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Dates: during 1960-1960
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After F. A. Lindemann, Winston Churchill's scientific adviser, attacked Sir Tizard in 1935, Tizard's secret decision to start a crash program to radar was at stake. In his tirades Tizard, Lindemann proposed Goldberg" alternatives to radar, had an "obsession for mines," Snow...
...historic clash between the two men occurred in '35, when Churchill and Lindemann were allowed to examine Tizard's secret and desperate decision to start a crash program for the development of radar, Snow said. "Within half an hour," Lindemann and turned on his friend, declared that the high priority given radar was an act "equivalent to treason," and bitterly attacked the crash program...
Before a House subcommittee investigating the Lockheed Electra crash in Boston that took 62 lives, Braniff Airways Captain Trooper A. Shaw gave the ill-fated Electra a supreme accolade: "The Electra is the safest and most reliable airplane it has been my privilege to fly." His testimony seemed in direct conflict with the views of his own airline, which only the day before in Dallas had filed a $2,400,000 suit against Lockheed Aircraft, the Electra's maker, and General Motors, which supplied the plane's Allison turboprop engines, charging that the Electra was "negligently and carelessly...
...contradictory attitudes toward the Electra represented the ambiguous position of Braniff-and other airlines-in the face of rising concern about the plane. Egged on by its lawyers, Braniff was trying to collect damages for the crash. At the same time, Braniff was working with Northwest, National and American Airlines to counteract public worry over the plane's safety, sending out "truth squads" of pilots who are sold on the Electra...
...airlines' case for the Electra got a boost from both the Federal Aviation Agency and the Civil Aeronautics Board last week. Both agreed that the Electra crash in Boston was definitely caused by starlings that choked the plane's engines. As if to underscore their findings, an Eastern Airlines DC-8 jet struck a flock of birds last week as it taxied for a take-off from Boston's Logan International Airport, slammed to a stop on the runway only in the nick of time. Alarmed, Logan authorities established roving bands of shotgun-armed guards who have...