| Show 21 win 20 die in in sea flights F ig ts aviation sees big gain despite toll of life and I 1 property new hew york torb the curtain has de scented upon the transoceanic le hying flying season of 1027 1927 and aviation has turned to tabulation of the lie gains and losses of a historic summer ten ocean flights have succeeded nine have failed twenty one persons have ridden the wings of the air to safety across the two great oceans twenty have hav I 1 a lost their lives in flight and five more to in preparation for flight the atlantic has been spanned five times from america Al to europe and once from africa to south america the pacific has been crossed to hawaii four times five planes attempting atlantic nights flights have gone down three planes have perished on pacific flights and paul redfern georgia to brazil flyer vanished above the caribbean in addition to human lives there has been a loss in airplanes to in flights of american origin which aviation experts set at about half a million dol JA IAM the cost of using vesse vessels f g a an end d private ships in searching for lost flyers Is reckoned at another half mil lion doll dollars dollaris ariL the total does not include clude losses to backers of ill fated flights or to the sponsors of oceanic ventures which never progressed gre ased to a takeoff tak coff in searching for the missing dole prize flyers the navy ea timatea it consumed SUM ed in fuel that the men employed consumed in rations and that naval equipment valued at was used As irany as fifty two naval vessels were employed in the search at one time as well as naval baval planes planel sees now new era of aviation summing up op the american activities of f the season government air experts declare that the flights have alcen birth to a new era in aviation and have laid a carefully constructed foundation for the development of air traffic traill as safe as rail motor or steamship transportation they deem that long flights even when attended by disasters demonstrate amply that the airplane will play a bigger role in wars of the future one effect of the years flying ha has been the shaking off generally they said of the feeling of danger and sen once attached to serial aerial ventures and the substitution of a national air mindedness s it if progress la in the last year biar or so in army aviation as well as in other fields of mr air activity ta is an index to what the future may hold america will soon be ahead of the rest of the world to in aviation assistant secretary of war F trubee davison Dav lson head of the army ar ablation tation department said he gave the opinion that walle long nonstop flights of extra hazardous tin aa ture should be discouraged unless con ducted under tinder the most favorable auspices nothing should be doo done to interfere with the efforts of the milt military authorities to extend the usefulness of military pernee calls call change chanas psychological A psychological rather than a mechanical ch anical change in aviation to Is seen been by assistant Secre secretary turY of the navy edward ward P wagner head bead of naval air activities from a navy vie viewpoint the act activities lAtles proved the real usefulness of the application of aircraft A reawakened interest in the flying boat Is also forthcoming he be said bald and the navy will continue to purchase new machines of this type as replacements for wartime war time craft increased production or airplanes to meet a growing demand and development of airports landing fields and a network of airways as plentiful as the wave channels Is in foreseen by clarence M young director of aeronautics of the department of commerce while that in n any field Is expensive in lives and material capt el 10 S land assistant chief of the laval bureau of iua flyings sit sake it 0 a poor business but tie he foresees a future in which aviation will be a vitally important item not only to american commerce but bat also to american defense demic diseases or dr godfrey declared of the communicable diseases disease of ft child childhood bood it minks next to diphtheria SV d astl II ne taic M ut deaths from this couii cause occur among children under six years of age measles claims the he most victim under one year of age he stated since children under auder five succumb more easily to diphtheria he be recommended immunization campaigns to reach the preschool child |
