http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=3442 Online perspective from the editors of "AOPA Pilot". Wed, 22 May 2013 00:22:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=3442&cpage=1#comment-143327 Al Marsh Sat, 21 Apr 2012 13:14:31 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/blog/?p=3442#comment-143327 I’m adding my own experience here, since it isn’t a full, separate blog posting. I was on assignment for AOPA Pilot in the back of an FAA King Air during a launch. Their job was to chase rubber-necking pilots out of the airspace. My job specifically was to spell out backwards the letters “F A A” and a frequency in the windows of the King air, so the intruding pilot could read the message as it would appear normally and give us a shout-out on the radio. There were a couple of intruders but they were intercepted by other security aircraft. At launch time, I witnessed the Shuttle from several thousand feet in the air as it climbed through the pilots’ windscreen a few miles ahead.

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