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Show DUST CLOUDS ID ARCER FLYTCG MEN UNTIL CITY CI fiOALS SOLVE FMILi Spectators Can See 7c:!:.'offs Without Peril and Autr.cr'.-'c3 Breathe Easier In Every Henza Since Experts Come to Aid of Aviators at Boston. I','-' ' ' SL'"' 'W : met,-' ? in 1 ? t v Vv , -'n 4- The Spirit of St. Louis Landing at Boston Airport, South Boston, Mass. Insert Shows "Llndy" and His Famous Smile. WHILE Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Lind-bergh, Ircsh from his triumphs tri-umphs In Central America and the West Indies, is now looking for new worlds to conquer acronau-tically, acronau-tically, city and aviation officials are planning new ways to make airports safer. Flyers are interested in the dust problem not because they meet dust aloft, but because they must reckon with the problem when they are landing. land-ing. Officials are interested because they are watchful over the safety of thousands of spectators filled with a new zeal for aviation because of Col. Lindbergh's prowess. So seriously have the officials of the Boston Airport at South Boston realized real-ized that question that they have conducted con-ducted special experiments with dust-laying dust-laying apparatus and chemicals to determine de-termine which are most effective. The problem has arisen only in recent re-cent years on.-? might say months with the lucreai-.e in "galleries" at the big aviation fields. Public interest has become m aroused to flying that It is no um , minion sight to see hundreds hun-dreds and i voa thousands of persons gathered on the more popular fields to see the takeoff in any one of the big races'. Men, women and children trample over the fields before the start of the fliers, tearing up the turf and earth so that it may become quite dusty. When the pilots are ready to take off and the crowds pushed back behind be-hind the ropes, the aviators may find the field covered with fine dust. As the plane starts down the run way, the propeller whirring, great clouds of dust arise, getting into the eyes of airmen and spectators alike, and creating a dangerous situation. To reduce that danger so far as may be humanly possible, officials n the South Boston Airport are using calcium chloride, a chemical that because be-cause of its affinity for moisture acts as a perfect dust layer, much in the same manner of a moist blanket over the field. Since that action was taken some months ago the officials have breathed easier in every sense of that expressionand expres-sionand have made it possible (or spectators to observe takeoffs without peril to themselves or to the fliers. |