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July 07, 2007

A Tribute To A Volunteer... And 'His' Plane

Restoration Still Underway On PB4Y-2 Privateer

It was during March of 2002 that I first met William D. Jolliffe. I was on an early ANN assignment covering what might be considered an "orphan" warbird: the Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer that had been (and still is) under restoration at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, TX for quite a while (15 years or so as this is written).

Aero-Linx!

Vandenberg Air Force Base is headquarters for the 30th Space Wing. The 30th manages Department of Defense space and missile testing, and placing satellites into polar orbit from the West Coast, using expendable boosters.

Aero-Terms!

A type of non-destructive inspection (NDI) in which an item is examined for hidden flaws.

"Your e-mail provides no factual information about what is needed for system transformation, but instead makes a blatant attempt to encourage ill-informed support from people who are justified in their frustration with this summer's unprecedented airline delays."

Source: Ed Bolen, president of the National Business Aviation Association, in a terse letter to United Airlines CEO Glenn Tilton regarding the carrier's "Contact Congress" initiative, asking passengers to take up the fight bandied by the Air Transport Association and other pro-airline interests, to impose user fees on corporate aviation.