The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-31
Green is the land, Rod is the rock,
 White is the strand,

| From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 ~ REAT BRITAIN, perhaps more V n than any other country, has realized the value, potential and actual of the airplane as a com mercial carrier With an immense group of pilots acknowledged by their allied comrades to be among the best in the world. British business men, with government sanction and support. have made greater preparation for the peace time development of the airplane than have the business men of any other nation. At a recent dinner Ill London, General Seely, under secre- tary of state for the air ministry, de- clared the government would prepare and mark air routes, and added that he expected comprehensive regulations for air traffic to be adopted at the peace conference.
 Incidentally, General seely gave out statistics that tend to show the great extent to which the element of risk has been eliminated from flying.
 "Tn the latter part of the war" he said, 10000 airplanes left this country for France in all sorts of weather, some in violent storms, others in rain. mist or fog, and 9S per cent of them were delivered without accident. In the first month after the peace conference opened, 300 cross-Channel flights were made, and only one person, pilot, was injured, and he not seriously"
 Grahame-White, airplane manufac-' turer, discussed at the same function of the Royal Aeronautical society, the financial possibilities of aviation. "En- terprising business men are beginning to order airplanes as they used to or der motor cars" he said.* "Only re- gently Sir Alfred Butt ordered a lux urious machine for his own use in vIs- iting his Paris theatre.
 'The airplane is the fastest vehicle
 in the world' he added, land is likely to remain so. The air is the ideal speedway, but speed alone is not enough. If it cannot be combined with safety and an ability to fly regularly on a daily schedule, the air servicc will not be able to compete with other methods of transport"
 Grahame-W White believes the war has proved the airplane to possess both safety and reliability. factors that may be increased in civil use by marking air courses with string of kite bal looms. stationed at intervals of 10 miles, and floating above the fos. which he declares the greatest element of danger in flights over. the Channel. In the discussion of flying between London and Paris, he described the great 24-passenger plane a company iu which he is interested proposes soon to place in operation between the two cities.
 ments in the great machine, and be- tween these the crew of pilot, naviga- tor and ardio operator will be placed in third compartment. In each pas senger 'coach" will be an attendant. The motive power will be derived from three 600 horse power motors, and there will be space in each passenger car for 25O poupds of baggage.
 A tentative cost sheet. prepared on the basis of a charge of $50 for each passenger and S1.25 for each pound oc express carried. shows a prospective profit of s25O.0Oe year for six ma chimes, carrying IS passengers and 375 pounds of baggage to the machine, and making two round trips daily between London and Paris. The initial outlay of capital for six machines and nsces-