Show f U I 1 PI L V VM T ION 6 EN bears ngo ago among n the band dunes or of north cirt h car olina a slim gaunt in tense ohioan stretched himself downward doii nvard d on oil a narrow ledge bur surmount mou nt cd t ards of 0 f out stretched muslin a coni com pact poi powerful erful little eu ell pino gino P purred u at ills his heels and a glint giant thing ot of spruce and cloth swept sw ept like a falcon out over oler that silent t sea coast desert A lit tie ile telegraph 0 office at kitt hawk N C an hour later startles a world with the laconism the wright brothers have bae flown 21 ov n jt it haq ft as the word had awaited hundreds of vears for the dream of fliming Is as old as civilization ion A decade has passed since man sprouted routed Bp his wings the horld lias has him from his first weak fitful 11 bounds from mother earth tor for brief sec ec ends aloft to ills his hours and even a day in stead sustained flight it his has ceased to marvel and it expectantly has con to look to tho the future to bonder what 6 hat next ten beirs car s ago wilbur bright flew at kitt hawk for 59 seconds to day the record tor for sustained flight is 14 hours and 1 1300 miles in ten vears the aeroplane has made more rapid strides than did the automo we lite more thin than a thousand and men with a fair percentage of women n are arc driving drining aeroplanes aero acro planes in all parts of the world the first successful ful flight or oc the brights frights NN rIghts has almost been forgotten so great has been the pro progress gregs of the aero plane diane and the increase in the number of aviators the english channel has been crossed a aad r nd re crossed b one two and three per tons in an acro aeroplane plane aviators hane hae ewelt up and oner oer the fearsome peaks and abysses of the alps whole cond bents have been crossed in aviation races racer the united states has been spanned by an american who lost ilia hia life ife 1 in a trivial exhibition teat f eat dut but the present asks well what list of the future hat nell these birdmen birdeen be doing ten ears from nonn nowa 9 from the stage of pure amusement the tha period when aviation was aa alone T 7 aj eli arn t T r rr I 1 1 1 r lw az 6 1 oj 4 t li N 11 00 0 I 1 flaring daring those w nho ho were nere counted fool foolhardy hard and the show people ot of the air flying filing Is working toward a commercial stabilization toe men who nho cling to 11 lation today are those with lia ideas of making it a recognized asset of 0 corn com cerce the era of 0 aerial transportation Is upon us the will have hane crossed the atlantic ocean penetrated the dismal jungles of africa scanned the tropical fever feNer ridden areas ot of the amazon brought back the word nord from the remote regions of 0 ice and snoa perhaps but greater still aeroplanes aero planes will nill be a proven adjunct ot of commerce our malls mails will swill be shot to almost inaccessible points through the air the of the great railroad system will give ghe way wa to the critical eyes of a man bird sleeping along the ribbons of steel through tangled wood mood and avei river the telegraph and telephone lineman will skim shim with voth his vision aslou focused on narrow strands of copper wire aire far into alaska reached today only by tol toiling ing dog train and intense suffering will go the aviator with ith mall mail supplies and even luxuries these are put but a few of the suggestions of aero nautical icil optimists the enormous death rate of aia aviation tion in proportion to the number of per tons who nho have hane taken it up would indicate to the layman that the conquest ut of the air is far from complete but such strides hive hane been made in the last few earth that hit despite the death toll the re results have bae been more than encourage ing there are aviators ivia tors flying today who aho are almost as safe in ill the air as it if on land or on the neator after all most of the deaths death of avla ania tors have been due to accidents which resulted from cire on the part of some one either the flier fler hini elf or his so are aviation experts that the aeroplane has been dei developed eloped to a st stage ge where it can be used in every enery daa da business that man of them are arc attorn attern ting ling to adapt it as a carrier 0 of the malls mails man of the alaskan wastes N aste anil 2110 sT stansel arsel settled regions ot of the west iest could tie be traversed in hours where nou cow it requires das the french government was as the first to apply the aeroplane to the delivery of 0 the nulls the aeroplane has given erven a fast mall mail service in parts of desert africa henry irenr nordhouse Nood house an expert on things aeronautical aeronautic il and editor of filing a magazine dei demoted cited entirely en tirel to the airmen recently predicted wonderful progress in the aero post poeL each month ho be wrote something happens to emphasize more force full th the c value alue of the aeroplane acro plano for mall mail car carrying ring and whereas it Is usually demonstrated in places where there is an efficient eHl clent mull mail carrying earring sen ice b hi the ordinary methods it is made more and more evident that aeroplane mill mall service will nill be a boon to such places as aa arizona colorado texas ne ew mexico nevada neada alaska the philippines canada and south and central america the conquest of the desert ba b aeroplane Is complete Trai traveling eling a mile a minute it crosses from oasis to distant habitation in a a fe few hours the french government in the last six months has employed two score of aero ibanes to carry mail provisions and pa passengers from casa blanca the port to different along and acres the desert with this aerial service serice it has been found that intercommunication and transportation between points on the desert is faster than in certain places in europe and america the aeroplane orlane has shown rhonn that it Is to become a potential factor in solving the file problems problems of 0 advancing civilization in morocco I 1 algeria TrIpoli taula congo the soudan ind and in it already has saved thousands of lives in the french campaign in co and italian campaign in tor for which it has never received credit from the world at large b by alwaes watching the moNe movements ments of the enemy thus aN avoiding those unpleasant surprises which have hae crimsoned crim the pages of the bistor of tile the conquest of africa other demonstrations have hane been given practically each dav dan of the lat last ear car every one of the flights of garros de Moulin nals als Guff lauk bldr find and the threescore of other airmen who make nights flights of from to 1300 miles a a dav da are forceful demonstrations of tho the increased swiftness in mall mail car carrying rIng which the aeroplane affords ad advocates locates of the aero post for alaska point out that last september united states arm engineers traveled traNe led halt way via across alaska to a point two to degrees from the arctic circle tran traversing erring altogether about sag miles in 19 days das the aero nero post proponents sav any of the well uell know knonk n cross country aeroplane di drivers ivers of toda could have accomplished the trip with or without mall mail in one day and man ganv others could do it in three das at most united states goern government ment officials have indicated their willingness to help in developing the acro aeroplane plane tor for the mail service postmaster general A S burleson Bur leeon in a rece recent at letter to showed his bis desire to encourage the acro post ado advocates cates as much as he can 1 I fully realize lie he wrote the necessity of keeping abreast of the needs of the postal service for the rapid transmission of mall mail and of using ever possible facil facility lt to this end in line with this conviction the department Is 1 read at all times to give careful iud and consideration to such euch nex new of transportation as may be discovered discoN ered and dev des developed eloped we ne have repeatedly repeat edl riven given official aid to aviation meets throughout thu the country by establishing special postal stations end and authorizing the transportation of mall mail temporarily tempora ril bl b aeroplane these of course are recognized as experimental but I 1 am persuaded that tho the time Is rapidly approaching when the department will be called upon to give serious consideration to the feasibility of aerial mall mail transportation the adoption of such in moans ans however hoA ever cn can only be brought about after it is demonstrated they can ne ie furnished and maintained within I 1 the proper limits of econom that no DO future war V ar will be fought without ohp aid of the aero ar to scout la Is a foregone conclusion this is evidenced b by the invaluable aid the ibo sere acre plan aavo tho the french and italians in their recent troubles in morocco and tripoli and to the various armies engaged in the recent warfare lu in the dal cal liana kans united states army aviators evera da div now nonn are arc scouting along flit mexican border watching over the huge army camp in which men are living aver day da on oil the chance trouble with mexico ml guv start at an any time I 1 increase Is being made in aeroplane equipment of 0 the world s armies every eer week neek france leads in the number of 0 aeroplanes aero planes these total more than and the french have one aeroplane for or the navy russia has arm aeroplanes aero planes and german has IG 16 japan has 10 graat britain has about 30 italy altal has 25 and the united states about 25 england has sli ix tor for the daiv and the united states japan and ital have four our etch each russia his has one and germany Germa nj to crosb Cross country flights in 1912 and 1913 show conclusively aeroplanes aero planes can bo be relied upon to cover great distances at high speed the greatest flight in 1912 was thit that ot of andreade And readi who in a nieuport Nicu port machine flew from sebastopol Seba to st petersburg 1670 miles he took 25 daic d ays tor for the trip great things thing are ahead of the ae aeroplane A pi anze ize of ra 0 nw nah been of fared for or the first flight across the atlantic ocean next year or the acar car after some venturesome aNi aviator ator using a badro aeroplane probably pro batill will NOR hive have at tempted to alv fl from froin england to america or from frem america ameila to elgland ei UL gland and the success of the venture would not be surprising two things are certain the acro pline has come to stay as a war nar agent and it will ill develop into the best agent for the cross continent and choss mountain transportation and dellvera dellver dell veri 5 of the malls mails chete also are possibilities in the trans transportation gortat ion of pa passengers Iao the eq e of aerial terries ferries and tho inspection of long sections ut of railroads alread it Is being utilized bv bj telegraph line inspectors in remote sections of the far west it is editor woodhouse who points out that railroad inspectors could cover more ground and mike make better and quicker reports report bv ba the use of 0 the aeroplane using an aeroplane aero acro pline plane he declares inspectors can inspect the bold a at t a speed of bet between cen 10 40 and 70 miles an hour bj aing moving moi ing picture biach les an inspector can photograph the line at the rate of 0 miles an hour and all allowing six hours of traveling to each da lie he can in three davs apte ent to the executive exec utne officers ot of a railroad a film showing the detailed conditions 0 of 1 all miles les of road poad which the official can call go 0 over er at their meeting and know knoll the exact state of the road and the lind land adjoining the road As vias sho shown n hi the experiences experience of C P rodgers and robert I 1 ober in their trips across the continent rails offer certain advantages over boolen brol en country rot foi landing on and starting from an aeroplane hd having aag wide roller wheels finds the rail an every read platform to land on and latart from A railroad considered the matter of using aeroplanes aero planes a vear or so BO ago but they N were ere deterred from employ employing ing them by the excess excessive i e cost of securing competent aviators to operate them at that time competent alla aviators torb were still drawing large incomes from exhibition alv ing and as that particular rail road which was willing to consider the employment of aeroplanes aero planes found that it required 12 aeroplanes aero planes for the purpose the salary item became too exeas execs slie she to be practical but now DONN that competent an aviators gators can be had at from 50 to a NN week sell and almost an adv intelligent mechanic mechin lc can b be trained to operate the kind 0 I 1 machine needed for or ra railway ilNay surveying the proposition aBs assumes a practical aspect s hect and there hero is ie no doubt that railroads ivill see the adian advantages ot of using tor for this particular purpose editor goodhouse like marij other ai aviation lation experts bell believes cies it will be only a question of time when the aeroplane will be de developed eloped for or use in con ri eadon with NN ith the revenue cutter berl service ice irrigation ser service ice life sai saving ing and light house bouse service and in the bureaus of fisheries forestry forest rj and go logical survey of the national government south and central america are as vet jet practically virgin territories for or the development of aerial navigation na Ai aviation lation experts are engaged in deil devising sing the best to make all aa aero nautical map of 0 the world orld Tremendous i increase in air navigation combined with the widening ld ening radius of dirigibles countries continents and oven seas as they have hae has made the necessity for or the aeronautical map imperative Imper atile the need of 0 well a ell trained capable young men to take up an aviation lation is pointed out by who bellei believes cs with president richard C maclaurin of the massachusetts institute of technology that it Is a duty on the part of 0 aduca lional institutions to provide ide ansti action in aeronautics aerial flight of today dr maclaurin save s is either an engine of wat N at or nn an exciting amusement its greatest use at present is for or pleasure but before it can be very nery greatly dei developed eloped it must be reed freed from rom its more beriou dangers tho the men who must see to making safe rare the sport of living fining must be trained engineers and men of 0 science lenee EC and such men are produced in the higher technical schools bools and colleges it lb for or such reasons that the massachusetts institute of technology row DOW makla makes official CIHI a line of 0 work that heretofore has hab been pos possible sibl only as an adjunct to other courses and so ai aviation lation as a science stands men in every ever walk of 0 scientific en deanor are tring to improve it the nations of 0 the world orld A are Ep spending ending 89 this year to forward thie the pi ogress of 0 ai aviation lation jtb expenditures in creasing every vear car wonderful things can be eIPP expected eted in the next decade in the nit antIme constructive geniuses like orvllle orille akright right and glenn H curtiss are working in secret to improve the aeroplane and hying flying ien luses ore axe work ing in public to show shon it to the world A orld the wrights wllbur wilbur and orvllle ornille were the first to demonstrate that a acan heavier ler than air machine machin e could be made to lly fly before I 1 them hem I 1 for or mans genera tiong men had tried to solve solie the problem of aerial naNi navigation gation but the aspher leal ical balloon up to 1903 practically bad been the only air craft that could li bo relied upon to carry passengers some of |