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  • FAA warning system outage could lead to ‘residual’ flight delays across U.S. on Sunday

    02/02/2025 6:41:22 AM PST · by Red Badger · 16 replies
    Just The News ^ | February 02, 2025 | Nicholas Ballasy
    AFederal Aviation Administration warning system outage could lead to “residual delays” on Sunday morning, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy wrote on X. The FAA is working to restore the system. In the meantime, the agency has activated contingency systems to allow flight operations to continue. “The primary NOTAM system is experiencing a temporary outage, but there is currently no impact to the National Airspace System because a backup system is in place,” he wrote on X, “The (FAA) is working to fully restore the system, and there may be some residual delays tomorrow morning,” he also wrote. “We are investigating...
  • First lady of SR-71 killed

    09/20/2005 11:56:10 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 106 replies · 3,738+ views
    Valley Press on ^ | Tuesday, September 20, 2005. | ALLISON GATLIN
    YUKON, Okla. - NASA engineer and champion aerobatic pilot Marta Bohn-Meyer was killed Sunday when her plane crashed during practice for next week's National Aerobatic Championships. The crash occurred shortly before noon near Oklahoma City, where she was piloting her home-built Giles G-300 airplane. She had been joined there by her husband and fellow aerobatic pilot, Bob Meyer. "Flying and doing things with airplanes is my passion," she once said. "Given a choice, I'll go fly airplanes." According to the International Aerobatic Club, Bohn-Meyer had pulled into a vertical maneuver when the cockpit canopy came off. The airplane then crashed...