Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-08-03 | Page 7 | Taking Aviation's Pulse

t J Taking Aviation's Aviation Pulse 1 i NE E weeks week's ekls aviation news now shows ys more flying progress than could bec 1 0 d in W f several months' months reports before Lindbergh flew t to t Paris Pans Listing just a few of the recent y 1 developments gives an indic indication of the tremendous tremendous tre- tre tr mend us progress that is being made m The endowed Guggenheim fund for the promotion t of aeronautics has announced that 1 it is ready to give equipment loans for the i operation of passenger lines in the United v States It was through equipment loans that many railroads and str street et railway y companies were carried over hard times and the application tion of this principle of railroad financing tp to r flying is a healthy sign fJ j The government has announced that it is soon to begin tests with a floating airdrome l' l such as as- aswill will ultimately have to be developed f for r mid ocean posts if trans Atlantic commerCial commercial commer commer- cial ial flying is to be realized Assistant Secretary of Commerce McCracken Mc Men j Cracken has announced that cities especially f smaller communities should help aviation by seeing that the names name of the towns are marked by aerial signboards in order to keep pilots their air routes 1 on The railroads are trying to come tome in on th the Jf development by planning a combined air it travel by day and rail travel by night schedule linking inking passenger passenger carrying carrying airplanes with the p passenger trains The weather veather bureau has h had d to o i expand w z iJ ts s or organization in m order to send but out warn- warn of bad weather over troublesome mount moun moun- t iri iri- ranges crossed by air routes Flying J i round around storms is now recognized practice and alternate routes can be taken if pilots knowin know t in advance what flying weather conditions they face The 2000 planes and landing fields in existence at the beginning of the year will willbe be augmented u considerably when the census J is ls taken again next January Jt S And when the British Imperial airways r. r announced not long ago that they were armi arming arming arm arm- i ing many of their pilots and planes to ward off the danger of air robb robbery ry they were not lot merley mertey gesturing or looking for publicity 4 Carrying gold bullion bumon and specie by air tir h has s become almost universal in Europe and the super bandit of the air is all but here r A- A A. A