Show Postwar Air Freight To Be Within Reach of Every very Farmer and Every Evey Community of the Entire Country Trained Pilots and Plenty Of Improved Planes for Everyday Needs of All By Walter Wolter A. A A Shead Washington Correspondent How flow shout about having those spore spare binder ports parts dropped In your our farm lot by parachute Or how about call coll colling calling ing up and having a n flying ambulance lance deliver you to the nearest hos has hospital hospital pital for that emergency operation Or if you are in a hurry for tor that order you placed call up and have them deliver it at your our gate by helicopter Ridiculous you say Well not so as you may think for tor the amazing progress of nir transportation during the war tear Is reflected in these very practical steps for a new horizon for tor com com- commercial commercial mercial operations as soon as peace pence permits As a matter malter of at fact the Civil cs administration In the de der department of ot commerce has on file at this moment applications for these and many more new types of civilian air business and these applications afford a stimulating picture of what the plane pIane may soon be doing to advance new progress in American life lite end arid manner of liv ing Old And new hands at the flying game Including many veterans still In uniform have formed enter enterprises now simply waiting for the official green light t to serve the pub pub- public public lic in many ways that would have been thought ridiculous or visionary B n few years ago For Tor I or instance some of the applications Include Flying ambulance and funeral planes armored airships for I safe dispatch of currency and other valuables delivery of new auto auto- automobiles automobiles mobiles by huge glider trains tank planes for shipment of gaso gaso- gasoline gasoline line oil all and other liquids busand bus busand busand and taxi service deliveries of at medicine food toad and of at other depart department ment store merchandise fly ly yourself systems sightseeing specialists up pick or delivery I by parachute and many others These projects are in addition to 10 applications for wide extension of service Into new territories sought by existing airlines and t the t io entry of others into the fields of ot feeder pickup pick general express express and cargo business Start New Enterprises Applicants for certificates for these new enterprises cover the whole range of people who have been stirred to action by faith fa Ith In the future of air all transportation In the I active dockets of ot the department are the names of companies and individuals IndIviduals with experience In transport transport- transporting ing fag persons and property by air There are others who have had equally broad background in trans transportation by steamship bus taxi taxi- taxicab taxicab cab and truck and there are still others such as department store owners who are obviously strong in financial resources but who have never perhaps even delivered their own parcels Then there are the embryo all air line magnates like Uke the man and his wife who want to start an air all freight line between Los Angeles and New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and for specifications for their fleet submitted colored cut cut- cutouts cutouts outs of a n Liberator bomber from a n Sunday supplement As a matter of at fact practically pra all the applicators state in more or less apologetic terms that the applicants have no planes with which to start business But since practically none will be available until after the war war they arc are all on an In equal basis from that standpoint The group of applicants who look 4 k t nd h I I s x a Z p o a h fM rr shows a 1 record shipment of nf penicillin nearly I pounds This Is 11 just one of the many Items that will be w handled almost entirely In Ia I postwar era em by tile the new and ancI existing taut ta ta and air alt freight lines toward peacetime flying business with the keenest anticipation and toward whom official eyes will look with greatest sympathy are the sol sol- soldiers soldiers diers and sailors some already discharged dis discharged charged veterans and others ready rendy to take to the air all as soon as they are discharged Of the military pilots which the war has produced the majority who plan to make aviation their career ca reer see ste their future as ns pilots for established airlines There Them are however many who want to start their own business noth noth- nothing nothing nothing ing fancy understand maybe just a local feeder freder line There has been blen as asyet asyet yet no breakdown to learn just what percentage of o the applications al already al al- already ready filed are by servicemen but the percentage is high A typical one Is the application filed td only n a afew few tew days ago by Lt Jams James Walker Case of or Sutter Creek Calif 28 old yer-old navy flier Lieutenant Case wants to start sla rt a n business flying per per- persons sons sans nod and property to all nil parts of California and Nevada in the most suitable available aircraft just as soon as the tile navy novy lets Ids him go o. o Ta i Rural Kural Service There There is also the Norsemen Air Transport 1111 company which turns tums out outto outto outto to be several servicemen who want to continue their war association by establishing feeder airlines throughout New England Many ol or these projects may many never see the light of clay but there thell are arc applications like that of Lt LL Col John C. C L L. Adams who before be be- being being ing called back to his regular army Job when war conic organized and operated an extensive air service in Tie ne wants to start a sight sight- Business with helicopters or ligh planes fanning out In various scenic routes from Cristobal and Balboa Until he can cnn start work sans uniform his wife Alberta is getting things lined up Then there are arc also tilso n a number of women who wl plan to start airlines on their own Some of at them judging from their application papers have already had successful careers in other lines of business There Is An An- Angeline geline Harris lIa of Rutherfordton N. N N C. C who proposes to start a sched sched- scheduled scheduled mail and passenger service linking the smaller towns in North Carolina Tennessee and Virginia using either helicopters or light conventional planes She proposes to land on roofs or 01 the nearest available vacant lot Mrs Winifred Lucy of ot Detroit proposes to run rum a helicopter taxi service in Michigan and Mrs hors T T. W V. lr of o El EI Paso Texas cf I Drawing shows plane In full flight light picking up liP mall 11 suck sack The Th same technique will swill be available In peace time and regularly ar I routed commer commer- commercial commercial cial planes arc are expected to drop and pick up packages while on the wing whip proposes to begin with transport of at mail moil and ond later laler of ot persons and property properly on two circulating ling routes covering hitherto none too accessible ble places in Texas New Mexico I and Arizona The proposed air nil ambulance servo service service ice fcc no doubt had its inspiration from the remarkable operations In evacuation of wounded by the air all transport command of ot the army aid oM navy and the airlines under con can contract contract tract with them Two applications for this service now on file me with the CAA are by long established undertaking firms who plan to use the airplanes either as missions of ot mercy or for burial burin One of them themis is Shannon's of at Fort Worth Texas who proposes to operate a helicopter ambulance or hearse from flom their city to or from any points within COO mites miles from within that radius to any place in continental U. U S S. or from anywhere in the country to within that tha t circle An exactly simi simi- similar similar lar application is on file from tram W W. C. C C Croy of Poplar Blut Mo Julian Bondurant's Armored Mo Mo- Motor Motor Motor tor service of ot Memphis would en en- enlarge enlarge enlarge large his operation Ion by use of air air- airplanes planes throughout the south and southwest on ore call and demand The fabulous supply of our motor motor- motorized motorIzed forces with fuel by airplane in fa inthe inthe fathe the dash across France and else else- elsewhere elsewhere elsewhere where probably influenced II Ili I. I I Moul Maul president of Coastal Tank Lines Inc of ot York Pa to file Ille an application to supplement his fleet of trucks with flying lying tankers His Ills ships would carry gallons of any kind of at bulk buIk liquid commodity in tanks through through- throughout out the United States and to Alas Alas- Alaska Alaska Alaska ka Canada and and Mexico I Autos by b Air I Delivery ry of jeeps and trucks by airplane to the battle lines unquestionably unquestionably unquestionably gave T T. P P. Geddes of ot the Automobile Air All Freight right corporation of Detroit the inspiration for simi simi- similar similar similar lar operations In peacetime pC Before the var his firm was reputed to be bethe bethe bethe the largest la r deliverers of ot new auto lIuto- automobiles automobiles mobiles in the world by steamship on en the Great Lakes s and by the well- well known super Their lake vessels es ves sels the year ar before the war trans trans- transported transported transported ported cars care Now their con con- concern concern cern proposes ses to do rush orders on the same job with huge cargo planes and glider trailers They seek n certificate certificate certificate to transport automobiles from flom t the to anywhere nn in United States and to bring back general cargo to that area Department Depa store deliveries with the helicopter ns as the favored vehicle Is proposed in dozens of ot applications applications' on em file llIe Perhaps Per the best known firms include the Hecht Company Inc of ot Washington D. D D C C. C and the William Filene Sons company of ot Boston Both would cover er the met met- metropolitan metropolitan area surrounding their cities and would also seek to serve ser I their customers in smaller cities at greater grenter distances E E. J. J J McKeown president of the Producers Air Lines of Toledo would use cargo o planes gliders gilders and heli hell helicopters copters in the transportation of ot per perishable perIshable foods s. flowers drugs medi medicines cines sines and medicine ingredients A I proposed plan of similar type Is that of the Fish Airlines corporation headed by Charles J. J McGownn McGowan oi of II New Bedford Mass 1 which would emphasize rushing sea foods from Massachusetts I and Rhode Island to fishless regions of the country countr Plane builders have hn demonstrated that there thele may be a n plane built for every ely purpose that tho t has ha s been their l' l record in wartime And with plenty plent of ot skilled operators available a also as a result of ot the war it remains to tobe tobe tobe be seen whether or not the Ameri American can public is really rea l ready rend to try tr its wings when h n peace comes romes |