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September 15, 2004

Aero-News Quote Of The Day (09.15.04)

"EAA has always maintained that the TFR legislation was an ill-considered policy based on the economic dominance of professional sports leagues rather than security. That's why EAA and other aviation organizations stepped in to assist the Cleveland air show organizers in any way possible. What happened there showed how the inflexibility of this legislation hurt a long-standing air show tradition in that city, while not enhancing security one bit." Source: Doug Macnair, EAA's vice president of government relations, backing a federal bill that would grant waivers to airshows in restricted airspace or near major sporting events. Case in point: The Cleveland National Air Show, which, because of a ballgame at Jacobs Field, had to curtail the first night of its Labor Da

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