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air-traffic control Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport airport control tower Interior view of an airport traffic control tower at dusk. The airport traffic control tower manages takeoffs and all movement within the airport's terminal control area.
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Parsons Weems' Fable, oil on canvas by Grant Wood, 1939; in the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Catalog entry: The historian Mason Locke Weems, commonly known by his clerical title, Parson Weems, pulls back a curtain to point at 6-year-old George Washington. Bearing an adult head and holding an axe, George gazes blankly up at his father, Augustine, who questions his son while holding a partially cut cherry tree. All of this takes place in front of a 20th-century brick building, which Wood modeled after his own home in Iowa. The scene illustrates the fable of Washington and the cherry tree, which Weems invented in 1806 for the first president's biography. Wood playfully suggests the artifice of the tale here, presenting the story in the manner of a costumed stage play rather than a real event. Amid the action, two Black figures pick cherries in the background, a reference to Washington' slaveholding past and a reminder of of what often gets left out in historical mythmaking.
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air-traffic control An air traffic control tower at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.

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Trump Administration Begins Mass Firings of Air Traffic Control Staff • Feb. 17, 2025, 11:45 PM ET (Newsweek)
DOGE to Make 'Rapid Safety Upgrades' to Air Traffic Control: Elon Musk • Feb. 6, 2025, 7:39 AM ET (Newsweek)
Belgian Flights Disrupted Due to Air Traffic Control Problem • Jan. 30, 2025, 10:02 PM ET (Bloomberg.com)
Deadly Crash Revives Scrutiny Over Congested Washington Airspace • Jan. 30, 2025, 7:19 AM ET (Bloomberg)
Air traffic control audio captures the final moments before the Washington air crash • Jan. 28, 2025, 9:57 PM ET (ABC News (Australia))

air-traffic control, the supervision of the movements of all aircraft, both in the air and on the ground, in the vicinity of an airport. See traffic control.