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Control tower can continue operating for now
The Eagle-Tribune, North Andover, Mass.The control tower at Lawrence Municipal Airport has gotten another reprieve from a possible shutdown. Airport Manager Michael Miller said he received an email from a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) official yesterday announcing that the tower...Tags: Air Transportation Industry
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FAA: Nation's contract towers will be spared
The Brownsville Herald, TexasBrownsville South Padre Island International Airport officials can finally relax -- at least until September. The Department of Transportation on Friday announced that contract air traffic control towers will continue to receive Federal Aviation...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Government, Politics, Air Transportation Industry, Budgets and Budgeting
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CIRA tower gets another funding extension
The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.Central Illinois Regional Airport's control tower will remain open at least until the end of September, federal officials announced Friday. There is enough extra money under a bill passed by Congress last month to keep 149 control towers slated for...Tags: Finance, Air Transportation Industry, Career and Workplace, Budget Control Act of 2011, Employees
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US FAA to keep 149 air traffic towers open
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration has sufficient funds to keep 149 low activity contract towers originally slated for closure in June open for the remainder of fiscal year 2013, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said...Tags: Air Transportation Industry
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Leesburg tower won't close, thanks to funding fix
LEESBURG — The control tower at Leesburg International Airport won't close next month after all now that the Federal Aviation Administration has funding approval, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today. The Leesburg tower was one of...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Air Transportation Industry, Budget Control Act of 2011, Ray LaHood, Air Transportation Delays
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Plane plummets into field
The Wilson Daily Times, N.C.A man and woman were injured when their single-engine airplane snagged a power line and plummeted into a field Thursday night. The crash happened around 7:30 p.m. on the 3200 block of N.C. 96 N. outside Selma. Justin Haggerty was in his back yard when...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Duke Energy Corporation, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Five Md. air traffic towers will remain open
Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that are part of 149 "low activity" towers nationwide will remain open through the end of the September, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday. The towers, including those at Martin State...
Tags: Baltimore County, Air Transportation Industry, Ocean City, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Transportation
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Nearly a third of fliers left devices turned on during flights
This post has been corrected. See the note below for details.A study released this week found 30% of U.S. airline passengers accidentally left their tech devices turned on during flights in 2012. The study was conducted by the Airline Passenger Experience Assn. and the Consumer Electronics Assn. as a way to aid...Tags: Electronics, Air Transportation Industry, Science and Technology, Transportation, Air Transportation
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Battle looms as commercial space interests seek piece of federal wildlife refuge
The coastal ghost town of Shiloh, where the nation's rock-star rocketeer wants to build a space town, is for now a place of orphan oranges, turkey tracks and lonesome tombstones. Above all, Shiloh is surrounded by the healthiest part of Merritt Island...
Tags: Cape Canaveral, NASA, Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Space Programs, Kennedy Space Center
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Regional airport towers to stay open
Federal aviation regulators will keep 149 contractor-staffed airport towers open at least through Sept. 30 after Congress authorized budget transfers to stave off planned closings. The move affects several Illinois airports whose towers were set to...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Justice System, Air Transportation Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Auburn University to phase out professional flight instruction
Opelika-Auburn News, Ala.Students who hoped to become pilots with degrees from Auburn University will now have to earn their professional flight degrees through another flight school. The professional flight degree program at Auburn University will be phased out in order to put...Tags: Students, JetBlue Airways, Air Transportation Industry, Teaching and Learning, Tuskegee University
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NASA boss likes view from Langley
— Nestled inside a cockpit simulator, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden guided a passenger jet through a pea soup fog and touched down on the airport runway with nary a bump. Workers at NASA Langley Research Center hope he can navigate a budget...
Tags: NASA, Space Programs, Boeing Co., Hampton Roads, U.S. Congress
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