Also: Air Tanker Helps Firefighters, Spirit Shrinks, EXTRA NG AD, 5 ATR 72-600 Sale In the last 48 hours, an intriguing web site popped up out of nowhere… SAVEAOPA.org… with great detail about some of the many postulated issues that have arisen since Darren Pleasance was forced out of the top spot… The site claimed that AOPA had lost some 50% of its membership, was suffering from less than positive financial issues and decrying the extraordinary control exerted by the AOPA Board… which pretty much answers to no one but itself. As ANN was noting the site’s appearance, mission, and statements, it just disappeared… The Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport (BJC) won the case on appeal against the town of Superior and Boulder County related to their noise lawsuit. The appellate court’s ruling relied on the U.S. Supreme Court decision in City of Burbank v. Lockheed Air Terminal Inc., which held that federal law “generally preempts local police-power regulation of aircraft noise,” the release says. The city and county had sued the airport “for causing a public nuisance, seeking to enjoin touch-and-go operations by piston-engine aircraft at the airport.” BAE Systems has won a contract for Robins Air Force Base in Georgia to support and sustain the AN/ALQ-221 advanced defensive system (ADS) for the U.S. Air Force’s U-2 Dragon Lady surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft. All this — and MORE in today’s episode of Airborne-Unlimited!!!
