Word: airway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pilot trainees undergo complete ground courses, covering Civil Air regulations, CW code reception, meterology, navigation, airway traffic control, radio, and study of the aircraft that is to be flown (Including fuel, oil, electric, and hydraulic systems, engines, and their overhaul) and a refresher course in instruments. prospective pilots practice orientation and beam bracketing. A pilot starts as third crew member and works his way to captain...
...Lighthouses. Passengers in night-flying airliners have all seen the fingers of light swinging around the dark countryside from airway ground beacons. Soon they will see the same fingers aloft. At least two airlines are equipping planes with General Electric's new rotating tail lights. They will sit on top of the vertical tail fins, and their powerful periodic flashes will warn pilots of distant planes that they are not alone...