Show The O i and the New i Air I 1 L c v au I F v 7 AYr 1 Times have changed in aviation since the days when the pilot sat in an unprotected wind wind- windswept swept seat in the front of the plane The officer in uniform holding the time bomb is seated next to Captain M S Crissey after whom Crissey Field San Francisco was named The aviator with the parachute equipment represents the modern type flyer and the Chevrolet six pictured with him depicts the modern note in automobile transportation Aviation A has h-AS h s made s such h tremendous ous strides in in the United States and particuLarly in the west in the pa past t 20 pa 0 years cars that not many of the pres pres- present present ent generation realize the foresight and md courage of the adventurous arr air air- airm airmen m men n of years ago Today with wit b beacons lighting the way and with the entire country charted it is a comparatively easy task for an avia- avia aviator a via r tor to fly across the country Every city town and hamlet has ha become minded nir and man many of these thc places have havo d guiding objects object such auch uch as a lights hta marked landing fields I and other r aids lids to assist the flyers I Twenty years cars ago the airplane wai was I If t the commodious safe machine that it is is today It js is s rather inter inter- to compare the development or of the airplane and the Chevrolet automobile The first automobile like the air air- airplane air airplane plane was a wind wind- wept contrivance Those were the days day when motorists wore long dusters dusters long coat coated arrangements arrange arrange- e- e ments that kc kept pt th the tho dust from their clothes Toda Today the Chevrolet six i witha with h ha a beautiful closed body hody by Fish Fish- Fisher Fisher Fisher er SWe sweeps S along alon- alon th the highway hi hway of the country and und the travelers step out of the car at their just Uti us u spick span ax as when they enter enter- entered entered ed the automobile So also alo al o with the plane theair-plane plane air Captain In the days das siren when Cap- Cap tain Crissey after whom Crissey Field San Sm Francisco Is named the I flyers were unprotected against again t the I ravages of the elements It I required required ed Cd courage ofa of a high d degree to JO go UP in th those e days but the flyers dyers were r I and arn blessed bl d it with the pione- pione er 1 spirit they resolved to conquer the thc theair thair air Today a fast plane whisks you ou ham from town to town in less time than one Is awne of But tribute must be b paid to 10 daring flyers dyers fl like Captain Cl Crissey who bo laid tho the ground round for the th pr present flying Hying methods The airplane found the a vcr very very- valuable all ally The Thc automobile manufacturers had been experiment experiment- experimenting in ink for or years with tho the ga gas gaa cn engine ine and they had made mad derided d advances ad in its construction The airplane manufacturers had tod the power all 11 ready for them the A type te en- en engine en engine gine Kine was required for air service but the fundamental principle developed by bv the automobile manufacturers was thc the guiding ns star tal used |