Word: approach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Applicants are also being encouraged to approach section men rather than lecturers for a recommendation. Jones said a good recommendation from a teaching fellow who knows the applicant well is much more valuable than one from a professor who is a stranger...
Soon, merchants from other towns were writing and telephoning for advice. Even priests enthusiastically offered to ring church bells to warn of the approach of revenue officers. Poujade forgot his bookselling business, and began rushing around France in his Citroen, organizing and making speeches. "We are the mules of the nation," he shouted amid the delighted roars of some 3,000 followers in Tours last week. "They are not simply killing...
Captain Algarotti circled for three-quarters of an hour, then was given permission to land on Runway 4. His first try was unsuccessful; so were the second and third. On his fourth approach, the control tower warned him that he was flying too low while still out over Jamaica Bay. He tried to pull up, but the airliner faltered (probably stalled) and plunged into one of the 2,000-ft. piers that carry the "slopeline" approach lights of Runway 4. Sixteen of the 22 passengers and all ten crew members were killed.-Authorities are still investigating the cause...
Many of them blamed the slopeline approach lights. In the official instructions distributed to its pilots by American Airlines appears the following entry for Idlewild Airport: "Caution! Slopeline approach lights in operation on Runway 4 can be mistaken for runway." The same warning is given about the slopeline lights at Washington and Los Angeles. No matter what is decided about last week's crash, many pilots will believe that the Italian captain tried to land on the water between the piers...
Dashes & Jags. The slopeline consists of two lines of lights at the end of the runway, on sloping supports like saw teeth. When an airplane makes a correct approach, they blend into two continuous lines. If the approach is not correct, they look broken up into dashes or jags, telling the pilot what is wrong...