On The Fly…
High winds on Monday damaged about 25 airplanes in San Marcos, Texas…2,000-foot tower will not be built in Bayonne, N.J., but at WTC site…Spirit of St. Louis replica crashed at England airshow, pilot killed…AOPA prez Phil Boyer will host hangar talk at Saturday’s Fly-In…Camp David, Md., prohibited airspace reduced to a 3-nm radius.
High winds damaged or destroyed 20 to 25 airplanes and several hangars at San Marcos Municipal Airport as thunderstorms tore through Texas Monday night. Losses total up to $7 million, the Austin American-Statesman reported...
A proposal to construct a 2,000-foot tower in Bayonne, N.J., in the midst of the busiest terminal airspace in the world, has been put on hold. The tower instead will return to the top of a new building to be built at the former World Trade Center site...
A replica of the Spirit of St. Louis broke up in flight and crashed during an airshow in Coventry, England, on Saturday. Pilot and builder 59-year-old Pierre Hollander died of injuries sustained in the crash, BBC News reported Sunday...
AOPA prez Phil Boyer will take pilots' questions during a hangar-session seminar at the AOPA Fly-In in Frederick, Md., this Saturday...
The prohibited airspace around the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., has been reduced to a 3-nm radius during times the president is not in residence, as of last Sunday, AOPA said.
