Word: faa
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...that easy, and Shurcliff feels his life has changed "terrifically" since he and his deputy director John T. Edsall, professor of Biological Chemistry, held the League's first meeting in March. From March until June, he spent about five hours every night writing letters to Congressmen and FAA officials and preparing news releases, which he sent to a selected list of 180 newspapers, 40 radio and television stations, and 30 "key individuals." He wrote to the mayors of cities which would be most directly affected by the SST, and mailed out application blanks which invite prospective members, "Do join this...
...Senators have expressed definite support for the League. And Shurcliff thinks many people have been confused by the Federal Aviation Agency, which continues to hedge on whether it would permit SST flights over land. Shurcliff himself considers that question purely academic. He is sure that even if the FAA starts with a policy of allowing supersonic flights only over the ocean, once the SST is operational the profit motive -- the more planes flying the more routes, the more money--will take over...
...radar vector. The Oberlin operator announced: "You are three miles west of Ortner." "Fine," radioed Karns. "I'm releasing my jumpers." Looking down, all anyone on the plane could see was clouds, broken here and there by patches of brownish green. Both the U.S. Parachute Association and the FAA have regulations forbidding a jump through clouds toward a target that cannot be clearly identified. Nevertheless, Karns signaled the jumpers, and out they spilled into the void...
...chutists have died; last year the figure was 23, the year before 25. The U.S. Parachute Association argues that there is only one fatality for every 55.000 jumps, points to its long list of dos and don'ts for members. In the Ohio tragedy, there was an obvious FAA radar foul-up. Yet the chutists had broken every rule in their own book, rules that in any event are largely voluntary. Aside from the cloud regulation, no federal or state agency pays much attention. The theory apparently is that the only lives parachutists risk are their own. But that...
Risks & Rewards. Financially, the FAA is determined to let the builders fly on their own after the prototypes are built, though the U.S. may well help Boeing with its huge capital needs by guaranteeing some loans. Even so, the Government's share of the $4.5 billion development bill should come to no more than $1.3 billion. The Government should easily recover all of that through royalty payments with the sale of the 300th plane (so far, including foreign orders, options have been taken on 114 U.S. SSTs). After that, Government royalties will be all gravy; by the sale...