Show Next Decade to See Changes in Air Travel That Seem F Fantastic to All but Aviators v But Most of Us WIll LIve To Learn Every Prophecy Prophecy ecy Has Come True Truet By ELMO ELl SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union CALIFORNIA high school youngsters will spend two weeks study vacations In Ina a ChIna reached after a fast hop In a plane or a huge ding Ible The graduating classes of Hudson s Bay EskImo ele- ele elementary elementary schools WIll fly to New York or ChIcago for su supervIsed supervised study VISItS Half naked natives from the i fot fOI ests of Malay WIll fly to universities In California or orI I AustralIa and fly back to the thena I na native villages as agronomists and phYSICIStS I ImpossIble you say say-or I perhaps only Not lIkely As a matter of fact it s not only possible but It s exit rely probable I You can take the word of a man who knO knows knOs s i He Hc IS Harry Bruno who grew up w th American on and with Ith Its early heroes If any man IS quah fled fied to forecast what s ahead m in an anI I America that has always pioneered m in flight and that will probably be bei i even more dependent on air travel In the future than It has in the past he IS that man manSo manSo So when he makes such prophecies eCles as those given at the begun ng of this artIcle don t Just laugh them off Instead read these words of his All thIs and more can be accomplished With the planes and ps that exist today But the world of tomorrow will fly greater faster more economical flying machines and ps than now exist You ll 11 find those words m in a new book Wings Over Amer The ca-The Inside Story of American AViation I written by Harry Bruno and pub 1 shed by Robert M 1 McBridge and Company of New York It s not only an interesting book because It s the inside story told by a man who ho as one of the SIX nal Qu et Birdmen and as today s foremost aViation cast CISt has first hand ledge knowledge of every memorable and spectacular event m in the develop development development ment of America s aerial power It s salso salso also an Important book important right now when AmerIca IS engaged In a l life e and death struggle For as asMal asMa Mal Ma Alexander P de y who ho wrote the on to Mr Bruno s book says The United Nations wm win th lb s war through super or sCience or orthey orthey they will not wm win It at all We must cut loose from the past and embark upon audacIous new es wIth air power as their core We must ut 1 ze our super or cal set setup setup up to spring intellectual surprises m in machines and c a innovations bons on the enemy And thus It will be that the dreamers the p o 0 veers of yesterday s at a vat lat on will be become become come the realists and leaders of to today today day and v The cs of air power are so ye ve that we must plan for tomorrow of If we want to be on t me today Fortu Fortunately I as the leadershIp to achieve this Harry Bruno tells us where and why Such being the case let s cut loose from the past so far as our Ideas of the limitations of air travel are concerned and embark upon audacIOus new voyages into the future with Mr Bruno You can do that by reading the last chapter m in his ros book book- The Next Ten Years Always Look Forward ard I At the outset of that chapter he says TI e gods of aViatIOn have lone one rule which all must obey al always always ways look forward Then he ad adI admOnishes admonishes us to Look ten years I ahead to a post war v odd orld m in which the defeated Ax AJI s gangs are a th ng of the past and you see one of the I most po reasons for each and everyone every one of us to buckle down and i do our utmost to guarantee th s victory Thanks to on this IS ISone isone one of the mo most t glorious ages m in mv w v or orld ld h story Bes des h s predict ons ens about the Cal California orma h gh school youngsters the Eskimo school children and the half naked natives from the forests of Malay Mr Bruno foresees also the day when Shepherds will fly from the crags of Tibet to universIties in Vladivostok tok and fly back to their native vii lages as doctors Plane loads of professors will take off from Madrid to tra n South Amer can Indians in new universities ties established near new airfields in Colombia in Venezuela m in Peru The whole world will become the oyster of any American wIth a two i r-jr r r wrY 1 t tt t SR S m b ts P cj e t t t ta tc vI a c cn cr 4 n I cI d w r Thus TIus Glenn Martin super passenger liner Is not a plane of the far Car future rather tt it belongs in the near future for plans for its production already eXIst I weeks vacation and the low cost costI I of a and airship travel will willI I make a most enl en vaca i t 01 o T m in Norway or India a reality i for the Detro t mechanic or the Bos Boston Boston I ton librarian I Planes of the thc I How will they be able to do all this Here us IS the answer m in Mr I Bruno swords s words I The b g planes of the next nett decade will glide through the stratosphere at speeds of miles an hour and i imore more They will III enable a man to breakfast m in Ne v York and have dinner In Paris Pans on the same day CItizens of Detroit and Denver w II 11 be able to do exactly the same even though their planes will fly non nonstop nonstop stop from their home towns to Eu Europe Europe rope and South America Their planes will not be patterned after the huge flying boats that now cross the oceans The new planes of 1952 will be huge stratosphere land planes whose hose sealed oxygen cabins wIll carry more than passengers m in all the luxury and comfort travelers enJoyed on luxury ps 1 ke the Queen Mary and the Normand e a They Will Willbe willbe be po vered by banks of gasoline 4 Ai- Ai sr t k r t e r r rr PROPHET Harry Bruno who grew up with American a a cation makes some startling but too con conservative so say lIS 1 is pre friends dICtions about air travel during the next t ten sears ears burning eng nes of 5 horsepower each But the use of gasoline In aViation will some day be as ob obsolete obsolete solete as the era of steam In auto automobiles automobiles mobiles Electric engines of 10 horsepower receiving their Impulses through rays transmitted from ground statIOns wIll supplant gaso gasoline line engines within two decades of the end of the war Passengers With more time out for a more economical ocean cross crossing mg ing will ride in the comfortable hel urn um filled d of the new world These giant cargo and pas passenger passenger ps w 11 cross the Atlan Atlant t c m in about 36 hours carrying fast freight and about tWice as many passengers as the fast planes If you decided to sell your auto automobile automobile mobile because of the inconvenience of gas ration ng and walt wait until after the war to get a ne v one don t count too much on becom rig ng a motorist aga n For according to Mr Bruno les will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is t red m in World War II The nan e a of Igor will willbe willbe be as well kno vu as Henry Ford s for h s helicopter will all but re replace replace place the horseless carriage as the new means mean of on In Instead Instead stead of a car m in every garage there will be a helicopter Why Wen Well these marvelous ma machines chines can do ng an auto automobile mobile can do do it better and be besides sides take you up m in the air far from the gasoline fumes of the crowded high Look at th s p c clure lure ture of a Sunday afternoon pleasure drive as Mr Bruno paints It The family will take off in ItS helicopter from the backyard or the roof hangar climb straight to the I level authorized by government rag reg fly on to the r on and land on earth on a roof top or oron oron on as vater-as v fancy d In Instead Instead stead of wheels the craft is mounted on rubber floats inasmuch as It rises and descends like an elevator anywhere wheels are not needed These copters will be so safe saCe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teen teenage teenage age youngsters These tiny copters when school lets out w ll 11 fin fill the sk es as the b cycles of our youth filled the pre war roads But copters aren t the only ma machines crones chines that your children and their children will v be driving For says Mr Bruno the great sport of our youth will be flight Gl GI der meets will be held aU all over the coun country country try much like the sailing meets of other years However the glider won t be a machine for pleasure driving only It will become an Important economic factor m the transportation tion of the future Powerful cargo carrying sky trucks will tow trams trains of cargo carrying gl ders since all allbut allbut but the bulk est slow freight will be carried by airplane or gl der towing cargo carrying d rig bles The glider w tv U II also become the great transportation tation medium of commuting Trams Trains of Gliders Wh ch means that when hen you de dec dec c de to VIsIt Aunt Emma back m Syracuse or Cousin W U ll out lD in Ore Oregon Oregon gon here s how you 11 go Glider tra ns to ved by a lead passenger carrying plane that will fly hundreds of m les w tv 11 drop gl d ders ders ers carrying local passengers at air airports airports ports all along the route Thus a tr p from New York to Albany for instance would be made magi in a gl der attached to the New York Buffalo sky tram train Passengers Passenger would board the tram train at the overhead stat on of Rockefeller Center The sky tram train which started from LaGuardia Field would p ck up the Albany gl der at Rockefeller Center and p ck It up lD in flIght too and cont nue on toward Buffalo Over Albany the conductor p lot of the Albany gl der derwill derwill will cut h s craft loose from the tram and glide to earth By the tIme the lead plane reaches Buffalo he will have dropped all of his gl d ders ders ers along the route But all of these machines can st ll 11 fall down and k h ll II people people-no srI s r I II 11 stick to good old Mother Earth you say The on of the future will become increasingly safer Mr Bruno bel eves He writes All a will have tele- tele televIsion television vIsion weather survey sets enabling them to see and hear weather con cond cond d along the routes that I e ahead In thiS manner they w ll II be beable beable able to fly above or around storm areas and add to the comfort of each flIght All a factories will be en entirely underground air lIr cond toned t and deep enough so that no aerial bomb can ever hurt them Airports will also go underground and what w 11 appear to be an empty field will suddenly become active when a plane lands on it A qUick tai ta to a ades ades des spot and down will go the underground hangar as the surface sinks under the operatIOn of a large elevator An onal poi pol ce cc force armed with the newest t type pe of a r t w U 11 have no trouble maintaining order and understand mg Such IS Mr Bruno s prevIew of th to come Do you find them hard to bel eve Then reflect upon these final v words These pred ct ons are a lot more conservatIVe than the flat fiat prediction In 1900 that before the century was over man would bUild a mach ne that would really fly If anything most of my men friends like Igor and C M Keys who read thiS chapter for mark instance the pred down as being too earth carth earthbound bound too conservative And thiS should tell you that most of you will live to see them aU all come true I |