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Commerce's Civil Aeronautics Administration was mutilated almost beyond recognition. Despite congressional concern over air safety, the Taber committee recommended a $70.5 million slash in CAA funds, which would mean that after July 1 CAA could no longer maintain airport control towers (except in Washington). Its program for modernization of navigation aids would be cut in half. Observed the committee: "Air accidents will only be eliminated when people stop flying...
Pressure flying continues to grow more & more exact. Nowadays, airplanes in flight send hourly weather reports to the CAA's station WSY in New York. WSY edits the information and broadcasts its essentials at 25-minute intervals to other planes. By merely listening and figuring, a pilot can tell where to find the friendliest tail winds...
Controlled Approach. In sober fact, CAA had done a creditable job with what it had. It had given top priority to what everyone agreed was the No. 1 problem-landing in soupy weather. That CAA still considered this a problem exasperated the Army, the Navy and the public. For the past year and a half the public had heard of the spectacular feats of the Army & Navy's G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach). It was relatively simple. The only equipment needed in the plane was an ordinary two-way radio. A radar unit on the field picked up the plane...
...time the curtain of military secrecy was lifted from G.C.A. in mid-1945, CAA's critical eye had found many shortcomings in its commercial usefulness. The military sets required a crew of five-far too many for round-the-clock operations on CAA's tight budget. Many pilots disliked the idea of putting themselves in the hands of an unknown operator on the ground. Furthermore, G.C.A. was not foolproof-a fact emphasized this week when a Navy four-engined transport, landing through the fog at the Oakland airport under G.C.A. control, crashed and burned...
After working out alterations which cut the operating crew to two, CAA now feels that G.C.A. is practical as a check for other landing methods, and has authorized experimental units at Washington, Chicago, and LaGuardia Field...