The News Review:
- Children’s car gets honor at Cleveland museum
- Airports urged to study bird-strike risks
- Small plane crashes at Rochester airport
- Pancakes and airplanes at aviation museum fundraiser Sunday
- Challenges ahead for low-fare aviation pioneer in air cargo biz
- Authorities ID Solway plane crash victims
Children’s car gets honor at Cleveland museum
The Associated Press
The Cozy Coupe a plastic cherry-red sports car allows toddlers to sit on a bench-style seat and poke their legs through to the ground. When they start walking the car begins to go. n Saturday it will take its place next to historically significant automobiles at the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. The museum will house one of the first Cozy Coupes to come off the production line in 1979. The Cozy Coupe is made by The Little Tikes Co. The company says it has sold more than 10 million of the cars in its 30-year history.
Airports urged to study bird-strike risks
USA Today
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) found that about 150 airports did not complete studies of wildlife hazards despite their histories of serious collisions between aircraft and birds or other animals according to four government and industry officials. None would comment publicly before the FAA releases its findings. The studies are the critical first step that airports use to identify bird risks and develop a plan to keep wildlife away from planes. A list of the airports wasn’t disclosed because each has to be notified by the FAA before it will be publicly identified as having failed to complete the hazard surveys. The FAA has notified the Airports Council International-North America of its findings and said that it intends to contact airports within days according Chris swald the group’s vice president for safety and operations.
Small plane crashes at Rochester airport
Newsday
Damelio says planes are taking off and landing atthe airport’s two other runways. democratandchronicle.
Pancakes and airplanes at aviation museum fundraiser Sunday
The Marshall Democrat-News
Cakes joked with those waiting for their pancakes — of which Cakes cooked about 40 at a time — telling them “Somebody here they set a record. They ate 72 pancakes. There” he pointed indicating a girl about 3 years old “that little girl in the purple she’s the one that ate 72.
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Challenges ahead for low-fare aviation pioneer in air cargo biz
Livemint
Gopinath?s new air cargo venture Deccan 360 his second coming as an aviation entrepreneur was never an afterthought. Even before he launched low-fare carrier Air Deccan in 2003 helping millions of Indians fly for the first time he had set his sights on the business. Gopinath?s plan was to expand Deccan Aviation Pvt. Ltd then a heli-charter business to include a no-frills passenger airline that would reach corners untouched by other private airlines. That he hoped would also help him tap the vast potential for moving cargo between India?s numerous small-town business hubs.
Authorities ID Solway plane crash victims
Knoxville News Sentinel
The victims were identified today as Bret Smith 40 of Pleasantville Tenn. the pilot and Ron Siedentoph 54 of Lake Way Drive in West Knox County according to Martha Dooley spokeswoman for the Knox County Sheriff’s ffice. The single-engine plane — a seaplane — crashed into Melton Hill Lake while trying to land in the water a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said. Divers recovered the bodies about 7:45 p. Saturday in the lake near the Knox-Anderson county line two hours after witnesses reported seeing a small plane crash into the lake. FAA records identified the aircraft as a “Searey” fixed-wing experimental craft built in 2001.