Once you have the forms, please give me a call if you need help locating more senior members in your vicinity who might be able to help you with recommendations. Once again it's time for the New England Section to give out its annual Media Award at our Awards Banquet on December 8. If you have seen or heard and outstanding story or broadcast, nominate it for the award. The next CVD is currently planned for the same week as the Global Air and Space conference in Washington. The FAA is hosting a Safer Skies Symposium in partnership with Daniel Webster College.
Seats are limited, register early.
Visit the web site to download the registration form. The purpose of the symposium is to share information about the Safer Skies initiative. The symposium will bring to light the intervention strategies that will make the biggest impact of safety. Safer Skies uses data in new ways that can allow flight crew members, operators, manufacturers, and the FAA to focus on breaking causal chains and taking action before an identified chain of events leads to an accident. In May of 1945, American Forces in Bavaria made contact with the German team responsible for the development of the V-2 rocket, the first to reach airless space.