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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...broader problem of the sheer increase in the number of aircraft in the skies-and the mixing of planes so different in speed, size and sophistication of equipment-is more and more troublesome. This is true despite the fact that as the planes in use have multiplied the number of accidents has by no means risen proportionately. It is a testament to the effectiveness of tougher federal safety standards that there were 4,968 accidents in general aviation service in 1968 (when there were 124,000 planes in use) and only 4,286 accidents in 1977 (when there were...
While all of this is good news to the U.S. private-aircraft industry, it is putting increasing pressure on the nation's overcrowded airports. Nowhere is this more true than in California, which now has 113,000 certified pilots. Van Nuys airport, the busiest general aviation field in the U.S., is host to an army of 13,557 pilots and an armada of 1,260 planes. It is, in fact, the third busiest airport in the country, after Chicago's O'Hare and Atlanta. By contrast, commercial airfields in the U.S. have shrunk from...
...same is true of many underdeveloped nations, she added. In each case, the most effective pressures that could break down the conservative-military alliances would be economic boycotts by major trading powers, or guerilla movements based in surrounding countries, Skocpol said...
...This so discombobulated him that for the rest of his life he never, never got the needle back on true north...
...melodramatic, that every scene becomes a climax, every speech a tragic monologue. Each psycho logical motive is spelled out; no events are left to the audience's imagination. As a result we remain outside the characters and eventually start to question their authenticity. The film's ending- true to formula but false to Price's novel - destroys whatever credibility remains...