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September 14, 2013

Airborne 09.13.13: AOPA Kills Summits, TransAt Cluster Balloon, 1st Int'l TTx

Also: Fight Over Pad 39A, 166 Days In Space, Advice For Mark Baker, Paper Charts Kaput, British Airways Says 'Sorry'

Saying it no longer makes sense for the organization and its members to invest in a single large event, AOPA has decided to end its annual Aviation Summits. The Aviation Summit in Fort Worth, TX, from Oct. 10 through 12, 2013 will be held as planned, but in 2014, AOPA will instead host a series of enhanced pilot town halls and fly-ins and kill off the Summit program. Like retired balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen in the Disney animated movie UP! – IT consultant Jonathan Trappe is living his childhood dream. Instead of flying

“The FAA continues its goal to improve National Airspace System energy efficiency by at least two percent per year, and to develop and deploy alternative jet fuels for commercial aviation, with a target of one billion gallons of alternate jet fuel in use by 2018.” Source: FAA Administrator Michael Huerta, in a news release announcing a $40 milion investment in the COE.

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New Zealand Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC)

The principal purpose of the Transport Accident Investigation Commission (TAIC) is to determine the circumstances and causes of accidents and incidents with a view to avoiding similar occurrences in future, rather than to ascribe blame to any person.