Show AIR TRA TRAVEL VEt GETTING SAFER Ve l fie Vc saw a report the other aviation indus industry ry the n da on day Y the build build- ti which indicates that the r and operation of aircraft inland gand has has' suffered less from the industrial in industrial in in- dus dal d depression than any other line o of f business More people are arc flying more young p people are growing up r ed td d airplanes s ar are getting better e safer er and swifter and it seems a pretty safe thing to predict that by the time the children of today are grown up air tra travel vel will vill be as commonplace to them themas as automobile travel is to lo the o of now gr We Ve haven't the figures but we imagine that in proportion to the number of people who travel by air there 1 ave are no more fatal j than tt t l cr are HC among mt motorists Commercial Con aviation i is getting safer because because be because be- be cause safety is the first consideration consid ers tion of the designers of com com- comers commercial commercial mercial aircraft Only a few years ago most of th the planes in inthe inthe in inthe the air were overs left-overs from the war period Safety is notI not i I the first consideration an jn mili mili- military military tary airplanes speed and maneuverability maneuverability maneuverability man man- are the prime reQuisites re- re there Army and navy fliers have to take enormously greater ter risks than passengers in commercial airplanes should ever ver be called upon to take And AndIn in In fr fourteen years of peace the the world has learned much more about about making makin air travel travet safe than it had learned in the nine years rear between the first flights and the entry of the United States into the war |