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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University junior Jon Ice performs preflight checks on a Cessna 172 equipped with air traffic surveillance technology in Daytona Beach.
System to replace pilots' radar By MARK HARPER The new national air traffic control system, a kind-of Global Positioning System for the skies, is widely expected to make air travel safer and more efficient. At Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, where the fleet of aircraft has been equipped with the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system (ADS-B), students like Milan Krekan have come to view it as something of a security blanket.  News-Journal/JI-EUN LEE
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Flight Department Chairman Frank Ayers explains air traffic shown on the screen in Daytona Beach. The red targets show ERAU’s planes equipped with air traffic surveillance technology, and the black targets show aircraft equipped with radar.
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'Matriarch's' manse ready for new duty By MARK S. LUCKIE As Anna Rogers-Draper toured the restored home of her great-aunt Dr. Josie Rogers on Saturday, a locket with pictures of her family dangled from her left wrist. Now well into her older years, Rogers-Draper remembered walking through the home as a child. FULL STORY >>>  News-Journal file
Anna Rogers-Draper, left, and her sister, Josie Rogers-Cuffe, stand outside the newly restored home of their great-aunt Josie Rogers after a rededication ceremony Saturday. Josie Rogers was the first female mayor of Daytona Beach.
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By EILEEN ZAFFIRO Bill Jones has finally secured what he says he needs to save the Ormond Garage: a demolition permit. "I'm the last best shot this city has," to preserve the garage at 48 W. Granada Boulevard, Jones told city commissioners Tuesday night. "I'm the only one who will try to save the building, or the flavor of it," he said. "I'm not against spending a reasonable, or even an unreasonable, amount of money to save the building." FULL STORY >>> Ponce Inlet finally hangs By TAYLOR ASHLEY History continunes to stand tall beneath the beacon of the lighthouse as 143 Beach St., the former homeof the last civilian lighthouse keeper, is dedicated by Town Council as a historic landmark. FULL STORY >>> |
Josie Rogers' house deserves rescue EDITORIAL Daytona Beach's neglect of the Josie Rogers house over the past year is shocking. FULL STORY >>> |
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EDITORIAL This country was in the clutches of the Great Depression. "Going to look for work," my father said. He never returned, deserting his family. FULL STORY >>> |
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