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...CONTROL PLAN will get started with CAA's order for $11.4 million worth of jet age navigation equipment. Deal is first in $314 million program that by 1965 will set up ground stations to constantly give pilots exact geographical position and direction. Initial order consists of VORTAC navigation equipment for 132 stations...
...manufacture his device in partnership with Los Angeles Industrialist Robert McCulloch, hopes to get bids from the armed services and firms such as oil companies, which often need to plunk down a man in rugged terrain. Wistfully, Gluhareff rules out one potential customer: the earthbound commuter. Says he: "The CAA would never approve...
...administer a control system for the jet age, Curtis last week recommended that the Airways Modernization Board be succeeded eventually by an even larger civil-military Federal Aviation Agency, which would absorb CAA and part of CAB. Empowered to police every inch of airspace, the new agency would probably lead to a new Cabinet-level boss for U.S. aviation. Meanwhile, CAA is planning a six-year, $810 million program of buying new electronic control equipment. It also hopes to boost present personnel from 16,000 to 24,000 in the next three years, will extend its radio and radar control...
AIRWAY USERS' TAX will be submitted to Congress by Commerce Department, which will probably urge boost in aviation gas tax (now 2? per gal.), plus levy on now untaxed jet fuel. It will help finance CAA's six year program for air-lane control by ground radar stations, automatic navigation equipment. New control system will cost $810 million to build, about $430 million a year to operate...
...TRAFFIC PLAN is being worked put in Washington. CAA ground stations will soon start controlling all instrument flights above 24,000 ft., by Jan. 1 expect to begin controlling altitudes above...