Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-04-28 | Page 1 | Airline to Test Device to Pick up, Drop Mailbags during Flight

I Airline to T Test est Device to PickUp Pick Pick- Pick PickUp Up Drop Mailbags During Flight Process Would Speed Delivery Add Cities to Lines Rep Kelly Declares April 27 APA AP AP I A device intended to permit airplanes airplanes airplanes air air- i planes to drop and pick up bags of mail mall while in flight which if successful successful successful suc suc- is expected ted to stimulate progress of the air mail is to be tested by the post ost office department department depart depart- ment next week on the Pittsburg- Pittsburg Cleveland air mail route Announcement o of the tests testa was made today at the tIre J post ot office department de department department de- de and officials said the device de delc device de- de vice lc would be approved by the department de department department de- de for installation on the air airmail mall mail rouf routes s th throughout th the country if the t tests prove its feasibility Considered by hy po post t office officials as one o of the simplest mechanisms for this work the device would permit airplanes to fly at a o of miles an hour or more while the mail bags were being delivered or taken on INTRODUCES BILL Representative Kelly Iely Republican Pennsylvania who has sponsored most of the air mall legislation en enacted enacted enacted en- en acted bv by congress s said said looking looking toward the We adoption of a flying loading and unloading mail mall device ho he has introduced a bill t to place a postal clerk on each mall plane so mail mall could be sorted and distributed during flight as on trains A twofold process is Involved inthe inthe in inthe the device which was invented by L. L S. S Adams of San Francisco The fhe Continued on on page paSE 4 Airline to Test Dev Device ce to Pick 1 t Up Up- Up Drop During Flig t t Continue Continued fr from page g i. i 1 i mall mail bags bag would would-be e PI up k d. d 1 up or propped dropped from from- by i- y a sev sev- foot five light t f steel cable which Would be b tIe attached d to an automatic winding under tinder the planes plane's fuselage V On the th the lan landing field the device device consists consists' of t a n two sided light steel fr framework twenty feet ee high of a shaVe e which would be joined together at one end and with an open end sixty sixty- f feet thet et wide f o PREVENTS q DAMAGED MAGE I The funnel devi device e on the fi field would have a which would pi prevent event 11 the l n mall lH I from hitting g th the ground or or- being damaged The Tl email mail bag to be picked up would be placed on a sm Small ll platform at the closed end of the funnel The bag itself in both processes would be attached to a small round Iron ball on the end endot of ot the cable Flying at an altitude of less than feet the l pilot would guide the tile mail mall bag dangling dang on the tile cables cables- into the sixty foot opening of the funnel When hen the b bag bg g strikes the closed end of the funnel it would be automatically released se from t tui the theiron l iron and would drop op t to the canvas bottom Aft After r the b bag g was released sed the Ue theIron Iron ball would enter a a slot device delce at the tha th l' l end in which bleb it would catch atch into the mall mail container to b b be picked up This mall mail bagas bag bad as soon as It was attached would be shot upwards fl from m the platform pra i a catapult The weight Of t th the mU m bag ag on the cable would place in opt ope operation automatically the winding wheel which would elevate it to the planes plane's n mail ail comp compartment CITES ADV ADVANTAGES The process process' of loading or clel delivering ering mail mall while in flight w would uld add adds s scores res of ot cities to the air mall mail serVice service service ser ser- vice Representative Kelly said where planes s c cannot t now stop b be because because be- be cause landings s would mean a a. loss of a half halt an hours hour time at each place He said he hoped hop also that the device would prove successful in being operated d on the tops of high buildings in cities If this could be bedone bedone bedone done he continued much saving of f time Io lost t In the transportation of mall mail to and from the landing fields outside the cities would be he made