While GA is making a difference in the massive humanitarian effort, much more could be done if government authorities would simply tap the huge resource at its fingertips. “Literally thousands of pilots are members of volunteer pilot organizations and many wish to help,” Rol Murrow, head of the Air Care Alliance, told AVweb on Sunday. […]
Angel Flight Georgia spokeswoman Jeanine Biron said at least 50 volunteer aircraft are already involved and the need will expand. Interested pilots (who must be IFR-rated) can call 770-452-7958, ext. 0 to register and should have their documentation in front of them. Gail Pinckney, a spokeswoman for Brother’s Keeper, a group operating out of Atlanta […]
Smaller Communities Desperately Need Hurricane Help GA is being called upon to help thousands of people who seem forgotten in the hurricane relief effort. Dozens of small communities in the path of Hurricane Katrina have been virtually cut off for a week. “One of our planes was diverted to Poplarville, Miss., yesterday and it’s a […]
On the other side of the country, a deadlock by Oceanside, Calif. City Council means the city will lose $150,000 in FAA funding to build a perimeter fence. “The party’s over on that one,” Alan Cruise, president of the Oceanside Airport Association told the North County Times. Accepting the FAA money would require a renewed […]
FAA Grant Causes Concern In Florida In almost any other circumstances, a $2.3 million grant from the federal government would be welcomed with open arms by a civic government. But the commissioners of Martin County in Florida faced a room full of protesters sporting yellow ribbons to signify their opposition to the county accepting the […]
Of course aviation, mostly the rotary kind, is playing a huge role in the aftermath of Katrina. Commercial aircraft along with military, Civil Air Patrol and Coast Guard Auxiliary units from all over the Southeast are being deployed to the storm-hit areas and there’s no shortage of spectacular rescue coverage from the flock of news […]
Teledyne Continental Motors (TCM) is just one of the thousands of businesses trying to get back in operation after the storm. Its Mobile, Ala., factory took a direct hit and the roofs of two buildings were torn off. One production area got a little wet before tarps were in place but none of the equipment […]
As aircraft from the military, Civil Air Patrol and Coast Guard Auxiliary, not to mention dozens of media helicopters, flocked to disaster scenes in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, the FAA had some disasters of its own to cope with. Katrina did serious damage to numerous FAA installations, leaving controllers with little to work with, and, […]
The co-pilot’s diary has been found in the wreckage of the Helios Boeing 737-300 that crashed in Greece two weeks ago, and it’s expected to document problems with the aircraft and the airline. “[My father] once told me that if any of it ever got out the company would close,” the co-pilot’s son, Yiannis Charalambous, […]
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