Word: faa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inspection to make sure it's safe. Many ultralights are elegant and airworthy; the plane featured in last year's movie Fly Away Home is a good example. But if you strapped a snowmobile engine and some plywood wings onto a lawn chair and got it to fly, the FAA couldn't stop...
...Under FAA rules, Denver's medical certificate, which must accompany a valid flying license, was denied because of the arrests. To reinstate it, Denver would have had to petition the FAA with proof he no longer suffered from an alcohol problem...
...According to the FAA, Denver had neither surrendered his medical certificate nor begun the necessary action to recover it. But apparently, running afoul of the FAA wasn't on Denver's mind Sunday...
...purpose since the Wright brothers' invention was perfected, the blimp has spent the past 30 years as the lofty billboard of the Goodyear Corp. Now, for a fee of $200,000 a month, such companies as Alta-Vista and Russell Stover are causing dozens of jumpy citizens to call FAA with UFO sightings. Eleven blimps are flying somewhere around the country, and there will be 13 by 1998. That's almost double the blimpage of a year ago. Most of them are made by the American Blimp Corp. of Hillsboro, Ore., which has designed a blimpette, that...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The National Transportation Safety Board stuck to its guns today, ruling that ValuJet Flight 592 which plunged into a Florida swamp was brought down by a fire ignited by loaded chemical oxygen generators. The NTSB was even-handed in aportioning blame, saying SabreTech, ValuJet and the FAA are all partially responsible for the disaster, which killed 105 passengers and five crew members last year. According to the report, SabreTech helped cause the accident by failing to properly package and identify the hazardous oxygen generators. ValuJet was slammed for improperly overseeing the maintenance contractor while the FAA was charged...