Word: airways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disgrace did not last long. The year 1927 was a yeasty period; the public was crazy about aviation. Almost at once the Swede rejected by the Weather Bureau was picked up by the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics and sent to California to establish the first airway weather reporting system...
...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...
...artificial lily pond for boating, an Olympic-size swimming pool, a glassed-in rooftop restaurant, 20 stores clustered around a patio. Cost, including land and fixtures: $2,250,000. Last week, on a flying trip to the U.S., Oberoi was busy negotiating a deal to bring Pan American World Airway's Intercontinental Hotel Corp. into the operation of his new hotel, match its topflight facilities with equally modern management...
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...