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Logan air traffic control, Part 2

Description: Air traffic controllers at Logan tower. Line of controllers seated in dark room in front of radar scopes. Interview with Bill about how he became a controller, starting in military; what attributes are necessary to do the job well. reel 2 of 4
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1978

Logan air traffic control, Part 3

Description: Air traffic control tower at Logan. Controller Bill works in departure control readying flights for takeoff, giving runway instructions via headset. Pilot acknowledgement audible. He surveys expanse of runways from window of tower in daylight. TWA plane takes off. Controllers work standing. Cam tilts between radar scope and window onto runways. Bill and female controller seen head on through outside of window (shot from catwalk). reel 3 of 4
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1978

Logan air traffic control, Part 4

Description: Air traffic controller Bill in Logan tower, seen through window (shot from catwalk). High shot of wide area surrounding airport. Cars driving to airport, past Eastern hangar and terminal. View across harbor to financial district skyline with Custom House and beyond to Citgo sign in extreme distance. Flight approach instructions given over headset; pilot acknowledgement audible. British Airways plane taxis on runway, gathers speed, nose points up, lifts off, landing gear retracts. reel 4 of 4
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1978

Massport and air safety

Description: Massport executive director David Davis on problem of crowded skies and air traffic safety around Logan Airport. Sen. John Kerry, Rep. Joseph Kennedy.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/27/1987

Mental patients protest

Description: Mental patients and their therapists demonstrate for continued funding of East Boston - Winthrop Counseling Centers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/17/1990

Midair collision avoidance system

Description: Demonstration of midair collision avoidance system on radar screen at Logan air traffic control tower. Simulated flight numbers flash “CA” for conflict alert when the plane positions are too close.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/26/1978

NOISE POLLUTION

Description: PROBLEMS OF AIR TRAFFIC AND NOISE POLLUTION AROUND LOGAN AIRPORT AND HANSCOM FIELD. Mary Ellen Welch, Anna DeFronzo, David Davis, Massport.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/23/1986

National Weather Service

Description: National Weather Service station at Logan Airport. Many teletypes printing out forecasts and conditions: “blizzard warning.” Page of high and low temperatures for Caribbean and Central American resort areas in Fahrenheit and Celsius (centigrade). Plot maps with isobars. Wind speed and direction gauges. Man at computer with old CRT monitor.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/27/1977

Neptune Road house moving

Description: Three-story wood-frame house from Neptune Road in East Boston being moved slowly on giant tractor trailer on Frankfort Street. (Many houses were relocated from area because of Logan runway noise.)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1978

ORIENT HEIGHTS VACANT BUILDINGS

Description: MAZE, VACANT BUILDINGS, BOARDED WINDOWS, VANDALIZED APARTMENT, ORIENT HEIGHTS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1984