Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Trickiest shooting was in the eerie, semidark IFR rooms (for Instrument Flight Rules), where flights are tracked on a set of radarscopes. In all, 40 TIME people were involved, in addition to dozens of staff members of TWA, FAA and air-traffic control. Impressed with the skill and coolness of the personnel in towers and cockpits, one of our photographers remarked: "This assignment has given me greater peace of mind about flying...
...airports. With the help of ground controllers, pilots navigate from point to point along these invisible airways by means of electronic navigational aids that provide course, distance and location information. These "navaids" range from small location-marker beacons on the ground that light a bulb on the aircraft's instrument panel as it passes overhead, to huge, long-range radar systems that track aircraft and are linked to distant air-traffic control centers by microwave...
Over the next decade, the agency estimates, landings and takeoffs at airports controlled by FAA towers will triple?from more than 41 million in 1966 to 139 million. During the same interval, the annual number of flights by instrument rules will grow from 5.2 million to 12.4 million. The number of U.S. commercial airliners will increase from 2,124 to 3,500. Airline business will soar from 114 million passengers and 76 billion passenger-miles in 1966 to 352 million passengers and 266 billion passenger-miles in 1977. The general aviation fleet of business and pleasure craft will increase from...
Other problems are posed by the FAA's lack of control over the flights of many of the nation's private aircraft. All commercial airlines and some of the larger and speedier private planes use the airways, operating under instrument flight rules (IFR) even in clear weather to take advantage of the separation and protection afforded by FAA controllers. But many small planes fly by visual flight rules (VFR), permissible when visibility is greater than three miles. Pilots flying VFR are responsible only for seeing and avoiding other aircraft, and are not even prohibited from entering busy FAA control zones...
...might be able to arrange a G.M. courtesy car for their guest speaker to use for a couple of days. Sure, said G.M., when the paper called. The company rolled out a 1967 Chevy with shoulder harnesses, head braces, disc brakes, emergency flasher switch, freeway lane-changer signal, padded instrument panel and energy-absorbing steering column. It remained to be seen whether all that would satisfy the guest speaker: Auto Critic (Unsafe at Any Speed) Ralph Nader...