Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...November, at the very time he was digging dirt for his report, Landis was unsuccessfully trying to land a job as president of the Air Line Pilots Association with the argument that, while he had never been a pilot, he had been chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board and could represent the association's interests at CAB better than anybody else...
Moscow's new People's Friendship University was hatched suddenly by Nikita Khrushchev during his trip to Indonesia last February. It was opened this fall with appropriate rites in the floodlit Hall of Columns, where U-2 Pilot Francis Powers was tried. "Do not be afraid of Moscow's frosts," said a Russian girl as she peered at 400 students from 59 countries. "The warmth of our hearts is with you, and it will keep you warm." Said Khrushchev: "We shall not force our ideology on you, but if any of you become infected with the disease...
...problem is getting good men at the salaries FAA can pay. When a plane is being brought in during bad weather, the controller is often more responsible for the plane than the pilot. But controllers start at $4,500; the top salary is only $8,950 (v. $30,408 a year for DC-8 captains...
...have an automatic, lightweight anticollision device that would warn approaching planes, as in the New York crash. One possibility: Bendix Corp. has developed a collision-avoidance system that bounces signals both off neighboring aircraft and off the ground to determine an approaching aircraft's course, tells the pilot what evasive action to take. The Sperry Rand Corp. is developing a system that uses high-frequency radio-wave techniques to detect the proximity of another aircraft; Motorola, Inc. is working on an infra-red detection device that picks up the red running lights on other planes, warns the pilot...
...down on delays in transmitting flight information to the ground, the FAA is testing an electronic device called the Automatic Ground-Air Communications System (AGACS). With AGACS, a recorder takes down a running record of the plane's speed, altitude and bearing. When the pilot reaches a check point, he simply presses a button and AGACS instantly transmits the flight data to an air-route traffic-control center. If the pilot is off course, he is instantly warned...