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Amateur airplane builders aren't deterred by fatal crash
Wings stood off to one side. The propeller lay in a carton. But the main part of Carl Kesselring's pet project was clearly recognizable as an airplane in progress. "I don't have fear of getting in an airplane," he said, standing in a hangar in...
Tags: Broken Nose, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Air and Space Accidents, Laurel, Air Transportation Industry
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Five Md. air traffic towers will remain open
Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that are part of 149 "low activity" towers nationwide will remain open through the end of the September, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Friday. The towers, including those at Martin State...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Baltimore County, U.S. Department of Transportation, Air Transportation Industry
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Investigators open probe into airplane crash that killed father and son
Federal investigators began examining Monday the wreckage of a two-seater, home-built airplane that crashed Sunday in Virginia, killing a man from Davidsonville and his son from Westminster, the father of 10 children. On Saturday, experimental...
Tags: Accidental Death, Fort Detrick (military base), Timonium, Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Air and Space Accidents
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The sequester gives Obama one more chance to blow it
In President Barack Obama's running argument with the Republicans in Congress over who's responsible for the legislative stalemate on Capitol Hill, he suffers self-inflicted wounds by continuing to run up the same white flag that undermined his own...
Tags: Republican Party, Barack Obama, Unemployment, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control
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Two Baltimore-area residents killed in small plane crash in Virginia
Two Baltimore-area residents were killed in a small plane crash in Virginia on Saturday, the Virginia State Police said Sunday. The men were identified as Berry Raymond Newgent, 73, of Davidsonville, and Thomas Berry Newgent, 51, of Westminster. Berry...
Tags: Accidental Death, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Five questions for Christopher Lee
Christopher Lee cut his teeth on public-private partnerships 26 years ago as a Lehman Brothers executive in charge of financing projects in Asia. He put together a consortium of local investors to build a $1.8 billion, 12-mile toll road in Bangkok....
Tags: Labor Legislation, Martin O'Malley, Port of Baltimore, Government, Chesapeake Bay Bridge
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Md. airport towers appear safe from federal cuts
Five air traffic control towers in Maryland that had been scheduled to shut down in June as a result of federal budget cuts are now expected to remain open, lawmakers said Wednesday — easing fears that the closures could back up flights at BWI...
Tags: Barack Obama, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Salisbury (Wicomico, Maryland), U.S. Department of Transportation, Electronics
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Congress flies blind
What does it require to get members of Congress to take action quickly and decisively on an issue of federal spending? Now we know. The possibility that they will be delayed in an airport terminal somewhere waiting for a flight out of town is apparently...
Tags: Health Treatments, Barack Obama, Unemployment Benefits, Unemployment, White House
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BWI weather observers at risk in federal aviation cuts
While the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday approved a Senate plan to avoid furloughs of air traffic controlllers, positions responsible for weather observation at BWI Marshall Airport and other airports across the country are at risk. The Federal...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Weather Reports, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Layoffs and Downsizing
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About 400 U.S. flights delayed as sequestration takes hold
Sequestration is starting to frustrate air travelers. About 400 flights were delayed Sunday because of air traffic controller furloughs, the Federal Aviation Administration said, and a few more interruptions were reported Monday, though the nation's air...
Tags: Republican Party, Kennedy Airport, Weather Warnings, Bill Shuster, Unemployment
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Aiming high in federal contracting
As federal agencies pull back on spending, 7Delta's strategy is thinking big. The Columbia information technology firm, which grew by focusing on work for one federal agency, is going after larger contracts and broadening its reach. It's a...
Tags: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, Small Businesses, Business
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The sky's the limit with flight simulator at Middle River Aviation
The runway at Martin State Airport fell away as the distant Baltimore skyline popped into view. A hint of turbulence jittered the pilot's seat during a banking maneuver that filled the cockpit windshield with the vast blueness of the Chesapeake Bay....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, NASA, PayPal, Inc., Towson University, Students
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