Australian pilot Jeremy Rowsell is to set off on a record breaking flight from Sydney to London in a single engine aircraft powered 100 per cent by fuel made from plastic waste. Rowsell will fly a Cessna 182 solo, cruising mainly at 5,000 feet, sometimes in 13 hour stretches, along the same route used by the barnstorming pilots of the 1920s and 1930s.
Group Of 11 Associations Urge Completion Of The Rule By Year's End
A group of 11 aviation-related associations and organizations have written a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano urging the department to meet its commitment and complete the rulemaking on repair station security by the fourth quarter of 2012.
Cites Obama Administration Initiative To Cut Travel Expenses
The scandal of GSA employees spending freely on a conference in Las Vegas caused the cancellation of travel plans by some 200 black FAA employees who were planning to attend a conference in that same city. Employees were told they were free to attend the National Black Coalition of Federal Aviation Employees conference, but they would have to pay their own way and use annual leave to do so.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel Said Daley Decision To Destroy The Airport In The Dark Of Night 'The Right Thing To Do'
It was no April Fool's joke when Chicago pilots woke up on April 1st, 2003, to find that bulldozers had cut big "X"s in the runway at Meigs Field on the shore of Lake Michigan. Former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley ordered the destruction of the airport under the cover of darkness. His successor, Rahm Emanuel, said last week that it was the "right thing to do."
How often has this happened. You buy a raffle ticket or enter a contest in some other way, drop the entry into the box, and promptly forget about it. Rarely do you get a call saying "you've won," but that's exactly what happened to Jason Hill of Jamestown, ND. And the prize was a refurbished 1964 Cessna 182 Skylane.
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