Air Force Tanker Deal Your editorial "Long Delay In Tanker Deal Will Hurt Nation's Security" (March 17) correctly noted the profligate costs - a full tripling of the ultimate cost to taxpayers - of delaying the U.S. Air Force's acquisition of new aerial refueling tankers. And no one disagrees about the urgent need to buy new tankers. The current fleet is 50 years old. ...more

March 29, 2009

Be Thankful For Small Airports Every pilot undergoes a constant and rigorous training in safety procedures throughout their flying years. Since takeoff and landing are the crucial times in piloting an airplane, multiple takeoffs and landings at general aviation airfields are required to increase safety. ...more

February 15, 2009

DayJet, which operates on-demand flights throughout the Southeast aboard three-passenger "very light jets," announced Wednesday that St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport has become its 14th major location. ...more

July 10, 2008

CLEARWATER - DayJet, which operates on-demand business and other flights throughout the Southeast aboard three-passenger "very light jets," announced today that St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport would become its 14th departure location. The Pinellas airport joins Sarasota-Bradenton International and Lakeland Linder Regional Airport as airports where travelers can book flights to more than 50 airports, many of them airfields in small towns with no commercial airline service. ...more

July 9, 2008

Rising jet fuel prices are being cited by airlines as the reason for canceling service to smaller U.S. cities, but an increasingly broken air travel system is as much to blame, according to a new book by a former high-level Federal Aviation Administration official. ...more

July 7, 2008

I don't much care for films that celebrate "small-town values." I always feel judged, even personally attacked, by these movies. When the restless Jenny in "Forrest Gump" leaves town and ends up an ex-junkie dying of AIDS, I read it as a threat to any woman who doesn't stay put and marry the town idiot. ...more

December 24, 2007