NAS Has Reached The End Of Its Useful Life? Right. And there are WMD
in Iraq. :-(


FAA HYPING NEXTGEN
(http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archive...ll.html#195994)
The PR campaign to gain support for the FAA's airspace modernization
program, known as NextGen, took to the air on Friday as members of the
mainstream media (http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=170793)got a
demonstration of ADS-B on the agency's test bed aircraft. The agency
has found a natural conduit to mainstream exposure on the topic by
linking the existing technology to the increasingly frustrating number
of airline flight delays. "The entire infrastructure in this country
has reached the end of its useful life," Manny Weiss, the FAA's
eastern region administrator, told the reporters, likening the
radar-based ATC system to the bridges and highways across the country
that also need replacing.