Traffic Control in Crowded Skies
In February of this year President Eisenhower called EDWARD P. CURTIS,vice president of Eastman Kodak Company, to be his special assistant for aviation facilities planning. “Modern aircraft,” wrote the President to Mr. Curtis, “can be operated in the numbers required by the national defense and the civilian economy only if airports, navigation aids, air traffic control devices and communications systems are suitable for their needs. . . . To delay the formulation of a comprehensive plan is to invite further congestion of the airspace, needless hazard, economic loss, inconvenience to users, and possible impairment of the national security.”