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
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
Description: Passengers in ticket lines in international terminal at Logan. Distinctive Braniff planes painted bright colors. Luggage. Taxiing TWA and American Airlines jets. Reporter explains Braniff's trademark - brightly colored planes, leather seats, flying routes other airlines do not. Braniff plans to use Boston as its gateway to European air travel.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/30/1979
Description: B-roll footage of Massachusetts Port Authority (MASSPORT) structures and five MASSPORT workers on strike, picketing in a parking lot. Signs read "MASSPORT Unfair to Teamsters Local 137" and "On Strike." Footage of traffic on bridge; roadway. Motorcycle policeman with canine assistant wearing goggles on back of bike. Zoomed clip of air traffic control tower at Logan Airport; slightly larger group of striking workers circle in parking lot; state policeman regulates traffic.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/08/1980
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
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
Description: Planes take off+land, taxiing+parked at Logan. TWA, American,New York Air,United,Delta,Piedmont,People Express,Swissair,Republic,Sabena, Northwest Orient, emergency medical van, ambulance, rescue truck.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/20/1985
Description: Charter plane pilots and air taxi operators fight high small aircraft landing fees at Logan Airport. Massport wants to cut down traffic. Federal judge is considering equity of fees.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/11/1988
Description: Small airlines at Logan Airport. Passengers waiting at Piedmont terminal. American Airlines planes cross on wet tarmac. Piedmont plane parked. Signs for Braniff, Lufthansa, Iberia, Northwest Orient, Van Dusen Aviation, Butler Aviation, Swissair. Braniff terminal. Northwest Orient and National ticket counters and gate area.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/02/1979
Description: Michael Dukakis, with bandaged hands, breaks ground for cargo terminal at Logan, and comments on proposed tax rollback. William Weld favors the rollback.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/05/1990