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June 14, 2007

FAA's Blakey Tells JPDO 'Tomorrow Is Today' For NextGen

Actually, It's 109 Days Away...

Below is the full text of a speech given Wednesday before the Joint Planning and Development Office on Capitol Hill by FAA Administrator Marion Blakey.

ANN Special Feature: Steve Hanvey, SATS - 06.14.07

ANN's Pete Combs rides along with Steve Hanvey of Smart Air Travel Solutions, an air taxi provider operating for two years now using a fleet of Cirrus SR22s.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (06.14.07)

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The 22nd Annual Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven Fly-In will take place June 20-23, 2007 at the historic William T. Piper Memorial Airport in Lock Haven, PA. This year's theme is "70 years of Piper". Featured aircraft are the L-4 and PA-24 Comanche.

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A graduated circle painted on a ramp or taxiway of an airport.

"When it's flying we have greater success and fewer IEDs going off. It's kind of an insurance policy."

Source: US Navy Capt. David Woods, one of the Navy's most experienced EA-6B Prowler pilots. The Vietnam-era aircraft's primary function until now has been to escort US attack jets while jamming the enemy radios, hostile radars and air defense batteries aimed at them... but it has recently been redefined to take on a new mission: jamming ground signals from devices such as mobile phones and garage door openers that act as detonators for improvised explosive devices (IED).