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...Appropriated, after a bitter dispute-which President Eisenhower himself settled in Quesada's favor-five radio frequencies from the Air Force and industry, for use in new navigational systems now being designed at NAFEC...
Going Like 60. With all this welcome overhaul for the safety cocoon, the airlines and pilots still find plenty to squawk about. Pilots charge that FAA inspectors are harassing them. Indeed, the inspectors, backed heartily by Quesada, seem to materialize in cockpits like eager gremlins, ready to slap a fine on a pilot for the slightest infraction of the rule book. With each infraction, Quesada gets tougher. After a Pan American Boeing 707 started into a near fatal dive while its pilot was back chinning with the passengers, Quesada enforced a long-disregarded regulation requiring all pilots to stay...
...Quesada has also been hotly accused of being unnecessarily arbitrary and of failing to consult with the industry before he gavels out his dicta. Recently, he ordered airlines to install weather radar in all planes, had to back down and make an exception of obsolescent planes when some lines raised a ruckus. The Air Line Pilots Association, the exclusive A.F.L.-C.I.O. union (membership: 14,000) led by Militant Pilot Clarence Sayen, is Quesada's most vociferous critic. A.L.P.A.'s latest complaint: Quesada's new ruling requiring mandatory retirement of all transport pilots at 60. The union...
...decision in an instant, the National pilot kept going, lifted the plane off the ground, circled around and landed safely. Still, an accompanying FAA flight inspector filed a complaint against the pilot for rule-book infringement. Though A.L.P.A. Boss Sayen hammered away at FAA's rigid judgment, Quesada had the last word: investigation showed that the pilot had failed to safety-catch a fuel-flow lever; it had slipped out of position to cut off the fuel to one engine on takeoff. The FAA rules on fuel-flow levers were tightened...
...battle, Monroney enlisted a powerhouse of support: the National Security Council, Air Force Secretary Dudley C. Sharpe, Federal Aviation Agency Administrator Elwood R. Quesada (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), and the White House. MATS did not yield without a fight. Even in the face of official Air Force approval, it still has its diehard advocates of military competition with business. But at week's end, the word had gone out from the Air Force's vice chief of staff, General Curtis LeMay, to MATS officers that they must support the new policy...