Ultralight Rules Spur Safety Push and Pilot Warnings
The article outlines FAA limits from 1982 restricting ultralight empty weight to 254 pounds and speed to 63 mph, with altitude caps and fuel limits, plus sport use and single-seat marketing. It notes 1983 safety investigations by the NTSB and industry responses including safety foundations and voluntary reporting, with expert Horne urging calm-wind flights, preflight checks, helmet radios and parachutes, and wind and stall awareness to reduce fatalities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FAA
Natonal Transportation Safety Board
AQPA
ACPA
Air Safety Foundaton
Experimental Aircraft Association
Horne
Air Safety Foundation
Arcentny
Horne Horne
Crestwood Mountain Village Fest Weekend at Frederick
Festivities start Sunday at Crestwood Village and Mountain Village in Frederick with a 1 pm kickoff. A band contest at noon features The Knight Brothers and Center Alley. Everyday People performs country. An auction to aid Frederick Memorial Hospital, hosted by Anne-Lynn Gross, plus crafts, a country cook-out, and over 100 local donors. Sears-AAU-USA Junior Olympics trials hit Frederick High Saturday, leading to a regional event June 29 to July 1 at the same school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crestwood Village
Frederick
Mountain Village
Knight Brothers
Center Alley
All Star Band and Sound
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Crestwood
Damascus meeting to discuss roads and growth in Damascus
Damascus civic leaders and state and county officials meet at St Atines Episcopal Church on Md 27 at 7 pm to review traffic snarls and planned growth. John Filer says the session will push the county planning board to assess public tactics for accommodating 40 new subdivisions and about 2000 homes with representatives from Spring Gardens Heritage Estates Gue Road firester Tramagene Civic Adsittation Plantations and Cedar Grove PTA attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Damascus
St Atines Episcopal Church
John Filer
Heritage Estates Homeowners Association
County Planning Board
Spring Gardens
Heritage Fetates
Gue Road
Firester Tramagene
Cedar Grove Pta
Storm Toll Rises as Midwest Floods and Tornadoes Sweep Area
A storm system drenched the Midwest with up to 5 inches of rain across a 120 mile band from Kansas to Illinois. It spawned more than 60 tornadoes, damaged towns in Wisconsin and Iowa, and forced emergency responses as rivers rose and roads flooded.
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Schmidt
Kansas City
Wyandotte
Midwest
Hugh Crowther
National
Gulf of Mexico
Crowther
Missouri
Indiana
Kansasity
Peoria
Weather Service
Kansas
Oklahoma Panhandle
Colorado
Nebraska
Michigan
Goodland
Kan
Mexico
Braman
Okla
Barneveld
Wis
Wisconsin
Anthony S Earl
Delta
Iowa
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National Guard
Larry Sperling
Wisconsin Division of Emergency
Red Cross
Marieveld
Ogle Kellner
American Red Cross Disaster Services
Donald Tredinnick
The
Iowa County
Towa
Guy Terry Branstad
Burt
Ellen Gordon
Iawa
St Joseph
Minnesota
Aspen
Colo
R&l Fob Cour
S & Arrow
Josh II
Haggar
Jr. Resource
BANE
Levi's” & Farah
Eccobay
Alfred Dunner
Devon & Jantzen
Calcutta
Urs
Paris Lit & Sheridan
Pars Dil
Sheridan
Famous
Makers
Olga’ Warner
Vanity
Mandenform
Baltmore
Hesa’s
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