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...Aeronaves de Mexico DC-8 crashed and burned after an aborted take-off from New York's Idlewild Airport on Jan. 19, 1961 (4 dead, 102 survivors), apparently primarily because Eastern Air Lines Pilot William B. Poe closed the throttles just after liftoff. Poe, on hand to check out the plane's Mexican crew, was misled by an evidently faulty airspeed indicator which made him think the aircraft was not picking up speed fast enough to sustain flight...
...expensive as the process seems, the cost of calls is enticing. A passenger in a plane over Manhattan will be able to call San Francisco for $4 for the first three minutes, and a Yonkers housewife will be able to speak to her husband thousands of feet above Idlewild for only...
...Sculpture. At Idlewild, TWA showed off its even more sculptured new terminal, best of the buildings put up there in the course of remodeling the airport. Basically the design is four huge shells of reinforced concrete, two of them stretching out like the wings of a bird...
...Queen Elizabeth. As careful budgeters, they had already purchased their tickets for every step of the way: round-trip from New York to Texas and back on American Airlines, one-way back to Britain on Pan American. After spending the night in a Manhattan hotel, they proceeded to Idlewild Airport for the Texas leg. Once airborne, the Woods settled back to enjoy their flight...
...climbs away from Idlewild, the pilot can spot beneath his wings row upon row of houses-a familiar sight close to the borders of most U.S. jetports. And the pilot knows that the noise abatement procedures that bugged him all through the tense (and potentially dangerous) moments of takeoff have only one purpose: to make life more pleasant in those residential areas. But last week representatives of the Airline Pilots Association, and of the engineers who fly with them, were protesting in Washington to Senator Mike Monroney's Aviation Subcommittee. Noise abatement, they argued, may be a blessing...