Morris tribune., 1918-12-27
AEROPLANES SOON TO
BE POPULAR AS AUTOS
Next Few Years Will See Remarkable
Development of Aerial Rid
ing

A new age of travel is just ahead.
Small airplanes for pleasure and bust
ness will soon be available, it is pre-
dicted at a cost of $1,000 or less,
while prices for aerial limousines,
touring planes, and the like, will
probably range from $4,000 to
$4,000. There will also be avail
able for the general public,
aerial taxis at reasonable rates.
Aero-trucks, equipped with power
full liberty motors, will also be
en- sale, in all probability, at a cost
of from $4,000 to $4,000. It is OBJ
vious then, that present transporta-
lion methods will shortly be subject
ed to an interesting and lively COM
petition for both pleasure and bust
ness traffic, by aerial carriers of vari-
Gus kinds. Already when mailing a
letter, we are confronted by the ques-
ton of whether it shall go by sur
face or aerial service. Very soon the
same question will rise with reference
to express packages, and little later
will come the question of flying to
business and delivering. freight by
air route.
The coming of peace is already
booming the aerial mail service, and
\ it is said that, under the extended
program being prepared for this
branch of the Post Office Department,
all trained war flyers can be used.
10 nd 10
development of radio telegraphy by
the army are of incalculable impor
lance in connection with the develop
ment of aviation for business and
pleasure purposes. By means of this
newly perfected device aviators can
not only talk freely to persons on the
ground but can hear their replies
distinctly Notwithstanding the roar
of the motor.
Perhaps the first airplane passen-
ger service to be opened to the pub
lie will be between Paris and
London. The trip is to be made at
a speed of 120 miles per hour, and
the fare will be SIS each way. The
trip is to consume IL hours.
From a comprehensive article, by
Rodman Wanamaker, recently pub
1ished by leading newspaper of
Detroit, the home of the popular
priced automobile, it appears likely
that empowered planes, carrying
from two to four passengers will soon
be offered in the open market at
prices as low as $1,000
One of the largest planes in the
world recently flew over London, at
height of six thousand feet, carry
ing 40 passengers, nine of whom were
women. The total weight carried
was about three tons. 1t is said that
this machine weighed six tons and
can fly with weight of five tons.
The French Government is plan
ming the creation of about 20 aerial
lines connecting Paris with the prin-
cipal cities of France and other Eur
opean countries.
During the war period, American
factories produced more than $4,000
airplanes, and 31,814 airplane mot
ors, including 5,131 liberty motors
Up to November 22nd, the output of
these powerful twelve cylinder en-
gines had reached $50 per day.
1t is reported that the United
States has produced the fastest air
plane in the world, and that this
plane, equipped with a liberty motor
has already made a speed of 100
miles per hour and is expected to do
even better.
Captain Benjamin B. Lippner,
Director of the recently-establish
National Aerial Mail Service, has an
nounced the turning over to him of
hundreds of airplanes, to be used in
establishing fifty airplane postal