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Crowded Skies. Founder Trippe had originally spirited Halaby away from the FAA in 1965, named him a senior vice president and made it clear he was grooming the new executive to move in as chairman. Trippe figured that Halaby's charm and once considerable influence in Washington would help persuade the Government to award Pan Am some domestic routes and permit it to merge with a domestic airline. Pan Am sorely lacks continental U.S. routes that would feed passengers into its international network. After Halaby took over as chief executive in 1969, he became a frequent supplicant to Nixon...
Since the introduction of the magnetometer, an anti-skyjacking gadget that looks like a pair of mechanical bean poles, the most intriguing refuse is found in washrooms and wastebaskets at major airports. Says Jay Adsen, FAA security chief at Los Angeles International Airport: "It's really amazing, the things people carry around with them." Amazing indeed-and more than a little disturbing. At Chicago's O'Hare Airport, federal marshals have scooped up knives, handguns, tear-gas guns and stolen credit cards. In Los Angeles, officials found in a boarding area a jacket containing a .22 revolver...
From youthful radicals to such eminent Establishmentarians as Dwight Eisenhower, critics have assailed the military-industrial complex as too powerful for the nation's good. Former FAA administrator E.R. ("Pete") Quesada claims that at least in monetary terms, the vastness of the complex is a myth. He bet a colleague one box of cigars that the value of common stock of the ten largest companies commonly assumed to be part of the complex was less than that of a single cosmetics firm...
...moon are not powerful enough to damage an aircraft flying thousands of feet above the laser gun. But the high-energy light could sear the retinas of a pilot or passenger who happened to look directly into it. So far nothing of the sort has occurred, but the FAA is taking no chances. The observatories themselves cooperate by stationing aircraft spotters outside to watch the skies whenever experiments are in progress. If a plane is seen near by, scientists hold their fire until it has passed...
There are more laser-experiment sites than those listed by the FAA. Under the U.S. Air Force's so-called Eighth Card program, centered at Kirtland Air Force Base (N. Mex.), researchers are exploring the use of even stronger laser beams as military weaponry. The airspace over bases housing such experiments is automatically out of bounds to civilian craft. One goal of the program: the development of a laser that could destroy incoming enemy missiles. Traveling at the speed of light (186,000 miles per second), a laser beam could, in theory, intercept a 17,000-m.p.h. ICBM...