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...AIRWAY USERS' TAX is under serious consideration by U.S. Government. Though no firm program to charge airlines for airport and airway operations has been worked out, Budget Director Percival F. Brundage feels that "this is an area where some kind of user charge may be practical...
Raytheon's airway radars, which have revolving antennas 40 ft. wide, are modeled after equipment used in military air-warning networks. Raytheon engineers are confident that they can track large commercial airliners, flying 70,000 ft. up, 200 miles away. When rain clouds cut off the view of a distant airliner, the radar can switch to a special "circularly polarized" wave that is reflected differently by spherical raindrops and the metal surfaces of wings and fuselage. This gimmick makes an airliner visible even behind a rain cloud. Another gimmick makes the radar blind to all objects that...
...billion. But, as Air Force MATS Commander Lieut. General Joseph Smith says: "The cost of a mid air collision between one of our 6-473 and a passenger-laden Super-Connie could buy a lot of control." So far, the CAA has been reluctant to push such complete airway control...
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...