The first start of an aircraft engine is often a milestone, but in this case it’s an amazing achievement. The North American P-82, later to become the F-82, Twin Mustang fighter went into production just as World War Two was ending. This unusual airplane gives the appearance of being Two P-51 Mustangs connected together, but it was actually a completely new design. While its entrance into service was too late to help out in World War Two, it saw successful service dur
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As the city of Santa Monica, California continues to strangle its own airport by making it impossible for businesses to operate there, the National Business Aircraft Association has stepped in with an urgent request for the FAA to take action. NBAA President and CEO, Ed Bolen, has cited "an urgent need for further, stricter action" to halt blatant actions by city officials to drive local businesses from The Santa Monica Municipal Airport. Rather extreme measures are now in
“It’s vitally important that manufacturers have one set of standards, established by the FAA, to adhere to. Otherwise they can face the nearly impossible and very costly challenge of trying to follow a hodgepodge of potentially contradictory state standard.” Source: AOPA General Counsel Ken Mead.
Operations which include simultaneous takeoffs and landings and/or simultaneous landings when a landing aircraft is able and is instructed by the controller to hold-short of the intersecting runway/ taxiway or designated hold-short point.
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