Someone Seems To Be Looking For Their 15 Minutes of
Fame...
Following the tragic fatal crash of a Velocity 173RG in
Las Vegas, NV, a local official from the Clark County
Aviation Authority is grabbing some headlines. The Aviation
Director, Randy Walker, is apparently calling for the banishment of
experimental aircraft from the North las Vegas Airport -- which is
supposed to be a "reliever" for the even busier Las Vegas
International Airport (McCarran), to the South.
Australia Issues Type Certificate For The CC18-180 Top Cub
CubCrafters is crowing about a recent Australian approval. The
CC18-180 TOP CUB has received Type Certification from the Civil
Aviation Safety Authority. This certification allows new,
certified, ready-to-fly Cubs to be delivered to customers in
Australia for the first time ever.
NASA Does Fairly Well -- Some GA Fields... Not So Much
While managers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, were reopening
the center for normal operations Friday morning for workers' first
shift, Tropical Storm Fay continued to pound away at Northern and
western Florida throughout th weekend. The ever-so-slow-moving
Tropical Storm Fay kept Kennedy closed since Tuesday.
Plans are reportedly on schedule to install
state-of-the-art Automated Weather Observing Systems (AWOS) at
three airports in Oklahoma this fall. The unmanned AWOS
systems will provide continuously updated weather information
to pilots and ground personnel at Blackwell-Tonkawa Municipal
Airport near Tulsa, Clarence E. Page Municipal Airport outside
Oklahoma City, and Stigler Regional Airport in eastern
Oklahoma.
Read More
