The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1918-11-25
AERIAL ROUTES.

AERIAL ROUTES.
Eight big anyways and number of air routes
have been mapped out by the United States post
office department. which plans to establish hum
dreds of aerial mail routes as feeders.
Only. large aeroplanes viii be used for these
aerial mail lines and they win have double crews
which will take turns at plotting. Aeroplanes
lifting Is tons are now available; twice this size
may be IN operation within the year.
Air travel is essentially navigation Of the air
by chart and compass, the same as the navigation
of the sea- Hundreds of air routes will inter-
connect the eight anyways, and will run in every
direction, Like spiders web, and embrace all i'm
portant cities and Industrial and commercial
centres.
The recent flight from Philadelphia to Key
West, made in six hours, demonstrates conciu-
sively the practicab11ity Of the aerial mail route
and It is a safe prediction that Pensacola will be
one of the first cities to receive daily mails
through air-ship service.
The postoffice department. has proved that the
daily delivery of mail between Washington and
New York by aeroplanes is profitable and of inn
mense convenience to business men. The Atlantic
to the Pacific route inaugurated November first
was the fIrSt leg OF the une
Any community that feels that it has the right
to be served by the new aerial mail should at once
get in touch with the Committee on Aeronautic
Maps and Landing Places Of the Aero Club of
America, which, with the cooperation of thirty
affiliated clubs throughout the country and the
Aerial League of America, is acting for reeogni-
ton in the aerial mail program will be carefully
considered.
At the present five trans-continental Always
and three coastal anyways have been projected.
Anyways" are main trunk lines; "air routes
connect main arteries.
The New York Chicago route is the first long [
leg of the Woodrow Wilson Airway which coll I
meets New York and San Francisco. This air I
way covers zone 80 miles in width touching |
the most important cities in New York. New Jer- I
sey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, nli-
nois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, |
Nevada and California. /
Any city or community located on this 8O-miIe |
belt will be designated as being on the Woodrow
Wilson Airway. Eventually local aeroplane SER
vices will feed the main line.
Landing places for aircraft and Identification
marks will be placed first in the important places
in direct line of the airway then at the approach |
Of every community.
AS fast as aerodromes, aerial mail stations and
will be marked on the maps in red as follows:
Aerodrome, where hangers, repair shops, etc.,
exists, by red square.
Aerial mail station by red triangle.
Emergency landing places where gasoline can
De obtained by red circle.
Transatlantic aerial mail lines will no doubt
,e established after the first transatlantic
light has been made, and it is very likely that
here will be number of lines and each line will
lave regular departures of transatlantic aerial
nail carriers every half hour. The same will be
rue of transcontinental aerial mail lines, and
south and Central America and Canada aerial I,