Word: caa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CAA is sure that this system, combined with blind landing devices at the airports, will make U.S. flying enormously safer and more regular. But CAA considers the system merely "transitional." The ultimate control system, which will become necessary as air traffic gets denser, will keep the planes moving like railroad trains on a "block system." Each plane will keep to a well-marked "track" in space. Signals on the instrument board will tell the pilot whether the block ahead is clear and whether the next plane behind him is treading on his tail...
...elements of the final system are even designed as yet, but CAA is sure they will all be ready and in use by 1963. Total cost for theoretically near-total air safety...
When he isn't mugging in public, Red Ingle assures everyone he knows that his one ambition is to get out of the band business. He tried retiring in 1942 by going into the CAA. A year later, Spike Jones lured him away with a job ("I did the whoopees and coughs in Cocktails for Two"). In 1946, he tried retiring again. But one day some cronies dropped around to his house, and before he knew it, they had whipped up a burlesque of the mournful perennial, Temptation. Red's Tim-Tayshun sold a million records...
...commercial pilots would be a long time getting it. For one thing, Congress has never appropriated enough money for GCA (which costs about five times as much as ILS). For another, CAA is leary of GCA because of possible Government liability in accidents...
...vanished (TIME, July 21, 1947), was suddenly full of whizzing lights and large shining objects. A pair of Eastern Air Lines pilots saw the first-some kind of wingless plane with two rows of lighted windows and a plume of red flame at its tail. Then two CAA employees saw a "gigantic silvery ball" floating over Yakima, Wash...