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...they have great plans for the future. Dr. S. Gill of Ferranti Ltd. (British computer manufacturer) said that machines that can really learn will have vast abilities. They will compose music, their style of composition varying with the kinds of music they have been "listening to." They will operate airway control systems. They may even perform surgical operations, watching their own incisions and stitching with television eyes, keeping track automatically of the patient's blood pressure, respiration, etc., and working much faster than a human surgeon could...
...these changes will take place right away. The jet age has come so fast that the U.S. is unprepared for it in many ways. Long ignored by indifferent Congresses, airway control and airport modernization are lagging badly. Only 14 U.S. airports are now ready to handle jets. Complete air control is still a paper project-though enough may be done by January to keep American's transcontinental jets under radar surveillance across the U.S. But most of the changes are inevitable, simply because the jet age demands them...
FIRST ALL-RADAR AIRWAY, in which ground controllers can "see" every plane in skies, will open between New York and Washington by October, soon after will be extended south to Norfolk and North to Boston, later to Chicago. CAA is installing 16 long-range radar ground stations in New York-Washington-Chicago triangle...
Both pilots in the Grand Canyon incident were on "visual flight rules," and not assigned to a definite airway, because Arizona and most of the Southwest are classified as "free air," and are not completely controlled...
...away, United Air Lines DC-7 Flight 736, with a crew of five and 42 passengers, sped along Airway Victor Eight, bound from Los Angeles for Denver at about 305 knots. The Civil Aeronautics Authority, controlling the airliner, had no knowledge of the jet; the Nellis A.F.B. tower, controlling the jet, knew nothing of the airliner. The jet, in penetrating the lower altitudes, had to break through the commercial airlane- as military aircraft do all the time. Only wild chance could bring the two planes together...