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...each incident that could be considered a security threat. The airlines already report security concerns to the TSA. But they say that being forced to report even minor incidents--and first to the TSA rather than the FBI, which has both the legal jurisdiction to handle crimes aboard aircraft and more experienced aviation-security agents--is unnecessary and will add delays. "The TSA has no idea what they are getting into," says one airline-industry source. "The airlines get thousands of crank calls a year, and there are thousands more disruptive passengers who turn out to be drunks, not terrorists...
...Speed, in miles per hour, attained by NASA's "scramjet," the first jet aircraft to go Mach 9.6, or 2 miles per second...
...reception was muted. Rutan was widely respected in the experimental-plane-building industry, having designed Voyager, the first aircraft to make it around the world nonstop without refueling, which his brother Dick helped fly into the record books in 1986. But the design for SpaceShipOne inspired near universal derision. "When I first saw it, I thought he'd lost his mind," says Mike Melvill, Rutan's oldest employee, longtime friend and faithful test pilot...
...aircraft can be refueled while flying, allowing it to remain over targets for extended periods to support troops on the ground...
...material." U.S. officials have begun to keep a closer eye on heavy-truck traffic across the border. The Mexicans will also focus on flight schools and aviation facilities on their side of the frontier. And another episode has some senior U.S. officials worried: the theft of a crop-duster aircraft south of San Diego, apparently by three men from southern Mexico who assaulted a watchman and then flew off in a southerly direction. Though the theft's connection to terrorism remains unclear, a senior U.S. law-enforcement official notes that crop dusters can be used to disperse toxic substances...