Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 41 | After-War U. S. Airship Plans

j AFTER-WAR U. S. AIRSHIP PLANS W". y. Durand, chairman national advisory ad-visory committee on aeronautics, outlining outlin-ing new plans and scope f or work ot new Civil a'-rin I t ran sport commit t cc, stated tlutt mail and freight-carrying, location of vessels i n distress, dest roy-j roy-j ing of derelict vessels, mapping of the United States and carrying passengers ! are some of the duties the government proH?es to pnt airplanes to y ft or t lw war. He told how planes have been do- velopcd aide to carry twenty-five pas-seiiL'ers pas-seiiL'ers and travel at. 1 "0 miles per hour, as.'cnd four and a half miles and env'r l(,ll,t miles without n stop, that I'liim-c. Knglu.nd, Bavaria and Cermany already have Hans laid for aerial traffic traf-fic systems. Cimgress already has ttp-proprmt-'d $100,000 for aerial' mail delivery de-livery and the war department has a izroed, subject t o congressional appro-val, appro-val, to turn all planes not longer adaptable adapt-able to military use. over to the post-office to start air service.