Tue, Aug 23, 2016
A resolution has been considered by the Santa Monica City Council would make it a policy of the city to close the airport to aviation uses "as soon as legally permitted", with a goal of ending aviation operations there by 2018.
The resolution is a complex document that reviews the past history of the airport and the original purpose of the land upon which the airport resides. It refers to an original commitment to the FAA to maintain the airport in operation for 30 years as a result of federal money infused into the airport. According to the City Council math, that commitment to support the airport ends in 2018. Last Friday, space station Expedition 48 Commander, Jeff Williams, and, Flight Engineer Kate Rubins, concluded their 6-hour spacewalk to install the first of two international docking adapters. These adapters will be used for the future arrivals of Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew spacecraft now in development under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The way we have been filing domestic flight plans has been around for a long time, but changing over to the international ICAO system is on the horizon. However, the FAA has again delayed the implementation of the international flight plan form for all civil domestic
flights. Barring another postponement, the FAA will eliminate use of the domestic flight plan format and make the transition to ICAO format in January 2017. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 08.23.16 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Tuesday, August 23rd, 2016... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Brianne Cross and Christopher Odom, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton, and Earl Downs, this episode covers:
- Santa Monica Considers Resolution For Airport Closure
- ISS Readies For Manned SpaceX, Boeing Spacecraft
- ICAO Flight Plan Mandate Pushed To January 2017
- ANN Is Hiring--AGAIN! Videographers Needed For Airborne Unlimited Program Staff
- Aero-Calendar
- Austrian Authorities Report Near Collision Between UAV, Helicopter
- AIA Briefs Informal Clinton Campaign Advisors
- First LM-100J Commercial Freighter Meets Major Production Milestones
- Teamsters File Petition To Represent Allegiant Flight Dispatchers
- IDG Europe, Marlink Complete Successful Trials Of Smalltrack
Get Comprehensive, Real-Time, 24/7 coverage of the latest aviation and aerospace stories anytime, at aero-news.net. And be sure to join us again next week for the next edition of "Airborne Unlimited" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, tomorrow!
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