Show vell 77 7 sat 41 I 1 A w 4 P 11 J pe newark airport Is worlds busiest prepared by national geog apato society washington ton D C service VERY year air route maps be E EVERY come more complex with new lines crossl crossing no 0 as well as paral aeling the old once isolated regions where the locomotive whistle and the automobile horn have never echoed are being brought nearer tc to civilization and traveling time Is now being gauged by the newer flying hours lewis and clark with a modern plane could have made their two year trip from st louis to oregon and bad bael in two days I 1 how air speed thus alp wipes es out time and distance Is common knowledge we all know that men mall mail and ex press fairly whiz biz through the air day and night we hear the planes roar overhead but since they touch earth only here and there at airports out side the cities not all of us real ze the swift huge growth of air trafin official figures are almost incredible today air mall carried Is five times what it was as six years ago the num her of air passengers has multiplied 62 times and express carried is 30 31 times what it was in iw clr 7 not only Is america served from alaska to argentina but all europe likewise has its net of air lines long d stance routes stretching from london to south africa and india from marseilles to indo china and from the netherlands about 8 miles to netherlands india to say nothing of the airship graf zeppelin making scheduled round trips between germany and brazil it took nearly three centuries to cov coy er our country with roads and tracks on the ground in little more than a decade some miles of airways have been plotted and largely marked along their routes with 1 gats and 8 agns gas for use of more than 7 OW licensed civilian planes and 18 plots p lots who fly these elevated railways of the sky more than 2100 airports and landing landino fields now dot the united states some are lonely desert stations at emer gency landing fields others owned by cities or private concerns are corn com and ornate many airway companies the latest airway map of the united states shows 30 33 scheduled airway corn coin many routes parallel the rail ways some take bold short cuts some are transcontinental others run north and south as from seattle to san diego or chicago and new york to miami on our domestic routes and conn connect cc ing foreign lines planes are flying about miles a day two fifths of this travel Is at night for the past few months despite hard times about 42 per cent of all passenger seats have been sold it cost an air passenger about 15 cents a in ie le to ride in 1929 since then fares have been stead ly reduced now the rate throughout the united states aNe averages rages about the same as first class train tare fare plus pullman charge less than 20 3 ears cars ago air passenger er service was unknown A pioneer fly ing boat carried sight seers on sched tiled trips over the 17 miles between tampa and st petersburg fla for a few weeks early in 1914 so far as federal i records sl ow that was amer leas lea s first regular air trav tra el line last year scheduled air lines in the united states carried more than half a million paying passengers about 1500 more flew on sight seeing trips over cities in private planes and on other nonscheduled flights trough tl ough each year sees more by air tie tl e rapid inci ease in passenger travel Is of most significance it proves that tie tl e public publics s former lack of full c in airplanes is dis appearing one instance serves to show how business men are using air service ad an of a toledo corporation recently made a seven day a r trip to chicago cheyenne denver salt lake city I 1 los os angeles ban francisco portland seattle lancour er british columbia and return A some of these points his local agents met him at airports for conferences between planes the surface jociney N would have taken 13 d days ays longer tourist fliers are also increasing TO havana nassau and the west in dies alone go more than I 1 WO IM gers a week neck fifty per cent of these are women about 3 per cent are rh ch I 1 dren in age anywhere from a week wool old to twelve years when they pay full fare bus ness men use planes A recent cl eck of un te to I 1 air I 1 inea ines pas passengers eDgers shows that 60 per cent were ere officers of corporations 20 per cent were sales of als engineers an I 1 other representatives of corpo cor ons and the rest miscella ne us travelers this seems to indicate that business men mer have turned to the airplane be cause it speeds up transaction of al af fairs and conserves time and money sixty per cent of corporation corporations each capitalized at or more have executives and representatives using airplanes regularly according to a survey of these companies speed beyond any doubt Is man mans s chief reason for riding in airplanes in pioneer days the goad ed his ox team to gain ano another ther halt miles per hour stage drivers lashed their galloping four horse teams and changed to fresh horses every few miles with steam came competition among parallel railways to cut out grades curves and all possible stopa stops to gain more speed the same race for speed ft it apparent now among corn com air lines i rom a cruising rate of 75 miles an hour we have seen planes become fast er and faster some now average and more miles per hour depending on winds today you can fly the mii s between washington and new ark airport for new lork city in 80 minutes from san francisco to loi los angeles 48 miles in one hour and 58 minutes between new york and los Us an geles the air passenger schedule Is lesa less than 25 hours eastbound and 29 hours westbound as compared with ahrea days and 11 hours by rall rail new planes carrying mall and express parcels may cut these times nearly in halt half within 12 months with more speed bigger and better planes bring more comfort divested of all circus thrills efficient machines reliable pilots and the bust e methods of highly organized air transport companies make flight tight across the continent no longer a nov no eity city planes run on time cards like trains symptoms of nervousness among passengers as planes took ot off or land ed have about disappeared so says the flying hostess who serves your lunch as you fly brings you chewing gum and ear cotton something to read or tilts back your chair turns out your limp lamp and pats your pillow for you when night comes the flying hostess Is credited with having done much to increase the number of women air pas growth of the air mail mall in 1911 experiments with mall mail car crying planes were made in india and england in september of that year on long island new york america a 8 first official trials were also made earle L ovington with his queen monoplane was named air mall car ner rier and covered a regular route between mineola and the flying field only ten miles away he lie carried many thou sands of letters and postcards postcard S luring this week a experiment it was not until 1918 however that money granted by congress wai wag actu ally used to set tip up an experimental air mail mall route between new york and lied IN ashington yet let since 1926 air mail mall IMS lias in creased by more than 1500 1 per ent it was pounds then in 1931 it had reached a total of 9 pounds it declined slightly in 1132 because of higher air postage rates and hard times out of every e ery dollar the post office spends only 2 21 1 cents goes for air mall paid for by the mile more than half that Is regained from the postage last year the public bou bought more than 10 worth of air stamps besides using many ordinary postage stamps marking the letters by air mall the cost per mile flown on air mail mall routes has been steadily ded decreasing in september bep 1941 1931 the cost per mile averaged 67 cents in the same month of 1932 2 the cost had decreased to 58 cents a mile when these figures are considered along with the total miles flown by air mal mall carriers over their lines with and without mail the present rate Is about 55 cents per mile and Is expected to drop to 50 cents a mile this 3 bear ear air mall service to latin america la Is a good example of what planes now ruhie athlete e today a letter by air can go from new lork ork to buenos alres aires b bit answered and that answer got bak back ba k to new york in abo it the time boat mall takes merely to sail from new york to argentina new york mall to puerto pico rico in the NN est indies flies files there in 24 hours and less ahat Is airline miles or 50 n lies iles farther than from new I 1 ork to los angeles the airplane has been the means of hu hurdling hurl riling ling in one swift jump all the geographic and climatic difficulties which heretofore handicapped inter merican travel mexico city is with in five ave hours of our border havana and nassau within one and two hours jan alea and haiti within seven hours the ganima canal zone and every country in the caribbean area within two days the most mot distant capita oc of bouth south america within seven daya i |