REFLECTOR: NASA SATS Demonstration

[Jack Sheehan]

Hey Guys June is coming up pretty fast. Here is the email I sent out 
earlier. After some clarification we were talking about having a 
lunch event on Sunday June 5 and those who wanted could stay for the 
live demo on Monday. The Monday demo will be kicked off by both the 
NASA and FAA administrators. Phil Boyer will speak to introduce the 
technical demo and we will have a few other folks. Including Jim 
Fallows.
At any rate it would be great to have Velocity's parked on the ramp. 
I need some idea if you are coming but it is open to the public. If 
someone would like to arrive on Saturday i can arrange that and you 
can be my guest at a hangar party that night.

>Dear velocity Owners
>
>Year before last (2003) we had some plans for a Velocity Fly-in to 
>be held in Virginia. The fly-in was cancelled due to Hurricane 
>Isabel's pending arrival. Unfortunately Isabel made it. I am still 
>cleaning up around the house.
>In my real job I work with NASA and the FAA on the future 
>technologies and procedures that will enable a Small Aircraft 
>Transportation System SATS) in this country. That is the ability to 
>have on-demand point-to-point transportation using small aircraft 
>and small airports. Yeah I know that is something we already do. In 
>this case we are trying to make it so that the other 99.5% of the 
>population could also do it at somewhere a reasonable cost.
>I use my Velocity in much of our public display and outreach activities.
>This SATS project ends this year with a demonstration in June in 
>Danville Virginia. The first day is a fly-in with the FAA sponsoring 
>a Wings seminar focused on "Glass Cockpits" the entire techno 
>exhibit will be open and it is all free. As I am somewhat 
>responsible for this deal I would be able to coordinate some 
>additional activities if a bunch of Velocities were to arrive.
>The details about the demonstration are at http://www.sats2005.com. 
>This is going to be a pretty neat event for the public and the 
>government folks and is also a good reason to fly to Danville.
>I am looking for some indication of interest. I realize this is only 
>applicable to those of us on the east coast but if you think you 
>might want to attend please do If I can get a count we can plan some 
>specific Velocity activity.
>You can contact me directly at the From e-mail
>Check out the other SATS websites for more information.
>
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>--
>Jack Sheehan
>Executive Director
>National Consortium for Aviation Mobility (NCAM)
>Visit the following sites
>http://www.ncam-sats.org, http://www.sats2005.com, http://sats.nasa.gov
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-- 
Jack Sheehan
Executive Director
National Consortium for Aviation Mobility (NCAM)
Visit the following sites
http://www.ncam-sats.org, http://www.sats2005.com, http://sats.nasa.gov