Trench and camp. [volume] (Augusta, Ga.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-24

Americas young aviators are to play in
the commercial and economic life OF the
nation after peace is declared has been
forecast by Rear Admiral Robert e.
Peary, U. S. Navy. in a communication
to the National Geographic Society,
part of which is made public as wax
geography bulletin as follows:
THAT the young men who are training
for fiers in war service viii have an inn
portant and useful role to play in the
commercial industrial and scientlh"
growth of aviation is apparent
when peace comes thousands OF men
and planes will be required for the mail
service of the future, for plotting the arr
for aerial coast patrol for aerial map
making by means of aerial photography
for exploration, nd for rapid transit Of
passengers nd freight.
IAN aerial mail service has already
been outlined tentatively in Europe by
both the Entente Allies and the enemy
governments. France and England nave
had committee at work for nearly IL
months on plans for utilizing their air
fleets and air personnel after the war;
Bavaria has proposed an aerial traffic
service for central Europe, and Prussia
is sid to bea perfectfng arrangements for
a peace-time Hamburg to- Constantinople
mail and passenger service.
How extensive may prove this after
the-war aviation service may be sur.
missed from the fact that already air.
planes have been perfected which are
capable of carrying aloft 20 passengers;
other machines have developed speed OF
$50 miles an hour, while the record non
stop flight to dte is 1,004 miles, only 1871
niles short of the longest water gap in the
America to- Europe air course, by way OF
the Azores from Newfoundland. That
trans Atlantic fight is a certainty of the
next few months, no reasonable person
doubts.
Aiding the Government in Training
Flyers.
THAT America is not waiting Supinely
for to he declared before she makes
her preliminary preparations and expert
mentS for the age of the airplane is in
dicated in the establishment recently of
well-marked air route from Dayton. Ohio,
to Rantoul, Illinois, as an aid to the
\ training of aviators.
w This work has been carried forward
under the direction of Carl G. Fisher, of
ndianapolis chairman of the Mapping
ommittee appointed by the National
Advisory Committee on Aeronautics.
"The initial program for n marked route
consisted of serial numbers painted in
large white figures on brown roots, with an
arrow pointing the direction where a
clear field of the proper area for safe
landing might be founo IN the event an
emergency landing was necessary.
With the Indianapolis Motor Speed
way as central point, landing field num-
bers from l to II We're painted on barn
roofs between the speedway and Day
ton, at an average distance of about two
miles apart. From the speedway to Ram
Wy Aiiii4Oio, 10 an elQ 10 the training OF
aViators.
This work has been carried forward
under the direction of Carl G. Fisher, of
Indianapolis, chairman of the Mapping
Committee appointed by the National
Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
'The initial program for a marked
route consisted of seril numbers painted
in large white figures on barn roofs, with
an arrow pointing the direction where a
clear field of the proper area for safe
landing might be found in the event an
emergency landing was necessary
With the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
as a central point, landing field numbers
from ] to " were painted on barn roofs
between the speedway and Dayton, at an
average distance of about two miles
apart. From the speedway to Rantoul
the field numbers ranged from / to %;
size used, to 10 feet long by "A to SO
inches wide. The distance between the
fields on this end of the route averaged
about four miles.
Four Trans continental Always.
THE details of this Dayton Rantoul
route present in a general way the nature
OF the task which the aviation sign post
pioneers will undertake in mapping and
marking the four trans continental air
ways, proposed by the Aero Club of Amer
lea and known as the Woodrow Wilson,
the Langley, the Wright Brothers, and
the Ben and Chanute routes.
The last Of these routes, extending
from Boston, Massachusetts, to Seattle