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...night was a pilot's dream, clear and bright with waxing moon glowing yellow in the sky. In the tower at New York's Idlewild Airport, controlmen expertly ticked off the routine comings and goings of scores of aircraft. Shortly after 12:30 a.m., the routine broke: an LAV (for Linea Aeropostal Venezolana) Super Constellation, droning southward from Idlewild across the black Atlantic toward Caracas, was in trouble. Her position: 38° 10 min. north, 72° 08 min. west (160 miles southeast of the New Jersey coast). "Returning direct to New York," said the crisp message. "Unable...
...Idlewild, the LAV staff began preparing late snacks for the 64 passengers and the ten-man crew. Doubtless many of the travelers would grouse about the delay, but the prospects for cheerful shoulder-shrugging were better than average, because at least 25 were lively youngsters, the majority of them students at U.S. convents and prep schools, returning to Venezuela for their summer holidays. Twenty on board were Americans...
Albatross to Idlewild: "Mike Sierra is on fire. We orbiting him . . . Mike Sierra, this is 2124. Do you read me? Over...
Caught between the crossfire of professionals and private airmen, the CAA has moved cautiously. New York City's Idlewild Airport is installing anew $761,000 system that enables ground controllers to keep track of all planes via more and better radio communication between pilot and controllers. Beyond that, CAA is conducting a special radar study at Washington National Airport on the problems of high-density air traffic control...
...still book a symphony concert as handily as a gondola ride. Tourists who do not know what they ought to like in the way of culture can turn themselves over to one of the new package tours being conducted by professional music guides. They pick up the customer at Idlewild Airport, shuffle him through a pattern of the right sights and sounds, then deposit him back on U.S. soil. Typical cost: $1,500 for six weeks...