Word: faa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Radar. FAA is working to eliminate the human element almost entirely and turn traffic control over to computers, is spending $200 million a year to develop an all-weather, electronically controlled system. Devices for the new system are already being developed and tested at FAA's experimental center at Atlantic City, NJ. One of the chief projects: three-dimensional radar, which, unlike present radar that shows only distance and bearing, will also show altitude. The FAA is testing an experimental 3-D radar apparatus, designed by New York's W. L. Maxson Corp., which picks up a target...
...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...
...down on delays in transmitting flight information to the ground, the FAA is testing an electronic device called the Automatic Ground-Air Communications System (AGACS). With AGACS, a recorder takes down a running record of the plane's speed, altitude and bearing. When the pilot reaches a check point, he simply presses a button and AGACS instantly transmits the flight data to an air-route traffic-control center. If the pilot is off course, he is instantly warned...
...plane is failing to live up to its flight plan. The first data-processing center is scheduled to be put into limited operation by late 1962 in Boston. By 1970, when the first Mach 3 airliners are expected to come into service, the computer network will be so complete, FAA men hope, that a plane will be able to have its landing clearance even before it takes...
...also had added a new leg in Tennessee. There upon the striking pilots, backed by $300,000 from ALPA, decided to form their own line as a subsidiary of Valparaiso Aero Service, a charter service in Indiana. They leased five seven-passenger de Havilland Doves. Since Valparaiso already had FAA certification as an air taxi service, Superior did not need a certificate to fly scheduled routes. While the striking pilots do not have the planes to compete with Southern on all routes, they hope to damage Southern by skimming the cream off the busiest routes...