Word: faa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...composite materials that are lighter than the aluminum in standard aircraft. After Lear's death in 1978, his widow Moya tried to finish the plane, but financial troubles forced her to give up control to a group of investors led by Denver Oilman Bob Burch. He expects an FAA go-ahead by February and hopes to rehire the workers. But Belfast is bedeviled by doubts about whether the Lear Fan will ever be airborne...
...still some 28 hours more than Continental's pre-strike average. In view of the turmoil throughout the industry, the Federal Aviation Administration stepped up its safety inspections at the Houston-based carrier and other airlines. "There have been no safety violations so far," said FAA Administrator J. Lynn Helms of conditions at Continental...
...Force, joined by NASA, the Coast Guard and the FAA held a conference early this month to discuss ways of reducing the epidemic of SOS calls. Still, even irritated officials concede that on rare occasions the false alarms can lead to pay dirt. Earlier this year, rescuers followed satellite-relayed signals to a farm in the Southeast. The officials found a helicopter hidden in a haystack and loaded with marijuana...
...Coast Guard, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) wasted $3 million by using their own aircraft rather than commercial services between...
Texas Democrat Jack Brooks, chairman of the House Committee on Government Operations, whose Government Activities and Transportation subcommittee ordered the study, commented: "The widespread abuses and misuse of aircraft show a shameful disregard for the taxpayers' money." By contrast, the FAA said the GAO report was "so replete with errors, omissions and inadequacies as to be virtually unusable as a management appraisal or decision document...