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FAA Grounds Radio Flyer
Federal Aviation Adminstration (Satire) ^ | 5/13/2009 | FAA

Posted on 05/13/2009 8:16:57 AM PDT by cll

May 13, 2009

WARNING LETTER

CERTIFIED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED

Mr. Robert F. Pasin President and CEO Radio Flyer, Inc. 6515 W. Grand Ave. Chicago, IL 60707

Dear Mr. Pasin:

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has reviewed the markings of your Radio Flyer Classic Wagon and your Radio Flyer Retro Rocket Ride-On. FAA’s review found serious violations of the Federal Aviation Act and of the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s resolutions 900.564.0004.1 (b) and 900.782.00230.1 (s). You can find copies of the Act and the FAA’s website, http://www.faa.gov. The ICAO’s resolutions may be found at http://www.icao.int.

UNAUTHORIZED AIRCRAFT

Based on claims made on your vehicles’ markings, we have determined that your Radio Flyer Classic Wagons and your Radio Flyer Retro Rocket Ride-Ons are promoted for conditions that cause it to be AIRCRAFT because the vehicles are intended to manipulate the imagination of THE CHILDREN, insinuating that they are capable of FLIGHT.

Your Radio Flyer vehicles are mis-marked within the meaning of FAR Part 119 because it bears unauthorized claims of capabilities of FLIGHT, therefore posing an immediate threat of irreparable injury to the MINDS OF THE CHILDREN.

This letter is not intended to be an all-inclusive review of your vehicles and their markings. It is your responsibility to ensure that all your products are in compliance with the Act and its implementing regulations.

Failure to promptly correct the violations specified above may result in enforcement action without further notice. Enforcement action may include seizure of violative aircraft and/or injunction against the manufacture and distributors of violative aircraft.

Please advise this office in writing 15 days from your receipt of this letter of the specific steps you have taken to correct the violations noted above and to ensure that similar violations do not occur. Your response should include any documentation necessary to show that correction has been achieved.

Please send your reply to the attention of Tyrone S. Wisecrack, Compliance Commissar, Federal Aviation Administration, US Department of Transportation, 800 Independence Ave., Washington, DC 20591.

Sincerely,

/s/

Edward Wojohowitz Director Potentate FAA Illinois District


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Humor
KEYWORDS: cheerios; democrats; fda; fixyourwagon; freepun; humor; obama; radioflyer; satire; thoughtcrimes
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Truth is stranger than fiction.
1 posted on 05/13/2009 8:16:57 AM PDT by cll
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To: cll
Tyrone S. Wisecrack

You call this "truth"?

This is remarkably similar to the Cheerios letter.

2 posted on 05/13/2009 8:18:45 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: cll

It is fiction...


3 posted on 05/13/2009 8:18:54 AM PDT by listenhillary (Rahm Emmanuel slip - A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.)
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To: cll

Oh no..., I can see a whole slew of fake stories coming out now... since everybody wants to be a science fiction writer now... LOL...


5 posted on 05/13/2009 8:20:28 AM PDT by Star Traveler
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To: cll

6 posted on 05/13/2009 8:20:54 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: cll

Maybe because this is fiction? Nothing on the link supplied re this.


7 posted on 05/13/2009 8:22:01 AM PDT by mnehring
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To: cll
I can personally attest that a Radio Flyer wagon really can fly, but it has the glide ratio of, well a wagon, and the landings were usually rough.
8 posted on 05/13/2009 8:22:05 AM PDT by Jack of all Trades (Bait and Switch - that's change ain't it?)
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To: Izzy Dunne

No, this letter doesn’t contain nearly as much Federal law citations. It is however very well done (crafted)


9 posted on 05/13/2009 8:22:34 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . Crucify ! Crucify ! Crucify him!!)
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To: Jack of all Trades

Hey, they made the F-4 Phantom fly, didn’t they?


10 posted on 05/13/2009 8:24:19 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: mnehring

It is a joke for crisakes.


11 posted on 05/13/2009 8:24:20 AM PDT by cll (I am the warrant and the sanction)
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To: cll

Next thing we know they will go after Cheerios, oh wait.....


12 posted on 05/13/2009 8:24:36 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: cll
Photobucket This is hilarious.
13 posted on 05/13/2009 8:24:43 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: Izzy Dunne
This is remarkably similar to the Cheerios letter.

Was that one BS also?

14 posted on 05/13/2009 8:24:56 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for something I ain't.)
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To: cll
Too Funny
15 posted on 05/13/2009 8:25:06 AM PDT by SkyDancer ('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
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To: bert

Add Flexible Flyer to this list, as when I was on my daughter’s with her when she was little, I found it not to be “flexible” at all. In fact I had a Black and Blue on my ass for a week.


16 posted on 05/13/2009 8:25:35 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: cll

I am so sick of these federal agencies trying to take over even toy companies.


17 posted on 05/13/2009 8:26:19 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("We beat the Soviet Union, then we became them." -- Lazamataz, 2005)
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To: SJSAMPLE

I’m of the opinion that the F4 is proof that if you put a big enough engine on anything (even a brick) ... it can fly.


18 posted on 05/13/2009 8:26:27 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: cll

I wonder if there is a letter on the way to Radio Flyer threatening to pull their broadcast licenses unless they provide proof of minority ownership?

I didn’t know that Radio Flyers could fly. No idea how I missed that when I was a kid. What a waste.


19 posted on 05/13/2009 8:27:04 AM PDT by texmexis best (uency)
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To: cll
Federal Aviation Adminstration (Satire)

Read people read!!!

20 posted on 05/13/2009 8:27:18 AM PDT by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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