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Show Next Decade to See Changes in Air Travel That Seem Fantastic to All but Aviators This Glenn Martin super-passenger liner is not a plane of the "far future" rather it belongs in the "near future" for plans for its production already exist. weeks' vacation and the low cost of airplane and airship travel will make a most enlightening vacation vaca-tion in Norway or India a reality for the Detroit mechanic or the Boston Bos-ton librarian." Planes of the Future. How will they be able to do all this? Here is the answer in Mr. Bruno's words: "The big planes of the next decade will glide through the stratosphere at speeds of 600 miles an hour and more. They will enable a man to breakfast in New York and have dinner in Paris on the same day. Citizens of Detroit and Denver will be able to do exactly the same, even though their planes will fly nonstop non-stop from their home towns to Europe Eu-rope and South America. "Their planes will not be patterned after the huge flying boats that now cross the oceans. The new planes of 1952 will be huge stratosphere land planes, whose sealed, oxygen-equipped oxygen-equipped cabins will carry more than 200 passengers in all the luxury and comfort travelers enjoyed on luxury steamships like the Queen Mary and the Normandie. They will be powered by banks of gasoline- But Most of Us Will Live To Learn Every Prophecy Proph-ecy Has Come True! By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Released by Western Newspaper Union. CALIFORNIA high school youngsters will spend two weeks' study-vacations in a China reached after a fast hop in a plane or a huge dirigible. dirig-ible. The graduating classes of Hudson's Bay Eskimo elementary ele-mentary schools will fly to New York or Chicago for supervised su-pervised study-visits. Half-naked natives from the forests of Malay will fly to universities in California or Australia and fly back to the native villages as agronomists and physicists. "Impossible!" you say or perhaps only: "Not likely!" As a matter of fact, it's not only possible but it's entirely probable. You can take the word of a man who knows! He is Harry Bruno, who grew up with American aviation and with its early heroes. If any man is qualified quali-fied to forecast what's ahead in an America that has always pioneered in flight and that will probably be even more dependent on air travel in the future than it has in the past, he is that man. So when he makes such prophecies proph-ecies as those given at the beginning of this article, don't just laugh them off. Instead, read these words of his: "All this and more can be accomplished accom-plished with the planes and airships that exist today. But the world of tomorrow will fly greater, faster, more economical flying machines and airships than now exist." You'll find those words in a new book, "Wings Over America The Inside Story of American Aviation," written by Harry Bruno and published pub-lished by Robert M. McBridge and Company of New York. It's not only an interesting book because it's the "inside story" told by a man who, as one of the six original "Quiet Birdmen" and as today's foremost aviation publicist, has first-hand knowledge of every memorable and spectacular event, in the development develop-ment of America's aerial power. It's also an important book important right now when America is engaged in a life-and-death struggle. For, as Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, who wrote the introduction to Mr. Bruno's book, says: "The United Nations will win this war through superior science, or they will not win it at all. We must cut loose from the past and embark upon audacious new strategies, with air power as their core. We must utilize our superior technological setup set-up to spring intellectual surprises, in machines and strategic innovations, innova-tions, on the enemy. And thus it will be that the dreamers, the pioneers pio-neers of yesterday's aviation will become be-come the realists and leaders of today to-day and tomorrow. The dynamics of air power are so intensive that we must plan for tomorrow if we want to be on time today. Fortunately Fortu-nately America has the leadership to achieve this. Harry Bruno tells us where and why." Such being the case, let's "cut loose from the past" (so far as our ideas of the limitations of air travel are concerned) and "embark upon audacious new" voyages into the future with Mr. Bruno. You can do that by reading the last chapter in his book "The Next Ten Years." Always Look Forward. At the outset of that chapter he says: "The gods of aviation have one rule which all must obey: always al-ways look forward." ' Then he admonishes ad-monishes us to "Look ten years ahead to a post-war world in which the defeated Axis gangs are a thing of the past, and you see one of the most powerful reasons for each and every one of us to buckle down and do our utmost to guarantee this victory. Thanks to aviation, this is one of the most glorious ages in world history." Besides his predictions about the California high school youngsters, the Eskimo school children and the half-naked natives from the forests of Malay, Mr. Bruno foresees also the day when: "Shepherds will fly from the crags of Tibet to universities In Vladivostok Vladivos-tok and fly back to their native villages vil-lages as doctors. "Plane loads of professors will take off from Madrid to train South American Indians In new universities universi-ties established near new airfields In Colombia, in Venezuela, In Peru. "The whole world will become the oyster of any American with a two II. 1 !,! Ml I WJtl'lW!lW1l'WI level authorized by government regulation, reg-ulation, fly on to their destination, and land on earth, on a roof top, or on water as fancy dictates. Instead In-stead of wheels, the craft is mounted on rubber floats inasmuch as it rises and descends like an elevator anywhere, wheels are not needed. These 'copters will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for 'teenage 'teen-age youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the skies as the bicycles of our youth filled the pre-war roads." But 'copters aren't the only machines ma-chines that your children and their children will be driving. For, says Mr. Bruno, "the great sport of our youth will be motorless flight. Glider meets will be held all over the country, coun-try, much like the sailing meets of other years." However, the glider won't be a machine for "pleasure driving" only. It will become an important economic factor in the transportation transporta-tion of the future. "Powerful cargo-carrying cargo-carrying sky trucks will tow trains of cargo carrying gliders since all but the bulkiest slow freight will be carried by airplane or glider-towing, cargo-carrying dirigibles. The glider will also become the great transportation transpor-tation medium of commuting." Trains of Gliders. Which means that when you decide de-cide to visit Aunt Emma back in Syracuse or Cousin Will out in Oregon, Ore-gon, here's how you'll go: "Glider trains, towed by a lead passenger-carrying plane that will fly hundreds of miles, will drop gliders glid-ers carrying local passengers at airports air-ports all along the route. Thus, a trip from New York to Albanyf for ' Instance, would be made in a glider attached to the New York-Buffalo sky train. Passengers would board the train at the overhead station of Rockefeller Center. The sky-train, which started from LaGuardia Field, would pick up the Albany glider at Rockefeller Center (and pick H up in flight, too) and continue on toward Buffalo. Over Albany, the conductor-pilot of the Albany glider will cut his craft loose from the train and glide to earth. By the time the lead plane reaches Buffalo, he will have dropped all of his gliders glid-ers along the route." "But all of these machines can still fall down and kill people no, sir, I'll stick to good old Mother Earth!" you say. The aviation of the future will become increasingly safer, Mr. Bruno believes. He writes: "All aircraft will have television tele-vision weather survey sets, enabling them to see and hear weather con-' ditions along the routes that lie ahead. In this manner, they will be able to fly above or around storm areas and add to the comfort of each flight. "AU airplane factories will be entirely en-tirely underground, air-conditioned and deep enough so that no aerial bomb can ever hurt them. Airports will also go underground and what will appear to be an empty field will suddenly become active when a plane lands on it. A quick taxi to a designed spot, and down will go the underground hangar as the surface sinks under the operation of a large elevator. An international police force, armed with the newest type of air weapon, will have no trouble maintaining order and understanding." understand-ing." Such i Mr. Bruno's preview of "things to come." Do you find them hard to believe? Then reflect upon these final words: "These predictions are a lot more conservative than the flat prediction, in 1900, that before the century was over man would build a machine that would rially fly. If anything, most of my friends men like Igor Sikorsky and C. M. Keys, who read this chapter, for instance mark the predictions down as being too earth-bound, earth-bound, too conservative. And this should tell you that most of you will live to see Uicm all come true!" PROPHET Harry Bruno, who "grew up" with American aviation, makes some startling but "too conservative," con-servative," so say his friends predictions pre-dictions about air travel during the next ten years. burning engines of 5,000 horsepower each. But the use of gasoline, in aviation, will some day be as obsolete ob-solete as the era of steam in automobiles. auto-mobiles. Electric engines of 10,000 horsepower, receiving their impulses through rays transmitted from ground stations will supplant gasoline gaso-line engines within two decades of the end of the war. "Passengers with more time, out for a more economical ocean crossing, cross-ing, will ride in the comfortable helium-filled dirigibles of the new world. These giant cargo and passenger pas-senger airships will cross the Atlantic Atlan-tic in about 36 hours, carrying fast freight and about twice as many passengers as the fast planes." If you decided to sell your automobile auto-mobile because of the inconvenience of gas rationing and wait until after the war to get a new one, don't count too much on becoming a "motorist" again. - For, according to Mr. Bruno, automobiles "will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as well known as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace re-place the horseless carriaga as the new means of transportation Instead In-stead of a car In every garage, there will be a helicopter." Why? Well, these marvelous machines ma-chines can do everything an automobile auto-mobile can do, do it better and besides be-sides take you up in the air, far from the gasoline fumes of the crowded highways. Look at this picture pic-ture of a Sunday afternoon pleasure "drive," as Mr. Bruno paints it: "The family will take oft in its helicopter from the backyard or the roof hangar, climb straight to the |