Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-10-08 | Page 26 | Hitching Post and Landing Field on High

HITCHIKG POST AND LANDING FIELD ON HIGH EXPERT PICTURES CHANGES COMING IN NEXT FEW YEARS , II ( TRAMS -)ATVATi"C 9V" y' in CHARLES 1 . BlvDUICN Board of Governors i iho Vero nautical nauti-cal Chamber of ( omnicrcc. NEW YOBIv- Roofed-Ovcr shipping ship-ping dlstrictu will be common sights in American clti. s within tha n. t few years. From those roof.i giant :ilndnu s ;in.l airships will be flying on railroad-like schedules. carrying passengers and freight from city city CommuterswllI thin'c nothliig. of coming tn business daily frbrh a distance dis-tance of 100 mile;?. San Francisco will be only ;t day's ride from New-York. New-York. The city will project ilsolf into the countr- an il the country will Invade the city with many advantages to both. Billions of dollar. ii!i be added to the rural real estate values of the United States; whole new areas will come In for dcvelopmnt; smd city conirestion will be largely reduce 1 say those things !ron knownjdge of what has already been aeeorn-plishcd. aeeorn-plishcd. There is notbiag of the fan tastle in thee predictions. Commercial aviation Is aireii.lv a success." Regular lines ha e been Established in many parts of Ihe .country, and are operating BUCCOH-i fully Where thoroughly responsible eon-, oei us are doing the flying. uccldcnU are almost unheard of. Reports col-i. col-i. . t. d by our organisation snow that over n-period of 12 months. t'.OO commercial com-mercial aircraft made 130, 73t; flights, travelling 2,907,245 miles, without a j single fatality. During toe last .14 months, the U. S. air mail service has traveled nearly 2.00u.oo0 miles with only one fatality. Most of the aeeldent-. oll read about are co-used by "gypsies" , or "stuuters" and commcrt ial flyer? 'don'l stunt. They know that no humaj pilot Is as slick as the law e-f gravity. Bhi p tin- tie seaplanes which .an g.o up e.r come down wherever there's water, tho pre' r.t chl f barrier te the development of comemrclal aviation Is Lhi ack of landing fields. Consider the situation In Now " 01 k. An .-.irpl.mi can bring a passenger fi 1 1 w ishlngton to the landing field In Garden City, Long Island. In ivro 1 !iours. Hut it takes another liour to convey the passenger by motor to V. .ill street. 1 11 shoud be practical U roof over Grand Central Terminal or other rail- road yards with steel gWab-rt andi glass, thus providing alrcraf: land; Ing facilities In the heart of the city I predict It Is only a matter of a short time until such spaces are provided pro-vided in every large city COS! COMING nuv Flying costs are bound to oomol down au the public learns it has notb-i Inc. to fear In using properly operated airways. Quantity c onsumption or I airplane tickets will e ventually bring j rates for high speed air travel within j b reasonable distance of the rates for slower rail travel. It Is conceivable that the day may 1 .me when airplanes will be punched out In quantity production like fllv-versj fllv-versj and when every family can own I one 1 am more Inclined to the belief.! however, thai the immediate develop- ment of commercial aviatloii will be. In the hands of common carriers operating oper-ating large capacity planes over reg- , ular routes. And I should strongly advise every city In Amerbu t have Its city plan- ners get busy on the subj-ct of .1 local landing field for the cities that have adequate terminal facilities will b( the Mrat on the airways map.