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Man sentenced to 30 months for flashing laser at private plane, Pasadena police helicopter
A North Hollywood man who aimed a commercial-grade laser at a private airplane and a Pasadena police helicopter was sentenced Monday to 30 months in federal prison. Adam Gardenhire, 19, pleaded guilty in October to one count of aiming the beam of a...Tags: Trials, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, FBI, Bob Hope
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Bob Hope Airport noise program to be reduced in size
Residents living near Bob Hope Airport who have been waiting to take advantage of a federally funded residential soundproofing program shouldn't wait any longer. After more than a decade and a half of installing new windows and doors in homes surrounding...
Tags: Bob Hope, Air Transportation Industry, Google Inc.
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Bob Hope Airport safe from sequestration cuts, so far
Bob Hope Airport will avoid the impact of $85 billion in automatic federal spending cuts that are slated for midnight Friday -- a move that officials warn will force a scale back in operations at airfields across the nation. A last-minute huddle between...
Tags: Transportation Security Administration, Google+, Bob Hope, Air Transportation Industry, Barack Obama
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Airport to spend $82,000 on emergency lighting system after recent outage
Bob Hope Airport is taking a two-path approach to preventing another outage like the one on Nov. 28 that took out operations on its longest runway. The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority on Monday voted to buy an emergency lighting system while...
Tags: Google+, Bob Hope, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Accidents
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Helicopter rules depend on FAA
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) announced plans to take up legislation to regulate low-flying helicopters above residential neighborhoods, saying voluntary controls for the “persistent flyovers” were clearly insufficient. Whether there will be a...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Adam Schiff, Howard Lawrence Berman
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Rep. Schiff vows to take up helicopter noise regulations for L.A. region next year
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) on Wednesday announced plans to take up legislation to regulate low-flying helicopters above residential neighborhoods in Los Angeles County, saying voluntary controls for the "persistent fly-overs” were clearly...
Tags: Google+, Air Transportation Industry, Adam Schiff, Howard Lawrence Berman, Los Angeles Times
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Noise impact area of Bob Hope Airport due to shrink, traffic to remain flat
The clock is ticking for residents living around Bob Hope Airport to tap a federally funded program to soundproof their houses before a shrinking noise-impact area renders them ineligible, officials warned this week. With fewer flights coming in and out...
Tags: Bob Hope, Air Transportation Industry, Education
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Sound impact zone continues to shrink around Bob Hope Airport
The sound-proofing program for homes around Bob Hope Airport is slowly wrapping up and airfield officials are urging property owners who haven’t signed up to contact them as soon as possible. “It is winding down because we’ve done so...
Tags: Bob Hope, Air Transportation Industry
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It's time for restrictions on helicopters
Hooray, the Federal Aviation Administration hopes to come up with recommendations to deal with Los Angeles residents’ noise complaints by next summer. What noise complaints? Those made by helicopters over the L.A. area. One homeowner likened the...Tags: Long Island, Physiology
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Bob Hope Airport to spend nearly $1M more on soundproofing
Bob Hope Airport officials on Monday allocated nearly $1 million more to soundproof residences within earshot of the airfield’s flight paths in an ongoing effort to reduce the impact of aircraft noise. The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport...
Tags: Bob Hope, Glendale (Queens, New York), FedEx Corporation
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L.A.-area residents turn out to complain about helicopter noise
Los Angeles residents, concerned about the noise from media and sightseeing helicopters flying low over their neighborhoods, turned out to complain to the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday night at a public hearing in Sherman Oaks. The FAA sought...Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Los Angeles Times, Dan Weikel
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Passenger, revenue figures continue to slide at Burbank Bob Hope Airport
Passenger traffic and parking revenues at Burbank Bob Hope Airport in June each tumbled by more than 7% compared to the same period last year, according to figures released this week, even as other regional airfields experienced growth. In June 2012,...
Tags: Los Angeles International Airport, Transportation, Southwest Airlines Co., Bob Hope, Air Transportation Industry
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