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Spurred on by four mid-air collisions costing 126 lives so far in 1958, Congress last week was pushing hard on a bill setting up a Federal Aviation Agency to exercise almost total control over U.S. air space, bring both military and civilian craft under strict ground control. To operate the airways, the Civil Aeronautics Administration is spending $1 billion to replace the current hodgepodge control with a semiautomatic, radar-based system. The trouble with the plan is its target date: 1963. With a lead-time of 18 months or more for complex radars, CAA is still waiting...
Unprecedented Proclamation. The Maryland crash-the fifth mid-air military-airliner collision over the U.S. since mid-1949-laid on the line once again a scandalously serious problem of the U.S.'s crowded air space. In clear weather, military planes fly indiscriminately on and through civil airways under Visual Flight Rules. In areas of heavy traffic, civilian airliners, even in clear weather, more often fly under Instrument Flight Rules-continually tracked and controlled by Civil Aeronautics Administration ground stations. In the final analysis, the lack of military-civilian coordination was responsible for the Maryland crash just...
AIRWAYS CZAR may soon be appointed and given absolute power to lay down rigid sky traffic rules to prevent mid-air collisions. Law is hastily being drafted to create a federal aviation agency, which would merge all air controls for military and commercial planes...
From above, diving at a 45° angle, the Super Sabre struck the DC-7. its right wing slashing through the right wing of the airliner. United's pilot barked: "U.A.L. 736! Mid-air collision over Las Vegas! 736!" From the jet came the cry: "Mayday!"* Then, trailing smoke and fire, the planes dropped and crashed to the desert floor of wild flowers. All 47 in the DC-7, the two officers in the F-100F were killed...
...aircraft of Air Force Major General Alvin Luedecke's Joint Task Force Seven are deployed around Eniwetok's dazzling white coral atolls at the heart of a 590,000-sq.-mi. mid-Pacific "danger zone." From April through August Task Force Seven expects to set off 26 to 30 nuclear explosions, ranging from 50 kilotons to several megatons, from test towers, in mid-air and beneath the sea. Programed highlights...