Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pilots also feel pressure to stick to a timetable. No sensible man will ever take off or land in dangerous weather or in a questionable ship simply to please his passengers or the Civil Aeronautics Board, which issues a critical monthly report on flights that miss schedules. But there are times when the pilot's choice is not so easy, when a reasonable man might stay or go, and pressures may make the ultimate difference in his decision. Whenever possible, most pilots prefer to make landings according to visual (fair weather) flight rules, instead of instrument approaches that take...
...industry's desire is not merely to cut the losses in accidents but to improve an already sound record by cutting the accident rate. What the airlines want most is a modern, fail-safe, all-weather traffic-control system. As a first requirement, they need better airports. Of the 709 commercial-airline fields in the U.S., fewer than one half have instrument-landing systems. Worldwide, in 1963, 80% of landing accidents occurred where only 17% of the landings were made-at airports with marginal landing aids. In the developing countries, safety records are far less impressive than...
...great goal of the airmen is to devise an automatic landing system that will work 100% of the time, whatever the weather, and eliminate the cause of more than half of all fatal crashes. The British are building a computerized autopilot that brings the plane right down to the deck; theoretically, it would fail only once in 1.25 billion landings, but even that is too much for U.S. airmen. Ultimately, computers will control all flight patterns, analyze the weather, and do much of the work in takeoffs and landings. The computers are not smarter than man; they simply solve...
...participate in races, but Ford and Chrysler have openly broken the ban, and General Motors does not prevent its dealers from slipping cars onto local drag strips. Racing spurs the sales of the winning car, especially in the Southern states where there's year-round weather for racing-and the auto fatality rate is the nation's highest. Says Chrysler Safety Director Roy Haeusler: "I find very little defense for our advertising the racing aspects of our cars." To back the contention that speed sells and safety does not, automakers cite the 1956 Ford, a heavily promoted "safety...
...partners immediately became vice presidents with correspondingly high salaries plus better tax breaks and such employee benefits as pensions. The corporation no longer has to worry about a principal problem of partnership: substantial sums of money being pulled out suddenly after a partner's death. Bache had to weather such a crisis in 1944, when Jules S. Bache, Harold's uncle and at that time managing partner, died. Bache partners coughed up nearly $4,500,000 as heirs were paid off. The firm nearly went broke...