A rotorcraft industry association is protesting what it says are NASA's plans to cancel funding for rotorcraft technology in the fiscal year 2002 budget. "NASA will announce on April 3, with the delivery of the (fiscal year 2002) budget to Congress, that after 36-plus years it will no longer perform research in the area of rotorcraft technology," said Rhett Flater, executive director of AHS International, the Vertical Flight Society. "The Clinton administration had budgeted $25.5 million, barely enough to keep...
