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...jetliner taxis out to take off on runway 31 L* at New York's Idlewild airport. Radioed advice from the ground control crackles in the crew's ears: "In the interest of noise abatement, do not delay turn to 290°." Beside the taxiway, a blunt sign reminds the pilot again of the noise-controlling turn. The reminder is unnecessary. He knows that the moment his wheels leave the ground he must transmit a report to a company sound truck stationed in line with the end of the runway, and he must start a countdown: "Five, four, three...
...with a list of eminent patrons. Dwight Eisenhower was there recently as the guest of Charles Jones, president of the Richfield Oil Co. W. Alton Jones, executive-committee chairman of Cities Service Co., was on his way to meet Ike there when he died in the plane crash at Idlewild with $62,690 in his pockets...
...scenario at New York City's Idlewild Airport last week was right out of The Untouchables. This guy gets off the plane from Hollywood and a messenger comes up to him and hands him this sealed envelope. He opens the envelope. The letter says something like this: "Dear Mr. Treyz: As of this date your services as network president will no longer be required by the American Broadcasting Co. SIGNED: Leonard Goldenson...
...stall caused by prematurely retracted flaps would be due to pilot error, and in the opinion of CAB men, the crew that died at Idlewild was unusually competent; Captain James Heist had 18,000 hours, of which 1,600 were in 707s. So other theorists suspect that the fatal plunge of the 707 may have been caused by misbehavior of its hydraulic control system. There have been many instances, both proved and suspected, when the hydraulic system has made the aircraft extremely difficult for the pilot to control. This seems to have happened when a Sabena (Belgian) Airlines 707 crashed...
Plane Fear. Some airports have gone so far as to suspend jet traffic completely during certain hours; in Montreal and London, no jet flights move between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. But appeasing the neighborhood complainers can add to the pilot's problems. At Idlewild, for example, planes using Runway 31-Left are ordered to climb sharply and turn sharp left seconds after take-off to avoid passing over populous Jamaica-which is exactly the procedure followed by the American Airlines jet that crashed into Jamaica Bay (see SCIENCE...