Everyone knows that on a misty May morning 75 years ago, a brave young guy named Charles A. Lindbergh hopped into a plane called the Spirit of St. Louis and made the first solo trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris. He spent the next years of his life, of course, as a national hero and a person of great public curiosity. Back before we had celebrity gossip in every newspaper and magazine, we had Lindbergh's story: his marriage to the writer Anne Morrow Lindbergh, the tragic kidnapping of their baby son, Lindbergh's wartime accomplishments and remarks, and his later work with medicine and the environment. But aviation historians are more concerned with other aspects of Lindbergh's famous flight: What about the airplane itself? Who can tell ITS story?
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The federal air traffic control system -- scanning congested flyways with radar and passing information from control center to control center on the ground during an airplane's flight -- is functionally obsolete, and taxes on tickets and jet fuel barely begin to cover what it costs to operate and maintain it. Six federal agencies, the White House and private industry are collaborating to manage a project of almost unimaginable scope: build a blueprint for air traffic control in 2025. The plan, designed to accommodate the anticipated threefold growth in demand, lists several broad goals for expediting the movement of people and cargo, bolstering safety and security, reducing weather delays, protecting the environment and retaining US leadership in global aviation. To bridge a gap between...
ARLINGTON, Va., May 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AIA presented its 2011 Worker Safety Excellence Awards to GE Aviation, Northrop Grumman Corporation and Honeywell Aerospace May 4. The presentation was made at AIA's Environment, Safety and Health Committee's Spring Conference in Phoenix, Arizona. These awards are an annual tribute to the commitment of industry to our workers' health and safety," said AIA President and CEO Marion C. Blakey. "I'd like to congratulate not just the winners, but all the companies who participated in the program.
... to changes in the commercial environment without incurring the costs, delays, complications...
ARLINGTON, Va., May 18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- AIA has appointed Todd D. Sigler as Assistant Vice President of Civil Aviation. Sigler joins AIA after working for Cirrus Aircraft in a variety of positions, most recently as vice president of Manufacturing Support and Process Engineering. In his new role with AIA, Sigler will focus on topics related to civil aviation issues and policy, including the environment, research and development, aviation infrastructure and safety and security.
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