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Winging from Augusta, Ga. to Washington aboard the Columbine one day last spring, President Eisenhower sprang a question on General Elwood Quesada, his special assistant for aviation. What, asked Ike, is the state of U.S. airlines as they prepare to enter the jet age? "Pete" Quesada's answer: Not so good. Though airlines are committed to spend $4 billion for new jet equipment by 1962, they have run into sliding earnings and difficulties in financing their purchases. Ike asked for a special report on the airlines' plight. Last week Quesada sent him a 44-page document prepared...
...prohibited jet penetration swoops from high to low altitudes through civil airways. Exception: emerency jet-bomber and fighter "scrambles," which would be continued whenever necessary for the national defense. Said the President's special assistant for aviation affairs, retired Air Force General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada: "We can have some of this in effect within a few days...
Boulevards & Tunnels. At best, these emergency steps seemed halfway measures, and they were. But Quesada and clamoring Congressmen knew that they are all and perhaps more than all that the obsolescent U.S. airways traffic-control system can absorb. CAA is now in the midst of a modernization program, has expanded personnel from 19.000 to 29,000 in three years, is training hundreds of new airways traffic controllers. The CAA's fiveyear, $1 billion program is due for completion in 1962-but the U.S. airways are in need of the 1962 program right...
...ease the strain on Washington's dangerously overworked National Airport. Air Force Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood P. Quesada, special White House aide for aviation, announced that he is mulling over four possible sites for a new airport. The narrowed-down list: Friendship Airport, between Washington and Baltimore, and sites near the Virginia towns of Burke. Chantilly and Pendar...
...Lieut. General (U.S.A.F., ret.) Elwood Richard Quesada, 53, former vice president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., was tapped as White House aviation adviser to replace Major General (U.S.A.F., ret.) Edward Peck Curtis, 60, who returns to Eastman Kodak Co. as vice president. "Pete" Quesada, who was wartime commander of the Ninth Fighter Command in Europe and boss of the thermonuclear bomb tests at Eniwetok in 1951, will quarterback the Eisenhower Administration's plans to work out a traffic control system for the commercial jet age. Last week the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took the first big step toward...