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Behind all the flimsy excuses is the fight of President Clarence N. Sayen of the Air Line Pilots Association against Federal Aviation Agency Boss Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Ever since Quesada took over the agency last year, he has cracked down on sloppy flying, particularly in jets, told his inspectors in planes to keep a sharp eye out for violators. A.L.P.A. President Clarence Sayen fought back, accused FAA inspectors of endangering lives through "petty, ridiculous harassment of flight crews." He even tried to have FAA funds earmarked for inspector training shifted to other uses. Says he: "It is a foolish waste...
...pinpointed the cause of the crashes and have worked out a fix. But they are getting close, hope to have a verdict in ten days. The company has scheduled a meeting this week with representatives of the U.S. airlines that fly 115 Electras. Last week Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood R. Quesada flew out to a meeting with Lockheed Board Chairman Robert Gross, issued a statement saying that "we are satisfied that we are boring in on an area that is going to be definitive." In the meantime, added Quesada, under the FAA-imposed speed limit of 295 m.p.h...
After the second mid-air explosion in five months of a Lockheed Electra, FAA Administrator Elwood Quesada summoned airline representatives, aeronautical experts and Lockheed engineers to Washington last week for four days of closed-door talks. At week's end, Quesada ordered new restrictions on the 115 Electras in service, which will force airlines to change schedules, perhaps drop the planes from some routes. Items: ¶ A 295-m.p.h. limit was placed on cruising at the normal operational altitudes, 105 m.p.h. under the Eiectra's normal cruising speed, bringing it down to the speed of the older...
Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood Quesada seemed hardly more certain as to the cause of the crash. But the circumstances more than justified him in his weekend action of ordering speed limits for the Electra...
...battle, Monroney enlisted a powerhouse of support: the National Security Council, Air Force Secretary Dudley C. Sharpe, Federal Aviation Agency Administrator Elwood R. Quesada (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and the White House. MATS did not yield without a fight. Even in the face of official Air Force approval, it still has its diehard advocates of military competition with business. But at week's end, the word had gone out from the Air Force's vice chief of staff, General Curtis LeMay, to MATS officers that they must support the new policy...