Word: toweringly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...many runway lights?" asked the tower. "I can see three," came the answer. The tower operator reminded Chesher that the lights were 300 ft. apart: Chesher could see less than 1,000 ft. down a runway that had a 4,000-ft. take-off minimum.* Nevertheless, the C-46's engines surged, and the plane lumbered off down the runway. Moments later there was an explosive crash. When rescue crews finally groped their way through the fog, they found the C46 mangled and torn on a taxiway to the left of the runway. Twenty-two passengers in the crumpled...
...tower operator had no authority to stop him. Fields may be officially closed to incoming planes, but under civil aviation rules, a properly qualified pilot is the final judge of whether it is safe for him to take...
Three weeks short of his 70th birthday, President de Gaulle went into four-day seclusion at his country retreat in the Champagne region of northeastern France. He tramped in his damp wooded fields ("I have walked them 15,000 times"), sat in the tower study he has added to the old stone farmhouse, working on his first radio-TV speech in five months...
...harm. Squirrels run greater electrical risks, but it is their own fault: they have a habit of nuzzling each other. A lone squirrel can scoot safely back and forth across a wire, but when a squirrel on a charged line touches noses with a friend on a grounded tower, or swishes its tail onto another wire, the result is dramatic: flash, bang, goodbye squirrels. For humans, messing around with high-tension wires has been even more hazardous. Linemen, working on charged wires while their bodies are grounded by contact with poles or towers, have had to use "hotsticks" and other...
Last week President Philip Sporn of the American Electric Power Co. Inc. announced that his company has adopted a new "bird" technique of working on high-tension lines. The lineman does not climb the tower. Instead, he sits in a plastic bucket and is raised to the wire by a truck-mounted boom made of insulating fiber glass. When he reaches the wire, he clamps to it a cable that is connected to metal mesh lining the bucket. This operation sounds suicidal, but it is not. The current moves into the mesh, charging it along with the lineman...