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Behind Schedule. At 3:41, Captain Reid had his plane at 1,500 ft. over Linden, N.J., letting down to the northeast toward Newark Airport. He had been cleared for an instrument approach to Runway 6, had reported that he was receiving instructions from the control tower "loud and clear." The snow had melted into light rain. The ceiling was down to 400 ft. and visibility was poor...
...slowly descending approach to the landing runway, Captain Reid was flying along the shallow arc of a radio glide path. This was standard airline technique-to make bad-weather landings by I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System), with two crossed needles on the instrument panel to register any deviation from course...
...eventually the fun at home runs out and the boys whip over to Asia, where they get a good laugh at the primitive methods used by Chinese peasants in runway construction. Then its on to the Pacific islands...
...baboons have been thwarting progress ever since the government cleared away 430 acres of savanna last year and laid out Livingstone Airport, designed for jet transports. To begin with, the big grey baboons streamed out of the forests on to the runway, swinging big sticks to squash up a midday lunch of scorpions. "They got in the path of oncoming planes and left sticks and rubbish on the runways," complained Airport Manager E.G.F. Salmon. "We drove out in jeeps to drive them off and fired shots over their heads. Somehow we couldn't shoot to kill; they were...
...baboons retreated, took to coming out at night to get revenge. Salmon and his men installed electric flare lamps along the runway to scare them off, but the baboons thought they were forest fires. One night a ghostly army of the creatures, led by an aged and skilled tactician, sneaked out of the forest and raced across the open to the flare lamps. They smashed at the fires with sticks and stones, swung at them with hairy fists, howling in warlike fury all the while. "It was some night," reported Manager Salmon dolefully. And it was enough. Last week Manager...