Intro to Aviation Quiz 2 Review
Independent Safety Board Act
5 member board, appointed by President with consent of Senate
Category of Astronauts within NASA
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Department of Homeland Security
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Next Gen
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David Pekoske
Administrator of the TSA
Bureau of Air Commerce
Aeronautics Branch was renamed
Air Traffic Control
Air Traffic Control Towers Terminal Radar Approach Control Facility Air Route Traffic Control Flight Service Station
Transcontinental Air Mail Route
Between San Francisco and NY Distance: 2612 miles Stops along way: 3
NY-Washington
Cities traveled to for first airmail flight
Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938/40
Civil Aeronautics Authority Civil Aviation Board ---Rulemaking to enhance safety, accident investigation, and economic regulation of airlines
TSA responsibilities
Civil Aviation Security All modes of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration
Code of Federal Regulations Aircraft Certificates
FAA Office of Commercial Space Trans. (AST)
Commercial Launches or reentries licensed by this org
Department of Transportation Act
Created NTSB --- 5 members appointed by President ---Responsible for accident investigation for all modes of trans.
St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line
Created by Tom Benoist
Robert Sumwalt
Current Chairman of NTSB
Stephen Dickinson
Current FAA Administrator
James Bridenstine
Current NASA admin Nominated by President, confirmed by Senate
Jan 1, 1914
Date of first scheduled airline flight
Aeronautics Branch
Department of Commerce created this Began pilot certification First License Pilot
free-for-all
Early years of manned flight was considered this
Federal Aviation Act of 1958
Established Federal Aviation Agency ---Reporting Directly to Congress and President Civil Aviation Accidents including a TWA Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7
Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938
Established: Civil Aeronautics Authority Administrator of Aviation Air Safety Board
Federal Aviation Act of 1958
Established: Federal Aviation AGENCY First administer of the FAA
Regulating, Encouraging, developing, operating FAA Standards Rulemaking
FAA Responsibilties
Knute Rockne
Fatalities in aviation started to concern public, especially this man's
Department of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration
Alan Shepard Jr.
First American in space
LAX
First TSA screener killed by lone gunman at this airport
May 5, 1918
First airmail flight was conducted
John Glenn
First to orbit the Earth
Air Commerce Act of 1926
Frist federal law to govern civil aviation and was to ensure a high level of safe and to investigate, record, and make public the cause of accidents in civil air nav
Sequence of accident investigation
Go team At the site Lab analysis Safety Reccommendation Public Hearing Final Report
Office of Safety Recommendations and Accomplishments
Implements recc. and maintains a database to track recc.
Office of Aviation Safety
Investigates all major commercial aviation accidents, focus of much of research
NTSB Responsibilities
Investigation, determination of facts, conditions, and circumstances, and to determine the cause or probable cause for accidents
Johnson Space Center Kennedy Space Center
Kennedy - launches NASA has 10 centers
Office of General Counsel
Legal advisor to Safety Board
FAA
Major share of NTSB's aviation safety recommendations are directed to
Human Spaceflight
Mercury Gemini Apollo Space Shuttle Orion
x-57 Maxwell
NASA's first all-electric experimental aircraft
5 years
NTSB Member Term
Anything Necessary
NTSB is authorized to do ? when conducting investigation
90 Days
NTSB submits safety recc. to Secretary of Trans. Sec has ? days to provide a formal written response
Air Commerce Act of 1926
Passed on May 20, 1926 Fostering air commerce, issuing and enforcing air traffic riles, licensing pilots, certificating aircraft, establishing airways...
Risk Based Screening
PreCheck Global Entry NEXUS Federal Air Marshal Service Known Crewmember Program
Most Wanted List
Program to highlight certain trans. Safety issues that required highest visibility and strongest follow-up activity
Office of Government, Public, and Family Affairs
Releases current, accurate info concerning all objectives of NTSB to public
FAA Division
Responsibility over Air Traffic Control (ATO) Plans and Develops a safe and efficient national airport system (ARP) Directs and manages safety programs for pilots, aircraft and airlines (AVS)
Modern NTSB
Rose from wreckage of 1935 accident that took life of Senator Bronson M. Cutting
Safety First
SPTAL airboat was called
Subpoena Witnesses
Safety board has power to
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Space Act of 1958 Inherited NACA
PATCO Strike (1981)
Strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization to which Reagan responded by firing all controllers not back to work within 48 hours (Taft-Hartley Act) and were banned from federal employment for life; ban lifted by Clinton in 1993, severely decreased union membership
The Aviation and Transportation Security Act
The Aviation and Transportation Security Act, which became law in November 2001, made airport security the responsibility of the federal government. Previously, individual airports had been responsible.
Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act (1996)
The NTSB was designated by the President as the lead federal agency for coordinating federal government assets at the scene fo a transportation accident and the liaison between airlines and families
Aircraft Certificates
Type Production Airworthiness
$400
Winning bid for historic first paying airline passenger was
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
crewmate of neil armstrong; second man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
first man to walk on the moon
4 months
how long did SPTAL operated for
Individuals were free to conduct flights with
no government oversight
Airline Deregulation Act of 1978
removed government control over fares, routes and market entry (of new airlines) from commercial aviation. Jimmy Carter pushed to deregulate Alfren Kahn was Head of CAB CAB abolished in 1984
