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Professional airmen - and airline passengers-have good reason to worry about the CAA's control system...
This week, under heavy fire from commercial airlines tacitly backed by the Air Force, CAAdministrator Lee sent his resignation to the White House and quit after nearly ten years with CAA; into his job stepped CAA's deputy chief, Charles J. Lowen...
...develop, another four to install. Cost: a whopping $1 billion. But, as Air Force MATS Commander Lieut. General Joseph Smith says: "The cost of a mid air collision between one of our 6-473 and a passenger-laden Super-Connie could buy a lot of control." So far, the CAA has been reluctant to push such complete airway control...
Thus, private flyers fear that they will be knocked out of the air by an automatic control system. They demanded Lee be kept at CAA. However, airmen say that private planes will have their own segment of airways to fly on; later, they may be asked to buy a simple radar beacon to show controllers where they...
...TRAFFIC JAM is so serious that the Civil Aeronautics Administration will ask next year for about $200 million to install new ground and air controls to direct and speed up planes. The CAA wants to link civilian-airport towers to the air-defense radar system (so that the towers can keep better track of commercial planes), install new extra-long-range radar, and improve pilot-to-tower communications...