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...dimensional. Under instrument conditions, each commercial airplane in flight must be protected by a cocoon of air space 30 miles long, 1,000 ft. deep and ten miles wide. Its protection must be so great because present instruments do not tell a pilot exactly where he is. But the piston pilot's problems are insignificant when measured against the problems of the jet pilot. The Civil Aeronautics Administration estimates that 35% of its traffic is military, and well over half these planes are jets. Above the major U.S. cities jet operations already saturate all air space between...
...TRANSPORTS will cost the airlines $1 billion over the next ten years in the changeover from piston-powered planes, predicts Civil Aeronautics Board Member Oswald Ryan. The outlay for jets will equal all airlines' current capital investment...
When Fritz Mayer reached his retirement age two years ago, his magnificent instrument (current value: $350,000) was still incomplete: the highly complicated piston controls-for quick changing of the 757 stop keys-were not hooked up. Under the energetic leadership of Manhattan's Mrs. Courtney Campbell, veteran of Washington politics, Mayer's friends went to work, lobbied through Congress and right up to the White House. Result: President Truman's Executive Order 10,334, exempting Mayer from compulsory retirement "in the public interest . . . for an indefinite period." Organist Mayer went right on supervising the completion...
...which the organist can automatically and instantly bring into play a pre-set combination of stops and couplers by merely pressing a controlling piston...
Convair tried to turn the piston-engined B-36 design into a pure jet by sweeping back the wings, slinging eight jet engines underneath. But in competition, Convair's XB-60 lost out to Boeing's all-new, 600-m.p.h. B-52. With Boeing's B-52 jet bombers now in production (TIME, July 19), the old B-36s have seen their day, will gradually be retired to a secondary role by S.A.C. Now Convair is busily at work on its own all-jet bomber, the XB-58 Hustler. The secret new plane will be a heavy...