Word: faa
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Lockheed expects to have its first Electras completely modified by December; when they are ready, it will ask the Federal Aviation Agency to give final approval to the fixes. After FAA gives recertification, the airlines will be free to increase the cruising speed of their modified Electras from their present restricted 329 m.p.h. at 15,000 ft. to their original speed of about 400 m.p.h. By December 1961, Lockheed hopes to have all the Electras fixed...
Collision Course. The spreading sickness has brought on a showdown in the bitter feud between Clarence N. Sayen, boss of the gold-plated Air Line Pilots Association and Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood ("Pete") Quesada (TIME, June 20). What sparked the showdown is a dispute over where the FAA inspectors sit in the new jetliners. Quesada says they must have the forward observer's seat (across from the flight engineer's seat) so that they can see if the pilot is obeying FAA rules. But Sayen maintains that that seat is reserved for the third pilot, issued...
...went into a federal court and won a temporary restraining order. The pilots got around it by staying away from work on the grounds of "sickness." TWA, American Airlines and Pan American got a restraining order from a federal district court in Chicago, requiring pilots to comply with the FAA order. But the pilots were not happy. Growled one captain to an FAA inspector: "I don't want you here at all, but we're under a court order, so sit down...
...clip Quesada's power, Sayen has persuaded California Democratic Senator Clair Engle and Mississippi Democratic Representative John Bell Williams to introduce identical bills in the Senate and House. They would give the Civil Aeronautics Board the right to review all the FAA rulings, in effect making the FAA as slow and cumbersome as the CAB. The bills also call for public hearings before the FAA can suspend a pilot's license. Cries Sayen: "The law which concentrates such power in one man that he can, by hastily conceived, dictatorial, unnecessary and arbitrary actions, provoke such chaos while attempting...
...airline officials feel that Quesada's firm hand has helped make U.S. aviation smoother and better-run. Says Eastern Air Lines President Malcolm MacIntyre: "A.L.P.A. used to be one of the loudest complainers about not being able to get decisions under the old setup. Now it wants FAA decisions to be subject to CAB review. That's a sure way to get no decisions...