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August 08, 2018

Airborne 08.08.18: NATA v AOPA, Continental Builds!, New CAF Boss

Also: NBAA Still Fighting For KSMO, NTSB Staff, Airport Fund Scandal, NavMonster Updates

NATA is continuing to 'educate the public' in light of the AOPA campaign recently referred to as “Denial of Airport Access & Egregious FBO Fees.” NATA urges the industry and public to gain a better understanding of the landscape of general aviation to avoid potential unintended consequences derived from AOPA’s misguided assumptions on pricing at publicly-funded airports. “We believe AOPA’s initiative risks increasing costs for users, will redirect resources from important operational and safety projects at airports, and fails to recognize how airports carry out mandates from TSA and satisfy its rigorous requirements,” NATA President Marty Hiller stated

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NASA Selects U.S. Firms To Provide Commercial Suborbital Flight Services

Contracts Have A Combined Value Of $45 Million

NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program has selected four companies to integrate and fly technology payloads on commercial suborbital reusable platforms that carry payloads near the boundary of space. The selection is part of NASA's continuing effort to foster a viable market for American commercial reusable suborbital platforms that allow testing of new space technologies within Earth's atmosphere.

Oshkosh Odds And Ends-Part Three

As our press briefing responsibilities at AirVenture subsided, I had more time to walk the grounds looking for the unusual. For a while there, I was wearing the grass down between the Press Headquarters and our media tent, but on Wednesday morning I had signed up to assist our local EAA Chapter 983 from Granbury, Texas to help with the Pancake breakfast.