Sunday, February 19, 2012

How Air Traffic Control Worked on the Eve of the 1981 Strike

Thanks to a post by Pat Vaughan, I've learned of set of videos that do a wonderful job of explaining something that was challenging to get across through mere prose in my book: how air traffic control worked on the eve of the 1981 strike.   These videos are from a story for the Sunday Magazine show on WKYC broadcast less than a year before the strike.  Reporter Tom Haley journeyed to the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center in Oberlin, Ohio, where he was given a tour by controller Dan Smith.  Al Roker, then early in his broadcasting career, does the lead-in.  The video comes in two parts.  Enjoy. 

Part I:




And Part II:

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  1. David SapadinApril 26, 2012 at 8:46 PM

    Joe, I'm the one who posted these on You Tube. I'm still scrounging through 150 or so old VHS tapes for anything else that might be of interest. And Hello to Pat! Regards, Dave Sapadin

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