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Show HIGH ALTITUDE - FLIGHTS SEEf, Airline passenger flights at alti tudes ranging from 30.000 to 23.00 feet were envisioned here by Mi Jo R. W. Schroeder. vice president ant manager of operations for Unitet Air Lines, en route Monday to Chi cago after a nine-day federal In' )iriry Into ri-a.h nt Ana nf hi. llna'i planej in northeastern Summll county. On the heels of Hie major's pre- dtctlon came press dispatches from New York City announcing such a service will be Inaugurated by the American Air Transport lines within with-in If months. Major Schroeder, f-foot, 4-Inch No, 1 man of American aeronautic advancement, and known to intimates inti-mates as "Shorty." said his line would be flying passenger planes higher than 30.000 feet within five years. He explained the vagarlee of the upper air were not sufficiently known now to provide absolutely afa flying at that altitude. "The air is like an ocean," he drawled before boarding a plan for th east "We're at the bottom of it where w know the lower cur-' cur-' rents, crags and reefs, but upstairs; it's different We're still exploring up there." And a to safe flying downstairs? "From every hearing like this one just closed (th October 17 Main-liner Main-liner disaster which claimed 19 lives) we learn more about how to avoia in next one. rora tnis one w found th Importance of reporting report-ing radio static as an Indication of approaching storm. Now such information in-formation will be carried on our teletypes.' A ruling on th probable cause or causes of the disaster is being waited wait-ed from th department of commerce com-merce In Washington. D. C. |