They were doing touch-and-goes and aerobatics.

The steering committee meetings kind of overlap with the tasks.

The consultants will do the studies and collect background information and give it to the committee, so they can make informed decisions, as we move through this process.

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.

Many composers use software to write music - programs like Finale or Sibelius. There are also recording programs. I should say I'm still very old-fashioned, I still use pencil and paper. But almost every composer I know does it the 'new way.'