Return To Flight?

Nearly three months after a global grounding, aircraft manufacturer Boeing is reportedly close to getting its embattled 787 Dreamliner jets back in the skies.
The Chicago-based firm has been conducting test flights with its newly redesigned lithium ion batteries in the hopes of getting the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to clear the planes for flight. A [...]

FAA Closing 149 Air Traffic Control Towers

As part of the federal government’s ongoing efforts to make miniscule budget cut seem like the end of the world, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced this week  that it would shutter 149 air traffic control towers across the country within the next three weeks.
Because clearly there’s no waste to be found in our country’s [...]

Secret “No Fly Zones” In SC

GLIDER PILOT ILLEGALLY ARRESTED, DETAINED BY PEE DEE SHERIFF’S DEPUTIES
A 70-year-old glider pilot was arrested and detained for thirty hours last summer after his glider got too close to the H.B. Robinson Nuclear Generating Station in Hartsville, S.C.
But was it the Darlington County (S.C.) Sheriff’s deputies who ran afoul of the law when they arrested [...]

Boeing Dreamliner’s Nightmares Continue

DID SOUTH CAROLINA BET ON A LEMON?
A pair of federal agencies are launching investigation into Boeing’s Dreamliner aircraft after at least five separate incidents this week raised fresh concerns about the plane’s safety.
On Friday, a Dreamliner owned by All Nippon Airlines experienced an oil leak from one of its engines while on the ground at Miyazaki [...]

Bobby Harrell: More Plane Problems?

DID SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE SPEAKER VIOLATE FEDERAL RULES?
S.C. House Speaker Bobby Harrell (RINO-Charleston) has already been caught red-handed artificially inflating the value of self-reimbursements paid from his campaign account.  As reported exclusively last month by investigative journalist Renee Dudley – formerly of The (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier – Harrell reimbursed himself more than $325,000 from his [...]

The “Taxpayer-Funded Friendly Skies” Riddle Is Answered

So who was flying your state plane all over kingdom come yesterday?
Apparently, it was a group of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials.
Their purpose? To discuss federal funding for airports as part of President Barack Obama’s big bad “bureaucratic bailout.”
As we noted yesterday, these officials flew South Carolina’s official Beechcraft King Air from Columbia to Rock [...]