“General aviation has never asked for a bailout, but we can cut red tape and at the same time improve safety, effectively revitalizing the industry by cutting the cost of new planes. The existing outdated certification process needlessly increases the cost of safety and technology upgrades by up to 10 times.” Source: Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-KS), on his Small Aircraft Revitalization Act (SARA) of 2013.
Knuckles
Slang for lumpy protrusions on the edges, and sometimes the underside, of a thunderstorm anvil. They usually appear on the upwind side of a back-sheared anvil, and indicate rapid expansion of the anvil due to the presence of a very strong updraft.
You're in a spacecraft, on a mission to land on the moon for the first time in history, and the microphone to Earth is off. What do you say? Now you can listen in on a NASA Web site and find out.
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