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Considerable bitterness erupted in the aviation community last week when the president of the Air Line Pilots Association, Captain JJ. O'Donnell, charged at a congressional hearing that the FAA has been dangerously delaying the use of a practical system for automatically warning pilots of a possible collision. The need for such a device has been conceded by most aviation experts for years; yet none are in general use. Asked Eastern Air Lines Pilot Jack Howell: "I wonder how many more San Diegos we will have before we get an efficient system...
...undetected flight into the U.S. of a plane carrying Colombian marijuana or cocaine is a dramatic but far from unusual event. "Several hundred come in every day," says Tom Stuckey, an FAA official in Louisiana. Most flights from Colombia are bound for Florida and Georgia; a DC-7 with twelve tons of marijuana was discovered at an airfield in Georgia last spring. Countless other "pot planes" take off from Mexico for the deserts of the Southwest, where the Drug Enforcement Administration has found more than 40 small aircraft abandoned this year. The trafficking is a high-profit operation: a single...
...City Manager Merle Strouse decided that the old plow had reached "the last of its days," he investigated new snowplows and found that they cost $25,000, more than twice the $9,800 that the town wanted to pay. He asked the Federal Aviation Administration to help out. The FAA decided that the town really needed a bigger snowplow-for $83,000. In addition, the agency decreed, in order to have a new snowplow there must be an approved airport layout plan, costing $25,000, and a snowplow building, costing...
...almost as much as the original new snowplow that had seemed too expensive. So the town asked if it could simply scrap the construction of the snow-plow building. No, said the feds, if it did not have a construction project, it did not qualify for most FAA grants...
Your story on air travel says nothing about the heavy subsidies the air traveler enjoys. The subsidy is in the form of virtually free airports, traffic controllers, weather services, FAA inspectors and, in the case of smaller airlines, direct cash subsidies. In 1976, for example, North Central Airlines received a direct payment of $13 million...