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Show THE BULLETIN 2,000,000 Now "Fly Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease" Recent Celebration of National Air Travel Week Dramatized the Amazing Development of Airplane Traniportation of Passengers, Mail and Express During the 10 Years Since a Famous Author Paid $400 for a Flight from Los Angeles to New York. e Wcitcrn Ntwapapcr Union. 33-Ho- ur By ELMO SCOTT WATSON In air transport, as in any other, the safety of the passengers depends ultimately, of course, upon the men operating it. The physical fitness, mental alertness and practiced skill of the man behind the wheel in an automobile, in the pilot house of a ship or in the cab of a locomotive determines pretty much whether or not you'll reach your destination safely if you travel by land or water. The same thing is true if you travel by air. But if you have an idea that you are entrusting your life to a "knight of the air," a dashing, fellow, given to doing spectacular stunts and taking chances forget it! That may have been true in the post-wperiod of aviation but it isnt true devil-may-ca- SEVERAL thousand enjoyed, first time, the 12-to- n, brate the tenth year jubilee air transportation and call to the attention of the nation the spectacular growth of a service which has risen in 10 years from an extremely small industry, chiefly dependent on air mail, to one which now carries more than 2,000,000 passengers every year plus millions of pounds of air mail and express. of multi-engine- d well-kno- remarkable advance in air transportation is visualised by the pictures of the various types of airplanes that have been flown in The coast-to-eoa- st service since 1928. The first service requiring 33 hours, was flown with a biplane shown at the top. Next came the plane with a cruising speed of 105 miles an hour. In 1933 air transportation was revolutionised with the Introduction of the worlds first g monoplane. The bottom picture shows the d latest refinement of the type with a top speed of 212 miles an hour. eoast-to-coa- st "three-mile-a-minut- e" all-met- al, adventurers. They paid $400 for a transcontinental ticket, sat upright in a small metal chair with little upholstery; their plane landed every few hundred miles for fuel; little food, if any, was served; and the journey took 33 hours. In 1938, at the beginning of the second decade the flight between New York and Los Angeles or San Francisco has been reduced to an overnight journey in a large, comfortable berth aboard a d transport. The air fare has been reduced to less than $150. The passenger enjoys a hot meal that is served without any extra cost. The business man journeying from his New York office to the Pacific coast does not lose a single business hour in spanning the continent. Fares Cut in Half. In a decade air fares in the United States have been reduced from an average of 12 cents a mile to 5 cents, while speed has been more than doubled and comforts not even thought of in those days have made air travel a luxury form of transportation. Si-coast-to-coa- st sound-proofe- coast-to-coa- st full-cour- se multi-engine- ,coast-to-coa- st i d, twin-engine- single-engine- - twin-engine- low-win- multi-engine- 63 er ed multi-engine- d d) mail-passeng- single-engine- d one-wa- y multi-engine- The average pilot of 1928 was a man who, if he had 2,000 hours of experience, was regarded as a veteran airman. He knew little about and had no faith in theories that some day airplanes could be controlled entirely by instruments in his cockpit. The average pilot in command of a big airliner today is a highly professional man who has journeyed a million miles or more in the sky aboard transport planes. He is a technical man, too, understanding that he has been provided with an airplane in perfect condition, every proven aid to the science of air navigation, and with corps of ground workers who are studying weather reports, communicating with him by radio and generally directing the orderly procedure of his flight with marked efficiency. Frequent Examinations. Todays pilot is a perfect physical specimen. He undergoes a thorough physical examination on an average of every three months. He leads a normal, retiring life when hes not putting in his maximum of 85 hours in the air each month. The average air line captain has his dfcn home and flower garden, plays a good game of golf, is a camera enthusiast and spends as much time as possible with his wife and children. He is a solid citizen in his community and is a great student, always seeking to improve and strengthen his knowledge of air line flying. Often you can find him at his terminal flying a training device that simulates every conceivable flight characteristic of an airplane, even to the guidance of airplanes by directive radio beams. The cockpit of an air liner has grown to a scientific office where the pilot has been provided with proper tools to accomplish his work. The cockpit of 1928 boasted of sparse instruments and a few controls. Todays air line has an automatic robot" pilot, for example, that is capable of guiding the airplane in the same precise manner that the human pilot does. Hence, the human pilot can turn over command of the plane to the robot pilot at any night-flyin- multi-engine- single-engine- novelty gifts. Books are 25 cents each. Order both books today and get the patchwork quilt leaflet picturing 38 authentic embroidery Mrs. Address: stitches free. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, UL re now. aird in swift, planes that are the ultimate in comfort and safety. This "mass flight of at least 50,000 people was a part of the observance of National Air Travel Week, sponsored by the aviation industry of the country, including the 21 domestic air transport lines to celeand To anyone who knows anything about the history of aviation in this country, the question immediately arises, "Why call it the tenth anniversary of air transportation? If I remember rightly, they were flying the mail 20 years ago, in 1918, and the first transcontinental service was begun in 1924 and within two years passengers were being carried. Why didnt we celebrate this tenth anniversary two years ago, in 1936?" The answer is this: Its true that passengers were being carried by airplane in 1926 but in that year air transport was still an experiment. The air lines then in existence were using d small planes and they definitely did not encourage passenger traffic. These lines existed mainly to transport the mail and when they did take passengers, these passengers rode on the mail sacks or crouched down in small, cramped cockpits. The pilots of these ships werent any too happy to have a passenger along and be made to feel the extra responsibility for his safety. "Lindy Points the Way. , Then came the year 1927. otherwise "Lucky Lindy," Charles A. Lindbergh, a former air mail pilot, made the flight across the Atlantic and the whole world "flung his name against the stars. The impetus given to aviation was immediate. By the end of that year air transportation was emerging from the experimental stage. One factor which hastened it was the develr opment of the larger flight equipment. These powerful motors meant a larger margin of safety in carrying passengers. Then came another historic event, but one not so widely known, although it was widely recalled during the recent celebration of National Air Travel Week. John Monk Saunders, a American author, paid $400 for a ticket between Los Angeles and New York and became the first pay passenger aboard the first regular scheduled flight in a transport plane. That marked the real beginning of modern passenger air transport. As a matter of fact, Saunders was only one of 47,840 Americans who traveled by air that year. But not all of these were flown d in ships. Most of the small operators were still flyd ing small ships since the only foundation needed for starting an airline in those days was to have a few pilots, a plane or two and a place to fly to. In 1928 the air lines had a total of 325 single and d transports in service and flew a total of 10,673,450 miles. In 1938, Just 10 years later, the air lines have about 386 transports (all and during 1937 flew the astonishing total of miles, carrying 1,267,580 passengers. In fact, one of the most amazing of all of air transports accomplishments has been its steady expansion during a decade that has been marked by the contraction and retrenchment of other lines of industry. Tioneer Passengers. But it is in the "human element, the side of the business, that the most interesting example of progress is noted. The first travelers were true in making. Book 2 shows you with pictures how to make many ar realization of an ancient dream of mankind. They "flew through the air with the greatest of ease not on the flying trapeze, nor yet on Aladdins magic carpet, but Pan-America- rator contains many useful things that every one may take a hand Col. Charles A. Lindbergh when he was an pilot and flew the first mail plane on the St. line In 1926. air-ma- il Louis-Chicag- o multaneously, with decrease in fare, faster schedules and greater comfort, the industry has written a record of safe, dependable operation in view of the tremendous increase in flying, which is a standard for the world. With the inception of this vast air line system the number of seats available for passenger consumption have increased from GOO in 1928 to 3,600 in 1938. In 1938 a total of 447,716,419 seat miles were flown by the nations air lines. Ten years ago an average of 131 passengers per day rode on air line planes. Today sees 3,200 persons board United States airline ships daily. Safer Than Automobiles. Safety has, of course increased tremendously in recent years, the best example being that in 1928, the air lines flew only 945,476 miles per fatal accident as compared with 13,214,301 miles per fatal accident in 1937. Safety has reached the point that on a mileage travel basis, a person is safer on a ' modem transport plane than he is driving his own automobile between the same cities today. The air line plane of 1928 had an average speed of 90 miles an hour. This was an exceptionally swift pace, but not the zenith by any means. Manufacturers set to work to build faster equipment. By 1933 some of the air lines were operating planes with cruising speeds of three miles a minute. At the turn of the first decade the average air line plane cruises at 200 miles an hour. Little or nothing was known about the supercharging of engines in 1928 for that reason air line planes flew low, between one and two thousand feet. A flight above 4,000 feet was really high flying. Rough air was usually the rule at these low altitudes and approximately 10 per cent of the air travelers were troubled by air sickness. Little or nothing was known about the scientific ventilation of airplane cabins and it was not uncommon for a cabin to be filled with motor fumes. Heating of cabins was accomplished directly from engine exhausts. The ships of 1928 carried a limited amount of fuel and had to land every few hundred miles for gas. The modern plane today has a cruising range of 1,000 to 1,500 miles flying at 10.0GO feet, where smooth air prevails. The roaring, booming noise of the throbbing motors of 1928 has been eliminated by soundproofing and the cabins are ventilated by the constant flow of fresh, filtered air. Steamheating is automatically controlled and the cabin of the modern transport has the atmosphere of a living e room. flying came in vogue a few years ago and today some of the domestic routes are p operating flights of 900 miles. But even this is not the epitome. The Douglas planes of today have bona fide cruising ranges of 1,500 miles and test flights of nearly 2,000 miles without even stopping for fuel have been made. well-appoint- ed Long-rang- non-sto- n NO ONE IS rEAR Mrs. Spears: I want to thank you for the clear diagram of how to hang draw curtains in your Book 1 SEWING for the Home Decorator. This was just what I have been needing as we have casement windows and no shades in our living room. With a pull of the cord my new curtains shut out the light or the outside view. I wonder if you would help me with another problem? I do not want to make the curtains for the rest of the house. Thought I would buy ruffled net ones. Do you think they would be too commonplace? J. T. Answer: Here is a suggestion for hanging ruffled curtains that will make your windows a little different from those of your neighbors and lend no end of style to your rooms. Double curtain rods are needed to give the crossed effect and a valance board is added to the top of the window as shown. Here the valance is the sort that comes with ready made curtains and the top is folded back to make it double. In thumbtacking it to the valance board, do not stretch it just "ease it on" so that it hangs well. If you feel that the windows need color, the valance and tie backs may be of plain glazed chintz that repeats the strongest color in your room color scheme. A contrasting valance may be either plain or gathered. Let Father and Young Son and Little Sister help you make the home a center of interest. Book 1 SEWING, for the Home Deco-- IMMUNE TO ACID INDIGESTION But Why Suffer? Here's how you can Alkalize? the anytime-anywhere-- way I easy Phillips WHY SUFFER from headaches, gas," upsets and biliousness" due to Acid Indigestion when now there is a way that relieves excess stomach acid with incredible speed. 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New type propellers have been perfected that greatly reduce mo- . 111., SOCIAL and BUSINESS ACTIVITIES CENTER at the 4jotel tor noise. Weather has long been an ac- -' knowledged factor in air transportation and was an early handicap to schedule efficiency. The system of weather reporting in 1928 was far from satisfactory end pilots were not provided with y radio communication so that, like today, they could receive weather trends. Because nothing was known about instrument flying, schedule after schedule had to be cancelled. Weather is today still a factor in schedule efficiency, but not the great problem it was 10 years ago because much has been learned about the science of meteorology as applied to aviation. The airlines still have complete safety as its goal and when weather conditions of extreme proportions arise, flights are cancelled. lAflVESl Mothers! 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