Word: caa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...terms too simple for complete accuracy, Mr. Roosevelt then summarized his proposals to make independent CAA an adjunct of the Commerce Department, abolish CAA's Air Safety Board, otherwise revise its setup. The people who incurred the President's frightful politeness were eleven airline pilots. Organizer of their Washington "Lobby to Save Lives" was former United Air Lines Pilot Captain David Louis Behncke, president of Air Line Pilots' Association. Said Captain Behncke, politely replying to Mr. Roosevelt: "The pilots ... are not schooled in politics. They are schooled in flying and know what is necessary to make...
...Under CAA rule U. S. airlines recently completed their first twelve months without a fatal crash...
...most favorable results of the nation-wide CAA experiment has been the safety record. Statistics show that the program has been 1100 percent safer than all private flying last year...
Last week Export won the first round of its fight. Submitted to CAA by its Examiner C. Edward Leasure was a recommendation that Export get its certificate. If CAA adopts the report, Export will begin with nonscheduled operation of its one plane-a Consolidated 28-between New York and Rome, with inter mediate stops at the Azores, Lisbon and Barcelona. Full passenger, mail and express operation will come later when Export gets the first of the three four-motored Vought-Sikorsky S-44s which it has ordered from United Aircraft Corp...
...part of Export's application, Examiner Leasure deferred an answer. Overruled was a request that the steamship line be specifically authorized to hang on to control of the air line. Reason: That question can be decided by CAA later...