Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needs all of it if he is to replace the obsolete U.S. air-traffic control system with a new one able to safely handle both jets and prop planes...
FIVE years ahead of schedule, Quesada has set up radar-controlled jet expressways from New York to Califor nia and from Florida to Gander by persuading the Air Force to let FAA men use its radar facilities. He has worked out a common airspace system for both military and commercial planes, opened thousands of square miles of "restricted" military space to commercial carriers. He prefers to use soft talk instead of a big stick, but he can hit hard, especially when pilots fail to realize that jet planes require a much closer watch than older, slower planes...
...that the captain was out of the cockpit talking to passengers in the cabin when a Pan American Boeing 707 dived 29,000 ft. on a transatlantic flight (TIME, Feb. 16), Old Pilot Quesada fined both Pan Am and the captain. He followed that up by publicly warning the Air Line Pilots Association that pilots are to stay in their cockpits with their belts fastened instead of gladhanding with the public. When the ALPA attacked this enforcement as a "childish Gestapo program," Quesada fired back a blunt answer: Obey the rules or take the matter to court. Last week Quesada...
Pete Quesada got into aviation in 1924, when he left Georgetown University to join the Army Air Service, moved slowly up through the ranks until World War II, when he became a major general. He distinguished himself as a combat commander in Europe and Africa, personally flew General Eisenhower over the D-day beachhead. Later he commanded the joint task force in the first H-bomb tests at Eniwetok. Atoll in 1951. After a brief hitch as head of Lockheed Aircraft's missile division, he returned to Washington...
...Wall Street brokerage firm. Five years ago he bought 6% of the shares of Hupp at a time when the onetime automaker's gross was only $10 million a year and the loss $99-799-To Hupp's business of making automotive parts. Ekblom added appliance, air-conditioning and heating-equipment companies, boosted sales to $56.5 million last year and profits...