Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pilot needs at least three seconds to see and react to an approaching plane; with both planes flying at 300 miles per hour (considerably slower than the speed of the jet airliners which will enter service this winter), three seconds means half a mile. In other words, by the time a pilot can adjust his course to avoid another plane, the other plane is upon him. In addition, the controls of a modern airplane are so complicated as to require a pilot's almost undivided attention. He does not have time to watch for other planes, and when he does...
...split-second, life-and-death decision. Around him, his six-jet B-47* seemed to be falling apart: the right outboard engine was boiling with flame, scattering red-hot pieces of steel across the wing and fuselage. The navigator had bailed out of the nose compartment; so had the pilot. Copilot Obenauf, squeezing along the catwalk toward the nose, was ready to jump too. He looked down and froze: there, lying unconscious, his oxygen equipment disconnected, his chute pack gone, was the navigator-instructor, Major Joseph B. Maxwell...
SPACESHIP ORDERS will come soon from Washington. Decision now is being made on which companies are to get multimillion-dollar contracts for "Dyna-Soar" (from dynamic soaring), i.e., vehicle that will be boosted up like a rocket but will have wings and controls to permit pilot to orbit freely around globe, then glide back to earth...
...pilots also argue that the new jets simplify the job of the engineer, since they have fewer dials to watch; on the other hand, flying itself has become steadily more complex, which means that the engineer, were he a pilot, might profitably take over some pilot duties such as checking navigation and monitoring radioed weather reports. Yet even this argument runs into trouble from the engineers. Their case is that the big new jets, like every plane since World War I's "Jenny," are more-not less-complex, need a highly trained mechanic-engineer. While there may be fewer...
More Jobs? No one knows how far the pilots will go to enforce their demands. Striking Western, with 263 pilots drawing strike benefits of $650 per month, and striking American, with 1,541 pilots needing the same benefits, are two different matters. Yet the A.L.P.A., headed by President Clarence N. Sayen, says flatly that "unless the third man is a pilot, we will not operate jets." The pilots' real fear is that the bigger, faster jets will mean smaller airline fleets and thus fewer jobs unless they win the third-man spot. But the history of air travel...