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...full-dress Manhattan press conference, reinforced with full-page newspaper advertisements boldly headed "Let's Clear the Air," portly, white-haloed Airman Bill Coverdale established the real Am Ex line...
...President's use of this catch phrase. Nor did they much care, for well they know that it is an empty phrase, as yet completely lacking in definition. What they hoped was that the President would get down to business. In his opening syndicated column this week Airman Alexander P. de Seversky put a knowing finger on one long-standing omission: the lack of a high government body (like Britain's Air Ministry) "to guide the nation in the development of its air power...
...service within Mexico only [and] will cease to be effective if LAMSA extends its operations beyond the borders of Mexico." United officials insisted they had no further ambitions-not even for a new San Diego-to-Nogales route to link the two lines directly. But there was scarcely an airman alive who did not predict: 1) sooner or later LAMSA would compete with Pan Am in more than one Good Neighbor country, and 2) that when it asked for permission to do so, CAB would give it another green light...
...Airman's Penalty. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Board struck hard at this form of high jinks, served notice that it was going to keep on being tough about it. To Ernest E. Basham Sr., 56-year-old chief test pilot for Consolidated Aircraft at Fort Worth, the board handed out a stiff penalty: total revocation of his airline-transport-pilot certificate. That means he may not fly, and CAB sources said grimly that he would probably stay grounded for two years. Pilot Basham had been found guilty of twice flying B-24 Liberator bombers less than 500 feet...
...Airman's Tragedy. One of the saddest of military accidents occurred two and a half years ago when two Naval ensigns, "flat-hatting" in a trainer, hit and beheaded a woman working in an Alabama field. Both youngsters were cashiered, sent to prison. But the worst "fooling" accident yet was at Palm Springs, Calif., last October, when nine passengers and the crew of three died in the crash of an American airliner clipped in flight by an Army Lockheed B34. CAB investigated the crash, reported that the "probable" cause was the "reckless and irresponsible conduct of Lieut. William...