Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-09 | Page 53 | Aerial 'Flivvers' may Become Rage

AERIAL 'FLIVVERS' IV1IIY BECOME RAGE Automobiles Soon to Be Replaced Re-placed by Airplanes by the Adventurous. By DELT EDWARDS, Universal News Service Staff Correspondent. Correspon-dent. LONDON, March 8. Shove your old auto into the barn and buy a nice, cheap j airplane if you want to see what real j adventure is. i With thousands of able aviators turned ; loose from the battlefielw we are now getting the "low-down" on flying. Some of them tell you it is great to fall out of the clouds; others that it does not hurt you a bit to drop fifteen or sixteen thou-1 j sand feet, if you know how and it only , j does about $250 -damage to the an - ! plane. - I Here is what one genial aviator fig- I ures an airplane "ought to cost": Airplane, two-seater, $1500: - -housing, 1 per year, $500; mechanic and boy, peri year, $1200; overhauling, per year, $150; fuel and oil, per mile, '3 cents; each fall I (if coffin is not required), $250. ! Accoring to this, comforting young man, some company should come along! and turn out a breed of aerial flivvers , at a cost of $1500. down very much down. This type would be a biplane that is, -it would carry two persons would be able I to climb 17,000 or 18,060 feet and attain J a speed of from forty to ninety miles ; an hour. Of course, if you want to fall j more than 18,000 feet, you must pay for i the extra power required to get you up j so high. Load-carrying airplanes will be much more expensive. I "But repairs will cost very little," the i cheerful aviator assures you. "Even j w-hen you take a bad fall, where it looks j as if the machine were totally smashed up, the repairs only run up around $250." Of course, this amount does not in- elude a coffin or any burial expenses, if the first fall goes all wrong. If a man becomes a fairly good flier and escapes falling all the time, his air- I plane should last him two or possibly ; three years and require probably only one overhauling at a cost of about $150.