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...Although CAA's radar network plan was announced early last spring, it was given top priority only after the Grand Canyon disaster shocked Congress into appropriating an additional $35 million toward its completion. Currently, CAA controllers outside of New York City and Washington, D.C. must form their pictures of air traffic conditions from position reports radioed in by pilots. The new installations will enable controllers to scan the skies for 200 miles around 23 of the nation's major cities, spotting everything from highflying, supersonic military jets to plodding commercial airliners and buzzing private planes...
...CAA expects to have its new equipment in operation by next summer. Within three years, CAA figures, the nation will have a network of more than 70 civil and military radar installations, enough to handle four times the current volume of U.S. air traffic...
...Lowen Jr., 41, U.S. Civil Aeronautics Administrator, who fought since his appointment last December for an improved air-traffic control system, saw his arguments horribly strengthened when 128 persons died in the crash of two airliners over the Grand Canyon (TIME, July 9); of cancer, one day after the CAA announced a reorganization designed to speed establishment of a $246 million flight control network; in Denver...
TACAN does much the same thing by a different electronic method. The Air Force and Navy prefer it chiefly because its ground stations are much smaller and work better from a ship or a cluttered land site. The military have installed their TACAN stations independently of the CAA. Twenty of them are already functioning, and 181 more are being set up. Chief civilian objection to TACAN is that it is new, untried and will force non-military aircraft to install costly new equipment...
Last week President Eisenhower urged Congress to take off on the crash program by adding $68 million to the $40 million already appropriated to CAA for fiscal 1957. The extra money would buy more radar, a better ground-to-air communications net, another 80 omnidirectional radio ranges for planes to ride and more trained CAA ground controllers...