One more FAA story about our tax money hard at work.
The FAA moved the TDC from Indianapolis to the Naval
Air Station at Atlantic City and called it NAFEC (National
Aviation Facilities Experimental Center). Being good
government workers out family moved from the Midwest
to AC by the Sea.
One day the local TV was showing the FAA in the
process of icing down and snow covering one of the
runways in order to testing for ingestion of snow into
jet engines. Naturally this was in August. The
reporter asked, "Why not wait until February when
Nature provides the snow and ice for free". The
response was, "We can't do that. In February we
are running hot weather tests".
One nice thing about living in AC was I actually got
to meet and know the infamous Joe Mazzei. I've
actually been to his house.
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