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Obviously this required extensive camera work inside control towers and airplane cockpits during flight, which is not normally permitted by the Federal Aviation Agency. But FAA Administrator William F. McKee granted a sweeping O.K. with the remark: "It's about time that somebody did something to let the people know what's going on up there." With the full cooperation of TWA, Senior Editors Peter Bird Martin and Marshall Loeb began the task of showing what's going on up there...
Trickiest shooting was in the eerie, semidark IFR rooms (for Instrument Flight Rules), where flights are tracked on a set of radarscopes. In all, 40 TIME people were involved, in addition to dozens of staff members of TWA, FAA and air-traffic control. Impressed with the skill and coolness of the personnel in towers and cockpits, one of our photographers remarked: "This assignment has given me greater peace of mind about flying...
...toward the runway at Los Angeles, it was under the surveillance and guidance of the Federal Aviation Agency. Careful eyes watched the plane turn at the end of the runway, poise, and then reach for the sky. Flight 740 then became a bright, moving blip on a succession of FAA radarscopes as it was guided along a transcontinental airway...
Golden Triangle. The route taken by Flight 740 is only one segment of the FAA's 350,000-mile network of federal airways, freeways of the sky that are complete with aerial versions of warning signs, access roads, directional guides and even parking places?the holding areas in the vicinity of busy airports. With the help of ground controllers, pilots navigate from point to point along these invisible airways by means of electronic navigational aids that provide course, distance and location information. These "navaids" range from small location-marker beacons on the ground that light a bulb on the aircraft...
...Administration wants more tangible support from the most voluble champions of the SST. This week chiefs of the plane's U.S. customers-eleven airlines and one leasing company-will meet with Federal Aviation Agency brass to hear a plan for their direct participation in the prototype financing. The FAA wants them to chip in $1,000,000 for each of the 58 planes they have on order, over and above the $100,000-a-plane deposits they have already made. Later, foreign airlines, which have signed up for 56 SSTs, may be asked to join in too. The lines...