Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...base for a cooperative U.S.-Guatemalan-Cuban-exile airborne military operation against Fidel Castro? Fortnight ago, poking around the country. Los Angeles Mirror Aviation Editor Don Dwiggins heard about the strip and broke a story reporting that it had been built with U.S. funds in a mysterious "crash" program and was capable of handling jet fighters...
...Patterson, president of United Air Lines, raised a question as to whether FAA's own facility, the all-important Preston radio signals, had been operating normally. FAA was prepared to offer evidence that its own plane -as well as others-had checked the signals within hours of the crash and found them functioning. If FAA was right, the big question of the collision was still when and how an experienced pilot could get so far off course without taking corrective action...
...traffic controllers are taught to use simple language; all use the same terms so pilots are not confused. Above all, they are never to get excited. "If a crash or emergency occurs," says the FAA manual, "you should not appear to be emotionally disturbed by it. The very act of continuing to use an efficient, competent and apparently unmoved voice will actually help you feel that way, too. It will instill confidence in others...
...airliners carry weather radar, but the sets show only the proximity of storms and not other aircraft. The FAA soon hopes to have an automatic, lightweight anticollision device that would warn approaching planes, as in the New York crash. One possibility: Bendix Corp. has developed a collision-avoidance system that bounces signals both off neighboring aircraft and off the ground to determine an approaching aircraft's course, tells the pilot what evasive action to take. The Sperry Rand Corp. is developing a system that uses high-frequency radio-wave techniques to detect the proximity of another aircraft; Motorola...
...supersensitive nose for bourgeois decay and no ear for music. They had completely ignored a libretto that wallowed in patriotism, and a highly melodious score. Based on a Stalin prize-winning novel, Prokofiev's Story tells of a World War II pilot who lost both legs in a crash and lived to fly again, after a harrowing, 17-day crawl behind enemy lines (enacting this scene, the opera's hero sings flat on his belly). With the composer and his wife themselves adapting the tale, the entire effort seems to have been embarrassing and painful to Prokofiev...