Airports: Run, Delay or Runaway

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Richard Pyatt is the host and moderator. With him are Arthur Healy author of the best selling novel Airport, Alfred MacDonald a Chief Engineer of airports at Parsons Brinkerhoff Quaid, Douglas Wilder Buechner chief of the air traffic branch of the New York area office of the Federal Aviation Administration, and James T Pyle director of the Aviation Development Council of hangar number two of the United Air Lines which is at LaGuardia Airport.

Airport insurance practices, the pregnancy problems of stewardesses, aerial sabotage, pilot pressures, snow clearing, community protests against airport noise, smuggling and the intense pressures on the air traffic controllers are all discussed in this round table interview.


Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection


WNYC archives id: 151723
Municipal archives id: T4911

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