Will Assume A Position In Academia Early Next Year
John S. Pistole, the Transportation Security Administration’s longest serving administrator, today announced his retirement from public service, effective Dec. 31, 2014, following more than 31 years in the federal government, including four and a half years at TSA and 26 years at the FBI.
Dr. Doug Butzier Had Been Running As A Libertarian
An emergency room physician running for a U.S. Senate seat in Iowa as a Libertarian has been fatally injured in an aviation accident near Dubuque Regional Airport.
EASA has published a Notice of Proposed Amendment to its Certification Specifications for Standard Changes & Standard Repairs (CS-STAN) that is intended to allow a simpler process for the design and embodiment of some changes and repairs when applicable to certain aircraft (airplanes up to 12,500 pounds MTOM, rotorcraft up to 7,000 pounds MTOM, and most sailplanes, balloons and airships).
You're Either Part Of The Solution Or Part Of The Particulate
Hang around long enough and it occurs to you that the notion of progress and innovation as a continuum is nonsense. Time doesn’t flow, it ticks, and between these punctuations of insight and process changing invention there are periods of inertia so long that they morph from convention to paradigm to ritual. Over time the ritual becomes golem, a lumbering, poorly defined servant too ugly to love and too big and imposing to ignore.
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