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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later takeoff was delayed almost five hours by trouble in the compressed-air system. In Washington, Federal Aviation Administration officials took note of another complication caused by the 747's bulk. Because of swirling air currents that the plane leaves in its wake, the FAA ordered controllers to keep 747s two to three times the normal distance away from other planes in the air, horizontally and vertically...
Middle-Age Spread Early design difficulties are inherent in building any plane, and the 747's major troubles now seem to be over come. Two weeks ago, the FAA gave the plane an airworthiness certificate, the final approval needed to fly passengers. Recalling a recent conversation with Pan Am's best-known director, Charles Lindbergh, Halaby says: "Slim Lindbergh and I were sitting in the 747, and we decided to list the greatest civil air transports of all time. We picked the German JU-52, the DC-3, the DC-6, the 707 family of jets...
...divided the industry. Halaby, who as FAA administrator supervised the original competition for an SST design, says that he is an unabashed "supersonophile." He seems confident that the plane's problems can be solved. Pan Am Director Lindbergh has questioned the SST as a potential despoiler of the environment. Unless there is a breakthrough in design, the SST will spread a sonic boom beneath its path up to 50 miles wide. "Slim and I are in constructive debate on the SST," says Halaby...
...adviser. Halaby rose to become Deputy Assistant Secretary. After leaving Washington in the mid-1950s, he job-hopped, serving briefly as operating vice president of Servomechanisms Inc. and later organizing his own law firm in Los Angeles. In 1961, President Kennedy named him to the top civilian aviation job, FAA administrator...
...Halaby was a highly visible, activist administrator, flying out personally to investigate every major crash. (On one trip, his plane brushed the wing of a Viscount while taxiing; after Halaby reported the incident, his FAA fined him $50.) He also framed new safety regulations calling for, among other things, improved radar and computerized air-traffic control and separate airways for jets and slower piston-en-gined aircraft. During Halaby's tenure, the airline fatality rate dropped by nearly two-thirds. Just before he resigned in 1965, Halaby flew an FAA JetStar from Los Angeles to Washington, checking in by radio...