Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scheduled airlines carrying passengers at night, or under instrument flying conditions, must be equipped with crash warning radars.* The original deadline, Feb. 15, has been extended by the Civil Aeronautics Board because the manufacturers could not produce the radars fast enough...
...Crash warning radars were first demonstrated by Howard Hughes and installed on his Trans World Airline (TIME, May 12). They flash lights (some of them also sound horns or buzzers) when the plane comes within 1,000 or 2,000 feet of an obstacle, either ahead or below. Chief value: the pilot is warned that an unseen mountain, or other dangerous "terrain," is close. The warning gives him time to climb out of trouble...
...showing, they could not be sure. Grain prices seemed to have found an uneasy bottom. Corn and wheat seesawed, ending the week about where they started. The stockmarket also caught its breath; trading was small and cautious. Traders, like most other businessmen, were waiting to see how severely the crash in commodities had shaken the boom. Last week, a few soft spots appeared...
...likes to go places and do things, usually decides to go and do them on the spur of the moment. In a little more than a year in office, he has flown to Rio and Buenos Aires, swum ashore from a capsized rowboat on a south Chilean lake, and crash-dived aboard a U.S. submarine off Valparaiso. In his fancy presidential DC-3, he has visited so many local fairs that Chileans are sure his travels already exceed those of all his predecessors put together. Their nickname for their traveling President: "Don Gavion" (Mr. Airplane...
Died. Robert Kronfeld, 43, top-ranking international glider expert; in a glider crash; in Alton, Hampshire, England. Holder of early sailplane records, Vienna-born Kronfeld helped plan many of wartime Britain's airborne operations...