Faa.....It Is About Safety

By George Romich

This book more than anything else is a history in short of two transportation systems. About America in the past 150 years. How one was built by private money (the Robber Barons) who produced a national infrastructure that has lasted to this day. About how these people through their generosity made hospitals, Schools, Libraries. The other is the one made by the Government. Interstates, Airports. This system has been around since the mid sixties. Today is falling apart due to lack of government funding. This book shows how local Politics controls where the money is going and how. I hope the reader will find this informative.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Jan 9, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491716649

George Romich

George Romich Is Retired from the Federal Aviation Admin with almost 34 years of service, He is a graduated of Devry Institute of Technology with a Bachelors Degree in Electronic Technology. 1971 Has also contributed to various Lionel Train Price Guides. Graduated from Horace Mann High in Gary Indiana 1968 Likes to study History both US and World. Hobbies are Ham Radio Classical Music Resides in Portage Indiana.

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FAA . . . . IT IS

ABOUT SAFETY

GEORGE ROMICH

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FAA… . IT IS ABOUT SAFETY

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iUniverse rev. date: 02/12/2014

Dedicated to the memory of Bruno Gazutis

It is about safety

This book more then anything else is a history in short of two transportation systems.

About America in the past 150 years. How one was built by private money (the Robber Barons) who produced a national infrastructure that has lasted to this day. About how these people through their generosity made hospitals, Schools, Libraries.

The other is the one made by the Government. Interstates, Airports. This system has been around since the mid sixties. Today is falling apart due to lack of government funding. This book shows how local Politics controls where the money is going and how. I hope the reader will find this informative.

Foreword

IN THE BEGINNING.

Americas transportation comes in eras. The Railroad era from 1820 to 1965. Here you had whole systems build by private companies. The New York Central. The Pennsylvania Rail Road these companies almost 200 in number ranging from five miles to thousands of miles connected many cities. Look at Chicago’s Union Station. Look at New York City’s Grand Central station. These and countless others didn’t costs the taxpayer not one penny. They handled millions of people and thousands of tons of freight with safety.

To become an engineer required years of tedious work as a fireman. Learning the trade of running of trains with religious attention to time. This was a top heavy organization. Seniority was the thing. This endless attention to detail ended up with a workforce that knew to the second their jobs. You didn’t have individuals getting appointments because they knew someone in the local political machine.

A lot can be said for the so-called Robber Barons. They built an infrastructure that we enjoy to this day. Hospitals, Schools, Libraries, Magnificent Stations that are hailed as Architectural classics.

Today from 1965 to the present is the aviation era. This era came with the building of the interstates of the late fifties going into the sixties. Government poured all at taxpayers expense. President Eisenhower fell in love with the autobahn system that connected all of Nazi Germany. Bought the idea home and built an entire transcontinental system for the interstate truckers. Little wonder that the railroads stated to shrink up. Sometimes using the taxes collected from major city Train stations t o pay for the building of airports literally next door. Railroads where stuck paying state, county, and federal taxes on their rightaways while the Interstate paid for by taxpayers paid nothing.

Today the results of this one sided system is beginning to tell. The system is beginning to fall apart. The costs of maintenance is rising constantly. The Government has literally stepped into the shoes of the Robber Barons. But least they knew how to balance their budgets. They knew how to create wealth. Yes they reaped millions. But they gave it back to the public in what I Previously mentioned.

For the benefit of the Reader we are including a small history on some of the names mentioned in the book. I am also including web site designation on where the Reader may get additional information for his or her own inrichment.

Czar Peter the First. Or Czar Peter the Great.

Born May 30 (June 9) 1672

Died Jan 28 (Feb 8) 1725

Crowned Czar April 22, 1682 Moscow Russia

Westernized Russia from a backward Country to a major player on the world stage

Father of the modern Russian Navy (Russia didn’t have any)

Initiated reforms for that modernized the Russian Army. Also made education compulsory for all members of Russian society. This wasn’t seen in the west until well beyond the turn of the century before last (1899-1900)

Brought in experts from England, Germany, France, Holland. To modernize the nation.

The Czar himself worked in various shipyards along side common Shipwrights to master the trade of shipbuilding, and cannon foundry. He was taught the art of clock-making, Navigation

(There was no GPS at