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...will work. But that's a pretty big if. The system has not been too well demonstrated to date." But Pan American World Air ways started using DME on some of its planes last spring and is "very pleased." Nevertheless, other airlines have dragged their feet, even though CAA has installed more than half of the necessary ground equipment...
...better communications between airports and pilots. By thus extending the range of the aerial police, traffic jams can be stopped before they develop. A basic need on the ground is long-range radar equipment, a high-cost item that only a small percentage of U.S. airports now has. CAA's proposal: connect airport control towers to the Air Force's long-range radar warning net, which is already in operation near most big U.S. cities. While there are still some technical problems to be worked out, CAA is confident that a way can be found...
Still officially grounded by CAA for impetuously buzzing the control tower at Teterboro Airport, N.J. last January, Radio-TV Favorite Arthur Godfrey nonetheless stepped up before the National Aviation Trades Association meeting at Virginia Beach to accept a diamond-studded silver punch bowl as a token of his contribution toward popularizing aviation. Humbly, he apologized for "getting into a little trouble with the CAA," then beat CAA to the punch by announcing that, come Sept. 16, Pilot Godfrey, who has passed a new physical exam, will have CAA's O.K. to fly again...
...circle route from the U.S. north to the Orient, hitherto exclusively flown by Northwest. Nyrop, who is confident he can solve the troubles, began his career by studying law at George Washington University while a Senate elevator boy, joined the legal staff of newly created CAB in 1939. At CAA he whittled the budget by $15 million; at CAB he cut mail payments by $13 million annually and got the carriers to kick back $11 million already paid...
NONSTOP FLIGHTS across the continent by American Airlines will be stopped if the Civil Aeronautics Administration has its way. The CAA, in effect, has charged American with violating crew regulations by keeping pilots aloft for more than the eight-hour maximum on better than half its flights (headwinds frequently slow westbound runs to more than nine hours), has petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board to discontinue the nonstop flights...