Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb to review the traditional parade through Red Square. The military parade lasted eight minutes, just long enough to flaunt a thumping train of Russian rockets, including a slim newcomer called the Silver Needle, which the Soviet press claimed was the kind that downed U.S. Pilot Francis Powers' U-2 last spring...
This is not easy to do, even with good visibility. Since regular jet flights started two years ago, no U.S. commercial jet has cracked up seriously on landing, but there have been perilously close undershoots and overshoots because of pilot misjudgment. To prevent such unpleasant incidents, the Federal Aviation Agency thoroughly tested five visual-approach aids, and it has finally recommended one that was developed by Britain's Royal Aircraft Establishment. Last week New York's International Airport offered runways to be equipped with the RAE system so that pilots can try it out for themselves...
...lamps are set pointing upward at angles that mark out the glide path. When the pilot makes the proper approach, he sees on each side of the runway two bars of lights. The near group is white, the far group red (see diagram). As long as they stay that way, he is doing all right. But if the white lights turn pink or red, he is approaching too low. If the red lights turn pink or white, he is too high. He has plenty of time to get in the slot. Even with brilliant sunlight competing with the lights, they...
...firm, he has several clients, e.g., the Skiatron pay-TV system, with cases pending before the regulatory agencies. He said he did not believe his interest in cases before Government agencies would affect his report. Last week Landis was in Miami at the annual convention of the Air Line Pilots Association as an active candidate for the association's presidency. No pilot, Landis is a candidate of rebel pilots, who stress his knowledge of the federal agencies that regulate air travel...
...this could easily be lost unless the President-elect acts promptly and decisively. The Princeton conference declined to authorize its own pilot project, and placed its faith instead in the initiative of the Kennedy Administration. The new steering committee - including representatives from business, labor, education, churches, foundations - was asked to prepare a detailed prospectus for a "Peace Corps" program, and to present it to Kennedy and the new Congress