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Died. Captain Robert H. Morgan, 32, and Major Frank Liethen, 36, members of the U.S. Air Force's Thunderbirds acrobatic team assigned to demonstrate high-speed precision flying in air shows; of injuries suffered during practice maneuvers; near Indian Springs, Nev. Morgan, who was flying an F-100F Super Sabre with Liethen, the Thunderbirds' executive officer, as observer, was practicing "opposing half Cuban eights" with a teammate when they scraped planes in a head-on pass at the top of their outside loops. The other pilot managed to land safely; Morgan ejected, but his chute failed to open...
Even as Monroney and Quesada labored with airlines' experts, scientists and other technicians, the wings of tragedy were flapping noisily around them: an Air Force F-100F collided over Nevada with a United Air Lines DC-7 in April 1958, killing 49; next month an Air National Guard T-33 jet trainer rammed into a Capital Airlines Viscount over Maryland, killing twelve. With renewed urgency, Monroney and his staff analyzed the obsolescent aviation laws, scrapped them all and began over again. By the end of the 1958 congressional session, the new FAA act was written into law and signed...
...knots the F-100F Super Sabre pulled out of its dive and rocketed upward. Up went the needle on the accelerometer or "g meter," which gauges the piling up of gravity forces. In a "g suit" hooked up to an automatic air-compressor system, I felt a giant's fist pressing into my belly, two pairs of giant hands around my thighs and calves, to retard the flow of blood to the feet and reduce the risk of blackout. Belatedly I remembered to try the "M1 maneuver"-tensing the abdominal muscles to reduce the blood drainage still more...
...Instrument Flight Rules-continually tracked and controlled by Civil Aeronautics Administration ground stations. In the final analysis, the lack of military-civilian coordination was responsible for the Maryland crash just as it was responsible for the ramming of a United Air Lines DC-7 by an Air Force F-100F jet fighter-bomber over Las Vegas last month (TIME, May 5) and for many of the 2,833 near-misses on U.S. airways recorded by the Civil Aeronautics Board since...
...pilot barked: "U.A.L. 736! Mid-air collision over Las Vegas! 736!" From the jet came the cry: "Mayday!"* Then, trailing smoke and fire, the planes dropped and crashed to the desert floor of wild flowers. All 47 in the DC-7, the two officers in the F-100F were killed...