That deepening problem of modern timesgiant airliners swooping in on airports thick with ever-increasing trafficsat like a brooding presence last week at the meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization at Montreal. The conference's purpose: to select a common system of worldwide air navigation.
The problem should be purely technical. But commercial competition and nationalistic pride confuse the issue. The British press has been loud in defense of the British Decca navigation system. Cried the Daily Express: "The Americans are pushing their own system, acknowledged to be less effective, but with big dollar investments behind it." Though the U.S. press has paid...
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