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...Obsolete. Saudek Associates started at the top. Most of its members were with the Ford Foundation's Omni bus, founded their own firm three years ago when Ford pulled out, ran the show successfully for NBC. This season, NBC decided that the spate of specials would make the program obsolete. Rarely has a network been so wrong. Last week No. 1 Associate Robert Saudek quietly released the news that Omnibus will return to the air next season...
...TRADE THAW by Commerce Department promises to increase U.S. exports to Russia. Decision to grant license to Omni Products Corp. to ship $1,000,000 worth of plastic-pipe production machinery to Russia is seen as part of move by Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller to encourage individual trade deals...
...welcome word: visibility at the island was four miles, with scattered clouds at 12,000 ft. Burnham zeroed in on Nantucket-and ran into one of the island's murky flash fogs, rolling in from the sea with bewildering speed. Burnham, using Nantucket's Visual Omni Range beam, prepared for an instrument approach. But the fog thickened until even VOR was ineffectual. With its field socked in, Nantucket tried to warn the Convair by voice radio-and could not reach it. Flight 258 came in for its landing, flying low over scrub pines. It plowed into the ground...
...Navigation Development Board last week took the technical wraps off the controversial Tacan (Tactical Air Navigation), electronic distance-direction guide for aircraft. Backed by the Navy and Air Force as a replacement for the Omni-DME (Omnirange and Distance Measuring Equipment) system adopted by the Civil Aeronautics Administration in 1948, Tacan stirred up a storm in the flying industry (TIME, May 30), but it will probably become the system for all U.S. aircraft...
...essence, Tacan and Omni-DME are much alike, but though Tacan and DME use the same ultra-high-frequency radio band (960-1215), they cannot be read on the same instruments. Both are short-range (200 miles) systems; both show true distance from the ground station within 500-600 ft. Nevertheless, the new details bring out differences. Tacan can provide compass direction with less than one degree error; Omni-DME is accurate within three degrees. Tacan, not bothered by superstructure interference or a ship's roll, is better fitted for Navy carriers...