Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shah, 47, is a pace-setting social reformer without whom Iran would long ago have turned to chaos. The trouble is that the Shah tempts Allah quite a bit. He zooms through the streets of Teheran at high speeds in his Ferrari-while police see to it that the traffic lights go green along his route. He loves to fly jets, such as Lockheed's F-104 Starfighter, and once crash-landed his one-engine Tiger Moth on a mountain. Although he is in good health, his doctors have warned him to slow down...
...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's instrument panel as it passes overhead, to huge, long-range radar systems that track aircraft and are linked to distant air-traffic control centers by microwave...
...between 8,000 and 9,000 planes aloft in the U.S. 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...
Evasive Action. Although today's FAA airways are the most extensive and best-controlled in the world, they are far from foolproof?even with their current traffic load. On two occasions in 1965, for example, airline pilots, confused by optical illusions, took violent evasive maneuvers to avoid airliners that were actually separated from them by 1,000 feet of altitude prescribed by FAA controllers. Such unnecessary evasive maneuvers were cited as the probable cause of the collision over New York's Westchester County between an Eastern Airlines Constellation and a TWA 707 jet. Although both planes were damaged...
Potential aerial collisions were uppermost in the minds of a group of air-traffic controllers who last week publicly charged that aviation in the U.S. is reaching a "point of public peril." Speaking for the National Association of Government Employees, which represents some 3,000 of the 14,000 air-traffic controllers employed by the Federal Aviation Agency, ex-Controller Stanley Lyman charged that economies in the FAA had resulted in "seriously underequipped, undermanned, undercompensated and underadministered" traffic-control towers and centers. "We are fortunate that we don't have the collisions now," said Lyman...