Word: takeoff
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...climbs away from Idlewild, the pilot can spot beneath his wings row upon row of houses-a familiar sight close to the borders of most U.S. jetports. And the pilot knows that the noise abatement procedures that bugged him all through the tense (and potentially dangerous) moments of takeoff have only one purpose: to make life more pleasant in those residential areas. But last week representatives of the Airline Pilots Association, and of the engineers who fly with them, were protesting in Washington to Senator Mike Monroney's Aviation Subcommittee. Noise abatement, they argued, may be a blessing...
...Caught. The modern jet is a nightmare of complexity. Pilot, co-pilot and engineer are busy during every split second of takeoff-watching instruments, managing flaps and other control surfaces, nursing the engines, checking visually for other planes, and watching for birds that might get sucked into a jet intake. Noise abatement rules only add to their burden at the touchiest moments of flight...
...that he considers dangerous. But the pressures to comply are considerable. Airports are continually harassed by their noise-sensitive neighbors, and the pilot who violates a rule for safety's sake may well live to regret it. The airline he works for may be reprimanded for a loud takeoff recorded on the airport's monitors. At some airports, of fending lines have learned that the price of safety is to be forbidden to take off during certain hours...
...recent series of spacetaculars, is attractively asserted by this modest little movie. Shot at Edwards Air Force Base, where the rocket ships are tested, the film tells the story of the Xis in terms of the men who fly it. The plot might better have been jettisoned at takeoff, but Jack Freeman's aerial-photography swells the mind with images of immensity...
...plugs, but it was no use. He finally leased a small cottage to which he and his wife retreated when they anticipated a busy night on the runway. A representative of the Airline Pilots Association further aggravated his fears with the admission that "in event of motor failure on takeoff, pilots would have no recourse but to plow into my house." In 1953 Griggs filed suit against the airport. In 1956 he sold his house and five acres to the St. Philip's Episcopal Church (whose congregation has since been bothered only a few times on Sunday mornings; when...