Word: caa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high, barbed-wire fence was small protection last week against the drift of fine snow across Indianapolis' icy airport. The fence was no protection against questions, either. But it served notice that CAA's Ground Controlled Approach (G.C.A.) equipment, housed in a chunky Army truck and trailer, was still a military secret...
...your plane Saturday and fly to your Maryland farm on Sunday. . . . Fly to Wilkes-Barre . . . Monday. Flying is easier than driving a car. ... It costs less to run a Taylorcraft than to operate an automobile. . . . CAA records prove the safety ... 8 free hours flying instruction (enough to teach you to fly)." To airmen, who blow a gasket over such talk, this seemed the silliest ad of the month. It was not much worse than avia tion ads which have rosily pictured families flying off for weekends. But aviation buffs have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming...
...Wilkes-Barre? As a result of the inaccessibility of airports, said the CAA, and the relatively slow cruising speed and limited range of light planes, the net time saved over the automobile on short trips would be slim. Sternly the CAA concluded: if manufacturers repeat their prewar mistake of overselling the light plane, the demand will be "washed out in a wave of disillusion...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Harold Evans Hartney, 57, combat commander (shot down four times ) of World War I's famed First Pursuit Group (Eddie Rickenbacker was a member), later a racing pilot, pioneer in freight-and-passenger flying, adviser to the CAA; of heart disease; in Washington...
...future profit on those sums, Gulf Oil and North American executives at last week's ceremony needed all the postwar vision they could muster. Their mile-long airstrips, built to handle planes of domestic transport size, were deep in snow. The day's chief speaker, CAA's Deputy Administrator Charles I. Stanton, was scheduled to fly to a dramatic, ribbon-cutting landing at the field. Grounded by the snowstorm, he arrived by train and auto hours late for the dedication...