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...CERTIFICATION for Boeing 707 is well ahead of schedule, will be completed by CAA about Sept. 1. Pan American will start first scheduled flights two months later...
...hardest thing I ever had to do, Senator, [pause] Jimmy is dead." McClellan blinked. "You mean my Jimmy?" Matthews nodded, filled in details. Onetime Army Pilot Jimmy McClellan, 30, a proficient light-plane flyer, was taking an examination for a multi-engine pilot's license, had at his CAA examiner's order feathered one engine of a Beechcraft to test his ability to handle the plane in a single-engine emergency. Something went wrong; the men died in the crash in an Arkansas cornfield...
...disclosed, he travels with feet au naturel. Reason: in his size 16 shoes, he cannot use the rudder pedals without stomping on the brakes as well. More interesting was another Deep South tidbit: although unlicensed, Student Pilot Folsom has been soloing on the sly-a violation of CAA rules...
Stopgap Skyways. As a stopgap measure to reduce the collision danger, CAA last week laid out three transcontinental air lanes that are completely ground controlled. The new air lanes are 40 miles wide instead of the standard 20 miles, extend from 17,000 ft. to 22,000 ft.; all planes, both military and civilian, in the super-skyways will operate on instrument flight rules, fly at least ten minutes apart. Another five routes are under consideration. In addition, all airlines belonging to the Air Transport Association will fly on instrument rules above 10,000 ft., and military planes will operate...
...like all stopgaps, such measures are not fully effective. While they do put more planes under ground control, they also increase the strain on the already overworked CAA with its outmoded system. And the big jets will only increase the pressure. Said CAAdministrator James T. Pyle: "The public must realize that we cannot eliminate the collision hazard until we fully implement our Federal airways plan, and this is in the order of four years or more. We're not ready because people didn't start five or ten years ago to get ready...