Word: ilse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In 1951, the Oklahoma legislature passed a law requiring all state employees to take a loyalty oath in which they had to pledge that they had not belonged-within five years of taking the oath-to any organization which the ILS. Attorney General called subversive or a Communist front. Seven...
At that point, many Americans were caught up in the great muscle-flexing passion of Manifest Destiny. They heard Indiana's Senator Albert J. Beveridge cry: '''God did not make the American people the mightiest' human force of all time simply to feed and die...
Prompt Response. Both systems put a severe strain on the pilot. Besides flying his airplane and watching intently for the first sight of the ground below, he must also watch the ILS instruments or listen to the GCA talker, or do both to check one against the other. When the...
George can probably do it. Experimentally at least, the automatic pilot has been hitched to both ILS and GCA. When following the ILS glide path, George accepts electronic signals from the ground and nudges the airplane's controls to keep it in the center of the beam. The pilot...
Additional equipment will allow George to make the actual touchdown. One gadget, for use with ILS, is a sensitive altimeter that tells George when the airplane is close to the ground. Then George flattens the approach angle so that the touchdown will be gentle. With the GCA system, a special...