New Britain herald., 1918-05-09
lRMAN'S FUTURE
kS PEARY SEES IT
bling by Air Routes New Step
in Life Of Nation

rica's young aviators are to play
ne commercial and economic life
ne nation after peace is declared
been forecast by Rear A dmiral
ert r. Peary, u. S. Navy, in a
nunication to the National Geo
hic society a part OF which is made
c as g. war geography bulletin, as
Tvs:
hat the young men who are
ing for fliers in war service will
an Important and useful role to
in the commercial, industrial and
tif1c growth of aviation is APP
at
Rhen peace comes, thousands of
and thousands of planes will be
red for the mail service of the
be, for policing the air, for aerial
Patrol, for aerial liking
leans Of aerial photography, for
Fration, and for rapid transit of
Fngerss and freight,
IN aeleAI mail service has already
tentatively outlined in Europe by
the Entente Allies and the enc
governments. France and Eng
have had committees at work for
" 2 months on plans for utilizing
air fleets and air personnel after
war; Bavaria has proposed an
traffic service for Central
be, and Prussia is said to be per-
bg arrangements for peact-time
burg-to- Constantinople mail and
Egef kervice.
low extensive may prove this
ythe-war aviation service may be
ised from the fact that already
anes have been perfected which
capable of carrying aloft rs pas
IRIS: other machines have devel-
a sAeed of $50 miles an hour.
the record nonstop flight to
Is 1904 miles, only 191 miles
of the longest water gap in the
'ica-to- Europe air course, by way
he Azores from Newfoundland,
transatlantic fight is a certainty
e next few months, no reason
person doubts.
Fitish authorities have expressed
cltef that it will soon be possible
fronH London to Paris and return
10 day, or from London to Bag
- % OcS Gnu q itotll w 4NSW L VI N
q days. and to Ceylon in two and
Quarter days. Air routes to In
with air currents and possible
hg stages are even now being
ed
Very obstacle of nature has been
ome by the airman- deserts, seas
FOUNTAINS. The attainment of an
IRE >2f four miles is now almost
lonplace, and the Alps have been
erred on numerous occasions
z the Government in Training
Flyers.
hat America is not waiting SUI
for peace to be declared before
hakes her preliminary prepara-
land experiments for the age of
rplane Is indicated in the estab-
kent recently of a well-marked
hute from Dayton, Ohio, to Ran
Illinois, as an aid to the training
iators.
bis work has been carried for
under the direction of Carl G..
E, of Indianapolis, chairman of
happing committee appointed by
National advisory committee on
autila.
O initial program for a marked
consisted of serial numbers
I'd in large white figures on barn
with an arrow pointing the di-
n where q clear field of the prop
tea for safe landing might be
in the event an emergency
hg was necessary.
kth the indianapolis Motor
(way as a central point, landing
numbers from I to 70 were
Id cSn barn roofs between tho
way and Dayton at an average
zee of about two miles apart.
1.-THE speedway to Rantoul the
numbers ranged from / to IS:
sed, to 10 feet long by "a to
hes wide. The distance between
Kids on this end out tho route
id about four miles.
ur Transcontinental Always.
details OF this Dayton Rantoul
present in 81 general way the
of tho task which the aviation
lost pioneers will undertake in
$ng and marking four trans
entail airways, proposed by the
Ciub OF America and known as
oodrow Wilson, the Langley, tho
II BROTHERS and the Bell and
Ire routes,
. last Of these routes, extending
Boston. Massachusetts,. to Seat
Washington. via Albany, Syracuse.
ster Eric, Buffalo, Detroit,
Rapids, Minneapolis, Blsmarll
treat Falls, will be a richly de-
memorial to Octave Chanute,
3oneer aeronautic engineer, and
hder Graham Bell, whose namo
Dre frequently associated With
ereassyiftS 20 humanity, hut who
unspectacuiar way was a potent
I'm advancing mans mastery OF
was the financial support and
hal encouragement of tho inven-
the telephone which largely en-
samuel z. Langley to continue
perfnentS with Observation-Disclosures
nes--eXperiments which were of
aahle value to Orville and Will
Wright, who finally achieved
Is.
xander Graham Bells support
iven at a time when the fore
physicist of Great Britain, Lord
xx-3tysax~,