Word: faa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passengers as the U.S. slams into the jet age with the speed- and potential hazard-of a .45-cal. bullet. Last week, after buzzing Senators for weeks, Pete Quesada won a major victory. The Sen ate restored $48.8 million of the $76 million cut by the House from FAA's $587 million jet-age budget, bringing the total appropriation for operating expenses to within only $6,000,000 of what Quesada asked. Chances for the revised bill's passage : excellent. The restoration gives Quesada virtually all he wanted, means that he will have the money...
FIVE years ahead of schedule, Quesada has set up radar-controlled jet expressways from New York to Califor nia and from Florida to Gander by persuading the Air Force to let FAA men use its radar facilities. He has worked out a common airspace system for both military and commercial planes, opened thousands of square miles of "restricted" military space to commercial carriers. He prefers to use soft talk instead of a big stick, but he can hit hard, especially when pilots fail to realize that jet planes require a much closer watch than older, slower planes...
...Quesada, retired Air Force lieutenant general, the new agency will control both military and commercial jet movements, try to set up round-the-clock, all-weather control of U.S. aircraft. Last week Quesada announced a significant step forward: he made a deal with the U.S. Air Force to station FAA observers in the military air control stations. For the first time, the flights of military and commercial planes will be closely coordinated...
...Senate passed and sent to the House a bill to set up a new, civilian-bossed Federal Aviation Agency that will take over air-control functions now scattered among half a dozen federal agencies and boards. Created to prevent collisions in the U.S.'s increasingly crowded airspace, the FAA will make and enforce traffic rules for all commercial, private and military aircraft...