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19840912: Airline representatives reached agreement on rescheduling flights to avoid congestion during peak hours at six major airports: New York’s La Guardia and Kennedy; Newark International; Chicago O’Hare; Atlanta Hartsfield; and Denver Stapleton. The representatives forged the agreement in eight days of intense negotiations with FAA participation and with the understanding that FAA might impose new regulations if no voluntary solution was found. The Civil Aeronautics Board granted immunity from anti-trust laws to those engaged in the talks, and later approved the agreement. Writing to the Air Transport Association on March 12, 1985, FAA Administrator Engen cited steps taken to reduce delays and indications that the airlines would not return to excess peak-time operations. Engen therefore stated that the scheduling agreement need not continue beyond April 1.
19940912: A pilot flying a stolen Cessna 150 crashed a few yards from the White House, dying on impact.

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19510911: The National Security Resources Board completed its air transport mobilization survey. Developed by a large group of aviation leaders from government and industry, the program outlined requirements for rapid mobilization of the U.S. air transport industry in the event of expanded war. (See December 15, 1951.)
19610911: The Project Beacon task force on Air Traffic Control (see March 8, 1961) submitted its report to the FAA Administrator. While finding that the air traffic control system was “being expertly operated by a highly skilled organization,” the report concluded that substantial improvements were needed to meet the future challenge of aviation’s projected growth.

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19300910: The Taylor E-2 Cub made its first flight. This design evolved into the famous Piper Cub, which was introduced in 1938 and became one of the world’s most popular general aviation airplanes.
19360910: Deutsche Luft Hansa’s twin-engine Dornier Do.18 flying boat Zephyr alighted offshore of Port Washington, N.Y., after a flight of 22 hours 18 minutes from Horta in the Azores, where it had been catapulted from the deck of a depot ship. This was the first of a series of German survey flights for possible transatlantic air mail service. The Germans continued such experimental flights into 1938.
19440910: The first airplane designed in World War II exclusively to carry cargo, the C-82, was successfully test-flown at the Fairchild aircraft plant in Hagerstown, Md. Fairchild manufactured 220 planes for the Air Force before discontinuing production in 1948.

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19500909: Amendments to the Civil Aeronautics Act allowed the Secretary of Commerce and CAB, as directed by the President, to develop and implement a plan for security control of air traffic when U.S. security was endangered, while permitting the maximum flow of air traffic. The Secretary was authorized to establish security zones in the airspace and, in consultation with CAB and the Departments of Defense and State, prohibit or restrict flights which could not be effectively identified, located and controlled with available facilities. (See December 20, 1950.)
19600909: FAA permitted aviation medical examiners (AMEs) to deny, as well as issue, medical certificates to applicants that they examined. Previously, applicants whose fitness was questioned by the AME were automatically referred to the FAA Civil Air Surgeon in Washington.

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19600908: FAA issued a new aircraft noise abatement technical planning guide for use by Federal and local officials. The guide discouraged certain kinds of construction in areas around large airports, such as residential subdivisions, schools, churches, hospitals, and other places of public assembly. Land lying immediately under the takeoff and landing patterns of jet runways, the guide recommended, should be utilized wherever possible for industrial, commercial, agricultural, or recreational purposes.
19600908: FAA adopted the British RAE visual glide path indicator landing lights as a national standard for use at U.S. airports. Developed by the Royal Aircraft Establishment in England, the RAE system required no equipment of any kind in the aircraft cockpit.

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19500907: President Truman approved Public Law 762, which directed the Secretary of Commerce “to construct, protect, operate, improve, and maintain” a second public airport for the Washington, D.C., area. The act authorized appropriations not to exceed $14 million (see July 11, 1958), and Congress subsequently authorized $1 million to launch the project. By the end of 1951, 1,046 of the required 4,570 acres had been purchased at Burke, Va. When local opposition to the project developed, Congress refused to appropriate additional funds. Further studies were made in the 1953-1955 period. (See December 1955.)
19570907: The President signed legislation establishing an aircraft loan guarantee program to aid local service and territorial carriers unable to obtain private loans to purchase new and modern equipment.

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19460906: The United States and Brazil signed an air transportation agreement, the first such agreement to be made with a South American country.
19900906: A new Air Force One made its maiden voyage. The specially designed Boeing 747, and its identical backup plane, replaced two twenty-year-old Boeing 707s.

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19310905: The first instrument landing by a system incorporating a glide path was made at College Park, Md. The glide path was achieved by aligning an inclined radio beam with the runway, providing a path approximating the gliding angle of an airplane. (See September 24, 1929.)
19340905: Wiley Post, the first pilot to use a successful pressure suit, reached about 40,000 feet over Chicago. Although this flight did not set a new altitude record, Post demonstrated the future of pressurized flying with this and later stratospheric operations.
19350905: Simultaneous transmission of radio beacon signals and voice was first put into regular service at Pittsburgh, Pa. (See July 1, 1937.)

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19560904: CAA announced a reorganization designed to streamline the Administrator’s office and place greater reliance on a direct line of command as the basic core of CAA organization. The reorganization abolished the Assistant Administrator positions for Operations and for Planning, Research, and Development, and grouped most CAA functions under six major program offices. The Office of Air Navigation Facilities and the Office of Air Traffic Control were created from the former Office of Federal Airways, a change that had been previously announced.