Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...make jet flying safer, the airlines last week put in a new set of crew training rules. They came only after a year of arguing with the Federal Aviation Agency. FAA decided that since the transition from slower piston planes to tricky jets is much more demanding on pilots than a simple move up the ladder from one piston plane to a bigger one, the old training system was not good enough...
...after the first minute of Piston's Serenata for Orchestra, one realized that everything was completely under control again. Professor Piston's work of 1956 was originally commissioned by the Louisville Symphony and received a fittingly excellent performance at its East Coast premiere last night. After being delighted by its boyish allegro--which has more than a bit of Copland to it--and its sensuous slow movement, I cannot quite understand the reticence of other orchestras to take up the short, light work. Everything that was first rate about the Bach Society's handling of the other pieces...
...between Pittsburgh and Miami will be started next month by Eastern Air Lines, if CAB approves. The service will use piston planes, will cost only $40 (plus tax), less than bus or rail fares or the present daytime air-coach fare...
...then does the midge fly? In Britain's New Scientist, Professor Vincent B. Wigglesworth, extracting reports by other European scientists, supplies the answer: midges-and presumably other similar insects-are automatic flying machines. A midge's muscular motor works in much the same way as a piston engine. Once the ignition is turned on. the engine keeps running until the ignition is turned off or the fuel exhausted...
...travel by shrinking the earth some 40%, but set off an earth-bound revolution that is transforming the whole façade and function of the jet age's gateway: the airport. Nations and cities are taking a searching second look at the airports that served the piston-plane age -and finding them wanting. The result is an immense worldwide building boom to adapt them to the new and challenging problems-for pilots, passengers and cities -of the 600 m.p.h. jet planes. In the U.S. new or better airports are blossoming in Seattle, Miami, San Francisco, New Orleans, Chicago...