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Show Local Airport Has Many Advantages As Air Base Site . At all hours of the day and night aircraft speed from city to city with loads of passengers, mail and . express.. Darkness holds no terror for the airman and baa weather is a less potent enemy than in the past because pilots are better equipped to cope with adverse ad-verse conditions. The federal airways air-ways system, embracing over 30,-000 30,-000 miles of lighted and radio-equipped radio-equipped air (routes, furnishes guidance guid-ance and assistance to airmen at all times. It is because of these federal airway systems that airline air-line operations are possible on their present extensive scale. Up to and including the present time airline opei'ation has been financially practicable only because be-cause of the granting of government govern-ment airmail contracts. Passenger travel by plane is insufficient to justify the maintainance of airlines air-lines and so, to further promote the aviation industi-y in the United States, airmail contracts have been granted to private industries Because of this it is easily seen that every citizen has a personal interest in the welfare of our airlines. air-lines. One way to make secure this .interest is the more extensive use of our airmail facilities. We of Milford should have ai. even greater interest in the advancement ad-vancement of aircraft operations. Geographically, Milford is ideally situated for an air base, a facj which has been recognized by the bureau of air commerce with the location here of one of Ithe mosi: important intermediate landing fields on the Los Angeles-Greait Falls air route. Another indicai tion of the value of the Milfort.' landing field is the frequency ot (Continued on last page) The Local Airport (Continued from first page) landings by Westtern Air Express ships. On an average of five or six times a month during the winter, , Western Air Express planes have landed at Milford, occasionally oc-casionally for refueling, but generally gen-erally due to impossible landing conditions at Salt Lake City. The ms)li acufte problem in air-wa air-wa operations is that of landing land-ing in fog. This statement again bears ouft our contention that Milford Mil-ford is an ideal location for an air base. For not more than two days a month during the winlter and not at all between the months of April and November, does fog settle in (the Milford area and thei, it Is more or less intermittent so planes may operate between fogj periods. In addition to ithe absence oi fog, the Milford visibility, as noted at the airways radio staition seldom lowers below "unlimi'tetr" and then only for periods of one to two hours. Another climat-ological climat-ological factor in Milford's favor is ttihalt clouds are rarely low enough to prevent safe plane operations. , As well as having the foregoing climatological advantages, Milforo is fortunate in having located here one of the communication sCations of the bureau of air commerce. Through the radio and teletype facilities of this station any plane can request and will receive the condition of the Milford landing field as well as the local weathei conditions. In view of the fact that all airplane operations are contingent upon weather conditions condi-tions the importance of having such facilities local'jed here may well be realized. |