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...Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Force, Europe), and then (as now) a vice president of Eastman Kodak Co., told him to get going on an analysis of the problems and to bring back the answers. By May 1957> "Ted" Curtis' report was in. Recommendation: absorption of the old CAA into a new, independent Federal Aviation Agency, with combined military and civil traffic control in the hands of one civilian boss...
...opening new routes. Northwest has managed to hold down expenses. When Nyrop took over in 1954, operating costs per ton-mile were 31.2?, among the highest in the industry. By 1958 the figure dipped to 25.1?, more than 12% below the industry's average. Nyrop, who pared the CAA budget by $15 million and whittled CAB's mail payments by $13 million a year, cut costs at Northwest by poking into every detail. He turned up behind ticket counters, spent off-hours flying Northwest's 20,000-mile system to find tiny economies...
...tell an aircraft's angle of attack, compute its Mach number electronically, time and program the firing of its rocket armament; there is even an instrument to measure the structural-material erosion of missiles at hypersonic speeds. With a second division making radios and navigational facilities for the CAA's airways-improvement program, Topp turned a profit of $879,974 on sales of better than $10 million last year, and has a backlog of orders worth...
TOUGHER PILOT CHECK by the CAA will mean more surprise inspections of airlines' blind-flying skill. Latest check: Northeast Airlines pilots, involved in three fatal crashes in bad weather in 21 months. Of first 95 Northeast pilots tested for instrument flying, five failed...
...fashioned lantern, the soft-glowing lamps have since appeared in thousands of backyards, garage fronts and gardens from Arkansas to Albuquerque. Arkla alone has sold 22,000 in six months, and this year the industry's total is expected to top 300,000. In North Little Rock, the CAA approved a private airport's plans to install gas lamps along its modern runways. In Amarillo, Texas, where gas is cheap, gas lamps have appeared along highways and byways. The lanes of a new residential development now under construction are being lit by gas. Nonglaring, the gaslights...