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Michael Fumento image By Michael Fumento —— Bio and Archives October 4, 2017 0 Comments | Print Friendly | Subscribe | Email Us In June 1948, Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. Within two days the US and UK air forces had begun a supply chain from bases in in western Germany, maintaining it until May the following year. In all, the Berlin Airlift delivered 2.4 million tons of food and supplies under hostile conditions to about 2.5 million people, including all their food, gasoline, and coal for heating and electricity generating. Yet...

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A man dressed in women's clothing who was trying to escape a 'bad date' was able to walk across two runways at Newark Liberty International Airport and wander into a terminal undetected - despite a $300million perimeter security system. Siyah Bryant, 24, of Jersey City, New Jersey, slipped undetected into a secure area of the airport on Christmas Day and was not arrested until he approached a United Airlines worker, who called police.

Recently the Government Accountability Office released GAO-10-120, “National Airspace System: Regional Airport Planning Could Address Congestion If Plans Were Integrated with FAA and Airport Decision Making.” For our region and Philadelphia International Airport, the study could be summarized as follows: “There is none,” planning that is. This study was prompted because the Federal Aviation Administration predicts that our national airspace systems are on track to become congested beyond their capacity. The GAO was asked to evaluate regional airport planning in congested metropolitan areas like Philadelphia. In 2009 Philadelphia International Airport registered 492,000 takeoffs and landings; this number is expected to...

3/17/2006 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- The 379th Expeditionary Operational Support Squadron is tasked with the demanding job of managing an entire airfield. An airfield manager’s job encompasses almost anything that deals with the airfield, said Tech. Sgt. Michael Adams, 379th EOSS airfield manager and reservist deployed from Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga. One of those aspects is safety. “We are here to ensure the safety of the airfield,” Sergeant Adams said. “We make sure that obstructions are not interfering with operations, we clear zones around the runway and taxiways, and we make sure there’s ample lighting to complete the...

(1010 WINS) (WASHINGTON) Many older airports squeezed next to dense city neighborhoods, bodies of water or steep drop-offs don't have room to allow the 1,000-foot safety margin at the end of the runway that the federal government considers adequate. Runway overruns can be extremely dangerous. In June 1999, an American Airlines jetliner slid past the end of the runway in Little Rock, Ark., killing nine passengers and injuring 86. And it was only the remarkable speed of the passengers' evacuation -- less than two minutes -- that prevented serious injury or death when an Air France Airbus skidded off the...