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Inside
Aircraft Demo Idea Reaches New Heights
Customer’s Input Used to Improve Iron…12
Anthony S. Santaro Golf Classic Held in N.Y. …22
A Caterpillar 345C excavator works precariously on the edge of the gorge.
Teetering Over Niagara Fifty-seven years ago — June 7, 1956, to be exact — a rumbling behind a wall of the Schoellkopf power plant in Niagara Falls, N.Y., was a prelude to the tumbling of a huge rock wall into the Niagara River gorge. Some 60 years before the horrific collapse, shafts had been drilled in the limestone behind the wall to serve as conduits for water. The water was sent hurtling downward 220 ft. to strike and turn turbine blades in the power generating plant on the banks of the Niagara River. Over the years, the water had cut its way through the rock, finally buckling the wall, which fell onto the turbines and ended the useful life of Power Plant #2. Today, some of the riverside debris from that collapse is being moved in the course of leveling
By Giles Lambertson CEG CORRESPONDENT
Ritchie Holds Multi-Mil lion Dollar Sale in W.V a. …122
Recycling Section ........71-97 Business Calendar ..........102 Attachment & Parts Section ..................................111-115 Auction Section ......120-133 Advertisers Index............134
CEG CORRESPONDENT
circuit court judge James A. Cales Jr. that the tolling provisions of the Elizabeth River Crossing project and others established under the Virginia Public-Private Transportation Act (PPTA), violate the state’s constitution. The ruling is significant because the Virginia PPTA tolling provisions are similar to those used in a number of other states and could provide a blueprint for opponents to challenge P3s see VIRGINIA page 124
see AIRCRAFT page 40
see NIAGARA page 42
ARTBA Examines Virginia’s Legal Decision Regarding P3s A legal decision in Virginia with potential ripple effects on the ability of states across America to finance transportation improvements through public-private partnerships (P3s) will be a key focus of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) milestone 25th Annual P3 in Transportation Conference, scheduled July 24 to 26 at the Grand Hyatt in the Nation’s Capital. At issue is a May 1 declaration by Virginia
By Giles Lambertson Airplanes don’t fly forever, so what happens to them when they no longer are airworthy? That was the question that popped into the head of Chip Giordano a decade ago. He pursued an answer and turned it into a career. “Where does a plane go when its flying days are done? It goes somewhere,” Giordano asked himself and looked for an answer. Today, he is the owner of Aircraft Demolition and Recycling, a Wellington, Fla., company that has taken off like the planes he demolishes once did. The aircraft harvesting industry is a fledgling one. The industry’s oversight organization — Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association — is just seven years old. It accredits members and teaches environmental best practices. Its members either salvage reuseables from old aircraft, or disassemble and recycle the aircraft, or both. The association estimates that 12,000 fleet aircraft will reach the end of their useful lives in the next 20 years.
Table of Contents ................4 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................61-67
Before companies like Aircraft Demolition and Recycling, old airplanes typically were stripped and recycled by local scrap yards, at least that was true on the East Coast. An old aircraft’s owner simply would approach a scrap dealer about taking the carcass of the plane off his hands.