Word: faa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...propane costs add another couple of hundred dollars. To keep down expenses, aeronauts often team up to buy an airship or they join a balloon club. Even so, a would-be pilot may have to pay up to $1,500 for lessons before he can be licensed by the FAA...
Your article "The Constant Quest for Safety" stated that one recommendation of an FAA panel to improve cabin safety is "giving crews better training for emergencies" and "making sure that flight attendants man the exit doors during a landing instead of frantically collecting cocktail glasses...
...Winnebago agreed that the S-58 Sikorsky was the best-suited chopper for Heli-Home conversion. Clark has already bought 56 surplus Sikorskys for H-H use, from as far away as Germany and Israel. Each of the craft will be rebuilt from the hull up under strict FAA supervision...
Criticism of the FAA has been growing. The National Transportation Safety Board (a federal agency that investigates air disasters and can make safety recommendations to the FAA), the 46,000-member Air Line Pilots Association, the 14,000-member Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, and congressional committees have attacked the FAA for not acting aggressively enough. For years the agency has been reluctant to take a tough line with either the airlines or the manufacturers...
...holdover from the Ford Administration, McLucas resigned last week?as previously planned?from the post of FAA Administrator. As his successor, Jimmy Carter has nominated Langhorne M. Bond, 40, the secretary of the Illinois department of transportation. Bond will have the job of finding ways to develop the necessary devices and programs to reduce even further the hazards of flying. Then Bond will have to persuade and direct the nation's great airline companies to do what is best. It need not be that difficult an assignment: as a whole, the industry has been willing and often eager to spend...