Medford mail tribune., July 24, 1956, Image 18

Problem
Airways
iitor not. Th p 1a ular atr
pi?nr diiau-r at fh i-rand ( in-.tm
anr reports ol rrnv nar-t olimon of
it hnr h' p lot inert new a Mention
on tn prot)lm of air saft-fv I he I
rcminj .it aire in ommerr ia ) aiattrn
" : 1 J m 1 1 1 t i p 1 v these p r o t 1 e rn What
fthulrt anil .n ne done ft me-t them ' i
Fnliowiie n a i oMipreheiiM'. e repfiri
n thi. mhiei (. Mnh M it ! na-erj on
n interview v. 1 1 n tn Preir1ent
per j4 i asi-,;nt -n unon planning
of America's 0
Studied bv Ike'
will have o 're used for bo-h re ee- e -civ:!
ana !r.;:.ary control, pni':''- orro. 1
Llsrlv after I1'"') A,''!! h.g" 1 ' ' ' I ,:
.-peed f i r ' . .', 1 . i h.e 'i - - ".' :" '
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s Assistant
ci SIX MEDFORD (OREGON! MA'L TRIBUNE
Tuesday. July 31. 1955
P : , t i .
Ci pI"P
pectcd IP. -p
Among the
' he r:;o(;i on
traffic raf.t
Cockpit Visibility Studied
"- -e p. .-a ( -.: .
BY JOSEPH L. MYLEFt
United Preis Correspondent
V. ashi-,gu
wa 3 sr" thf
they arp so
da h nr.e.'"
o: . - h floe
' pear-m..- -e -
U S.
S f e- ' I; . t
ri , cve-iv
of An'.crii an.'
death, in aei.al
i ; a
i "A e
.om.et;n-e- r.ra'p n:ar.e a n.
rert h:t In the pa-t five- rar.
tr rrP i.a'.r- r.T'1 nv.l o than til)
roihvions pp'v.ern ce tl airerall.
v.vh heavy lo of life. The na.
ti'H s sk, a-. - are chronical!-.-I'rird.
and tne jam ii s'eadily
(' in z vv rr-p.
'.Vrv - On .
p:-i,
oiir
an
ircH :
Ml
i M'.vard P
f.-rnhriV.rr's
rjn
riM ai K'mt fm aviajiou pian
. has ni'-''.'i t!"i L'rutrd Prri-s
tp aiifACi:-; to these and other
-t mn
d -fivr.-
TiKJ roun'l'V f;!ld- itself With
an obMiiftr a-:- ti"affic eontrnl J
.v.-trm, nnw 21 rar5 id, be
rai'ie "'"p sr".ly iinderf--tnnat'-d
tl.f vi'iiin.r rif the avia
tion lnriiisirv in ail it? aspect? "
The air traffic control problem
15 rnmplic-ited and lonsh. !
'But v. e have to solve it
orr,ei!o'A . ' Curtis said.
Curtis i- ."ill. was a fiahter
pilot in World War I. In World
War II he '-'.as chief of staff of
th Strategic Air Fnrrp m En- j
rpp. llf i an old friend of
D'.viciit D. Ei.-enhnwer. Hp vva;
vm-p pre?idpnt of F.aslman Kodak
C". vhert thp President summon
ed him to his present post last i
February. I
Plan Will Take Tim
It will take prodiEies of effort
to make, the skies over America
safe for a mushrooming aviation
industry now rushing into the
aze of jet transportation. The
chunky, blue-eved veteran of
aerial combat spenis to have ro
doubt these prodigies will mate
rialize. "But," he said, running a lan
ned hand ov ed his close-cropped
Erav hair, "it will not be cheap,
and it will take time."
Time:1 Only the other week,
on June 30. two crowded air
liners going the same direction
at 21.000 feet collided or so
I lie experts believe over the
Grand Canyon in Arizona. The
rcsiiltinc crash killed l'JB per
son? in hiMorv's worct coinmrr
cial aviation disaster.
It would he hard to imagine a
less congested reEion of air space
than "that over the Grand Can
yon. If two aircraft could collide
there, how much more dangerous
must be the air approaches to
the nation s great airports!
Actually, the Grand Canyon
tragedy was a freak. As one ex
pert observer put it. " a hundred
things had to go wrong for those
planes to hit. whereas on the ap
proaches to any big airport on
any day a hundred things have
to go right to prevent a colli
sion "
The Grand Canvon crashes
served, however, to point up the
fact that thp air is no longer
empty but instead is packed with
potentialities of disaster. It has
been reported that there are an
average of four near-collisions
a day between civilian aircraft.
In some in-tances airliners have
roared within 100 feet of each
other. Over New York a while
back two mammoth DCTs were
said actually to have touched in
the air.
Automatic System Needed
As Curtis sees it. you cant
scrap the pre.-ent air traffic con
trol system overnight and set up
a brand new one in its place,
how ever desirable that might be.
Many experts believe that ult
imately the country must have a
largely automatic system in
which all planes, civilian and
military, will be constantly
under surveillance of control of
ficials on the ground.
The military is working on a
$:. 000. 000. out) electronic system
(SAGKi tor keeping track of all
airplanes in the sky. It is a de
fense system, but many authori
ties believe something like it
il.-i, g
I!
ail aircrai
Ci.riis be!
cars.
OP d''!:C ai
tion v hirn
more hii.'.a
the fir-! '
the C'A A -plan
! o g i
"rariur ev e--
CAA Project Speeded
This vh! c".-: sj.tr.iiuu.iiiifi
and. : ;e C. A -v. s. v'.iil hiai.kf't
the country" w ith r;.ri:ir. D;it
five ye..r.. ! .t-.v of the i.i;.rd.
is a loj.2 linf. Coniiherce Scc
retary Sinclair Weeks savs tile
program r ay be telc.-coped in
to three yearv
President Ei-enhower on July
17 a-ked Cmigre.-s for an addi
tional S(i3.04:j.o0o to speed up
th CAA proir-ct. Congress al
ready had appropriated S40.0O1I.
000 for the fi.-i.al v ear w Inch
started .: 1
Wiirther or not t . c fiv e ear
plan is t'lp-coped into Ihrrp
year?, it still will fall far short
of the complde control that a
system like SAGE might pro.
vide And experts say, it will
S. UvfS-
- a id i : ifi .s' r-
: 'o ; ' :: : .ated 1
ifi 'ivia: a:r travel.
e CAA predicted 20
1 1 a::;;;'p pas-encer
.'". Thst fig'jre was
t:-p p;.s; cr.
J-.-p ri'iw some 00.000
a -ri civil aircraft vie--;aie
on th? airwavs.
3.ihui are civilian. B!h
s ii! ero-.v. though tiie
-:!'', id ie cl off s'me
!"p rext riecarip. But in
- Thp i.iim'her of r iviiian
: rpcr'f'd to s'.eii bv
i phi.
Research Teams Hired
1 hi'-e o.a.v or n:sy not he ;rmd
rt i? is tryine to gpt as
i c.-! i male asp. ssibr.
d three iii'ipficiiflrnt
gani.'.aiir.n? to add to
ilion gleanahle from
source?
s an ri'Ji'-nisn te;tm
. which will pronose
for control of
Com
alias j.
h i:if
accoi'u-
So
ip tr
i'cciei
. i
piaie lii
hchcopt,.
lie w ill c
gov erntr.ei.
i' ( nr d.
ill 1-s.v
::e pict
s And
lO v, he
ip;-l
.a
C
is h
th.- hi!
''OVT't'I
Curlis i;as an
of ,-i icnt i.-Is wh
a "Piaster plan
all aircraft.
Many other organizations have
worked en the U.S. aviation
problem. A partial listing: The
Commerce Department's CAA.
the independent 'Civil Aeronaut
ics Co.-.rrii which makes rules
for the CAA to carry out: the
National Advisory Committee
for Aproiiaiitics. the Air Coord
inating Committee, the Air Nav
igation Development Board, a
batch of defense and civil agency
group?, plus three committee?
of Congress,
Humans Limited
A;r t ; a; : c oiri'-.,: is n iv
i largclv a i r a 1 : ' : of lari.o arL-
yak between p.loi arri tower,
and haiKi-postii s of plane posi
tion. But pip human eye, brain,
voice-box and reaction? have
: their limsH.
I Modern i- irar elous
jthincs. Tin-" a:r iasi. too. One
' moment a phot :..e- 3 speck on
his windshield v. hu h miis him
lies on ( oii: -ion course with
another plane four .seconds away.
Starling iro;n lha! juriment, it
takes him veven M'conds to
ciiange to a inii io!h;-ion course.
Wiicu latcr jet 1 ra 11 spori s take
over. Ihesp figures will shrink.
f'vehi a: o(i;i ow speeds.
: planes m iurr e Mihiuies can
move 12 utile., off their an
nounced P". l lOilS
So (''oviousl;.' -Aiuu's iipe-ded is
electronic i.r.in w Inch think, if
, not better. ;t le...t fa-ter than
i human brains, .Muiiern tcchned
ogy can .-hp!''.'-' them. Riant
: now techuoiozv e,m siuiply a
s.vstem thai would keep ali
plane? iiiirii r surveillance cuu
! stantly aid ai 'he same time
j pour forth at. curii, ... tre-am eif
signals a:ie,hoied hhu. per
haps tellii.g nilnh exactly
w h.ere hie-,- ;ire ;oir u ih I n rio.
Euf .ueii a -;-mm woiiirl -p.
!duire both civil and military
; agreement on the- ignl system
plus a conre -siona ilv "-sanctioned
rnuhi-biihen d"ii;ir investinent in
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