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...Pete" Quesada's 34,000-men FAA makes and enforces the rules and sets the safety standards for everything dealing with civil air in the nation (and at 414 U.S.-controlled stations abroad). Its authority reaches from design and construction of aircraft and components-down to the seats, lap belts and ashtrays-to ground maintenance, straight through to pilot and crew competency, aircraft operation, and the whole interlocking circuitry of air-traffic control...
...next month an Air National Guard T-33 jet trainer rammed into a Capital Airlines Viscount over Maryland, killing twelve. With renewed urgency, Monroney and his staff analyzed the obsolescent aviation laws, scrapped them all and began over again. By the end of the 1958 congressional session, the new FAA act was written into law and signed by the President. After aperies of talks with the President, Pete Quesada, already retired from the Air Force as a lieutenant general, resigned his Air Force commission, cut clean away from the military, and opened the FAA for business on Jan.1...
Regulating the Regulations. His no-nonsense attitude about the job was loudly evident from the start of Quesada's service with FAA. Right off, he told a black-tie dinner at the National Aviation Club in Washington about his plans for the Air Age and his awareness of the dangers. "There is a lot to learn in Washington about cannibals," he informed a big audience packed with Congressmen, Senators and blue-ribbon aviation-industry executives, "but I don't intend to be chewed . . . I don't intend to get caught in Washington like the girl with...
That matter was resolved quickly enough. As FAA's "Pete" Quesada quickly pointed out, "the maneuvers required in pilot-proficiency checks place less stress and strain on the aircraft than that frequently encountered in routine and regularly scheduled operations." He was backed unanimously by airline officials. National Airlines' Vice President L. W. Dymond hurriedly said that the problem was a result of "local misunderstanding"; the pilots would indeed continue to take such tests-or else lose their licenses. Still, the telegram served to dramatize the pilots' union feud with General Quesada's administration: a feud based...
...says, "the FAA inspectors can fly these jets better than the man they're checking out." One out of four pilots, in fact, fails the FAA flight test on commercial jets first time around, and it was because the ratio was higher among pilots 55 and older that Quesada a few weeks ago made 60 the mandatory retirement age-and thus once more incurred the anger of most oldtime airline flyers, who had looked for retirement...