JUNE 2019 NEWS AND VIEWS FOR THE NEW YORK METRO AIRPORT COMMUNITY Airport Voice
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Core Response Officer Steve Whitter , British
Transport Police, kind of tied up at the moment.
Bobby Pulls for Jack’s Pack
Tied for First Place
80 British Police Offi cers converged at
JetBlue, JFK Airport to compete against
U.S. counterparts which included the U.S.
Army, NYPD, Port Authority Police and
others to raise money and awareness of
Jack’s Pack.
The event was held in fantastic weather
with hundreds of contestants prepared for
the competition in which bragging rights
is the highest honor.
Some of the British wore the Union
Jack around their waists while all other
Brits donned their famous Bobby Helmets
reminiscent of Sherlock Holmes days.
The contest objective was to see which
team of twelve could pull the plane in the
quickest time along the 200 foot tarmac
length.
Teams could be seen fl exing their muscles,
high-fi ving and pumping the air as
they queued up for each pull. Two inch
thick rope was wrapped around the anchor
Entrepreneur, Disruptor,
Innovator, Humanitarian &
Visionary David Neeleman
invigorates his audience at
JFK Airport Chamber of Commerce
luncheon. Photo by Jeff
Yapalater
A IRPORT puller as the teams struggled to drag
the dead weight of the Airbus aircraft over
85,000 pounbds over about 200 feet of tarmac.
Not quite as easy as it seemed. Each
MAN OF MOXIE
team member’s twisted face illustrated
the strain of trying to pull harder with the
attempt to break the 28 second record. Continued on page 17
FOD Team effort cleans up hazardous debris from JFK Airport
FOD Day volunteers came from many
private organization and companies
of the airport, Farmingdale Aviation
College, Port Authority, and coordinated
by the Port Authoprity and the
JFK Airport Chamber of Commerce
with the support of Royal Waste,
VRH, Russo's, CowBay, Crowne Plaza
Hote and Civil Air Patrol.
Continued on page 8
See photos on page 22
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