Word: faa
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...into a dispute over Russian-built Kamov and Mil helicopters, by lobbying the Bush Administration on their behalf. The powerful Russian choppers can outlift the best U.S. helicopters and are being offered to American oil and logging firms at half price. U.S. manufacturers are livid because Strauss wants the FAA to waive the costly and time-consuming U.S. commercial-certification process for the Russian competition. If the FAA goes along with Strauss, the heavy lifters may start hauling timber in Alaska this summer...
...social chair of AAA, I wanted to have an event that celebrated our Asian heritage as well as our Asian American culture, and diffuse this to all members of the Harvard community. I wanted people to believe in FAA as much as I did, but I knew it would take more than just another dance to make people excited about AAA again...
Thanks to last year's disarmament agreements with the former Soviet Union, 30 B-52 bombers are among the weapons that will be destroyed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The demolition provides the FAA with a chance to learn how to design passenger airliners that are more resistant to terrorist explosives. "The B-52s are a real windfall," says Lyle Malotky, the FAA's scientific adviser for aviation security. "When we laid out this program two years ago, we didn't expect to have such resources...
...FAA contends that safety was never compromised. But the episode raises serious questions about the agency's lack of a backup system, as well as its overwhelming reliance on AT&T, which handles more than 90% of the FAA's communications traffic. The outage is expected to revive an FAA plan to spend as much as $1 billion on a more reliable, high-tech phone system. The project had been vetoed by the General Services Administration as too costly...
Prompting the action was a mid-March accident in Florida that killed a family of four when their Malibu fell apart during a rainstorm. The FAA has not determined the cause of the accident and is still investigating the six similar mishaps, but says it has found evidence of "gross" excess strain on the wings of the aircraft that crashed. The manufacturer attributes the accidents to "pilot error and pilot inexperience" in adverse weather at speeds greater than the planes were designed to handle...