Since 1986 Harry Weisberger has been a contributor to Aviation International News and a regular member of its HAI and NBAA convention news editorial staff. He was previously a marketing communications specialist for Sperry Flight Systems in Phoenix, providing information involving the general aviation, airline, defense and space market segments. His aviation journalism activity has also included writing and editing for Flight Training, Business Aviation Safety Journal, Private Pilot and Arizona Flyways (for whom he interviewed Barry Goldwater and Paul Tibbets. He has also contributed to Smithsonian Air &amp; Space and Aero magazines. He served 5-1/2 years on active duty with the U.S. Navy as a radar intercept officer in F4 Phantom jet fighters, followed by Naval Air Reserve duty as a patrol plane navigator. Weisberger’s journalism career began at the Santa Ana Register (now Orange County Register) where he was a beat reporter and copy desk editor. He holds a commercial pilot license with instrument rating, has logged 1,980 pilot hours and has owned or been a partner in five general aviation aircraft.

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The volume of business aircraft arrivals for the Democratic National Convention in Denver this week has been less than predicted, Denver-area FBOs serving the turbine-powered fleet have reported. Levels have been so low that the FAA’s special traffic management plan for the event had not gone into effect as of this morning. Cutter Aviation at Colorado Springs Municipal Airport (COS), 60 miles south of the convention site at Pepsi Center in downtown Denver, prepared for an influx of convention arrivals that didn’t occur. Jessi Scudder, Cutter’s facility manager at COS, told AIN, “We had some convention traffic, but not as much as expected. We had heard that Denver would be packed and they would be heading toward us. A few double-booked reservations, but canceled when they found they could get into the Denver area.” She added that “a few” business aircraft had scheduled arrivals in advance of tonight’s nomination acceptance speech by Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

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