Suburban Atlanta Airport Calls Its New Event 'Salute America
2012'
Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport in Paulding County, GA, has
firmed up plans for its inaugural airshow, set for October 20th of
this year. At a meeting last week, the Airport Authority settled on
the date and the name "Salute America 2012" for its first foray
into the air show arena.
Several Prizes Up For Grabs, Including An Airplane Ride
Students in the state of Wisconsin have an opportunity to show
their love for aviation through an art contest sponsored each year
by the Wisconsin DOT. Through the program, the WisDOT Bureau of
Aeronautics encourages children ages seven to 17 to showcase their
artistic talent by participating in its annual statewide
contest.
CFI Bob Miller's Over The Airwaves online newsletter
and periodic contributions to ANN often collide with conventional
wisdom within the flight training industry. But on Monday, a
collision with another skier at Utah's Deer Valley Resort left the
veteran instructor unconscious after a fall on hard-pack snow which
broke his helmet.
Non-Licensed Pilot Seriously Injured When Plane Went Down
One of the things old pilots will tell you is that fuel back at
the pump will do you no good at all. For the person flying the
airplane involved in this accident, a pilot certificate might have
also been helpful. The NTSB preliminary shows that the plane had no
fuel in either tank, though there was some fuel contamination at
the accident scene.
Pilot Departed In Fog, Result Was Damaged Homes, Three
Fatalities
On February 17, 2010, a Cessna 310 carrying three employees
of Tesla Motors struck an electrical transmission tower shortly
after takeoff from Palo Alto Airport in California. Debris struck
several homes, setting three on fire. Now, an attorney for
51-year-old Lisa Jones, whose home was hit by a severed wing from
the plane, has reached a financial settlement with Tesla Motors,
the estate of the pilot, and several insurance companies.
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