Word: transports
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Engelhard stabled race horses in North Carolina, England and South Africa, $15 million worth of race horses -- about the same amount that the Engelhard Foundation has in assets. He needed three private jets and a helicopter to transport him to his international business and pleasure appointments...
Coincidentally, the FAA issued new safety regulations last week for the various unscheduled small-plane commuter lines, chartered aircraft and "air taxis" that are adding to major-airport congestion. Their pilots will henceforth have to maintain full airline-transport-pilot certificates, and their planes must carry a ground-proximity warning system, cockpit voice recorder and either thunderstorm detection equipment or weather radar...
...classwork and 35 hours in the air at an FAA- approved school to obtain a private pilot's license. A commercial license requires more: between $3,500 and $4,000 and 250 hours of flight time. But it is a cosmic leap from this to an Air Transport rating of 1,500 flying hours minimum followed by specialized instruction for particular aircraft types...
...with the trials of Soviet dissidents last July, the Russians have been dickering with the Western Europeans for a replacement. In one typical instance involving Argentina, the State Department nearly blocked a helicopter sale to the rightist military regime on the ground that the choppers might be used to transport political prisoners...
Carbarn and Company, runner-up in last spring's contract competition for the $4.2 million development of the old Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA) yards in Harvard Square, has retained counsel and may demand an ad hoc state board review their original development proposal...