Re: FAA Refuses Ultimate Air Racing Championship Airshow Approval
Long sentence, indeed!
At least you punctuate pauses in there. Some of the kids at the game forum I admin write paragraphs as onelongnonstoppingsentencethatseemtogoonforeverwit hnocommasorperiods....
I do like reading the articles at ANN though. I visit Aeronews.net every evening.
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Back on topic. The story grows stranger...
From ANN
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Inquirer-like or not, I think this is going to get interesting.
Long sentence, indeed!
At least you punctuate pauses in there. Some of the kids at the game forum I admin write paragraphs as onelongnonstoppingsentencethatseemtogoonforeverwit hnocommasorperiods....
I do like reading the articles at ANN though. I visit Aeronews.net every evening.
.
Back on topic. The story grows stranger...
From ANN
:
It may rank as one of the weirdest series of stories we've done in quite the while (though the Cirrus/COPA mess is promising to beat it by a fair amount... shameful details to come), but the bizarre saga of the Ultimate Air Race Challenge appears to have been based on little more than hot air... and quite a lot of people either did, or should have, known it.
An aggressive racing program once described as "Mixed Martial Arts In The Air" was claimed to have been approved by the FAA long ago -- it never was.
It was supposed to have been crewed by seven of the best pilots in the world -- it isn't and they aren't.
The team was said to have trained and practiced for months on end and qualified to rigorous standards -- well, they didn't.
And when the FAA publicly denied any approvals for the team, they ignored reality and told media representatives, far and wide, that the race was on, gave television and newspaper interviews to that effect and made dozens of claims with little basis in reality. Oooppsss...
And finally, the airshow organization and the airport authority for Camarillo Airport's airshow was warned multiple times by a great number of persons of the many hazards, falsehoods and concerns inherent in the wild claims of the UARC program. Regardless, they promoted the organization despite knowing full well that the site, team, aircraft, pilots and racing program was not approved by the FAA... but had been turned down in no uncertain terms...
And, as of this moment, Wings Over Camarillo and the UARC organization continue to claim that they will have an air race this weekend...
In the meantime; the FAA has made it clear that there will be no such thing.
An aggressive racing program once described as "Mixed Martial Arts In The Air" was claimed to have been approved by the FAA long ago -- it never was.
It was supposed to have been crewed by seven of the best pilots in the world -- it isn't and they aren't.
The team was said to have trained and practiced for months on end and qualified to rigorous standards -- well, they didn't.
And when the FAA publicly denied any approvals for the team, they ignored reality and told media representatives, far and wide, that the race was on, gave television and newspaper interviews to that effect and made dozens of claims with little basis in reality. Oooppsss...
And finally, the airshow organization and the airport authority for Camarillo Airport's airshow was warned multiple times by a great number of persons of the many hazards, falsehoods and concerns inherent in the wild claims of the UARC program. Regardless, they promoted the organization despite knowing full well that the site, team, aircraft, pilots and racing program was not approved by the FAA... but had been turned down in no uncertain terms...
And, as of this moment, Wings Over Camarillo and the UARC organization continue to claim that they will have an air race this weekend...
In the meantime; the FAA has made it clear that there will be no such thing.
Inquirer-like or not, I think this is going to get interesting.
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