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...Department of Homeland Security is expected to announce tomorrow that Washington's Reagan National Airport will soon allow small private planes and other general aviation aircraft to land there as long as a law enforcement officer, who is authorized to use force if necessary, is on board...
...convenient downtown airport, five sources in aviation and government say that David Stone, the head of the Transportation Security Administration, is planning to announce tomorrow that a limited number of carefully screened general aviation flights will be able to return to Reagan National in three months. The private aircraft, the government sources told TIME.com, will be under the most rigorous security measures of any private aircraft anywhere in the US. Only 48 flights a day will be allowed into Washington and they will be able to come only from a dozen 'gateway' cities, where the crews and passengers will undergo...
...leather-seated, air-conditioned kind used to ferry VIPs around. She saw in the members of the 12th Aviation Battalion a value system that more closely mirrored her own. "Those guys are deadly serious about the important things. They really look after the safety of their crew and their aircraft," she says. "But they also know what's not important, and I think in aviation you won't see nearly the stupid small things you see here." Relaxed but driven and supremely competent, the aviators looked like the type of officer she would want...
...made tremendous progress in dealing with these situations. A new strategy has been implemented, and it worked to perfection today. It's called 'Run for Your Lives!'" --JON STEWART, on the reaction to a stray aircraft last week in Washington...
...rent. In junior high, he was expelled for fighting and truancy. After dropping out, he learned to box ("Rifle Right," they called him), and during World War II he shuttled planes across the Atlantic for Britain's Royal Air Force. Back in California, he bought and sold refurbished aircraft and started an air service ferrying gamblers from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. On layovers in Vegas he took an interest in gambling, especially craps, and parlayed the proceeds from various ventures into real estate and casinos, seeing promise in the town "when it was just dirt," says a colleague...