Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-08-28
SAVE UP' FOR An AIR JITNEY -,
They'll Be Just AS Common AS Autos After the Wa,
to Ride to Work
Through Air, Says
Aero Head.
tBy Frederick N. Kerby.).

Staff Special.
New York, Aug. 27.-The airplane
is going to become as common as the
automobile. Winged jitneys will be an
every day sight. The tremendous de-
velopment of flying brought about by
the wal is going to revolutionize trav-
ell when peace comes The training OF
hundreds of thousands Of airmen Will
populate the air lanes with "air IL
m~ousines," 'air boats" winged liz
zies," and 'air %jitneys."
This is the conclusion I draw from
a talk with Alan r. Hawley, president
Of the Aero Club Of America, first to
comer,to the aid Of the government
when war made necessary the sudden
expansion of the airplane forces.
Certainly we will have the air jit-
ney' after the war" SAX Hawley.
Before the war, ~aeronautics was
looked upon as at best only an ex-
pensive sport. Few believed in the
future of the airplane as a CONNER
cial carrier, or a Weapon Of war"
Now Hawley is looking Tor
ward to the time when the bank
clerk or small farmer can lead
his little tin air-lizzie out OF the
hangar in the attic and rattle
away, kicking up q little cloud
dust In the faces of the aEisto-
pretentious air-Iimousines.
THE war" he went IN, "has taught
everybody the utility OF aircraft. We
are going to use the air much more
than we ver dreamed fof before the
intensive development caused by the
war.
THE British government, for in
stance, spent $575, 000,0 900 last year
for aeronautics and Is spending about
one billion dollars this year. Our own
government has appropriated $780,
100000 for aeronautics, nearly $780,
100000 to go into the actual manu-
'facture Of aircraft. That means ap-
proximately 10000 planes this year.
England is turning out about 10000,
and the other allies almost as many.
Great Britain has about 200, 900
a%viators, pilots, operators, mechanics
and assistants. We will train 10000
aviators this year, but the numbers in
all the nations will be rapidly increas-
ed.
When the war ends there will be
not only a tremendous number sof
serviceable aircraft Of all kinds but
also a large number Of thoroughly
trained airmen-and, Of course, q
vast factory equipment
None of this will be junked you
may be sure. A certain proportion of
the equipment and men will be kept
In military service, but there will be
a tremendous number of men avail
able as commercial aircraft pilots.
"Qf course Iii mail routes will be
established. Our own post office has
plans already drawn for over 200
such routes.
las to the private use Of planes it
goes without saying very many men
Will nave their private machines.
AS a matter OF fact, the 'jitney air
bus or rather AIR limousine If I
may coin the term, is nothing new.
AT the first ,Pan-American Aeronautic
fexpoSition here in February, the CUR
tss people exhibitedsssan 'antoplans-
with fuselage constructed exactly on
itne automobile type,.sthe motor locat-
ed in the forward part Of the machine
as In automobile practice, four wheels
on hi car and with a wing span o,
forty feet This machine, Is an ideal
pleasure car for running around in
the air. =.
If we are inclined to minimize
Its possibilities, we ought not to
forget that the first shorseless
carriage excited the same Kind Of
m and b same predictions
that 1t was merely a rich mans
IA Some Henry Ford of the
aeronautical world viii get the
price Town where almost any.
oody VIII be able to have his pri-