Cliff Allen, vice president for sales at Terrafugia, which is based in Woburn, Mass., said that the designers of the Transition asked federal regulators in 2008 if they would consider a road-ready vehicle under the light sport-aircraft rules.
The Americans were constrained to some degree because once they had identified the suspect aircraft, the rules of the air interdiction program called for the Peruvians to decide whether to take action.
But in this particular case the doctor says she would have asked for the flight to be diverted, had it not been for the ability of the portable vital-signs monitor being carried on the aircraft to rule out a heart attack.
Had the move against Pearl Harbor with carrier-based aircraft been ruled impossible by Japan's senior commanders because of some American defensive innovation, those very resourceful men in Tokyo would doubtless have come up with another way to achieve their purpose, for the Japanese government had decided that it was vital to cripple our power in the Pacific.
China set up its "air defence identification zone" on Saturday insisting that aircraft obey its rules or face "emergency defensive measures".
In 2012, thanks to Mr Fallows's tip and the TSA's three-ounce rule, aircraft might take the title.
A resolution made in 2010 by the ICAO relies on aircraft-specific emission rules, national programs and voluntary targets of a "2 percent annual improvement in fuel efficiency" until 2050.
With Zeppelin back in action, although now with Nazi government support and swastikas on the tails of its aircraft, German airships ruled the skies.
Now South Korean and Japanese aircraft have defied its rules.
Under the mission's ground rules, the aircraft's nationality cannot be reported.
It is concerned that an EU directive on data-privacy and proposed rules on aircraft noise discriminate against American firms.
