Word: taxiway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Florida's International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance was less than four hours old when Chicago's Bob Gold-ich, 33, took a tricky S turn just a touch too fast. His little (1.9 liters) Arnolt-Bristol sports car skidded across a taxiway at Sebring's abandoned airfield and rolled into a sideways somersault. A graduate of the dangerous melees of midget-auto racing and the father of two children, Goldich was dead of a broken neck before he reached the hospital...
...where the Army is constructing the world's largest helicopter airport. Built with an eye toward experimentation in loading and maintenance techniques, the $970,000 heliport looks like a superhighway cloverleaf intersection, boasts two 600-ft. asphalt runways (for heavily laden 'copters) and a giant, circular taxiway, surrounded by eight dust-free warmup "pads." In this specialized setting the Army hopes to devise methods for mass operation of cargo and troop-carrying 'copters with something close to aircraft-carrier speed and precision...
...Port of New York Authority, which operates Teterboro Airport. Citing airport witnesses, Glass told the Civil Aeronautics Administration that on take-off Godfrey gained an altitude of 20 to 30 feet, then made an abrupt left turn, narrowly missed three planes that were warming up on the taxiway, skimmed over a hangar, and thundered directly toward an 87-ft. control tower, whose occupants fled for their lives...
...apron, squat dismally on the open field, so deep in mire that even their propeller tips are stuck fast. Theoretically, there is a large, revetted parking area available for the planes-but a French farmer has built a solid house and two barns right in the middle of its taxiway. Through the U.S. base runs a public road always open to French civilian traffic...