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Show - Roads in the Air - Aerial traffic has developed so much in this country that the problem of preventing collisions between be-tween aircraft r.ear large air centers cen-ters has already begun to attract the attention oi authorities. At 1 seme air pcrts even now air sched- ules called for the arrival of several s planes at appi oximately the same J time, for, just as with railroads, air travel is enhanced by proper ccnnecticn between planes from different sections. At the large air pcrts tcday rather elaborate radio communication and directional equipment is used and seme times it is necessary for incoming planes J to remain in the air ten or fifteen ', minutes while other planes are landing. To avoid the danger of planes ' colliding while enroute, the Federal Bureau of Air-Commerce has an- nounced flying- altitudes so that east-bound air craft must fly at odd thousand-foct levels such as ; 1.000, 3,000, 5,000, 7,000, etc. feet, ?nd west-bound air craft at even thousand foot levels, such as 2,000, . 4.000, 6000, etc. feet. The regulations regula-tions also provide when an air craft has to cross the line of -other air craft it must increase its altitude alti-tude by five hundred feet, providing provid-ing a clearance to avoid collissions between two planes which might possibly coincide at the same time in the same 'place. A:r travel is increasing by leaps and bounds. It is comparatively -ufe for, despite several bad accidents, acci-dents, the passenger-miles safely traveled per accidents reflects a very certain and secure method of raprcl traniportatlaa More and more the public will take to air travel. |