TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, August 21, 1 95ft
Needs Pointed Out To Prevent Recurrences of In-Air Plane Collision
New York U.Pj Recur
rence of collisions in the air,
like the Grand Canyon airliner
disaster, are in prospect unler
better air trafiic control systems
are put in use and electronic
warning devices are developed
for planes in flight, an air safety
report said today.
The report, issued by the Dan
iel and Florence Guggenheim
Aviation Safety Center of Cor
nell University, predicted tnai
air carrier traffic would double
within the next ten years.
It said that as "the crowded
air space gets progressively more
crowded, the top safety problem
in aviation today is the need for
'a greatly tightened system for
controlling air traffic."
Introduction of a better air-
traffic control system would ma
terially reduce right now the
possibility of in-flight collisions
in both terminal ana iree
areas, according to the report.
Warning Devices Possible
The air safety center recom
mended that stimulation centers
be set up to test new traffic con
trol plans under rigidly con
trolled conditions. The centers
would considerably shorten the
time-lag between development
and adoption of urgently-needed
new air-traffic control systems.
It i nossible. with research, to
develop electronic warning de
vices that would instantly alert
a plane to any objects in its im
mediate area, the report said.
It said that today there is no
American-built airliner provided
with crash fire prevention equip
ment and called for better de
vices for the protection of a
plane's occupant in the event
of such fires.
Greater-airport safety effici
ency can be achieved without
further research and develop
ment, but with better use of
known developments in lighting,
radio and weather services, the
safety center said.
Metal Fatigue Dangerous
With the advent of commercial
jet-driven transports in three
years, the report said, new and
greater problems will arise.
Chief among these is "metal fa
tigue" that occurs in some jet
aircraft fuselages and wings in
high speeds at high altitudes. The
safety center said development
of steep gradient aircraft
planes that can take off vertical-
Governor Names
Water Study Group
Salem IU.R) Gov. Elmo
Smith today named a committee
of six persons to develop a de
tailed outline of procedure to car
ry out the governor's proposal
for a comprehensive study of
multipurpose use of water re
sources in Oregon.
The group was authorized by
the Natural Resources Commit
tee last week after the proposed
research experiment had been
presented by the governor.
The program would involve
the entire drainage basin of a
western Oregon stream as an out
door laboratory. It is designed to
permit tests of water use in such
fields as domestic, municipal, ir
rigation, power development, in
dustrial, mining, recreation, wild
life and fish life uses and for
pollution abatement.
Members of the committee are:
Dwight L. Phipps, state for
ester; F. E. Price, dean of agri
culture at Oregon State College;
Lewis A. Stanley, state engineer;
Phil Schneider, state game direc
tor; Milton C. James, state fish
eries director; and Fred Merry
field, professor of sanitary engi
neering at Oregon State College.
Unloading of Burning
Coal Cargo Continues
Portland (U.P.i The freight
er Orizaba, the smoldering fire
in her coal cargo apparently out,
moved from an anchorage off
Swan island to berth 3 at the
Swan island outfitting dock yes
terday. Longshoremen continued to
discharge the cargo from the
number 2 forward hold and from
other holds to even up the
weight.
The fireboat that had stood by
the ship since her return to port
here Friday, was moved from
the scene yesterday.
Repairmen were scheduled to
start checking the ship for dam
age today. Heat from the hot
cargo was sufficient to buckle
a deck plate above the bulkhead
separating the number 2 and 3
holds..
Fire was first discovered
aboard the Orient bound vessel
last Wednesday when it was 490
miles to sea with a cargo of
8600 tons of coal for Korea.
IMPROVING ALFALFA
Davis, Calif. ttJ.PJ Africa
alfalfa, the main variety grown
in California's Imperial Valley,
is undergoing major improve
ment to withstand new pests and
plant diseases. Research along
this line is being done by an
agronomist on the Davis campus
of the University of California.
NO NEED TO CALL COP
Hartford, Conn. (U.PJ The
accident was promptly investi
gated after Richard V. Jacobs'
automobile struck a utility pole.
The car landed on the lawn of a
policeman. "
ly is "gratifying." I they permit slow speed landings emergencies, and they greatly report said.
"The safety implications of on many small airport... greater reduce kinetic energy effects if a The air safety center said the
steep gradient aircraft are that time for pilot reactions in many forced landing is inevitable," the safety record of private pilot
who fly about 58,000 single- it said, from flights in bad
engined planes is "relatively weather, spiral instability,, and
poor." Principal hazards result, inadequate pilot training.
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