One of the most persistent, if not outright obnoxious, anti-airport NIMBY fights just won’t go away... even after numerous legal defeats and many thousands of dollars of losses.
Members of the group Citizens for Quiet Skies in Boulder County, CO are not giving up in their quest to force Mile-Hi Skydiving to stop flying near their homes. In 2015, a Boulder District Court Judge denied every claim brought in a lawsuit by the group, which contends that Mile-Hi Skydiving owner Frank Casares is a nuisance, and negligent in the way he runs the business. The group says the company's airplanes are "unusually loud" when flying over their homes. Judge Judith LaBuda disagreed, and told all parties they should "move on" from the matter, but instead, CQS took the case to the Colorado Court of Appeals, where they were also rebuffed. A new application of interplanetary radar, pioneered by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, have successfully located spacecraft orbiting the moon -- one active, and one dormant. "We have been able to detect NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter [LRO] and the Indian Space Research Organization's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft in lunar orbit with ground-based
radar," said Marina Brozovic, a radar scientist at JPL and principal investigator for the test project. Rep. Rick Larsen (D-WA) has introduced the "Know Before You Fly Act" ... legislation he says is aimed at boosting consumer protections for air travelers. Larsen, the ranking Democrat on the House Transportation Committee's Aviation Subcommittee, introduced H.R. 1420 with Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR). All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 03.21.17 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Tuesday, March 21st, 2017... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalist Tom Patton, this episode covers:
- Anti-Skydiving Group Wants Case Heard By Colorado Supreme Court
- NASA Locates Chandrayaan-1 Lunar Orbiter
- Larsen Introduces Legislation To Increase Airfare Transparency
- Palm Beach County Airport Officials Press For VIP TFR Relief
- Aero-Calendar
- Gen. James Holmes Takes Command Of ACC
- AF Conducts First C-17 Post Flight Inspection Using A Drone
- Flamingo Air Partners with U.S. Forestry Service
- TSA Agent In Pittsburgh Charged With Sexting 13-Year-Old Girl
- NBAA Announces Recipients Of 2017 International Operators Scholarships
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