passed rigorous scientific scrutiny
for publication in a major research journal.
This business of frisking male and female passengers without
taking into consideration the gender of both the "frisker" and
"friskee" is getting out of hand.
DFW International Airport's Board of Directors and CEO Jeff
Fegan announced Thursday that they would withhold any pay increases
for the Airport's senior staff and management team until at least
mid-2005.
"She said if
anybody was going to touch her, she was going to touch them. [She
was] just an average middle-aged person who got
upset."
Source: Lt. Tod Dahle of the Fargo
(ND) airport police department, commenting on the actions of an
unidentified woman who smacked a TSA agent with her boarding pass
when he attempted to frisk her prior to allowing her to board
a flight.
CASA AD: AD/HU 369/115
Manufacturer: McDonnell Douglas (Hughes) and
Kawasaki
Subject: Fuselage Station 75 Control Support
Bracket Assembly
Summary: This Directive is prompted by information
received from the manufacturer indicating that the fatigue life of
the control support bracket is shorter than the original analysis
indicated.