Word: skies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Singing a long-forbidden song, a knot of youths surged into Pamplona's Plaza Mayor one day last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police unsuccessfully pursued them, their rockets exploded into a shower of paper flags, each bearing the red field and two green crosses of Euzkadi, the homeland of the Basques. Spain's Basque Separatists are once more up to their old habits of derring-do. In recent weeks they have also planted their outlawed flag on a mountaintop in upper Navarra, ingeniously substituted...
What makes the whole enterprise of traffic control particularly important is the tremendous U.S. aviation boom, which is constantly putting more and bigger planes aloft. That end of the busy sky is surveyed this week in a second major TIME story. Our cover article concerns Airplane Builder James Smith McDonnell, whose billion-dollar corporation, which is about to merge with Douglas, is doing its share to crowd the airways-and to venture into space beyond...
Even before Flight 740 began taxiing toward the runway at Los Angeles, it was under the surveillance and guidance of the Federal Aviation Agency. Careful eyes watched the plane turn at the end of the runway, poise, and then reach for the sky. Flight 740 then became a bright, moving blip on a succession of FAA radarscopes as it was guided along a transcontinental airway...
Golden Triangle. The route taken by Flight 740 is only one segment of the FAA's 350,000-mile network of federal airways, freeways of the sky that are complete with aerial versions of warning signs, access roads, directional guides and even parking places?the holding areas in the vicinity of busy airports. With the help of ground controllers, pilots navigate from point to point along these invisible airways by means of electronic navigational aids that provide course, distance and location information. These "navaids" range from small location-marker beacons on the ground that light a bulb on the aircraft...
...airspace, as many as 4,000 of them in the "Golden Triangle," formed by lines connecting Chicago, New York and Washington. With 1,000 new planes a month being added to the nation's aircraft population, the traffic jams are becoming increasingly heavy?both in the sky and at airports. Of the 9,500 U.S. airports, only 114 can handle jets. And although the FAA estimates that the number of jet airports will increase to 346 by 1970 and to more than 500 by 1975, their added capacity will not fully relieve the growing pressure or end the flight delays...