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Show Pioneers In Airway Making Only a few years ago a tire company at its own expense, put markers along the Pacific highway giving travelers at that time the only authentic information infor-mation as to tne disances along the route. Today, less than 15 years later, the airplane has Drought a new method of travel. Few flyers know anything about navigation or the art of following follow-ing a course without land marks to Euide them. As a result airway beacons bea-cons are essential for safety in flying, particularly at night. The Richfield Oil Company has adopted a progressive program of building 8,000. 000-candle power steel tower beacons in conjunction with its modern gas stations, approximately approximate-ly every 50 miles along the Pacific highway from Canada to Mexico.lt is said that these beacons are visible in clear weather for 50 miles and the light which illuminates will penetrate fog and mist for a great distance. Thus has a private company again stepped into the breach and marked our newest transportation routes, namely, the airways, and made them more safe ana practical for amateur flving as well as mail and transport planes. These beacons would cost local communities com-munities thousands of dollars which could never be raised for uniform svstem through several states. Erected Erec-ted as they are they illustrate the duty which private industry feels it owes as a public service in conjunction conjunc-tion with the operation of its business busi-ness which is of such a widespread public character. |