Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aviation Administration, which figures that U.S. passengers wasted 10 million man-hours just waiting (see box). Some of this congestion was caused by the 32,-310 military aircraft and some by the airliners themselves, but most of it by the 104,706 light planes stacked up in rush-hour traffic. The FAA estimates that at the nation's 9,950 airports only 17.6% of the takeoffs and landings are made by commercial planes, while 77.8% are made by smaller private and executive planes. At major metropolitan airports, the percentages for these "general aviation" planes run lower but are still...
Call for the Cop. Most programs to ease the glut try to treat aviation within the existing rule of individual right to the air. A few experts take a more radical tack. They would create a federal aviation traffic cop to assign not only flight routes but also schedules and air speeds, thus spreading the jarm out of rush hours. Instead of informing the FAA of his flight plan and being accommodated no matter what the crush, every civilian pilot would have to notify a controller of his intentions and ask: "When...
Across the U.S., the airport rush hour is from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Here-as compiled from figures supplied by the FAA, the airlines and air-traffic controllers-are the average number of daily takeoffs and landings at the 20 busiest U.S. commercial airports, and the average rush-hour time a plane wastes circling the field or waiting to take...
Jerome Park Reservoir in The Bronx is a mile-long meander of New York City drinking water. Often dotted with migratory waterfowl, it serves as a cool, quivery mirror to the red brick apartments and raucous traffic that surround it. The 97-acre artificial lake, built in 1905, holds 800 million gallons of water to quench the thirst of nearly a million New Yorkers. Last year Republican Mayor John Lindsay's reform administration discovered that the reservoir's spalled concrete bottom had never been cleaned, and decided to scour it out. "Because of the magnitude...
...Wilson's decision to do just that, claiming that 1) Britain could hardly turn down ?200 million worth of export business from its second largest customer in the face of mounting balance-of-payments deficits, and 2) it is bogus morality to pass up income, even from arms traffic, while at the same time cutting into Labor's backbone social programs...