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...France, Great Britain, West Germany and the other industrialized countries, airline technology is fully as sophisticated as it is in the U.S., and in some aspects the Europeans are more advanced. France, for example, uses a battery of jet engines to blast away fog from Paris' two international airports???De Gaulle and Orly. That technique has not been adopted in the U.S. largely because of the noise and the pollution it creates. Using their advanced instrument landing systems, the French and the British airlines operate under conditions that would shut down most American airports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Constant Quest for Safety | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

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