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...cheapest and best solution is to build a completely new airport wherever possible. With this in mind, Congress passed the Airports and Airway Development Act of 1970. The act provides matching federal funds for airport construction, but only for those airports that take steps to protect and enhance "the national quality of life." To prepare environmental studies, gain government approval and build a new facility, airport officials say, can take up to 15 years. As a result, most new airport plans are being shelved...
...apple, is an organ with three important functions. The valve-like flap at its top, the epiglottis, must close when anything is being swallowed, to keep food or drink from going into the larynx or down the windpipe. With the valve open, the larynx is part of the airway to the lungs. Within it are two folds, the vocal cords, which vibrate when air is exhaled. The vibration of the cords generates the basic sound that is modified by various mouth structures to produce speech...
...surveillance and guidance of the Federal Aviation Agency. Careful eyes watched the plane turn at the end of the runway, poise, and then reach for the sky. Flight 740 then became a bright, moving blip on a succession of FAA radarscopes as it was guided along a transcontinental airway...
Spater has good reason to urge courts to hold that line. Though his fascinating and well-documented article does not disclose it, he is general counsel of American Airlines.* He is understandably fretful and concerned about two recent state court decisions in Oregon and Washington, flatly holding that airway noise is compensable even though the plaintiff's airspace is not violated...
...wanted pictures of Pierrelatte, would it have gone about it in such a heavy-handed manner? The town lies only five miles from the busy Lyon-Marseille commercial airway, and lateral pictures could easily have been taken from high altitude at that distance. If an overhead flight was to be made, why would it be made at the absurdly low altitude of 2,000 ft.? And would the U.S. so readily hand over the film if some dark job of espionage had been involved...