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...killjoy. He is forever crying "Now, wait a minute," when someone wants to jump off the barn with an umbrella for a parachute. He is the No. 1 conservative of the airlines, and proud of the title. He still gets a thrill as an airliner roars up off the runway. But the thrill is enhanced if he knows that all the seats are filled...
...equipment needed in the plane was an ordinary two-way radio. A radar unit on the field picked up the plane, radioed the pilot what course to fly at what speed, when to lose altitude and how much. Experienced crews brought the plane smack down the middle of the runway again & again in zero-zero conditions. Neither service considered it experimental. The Army has recorded 35,000 G.C.A. landings, the Navy 18,863, in the U.S. and overseas...
...Paris' Orly Field one night last week Pilot Herbert Tansey got his takeoff signal from the control tower and headed T.W.A.'s big four-engine Constellation down the light-bordered runway. Airborne, he picked up the landing gear and set the Star of Cairo on her course northwest for Shannon, Eire, the first stop on the regular Paris-New York run. It was midnight...
Near Fairbanks, the Army has laid down 20 runway sections insulated from the permafrost by layers of cellular concrete, asphalt, foam glass, gravel, moss and spruce boughs. Under each runway are thermometers to measure heat penetration. For buildings, the trick is to rest the walls on thick mats of insulating material, or allow cold air to circulate freely under heated floors. Roads will be insulated, too, to keep foundations frozen under thundering tanks and trucks...
...York's LaGuardia Field, striking pilots kept tabs from an automobile parked near the runway; but a picket line surrounded maintenance shops in Kansas City. The Indian delegation to the U.N. Assembly was forced to debark from a T.W.A. plane at Shannon, Eire, and transfer to the unstruck American Overseas Airline. But most U.S. passengers, accustomed to the uncertainties of air travel, took the strike in stride, or the train instead...