Or the entire scope goes blank, leaving controllers scurrying around the darkened operations room with their flight strips, trying to keep a mental picture of where their planes are headed.
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After the Korean War, the Strategic Air Command kept the airfield in service as an emergency flight strip, even though it was " dangerously close " to the targets used for training.
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Greg Hale, a Kansas City center facility representative for the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, said that before the new system was installed, controllers relied on paper flight strips, mental calculations and radar.
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By 5 : 30 on Sunday afternoon, the Newark controllers are in full swing, coordinating the holiday traffic like short-order cooks on speed _ throwing flight strips around as they hand off aircraft to one another.
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Airfields were built or upgraded every or so from Liard River flight strip " ) The route of the Alaska Highway, which was built to provide a land route to Alaska, basically connected the airfields together.
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Along with the radar screens, the controllers use " flight strips, " or strips of paper that show the airline and number of a flight, the kind of plane, its origin and destination and other data, all prepared by the computer.
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In the late 1920s, concerned with the United States'inattention to building international airports, he toured Europe's airports and published his findings in 1929 . In 1936, Hanks patented a flight strip, a new concept in auxiliary airfields, and helped gain government appropriation for their construction throughout the country.
