Word: conrey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...