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...jetliner taxis out to take off on runway 31 L* at New York's Idlewild airport. Radioed advice from the ground control crackles in the crew's ears: "In the interest of noise abatement, do not delay turn to 290°." Beside the taxiway, a blunt sign reminds the pilot again of the noise-controlling turn. The reminder is unnecessary. He knows that the moment his wheels leave the ground he must transmit a report to a company sound truck stationed in line with the end of the runway, and he must start a countdown: "Five, four, three...
...There was a staccato burst of explosions as all four tires on the right landing gear blew out. The big jet skidded wildly across the field for another 300 yds. Then it struck a parked truck and smashed into the unyielding, 30-in.-high concrete shoulder of a jet taxiway still under construction. The tremendous impact ripped loose the engines and landing gear. Orange flames crackled along the plane's left side and swept toward the rear...
...take-off minimum.* Nevertheless, the C-46's engines surged, and the plane lumbered off down the runway. Moments later there was an explosive crash. When rescue crews finally groped their way through the fog, they found the C46 mangled and torn on a taxiway to the left of the runway. Twenty-two passengers in the crumpled, burning nose section were dead. Twenty-six in the broken-off tail section got out alive with various stages of injury. The dead included 16 members of the Cal Poly squad...
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...