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    • Subject Terms:
      NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State)
    • Abstract:
      The article reports on the addition of long-range radar and more feed points at LaGuardia, Idlewild, Newark and Teterboro airport in the New York City area, which is said to be the world's busiest with 2,100 airplane movements daily as of March 1955. A similar traffic control method was tested in Washington D.C. in 1951. The article also explains that the real bottleneck in New York area was the lack of airspace and mentions that critics of the long-range radar system argued the complexity of identifying all airplanes in a big area.