New York Air Traffic Control To Get Height-Indicating Radar. (Mannerisms)

New York Air Traffic Control To Get Height-Indicating Radar.

'Following the investigation of the disastrous mid-air collision of two aircraft over New York late last year, the Federal Aviation Agency is hoping to speed up installation of altitude-indicating radar.'

So starts the 'American Letter' feature in the edition of Electronics Weekly for March 8^th 1961.

'Present traffic control radars give range and bearing. A new type will, in addition, give altitude to within 500 feet,' adds the story, 'James L Anast, research director for the FAA, recently announced that successful testing of such a unit had been conducted at Atlantic City, NJ, on February 13^th.'

'There has been some comment to the effect that such equipment would have enabled ground control to prevent the New York collision', continues the report, 'such comment carried the implication that the FAA (or someone) has been negligent in not pushing development of height-indicating radar for civilian traffic control with over-riding priority.'

Posted by David Manners on June 30, 2009 3:40 AM | Permalink|

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