NEWS BREAKS.

This article presents news briefs related to the U.S. aviation industry and space technology. Thirteen U.S. Coast Guard aircraft in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Houston were being readied to relocate to a staging position for response to Hurricane Rita once the storm passed. Relief aircrews and aircraft from around the U.S. began arriving in staging areas in Texas late last week. The new Transportation Security Administration head says that the agency's developing strategy for aviation security must be risk-based, with a high degree of flexibility. Edmund Hawley, who took over in July, tells the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, a panel of industry groups and federal agencies, that he's not interested in coming up with a laundry list of threat scenarios and developing solutions for each one. The Federal Aviation Administration has issued an airworthiness directive for certain Airbus A320-family aircraft.