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...idea first occurred to Navy Pilot James R. Conrey in 1960, while he was jockeying his plane through a tricky crosswind landing at Lincoln, Neb. The field-like many military and small private airports-had only one runway, leaving him little choice in the direction of his approach and landing. As he struggled with the controls, Conrey longed for a landing strip that would always allow him to approach into the wind-no matter what its direction. Why not a circular runway? he asked himself. With great single-mindedness, he polished his idea, found an ideal test site-the banked...
...before his concept was tried, Conrey was killed in an aircraft-carrier landing accident. But now he has won post-mortem recognition. In a report on tests made at Mesa in 1964, the Navy has predicted "a definite and vital place in future aviation" for the circular runway...
...MARTIN CONREY Salt Lake City...
...Williston Subs: Wentworth Shepard Cogswell Lucey Erlanger Whitman Jones Coleman Soden LOWELL DUDLEY Rogers l.e. l.e. Stern Litt l.t. l.t. Massick Hunter l.g. l.g. Horscowitz Reppun c. c. Bergman Cotton r.g. r.g. Levine Call r.t. r.t. Fisher Kornan r.e. r.e. Shack Murphy q.b. q.b. Black Piper f.b. f.b. Minscher Conrey r.h.b. r.h.b. Wall Gooder l.h.b. l.h.b. Glickman Subs: Pirnie Lewis Flood Sewkin Handleman Levine Alter
...change has been made in the assignment of box W, the final arrangement being as follows: S. A. Beggs, H. J. Conrey, J. H. Davis, G. W. Ryley, S. L. Smith, F. Sullivan