| Show AVIATORS ARE POORLY PAID even best flyers get S small sal al I 1 remuneration mune mun ration cration for the dangers danger they face the popular supposition bat aviation Is a sort eort of klondike where people who have a certain amount of darins daring can go and snatch up a fortune is 13 decidedly mistaken people read reports ot of bis big prizes won by avia aviators tore in contests bed and take for or granted that tbt it all goes to the flyers that is wrong with a few exceptions the flyers do not get the to prizes they win they are employed to fly by ble big concerns concern who pay them a salary seldom exceeding 75 per week the tha usual nr ar being flam 23 25 to 40 0 T week salary and 50 per day when whan they fly at meets this thi Is ii true even n where the very best american and foreign flyers are concerned including such celebrities ns as P brookins henchey ely and aad others nor Is the to lot of the independent flyer any better to 0 keep heep up with the tyers thyera of lne big tonce continuous improvement pro of their mac machines bines which must of course always be or 0 the very best la is necessary 7 what with the cost of f the pero aeroplane plane ot of running it angood condition salary of mechanic arid alid general expenses the prizes the aviator gets become rather small email by the time the expenses are deducted the fact act that prizes area now given only to winners of contests makes the prospect none too attract tice aviation does doea hold bold prizes for or ambitious young men but very few of the kind imagined by the ou outside taide public in tact fact there Is a slough slouch ot of despond awaiting the unwary who venture into aviation with no othet other intention than to td make money ly metropolitan magazine |
