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...Civil Aeronautics Administration, Aircraft Owners and Pilots' Association and National Business Aircraft Association want a very high-frequency system called Omnirange (Omni), which, coupled with Distance Measuring Equipment (DME), does the job handily. OmniDME has already been installed at many airports...
Short-range (200 miles) navigational aids such as radio ranges and Omni Range have long been used to guide U.S. aircraft, with pilots switching from one station to another enroute across the country. But when a jet flyer, moving upwards of 600 m.p.h., tunes in on an Omni Range or a radio beam, he is often out of range before he can calculate his position...
...acquaintance. He gulls a sympathetic gentleman with a billion-dollar worldwide relief scheme ("Missions I would quicken with the Wall Street spirit"). Ever extolling the power of positive thinking, the confidence-man takes the form of an herb doctor with a cure-all called the Omni-Balsamic Reinvigorator ("Health is good, and nature cannot work...
...coats have never been a social necessity in Cambridge; rather the girls have taken to chinchilla, cashmere and the omni-present camel's hair polo coat. The belted model has been replaced by the classic flare, and no one can tell anymore how much the wearer weighs...
...frequency-range signals did. Thus, omnirange signals cannot be picked up dependably beyond the "line of sight." The fault is not serious: when an airplane is flying at 5,000 ft., the line of sight is an ample 100 miles. Counting military installations, there are now about 360 omnis in the U.S. Soon there will be 100 more, and the system is scheduled to spread to foreign countries. Some airlines (e.g., American) are already fully equipped to use omni; others are converting to it rapidly. Its safety and security appeal to all pilots. Says American's chief engineer...