Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-02-17
NO "H0CC|NC" OF AIR
BY FUTURE SKY PILOTS
Nauons Arc Making Plans to Solve
Problems and Draft Code
OF Laws.
GREAT BRITAIN TAKES ACTION
Evolving Elaborate Scheme to De-
rciop Supremacy, and First Num-
Der on Program Is Express Air
Mail Service.

1han ono with tho dawn o. peace will
swords be turned into ploughsharcs"
trains which for four years have been
concentrated on the work Of dcstruc-
ton will now have their energies
iocussed on the work of RECONSTRUCT
ton.
rerhaps ono of tho most marked in
undoubtedly coming will be the COM
ncrcial use to which tho art of avia-
t'on will be adapted.
No longer, as in the past. will the
huzz of the airmcns engines create
feelings OF panic: no longer viii
Enlightened men and women huddlc in
the mail airman will be watched with
as keen an interest as was in former
Times the we'll known figure or the viii
!aSe postInin.
rho Introduction into England in
l6io. By Sir Rowland lin. Of the penny
most worked a revolution in the letter
forms in the United kingdom was to
raise the number OF inland letters from
ABOUT 100000 annually TO about l.
3o0,0Oo.Qo. and it may be stated gen
orally that the main principles OF his
plan have now been adopted in every
civilized country throughout the world
EMPRESS MAI. SERVICE
TO DRISts nEEOLJTION
Tho express air-mail service will in
the course of few years bring about
similar revolution.
IL IL estimated that inc machines TO
be used IN this new air service will
travel at speed OF 100 miles an hour
which means that letter can be con-
Ncycd from London 20 Paris In some
thing like an hour and half
No official tariff has yet been nxcd.
though the promoters. OF the service
and Paris will be charged at IA tri!ic
over 90 cents per half ounce. or course.
As the service becomes generally pa
;ronized. the fec viii be greatly re-
duccd.
on the London Glasgow route it ;s
expected that II should be possible to
carry letter by air between these
two cities at a. low charge as eight
twelve cents.
Postal communication between Lon
don and Sew York is being keenly
looked forward TO, and in addition TO
saving much valuable time. should
DO much TO cement in even closer
friendship these two great English
speaking countries.
MANY PROBLEMS REMAIN
TO MAKE PLAN SUCCESS
or course. there arc many problems
20 DC solved before this new mail
delivery can be got into tuli workiug
the establishment OF air stations
Given inc day. the pilot who flies
from London 10 Paris wtil no, need
much assistance in this way. He has
MS map and compass. and By visual
observation of landmarks can correct
a. once any error n h!s course. But
always 'inc. and IL VIII he imperative
20 make the journey often under un-
favorable climatic coalitions. Then un-
doubleday :. great deal OF the mail
service Viii take place a, night, when
viii make safe guards necessary. 1t Is
proposed. therefore. TO erect identify
ing marks which can be seen at a high
altitude IN the daytime, and which II,
night Will bc brilliantly illuminated.
TERMINAL AERDnoMES
FOR ALL LARGE CITIES
Three types OF ar stations are in
Gontempia ,ion. FIRST there viii be
arc nov attached to all large cities
Then VIII come subsidiary acrodromcS
probably on tho outskirts OF large
provincial towns. while acting as links
between these and subsidiary aero
.romes Will be a series OF emergency
aHshunE grounds on which pilot
able 10 make safe landing. I, is
also proposed 20 use these emergency
landing places for tho storage OF aero
requisites. answering much the same
purpose 10 tho acr!a! tourist as garages
do TO motorists
The committee which has the scheme
IN hand attaches the greatest import
science. In order TO be master OF
nc situation II is proposed to estab-
iish a network, OF stations for oberv-
pilot on any aerial journey may be
fully advised beforehand OF the weather
conditions he is likely TO face.
WILL STUDY THE. WISDS
Ar HtGlI ATTITUDES
The study Of winds az nigh attitudes
IS another important point. AS an H.
luStraton of this, the air-mail from
London TO Italy might one night 20
VIA Paris and Lyons while on another
niSht acting on meteorological advice
and in order to profit by some favor
able wind. the pilot might sweep out
in the direction OF the Bay OF B!scay.
and the same with other routes.
Then there are other problems The
lives Of the public must be safe-guard-
Cd. as Wei as private property There
must be no ''air-hogging'' as there
was ''notor-hoSging" in the early DAYS
OF the popularity of the automobile
All sorts OF observation-disclosures as we'll
as national--will have to be framed
and. once made. religiously adhered to-
1t is also rightly contended by those
Interested in the scheme that as the
aerial service will he OF the highest
imperial advantage. linking up as il
will the motherland with the distant
colonies, in the early days OF expert
ment ut least some form of state fnan.
cial assistance should be given
The great advantage OF aerial most
over sea and landbornc service will
or course. be in its CELEBRITY. and in the
opinion of many expert airmen no diff
Guilty is anticipated in securing a MAY
of