Word: faa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agreement from Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curt LeMay that permits FAA civilian flight inspectors to take the Strategic Air Force's big-plane jet training at Castle AFB in California. Result: 14 have become qualified, a dozen more are in training. (Quesada himself has been checked out in the Air Force's KC-135, military version of the 707; on business flights, however, he usually pilots one of FAA's T-33 jets or borrows a fighter from the Air Force or the Navy...
...reorganized National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center (NAFEC) in Atlantic City, N.J., where FAA scientists develop and test new control and safety systems...
Going Like 60. With all this welcome overhaul for the safety cocoon, the airlines and pilots still find plenty to squawk about. Pilots charge that FAA inspectors are harassing them. Indeed, the inspectors, backed heartily by Quesada, seem to materialize in cockpits like eager gremlins, ready to slap a fine on a pilot for the slightest infraction of the rule book. With each infraction, Quesada gets tougher. After a Pan American Boeing 707 started into a near fatal dive while its pilot was back chinning with the passengers, Quesada enforced a long-disregarded regulation requiring all pilots to stay...
...takeoff speed and thus technically should have aborted, it looked to the pilot as if such action would almost certainly lead to a crackup. Making his decision in an instant, the National pilot kept going, lifted the plane off the ground, circled around and landed safely. Still, an accompanying FAA flight inspector filed a complaint against the pilot for rule-book infringement. Though A.L.P.A. Boss Sayen hammered away at FAA's rigid judgment, Quesada had the last word: investigation showed that the pilot had failed to safety-catch a fuel-flow lever; it had slipped out of position...
Chickens & Golf Balls. In the face of all the hazards, FAA, overall, is doing a first-rate job. Mechanically, the job is overwhelming. FAA alone has 41 volumes on rules and procedures, and airline-maintenance libraries run along yards of shelf space; there are even manuals on how to read other manuals. Research experts, for example, test windshields by shooting 4-lb. dead chickens at the cockpit (birds in flight are a big and dangerous nuisance), check jet engines for durability by lobbing golf balls into the intakes...