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...business as usual for any one of the 40 other pilots of Saigon-based Continental Air Services, but the business itself is most unusual. CAS, a subsidiary of the U.S.'s Continental Air Lines, operates in Viet Nam, Laos and Thailand, and has become the prime commercial charter carrier in an area where ground travel is usually difficult and often impossible. In Viet Nam, which is home for half of its 50-plane fleet, CAS links dozens of airstrips from the DMZ to the Mekong Delta. Each month it carries 20,000 passengers and some...
...essentials can be tough enough. A CAS plane was one of the last to leave the Citadel at Hué when North Vietnamese regulars stormed in. Another dropped in at Khe Sanh during the height of the siege to evacuate two wounded newsmen. Even in ordinary operations, CAS pilots, most of whom are ex-military aviators, more than earn their average tax-free pay of $2,000 a month. Often their "airstrips" are barely that-for example, at Nui Sap the strip is a 60-ft.-wide dike top that stretches for 960 ft. between two paddyfields. There...
...Angeles-based Continental Air Lines, which has been encouraged by the U.S. in its efforts to set up a reliable air service in Southeast Asia, started CAS in 1965 by taking over a small U.S.-owned, Laotian-based "air-taxi" service. Its Laotian business was (and through CAS, still is) run in close cooperation with Air America, the less than secret CIA-sponsored outfit...
...early 1967, U.S. commercial aviation experts had spent a decade vainly trying to develop a highly reliable midair collision-avoidance system (CAS). The number of "near misses" by U.S. aircraft had risen to more than 400 a year; the air traffic problem would soon be compounded by the arrival of jumbo jets and the SST. Alarmed, the Air Transport Association in January started an urgent program joining six avionics manufacturers* in the search for a solution. Last week the ATA triumphantly anounced the payoff; the blueprint for a CAS that could make the skies as safe as a sailing pond...
...roughly $40,000 per plane, the new CAS will be relatively inexpensive, and the ATA hopes to put it in operation by 1971. Budget planning for testing and refining a prototype has already begun. Says ATA president Stuart Tipton: "We believe this can be the starting point for a common national system for airborn collision avoidance -a goal we are determined to reach...