(Football reigns! Jim)
        Downtown Island Airport staffed on UT game days
     The air traffic control tower at Downtown Island Airport has
 announced special hours of operation for the University of Tennessee
 football season.
     The tower will be in operation for the following home football
 dates: Aug. 29 and 30, Oct. 4 and 11, and Nov. 1, 8 and 29.
     The tower will begin operating approximately four hours before
 kickoff and remain in operation three hours affer the game.
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          American Eagle Pilots ratify contract
     Dallas -- American Eagle Airlines pilots ratified a new four-
 year labor agreement with Fort Fort Worth-based parent AMR Corp.
 on Friday, an accord that includes pay and benefits increases.
     The contract, which takes effect Sept. 1, includes rules that
 allow pilots on the regional air carrier to bid on one of every
 two new-hire positions at its larger sibling, American Airlines.
     About 62 percent of the 1,900 American Eagle pilots with the
 Air Line Pilots Associatian voted for the contract, said Capt.
 Homer Pugh of the union.
     The contract provides for guaranteed annual pay increases,
 based on an index tied to regional industry pay rates.
     The contract was the second to go before American Eagle pilots.
 The first was turned down in July, The agreement will replace four
 separate contracts with Eagle affiliates with a single accord,
 merging seniority lists and allowing systemwide flying bids.
     One of the affiliates was Flagship Airlines of Nashville.
 Knoxville News Sentinel 16 August 97
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 Two Were Flawed According to an FAA Test - U.S. Radars Near Perfect
       Washington, Aug. 15 - A test of nearly 200 airport radars
 nationwide found faulty ones, but federal officials declined to say
 if the flaws were the same as those that contributed to the deadly
 Korean airline crash in Guam.
     The Federal Aviation Administration said problems with radar
 warning systems in Fayetteville, N.C., and Florence, S.C., have
 been corrected.
     The agency said it tested 193 radars and that the remaining 191
 systems were working correctly.
     The radar in Guam, site of the Aug. 6 Korean Air crash that
 killed 226 people, also has been fixed, the agency said.
    The FAA said the problems in the Florence and Fayetteville radars
 were in computer programs, but declined to say whether they were the
 same as the trouble encountered in Guam.
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