Tag: Federal Aviation Administration

In this Feb. 23, 2018, photo, President Donald Trump gives a thumbs up after speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference In Oxon Hill, Md. On the offensive about his record and the defensive about the Russia investigation, Trump sought in a week's worth of rhetoric to show that he is outdoing his predecessor, if not all of history. This made for inflated claims. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Trump wants to make his personal pilot head of the FAA: Report

Kyle Feldscher · February 25, 2018 11:52 pm

We're lucky FBI agents or analysts went out of their way to reconsider aged intelligence. (iStock by Getty Images)

Beltway Confidential

Just like the 9/11 hijackers, possible Saudi terrorist arrested by the FBI told his flight instructors he wanted to be a commercial pilot

Tom Rogan · February 6, 2018 10:35 pm

Nearly three years after a Florida mailman flew undetected and landed at the Capitol, the Air Force is now testing its ability to detect gyrocopters and other small aircraft over Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)

Air Force testing gyrocopter detection over D.C.

Steven Nelson · January 31, 2018 12:32 am

The year before the regulation took effect, more than 800 flights encountered tarmac delays that lasted over three hours. Since 2011, after a full year of the rule's implementation, the numbers have dramatically dropped and only reached over 100 on two occasions. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Groups say passengers should be compensated when flights are delayed

Diana Stancy Correll · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

The legislation has bipartisan support and bipartisan opposition. Opponents are concerned that commercial airlines' interests could overrule those of general aviation and that Congress would not be active in decisions concerning general aviation. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Bill Shuster’s retirement won’t crash air traffic control reform

Diana Stancy Correll · January 16, 2018 5:01 am

President Trump said it "would be good to have a pilot" in that role.

Beltway Confidential

The Swamp earns its wings: Airline lobbyist takes control of the FAA

Philip Wegmann · January 8, 2018 9:02 pm

The Cirrus SR22, similar to the plane pictured, took off from Wiley Post Airport near Oklahoma City and was supposed to fly to Georgetown, Texas. (Creative Commons photo/Jet Request)

National Security

Coast Guard searching for animal rescue plane that appears to have crashed into the Gulf of Mexico

Melissa Quinn · January 4, 2018 6:06 pm

The White House is working to release a roughly 70-page infrastructure proposal sometime in January. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Trump administration set to unveil $1 trillion infrastructure proposal in 2018

Diana Stancy Correll · December 26, 2017 5:01 am

George Mathew, CEO of Kespry, shows a drone to President Trump during the "American Leadership in Emerging Technology" event in the East Room of the White House on June 22. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Drone industry prepares to ‘dazzle’ Trump administration through new pilot program

Melissa Quinn · November 28, 2017 5:01 am

It is clear that an air traffic control system designed in the 1940s is not equipped to handle the demands of 21st-century air travel. (iStock by Getty Images)

Air traffic control privatization is just an airline power grab

mark-baker, Ed Bolen · November 21, 2017 5:01 am

According to statistics compiled by the industry, major freight rail operators such as BNSF, CSX, Norfolk Southern, and Union Pacific have spent $26 billion annually in recent years. This investment, which allows the industry to serve nearly every sector of the economy, which in turn supports 1.5 million jobs nationally and generates nearly $100 billion in taxes for public projects, including infrastructure. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Beltway Confidential

Freight rail shows that private infrastructure is more than viable

Pete Sepp · November 14, 2017 8:04 pm

Air traffic controller planning room at Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina. (AP Photo/The Charlotte Observer)

Charlotte air traffic controller charged with possession of a weapon of mass destruction

Diana Stancy Correll · November 11, 2017 5:23 am