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...been certificated for scheduled passenger and mail service, and they already cost the U.S. more than $2,600,000 annually in mail pay and direct subsidy. Not one makes money. New York Airways, for example, runs 37 daily flights (8,750 passengers in 1954) between Newark, La Guardia and Idlewild Airports. Because of the high expenses ($3.56 per plane mile), it costs the line $14 per passenger per trip, but all it can charge is $9.50. Without a $1,453,000 Government subsidy, the line would have gone $1,190,000 in the red for the fiscal year ended last...
...speed that way") was already way behind in filling its orders. Father Donnelly took his problems to Remington Rand and the Graphic Microfilm Corp. of New York, gradually got an adequate supply of film, and the promise of a developer from another company. But when the machine arrived at Idlewild, it was too big for the hatch of the freight airplane. Finally, after many months, the developer reached its destination. By that time it was March 1952. Don't Skip. In selecting their material, Daly and Donnelly tried to avoid duplication. "But just when we were ready to skip...
AIRPORT PLAN for New York's International Airport at Idlewild will turn it into the world's most modern terminal, capable of handling 140 airliners at one time. To cost $60 million, the project calls for a 655-acre "Terminal City" with an eleven-block-long arrival building, two adjacent wing buildings, seven individual airline terminal buildings, plus a maze of taxiways and aprons. First buildings will be ready for their first passengers early...
...read William Faulkner's letter on the recent Idlewild disaster [Judgments & Prophecies-TIME, Jan. 3] with mixed annoyance and surprise . . . Let Mr. Faulkner ask any qualified pilot whether he would prefer "the seat of his pants" or ILS for a landing with a 200-foot ceiling . . . It seems useless and senseless to blame a "gadget" for such a disaster, especially in view of the evidence, unless of course one is subject to an artistic antimechanical bias. Although it is possible that the thesis of man's superstitious dependence on his more complicated tools might be worthy of some...
Many of them blamed the slopeline approach lights. In the official instructions distributed to its pilots by American Airlines appears the following entry for Idlewild Airport: "Caution! Slopeline approach lights in operation on Runway 4 can be mistaken for runway." The same warning is given about the slopeline lights at Washington and Los Angeles. No matter what is decided about last week's crash, many pilots will believe that the Italian captain tried to land on the water between the piers...