And Europe's increase in taxpayer support for aeronautical research is happening just as American taxpayers' support for aeronautics and composites research by their own aerospace agency, NASA, is in decline.
Having flown for the first time in 1930 with her father, in the cockpit of a Ford Trimotor transport, she was the only girl at her school taking an engineering course, just as she was, in 1943, the only woman enrolled for an aeronautical engineering degree at Ohio State University.
Instead, the agency is proposing that drones weighing less than 25kg (55lbs), that are well-maintained and checked before flight, can be flown without certification by operators who have passed a basic aeronautical test.
Alestis, an aeronautical supplier to aircraft manufacturers, filed for bankruptcy earlier this month after failing to reach an agreement with banks to refinance its debts.The sound of credit crunching can also be heard next door in Portugal, where loans to non-financial companies fell by 5% in the first quarter compared with the same period last year, and credit to households by 3.6%.
So the FCC's October ruling establishes "excluded frequency bands" for aeronautical communications and public safety.
Lyndon Johnson tried to build a "great society", but America is better at aeronautical engineering than social engineering.
The origins of Embraer, a Brazilian aircraft manufacturer, lie in a public aeronautical-technology institute.
Unfortunately, a bill that would do this is currently stuck in the American Senate and may run out of time this year.Better by designSpaceShipOne is, according to Mr Rutan an experienced aeronautical engineer who designed the first aircraft to fly around the world without refuelling the hardest thing he has ever built.
Spaceplanes are a long-held dream of aeronautical engineers, and the SABRE engine is a development of an abortive British spaceplane project called HOTOL, undertaken in the 1980s by Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace (now BAE Systems).
The legislation that created it speaks of the expansion of human knowledge of the atmosphere and space, and the improvement of the usefulness and performance of aeronautical and space vehicles.
An upgrade of the terminal, aimed at increasing the number of passengers from 12m to 18m a year, is next.When an airport has been in public hands, the non-aeronautical parts of the business have often been especially neglected.
