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Show Each plane gets a pref light check. Here, jet exhaust is being inspected. a S St tPt ; MM w Safer Skies (c ontinued) I have in mind the crash of a plane last fall, killing 22, mostly young football players and students from California. The plane's pilot, who died in the crash, had been the subject of recent FAA hearings ' which convinced examiners that he had violated regulations and demonstrated a lack of responsibility and judgment. We revoked his license, but he continued to fly, pending his appeal to the Civil Aeronautics Board as permitted by law. But the fact remains that he and 21 others died despite the evidence that he had previously demonstrated bad judgment. How long should the public's security have to wait for the surrender of lesser personal interests? Hie Congressmen who wrote our aviation laws had in mind a noble objective and a procedure for achieving it One of them said: "Regulations are irksome things . . . but the test must be the protection of the public. "Any tendency to proceed with caution in promulgating and enforcing regulations to promote safety must be avoided at all costs, even at the risk of being charged with undue harshness . . If private interests as well as public officials would accept those principles, we could hope for greater safety. What a boon to air safety it would be if FAA personnel could spend their time in pursuit of urgent technical and scientific objectives instead of having to rebut vild charges and pressures! a ili M m a a HI m ID $ si . alot M S a m a a a "aa a The ATLAS Plycron Cushionaire tested and proven for Tire driving. all-purpo- se r i I. IM i"""iL""""""i S a r- v. a iMr- - !mmmmm m m U5 1 - V . . . Technical Davclcpmcnt L'ecdcd TV. - Besides money and men of good will, we need machines. . Safety in our skies demands greater harnessing of electronic instruments to flight objectives. A few are already here, and others are on the way; but some present problems continue to bafile modern science. One innovation which is nearly here is a blind-landisystem. Today, we have only a system; it brings you to the airport's threshold. This is not a landing system. The final ng blind-approa- ch , 12 Family Weekly, March 19, 1SS1 ATLAS TI"S are built to give you greater safety at modern highway speeds. Yet Atlas Tires cost no more than LONG-MILEAG- 1 LABORATORY TESTED at speeds faster than you can drive. Atlas Tires prove their extra stamina under con- " " ditions of unusual distortion. E ordinary tires. - - . .. ....... . 2 -. a a MM m -'- ...... process 6f landing is still done by the pilot. But I can assure you that we will soon have a blind system that will touch down and roll the plane to a stop. I flew one recently, or rather it flew me. , We are trying, but with, seemingly m .' ......... endless frustrations, to develop a vice which will prevent mid-a- ir decol-lisio- ns. It has been calculated that two jet aircraft approaching each other on a collision course at a speed pilots of of 600 miles per hour could not save. themselves even if one pilot sighted the other at a distance of Vk miles. Human reactions are too slow. If we succeed, the new instrument will "sense" an impending collision from afar and will automatically alert the pilot or guide, ; ; |