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September 04, 2016

Albany County, NY Sheriff Drops TSA Proposal

Would Have Made It A Crime To Refuse TSA Screening

A proposed law that would have made it a crime to refuse screening by the TSA at Albany International Airport (KALB) in New York has been shelved by the county legislature at the request of Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Term (09.04.16): Interrogator

Interrogator The ground-based surveillance radar beacon transmitter-receiver, which normally scans in synchronism with a primary radar, transmitting discrete radio signals which repetitiously request all transponders on the mode being used to reply. The replies received are mixed with the primary radar returns and displayed on the same plan position indicator (radar scope). Also, applied to the airborne element of the TACAN/DME system.

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ANN's Daily Aero-Linx (09.04.16)

Aero Linx: Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) regulates civil aviation in New Zealand. The Minister of Transport establishes the rules that all: pilots engineers aircraft operators airlines air traffic controllers aerodrome operators regulated air cargo agents follow to keep aviation safe and secure. We check that these rules are being complied with and have the power to take action if they are not. We monitor safety and security performance throughout the aviation community so that we can direct our safety efforts where

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Aero-News: Quote of the Day (09.04.16)

“Our mission is to provide those airplanes as targets for our Department of Defense and foreign military sales customers to test the next generation of weapons. Sometimes, that is a missile, sometimes a surface-to-air missile. For the final unmanned flight, we flew in support of an F-35 mission.” Source: Lt. Col. Ronald King, the 82nd Aerial Targets Squadron, Detachment 1 commander discussing the QF-4 Phantom that flew its final unmanned mission in the skies above White Sands Missile Range on August 17. During the flight, the unmanned aircraft served its primary mission as an aerial target and was shot down by an F-35 Lightning II from Edwards Air Force Base, California.

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