http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/12/15/spaceport-america-gets-its-license/ Tracking the entrepreneurial space industry Fri, 12 Sep 2014 14:33:32 +0800 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/12/15/spaceport-america-gets-its-license/comment-page-1/#comment-344006 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:27:22 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/?p=758#comment-344006 Exiting FAA Acting Administrator Bobby Sturgell: “You’ll notice I’m throwing new runways, equipment, money, jobs, acronyms, programs, kudos, and concocted self-serving study “results” at communities right before I eject from office. That’s on purpose. The study results make me appear to have been a regulator rather than simple aeromercantile shill. Runways and other rewards are called ‘bribes’. They buy silent cooperation of the recipients. As for the others, I’ll just abuse them. I’ll blame Air Traffic Controllers, pilots, Congress, co-workers, community residents, Israel, India, the Philippines, potash miners, unions, Mother Nature, and even my economic co-conspirators the airlines on my way out, for all my own failures. My best strategy is comprised of the bribes, though – providing me private-sector job security for years to come, while making everybody forget those 3,500-and-climbing aviation fatalities occurring on my FAA ‘watch’”.
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]]> http://www.newspacejournal.com/2008/12/15/spaceport-america-gets-its-license/comment-page-1/#comment-343863 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 19:36:08 +0000 http://www.personalspaceflight.info/?p=758#comment-343863 […] Spaceport America Begins Building New Mexico spaceport wins license – New Space Race- msnbc.comSpaceport America Gets License And Decision Of Environmental Impact – News Story – KFOX El PasoPersonal Spaceflight » Spaceport America gets its license […]

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