Retired air traffic controller and blogger Don Brown had a great item yesterday. “President Obama’s budget includes cutting a ‘long-range navigation system’. . . . It took me a day or two to figure out they were talking about LORAN — Long-Range Aid to Navigation. Now, you tell me, did anyone (besides me) mention that [...]
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Headless horsemen
Posted in Evan's Commentary on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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Liveblogging Randy Babbitt’s confirmation hearing
Posted in Evan's Commentary, tagged air traffic control, antitrust, congress, dot, faa, general aviation, labor, safety on May 19, 2009 | 6 Comments »
The Senate Commerce Committee is holding a hearing today to review several nominations in its purview, including FAA administrator-designate J. Randolph Babbitt and DOT deputy secretary-designate John Porcari. Opening statements are going on now. Babbitt is, as you know, the former president of the Air Line Pilots Association and a pilot at Eastern. According to [...]
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