Show aviation to re revolutionize ize america s living babi habits ts civil aeronautics administration provides Noo necessary essary impetus now new developments to have social as well as material eff effect cot hy by news analyst analyse arid and commentator service 1343 1313 11 street NW NAV N W washington 1 D 0 one thing the war will produce upon which thero there Is general agreement is notional national air mindedness and there will be basic changes in the living habits habata of the nation produced by development of the air plane as great or greater than were produced by the automobile the automobile and tho the good roads rands which made its use possible revolutionized small town life the airplane ah Blane according to tho the experts who manage to snatch a moment to think beyond bombers and light fight ors era to passenger and cargo planes Is going to change big town life and perhaps something far more imbor tant small world life recently I 1 had a long chat with one of tho the men who heads up a plant that Is turning out planes tor for uncle sam that Is a full time job but lie he is a dreamer too and tho the moment he gets a 0 chance to loan icon back and think out loud about tho the future he paints an epic picture of the skyways of tomorrow what the roads did for tho the automobile tho the airfields will do for the airplane he sold said to me watching imaginary airplanes in a blue cloud of cigar smoke we now have 23 times as many airports sas as we had before the war they are arc in many remote places those places wont be remote any more nest for War birds when ho he sold said that I 1 help recalling a trip I 1 made adde recently on a special plane piano across the country because we were going to seo see a lot 0 of f airplane secrets anyhow we were permitted to look I 1 mean by that the tha cur curtains fains dawn as they are in all ordinary passenger planes thase days I 1 wont reveal the devils of what I 1 saw of course but I 1 can tell you it was hard to bo be lieve hove suddenly in the midst of no where tho the runways of a field below would bo be visible A few miles awny away I 1 could see automobiles or railway wily trains moving along like bugs or worms I 1 knew the passengers were 1 looking nt th tho 0 landscape a as s they passed but plain and hill a and ni alvy er were all they could see just out of their range of vision thero there would bo be a busy airport only war birds nest on it now but somo some day commercial planes will rise from these thousands of tiny intersections in tho the sky routes that will laco lace the world together in a tiny ball the way these dots on tho the air map have increased is incredible the civil aeronautics administrations first airport program got wider under way in 1041 with defense landing areas designated for construction or repair there were new airports by the end of 1041 1941 as well as 46 now new seaplane bases end and anchorages the significant increase in landing fields since then is of course a military secret at the beginning of 1042 there were 2484 2404 airports in the country of which 1086 1080 were municipal institutions 9 10 were commercial that in itself la Is significant for it shows how communities themselves pushed forward to open their sky gates without w waiting alting for a commercial organization to do the job the rest of the nearly twenty fiver hundred fields were army and navy emergency or miscellaneous 30 were private airport development meanwhile with the aid of the CAA laws were drawn up in many states which in the year 1942 resulted d in the passage of 42 separate 0 acts acts by state legislations designed to provide municipalities or counties or other political divisions with authority to cure defects in or do develop airports ten states passed acts to acquire land and construct facilities and operate them some tates states built flight strips beside high ways lays from unclaimed aviation tax r refund money all this shows how aviation was becoming a part of the national political cons clou less ass during this time one of ua problems of the air that few people even those who constantly use air travel realize increased the traffic problem As one pilot expressed it to me speaking of a field where he bo learned most of his flying our traffic problem there was a lot more complicated than the one on an times square in new york city it is easy to see why consider that the block system on the rail ways Is divided into one milo sections that is a train Is w warned arned a milo mile ahead of the block in which thero there Is on an obstruction to traffic in tho the air a comparable block Is now 15 miles when tho the cruising speed of the commercial planes goes up t the lie block will have to be increased traffic control Is regulated by a federal airways system in 1041 it was extended to tho the point where it separated and controlled traffic from 14 centers established by the civil aeronautics administration over a million and a half aircraft operations were recorded in that year tho the increase in speed which military developments in airplane man have brought about will have a social as well as a material effect cruising crin sing at think back my air minded friend said to world war 1 I our maximum speed of war planes was about miles today miles is tho the cruising speed of our commercial planes today our fast war planes make much more than miles an hour lets bo be conservative and say that in 1005 1905 our corn com mercial planes will bo be cruising at at least miles in my opinion wo we will raco race the sun from now new york to los angeles and not do a bad job leave now new york at noon and bo be in los angeles at 4 p rn their time going in the other direction leave now york nt at 5 p m get to london for breakfast leave london at eight in the evening and get to new york in the morning it is easy to see that when london new york and los angeles are that near together in terms of time they will be that much nearer together in terms of thought in habits customs and understanding there can bo be no distant places in the natural course of existence americans on business or recreation will move through singapore tokyo buenos alres aires rio moscow and their citizens will be a part of our cities when it comes to the makeup of 0 our ur own towns largo large and small it is easy to see what will happ happen on when a normal brilly commuting distance to work will be stretched to a hundred miles the residential area of cities will fan out in monstrous clr cir cles there will be a much more general admixture of viewpoint and attitude of city and country of community and community the melting pot of america will produce a much moro more homogeneous broth of humanity and it will temper the world austeri austerity tty luncheon makes lasting impression my friend from australia dropped in suddenly in an army bomber the other day as friends have a way of doing these days ills his business has kept him in australia many Y years ears lie ile likes the folks down under and hes doing a good job for our soldiers there and for uncle sam now australia is not fighting a total war yet he said but ashes a darn site farther along than america we started he told me because I 1 suggested wo we get the scare they got and are still getting yes he said nobody expected the japs to try to get and hold australia but they did fear that it if there adequate protection the japs could bomb australian cities and the big war plants all along the coast and put them out of business the thing he seemed to feel that had maden made a gre great at impression on the austerity take the austerity luncheons and dinners that Is what they are called lie he said 1 I invited an american big shot to lunch I 1 gave him the menu ile he said ill take a dozen oysters all right I 1 told him that will amount to three shill birgs and will leave you sixpence which Is enough tor for a cup of coffee it seems that you can buy just so much no more you can spend 63 dents for lunch and 85 cents tor for dinner you can have your luxuries but it leave anything over and instead of a limit on income of a year which has been suggested here after taxes are deducted Is all that is left |