Show 1 Is 4 1 Pilots e A recent wire service survey surveyor indicated there are now over private pilots in the United States At the end of of last year there were j e licensed civil a aircraft j I ITHE THE INCREASE in number of private aircraft slowed slightly slight slight- t. t ly in 1969 compared to the average annual increase in the sixties And while the number I 1 of private pilots is increasing ing the total is still only a small segment of the po p pIn u lation In short flying has not be be- like come-like automobile driving- driving a widely used mode of transportation transportation trans trans- for the masses as some predicted it would become be be- bet t I. come within two or three decades decades dec dec- ades ales at the end of world war II Why are we taking I J lf E so slowly to the air as individuals in in- in 1 t r THE MAJOR reason is that that the aircraft industry has not yet been able to offer for Isale J I sale at a price the masses masses masses' d can afford a comfortable I F performing high-performing seater four-seater 1 aircraft If congestion continues oJ to increase on the highways and in cities and towns as it has in recent years government government govern govern- ment financial support for a if f massive effort to produce a reasonably priced to fly family aircraft might be the only way to adequately ease IT t traffic congestion |