Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-03-11
VERMONT AERO CLUB
AND ENGINEERS MEET
Two Organizations Hold Bust.
ness Sessions and Then Unite
to Listen to Interesting Ad.
dresses in Which the Future
of Aviation is Pictured

gineers w3e held yesterday in this city.
There was n good attendance from ali
parts of the state and both organizations
worked hard The Aero club put in it's
WORK toward landing places in Vermont
as the Initial step toward introducing
aviation on large scale and the speakers
created much enthusiasm whi.c the en-
gineers attended to their part OF the pro-
gram by dlsposing of business and deal
ing with tho many problems which con-
front them in th.,.r work.
In the morning the engineers held a bus
mess meeting In the roof garden Of the
Hotel Vermont at which Prof. J. W.
Votey of this city was ele,rted president
TO succeed c. +. burlington. Guy r. Var
nun of Barre was elected VIC -eres ident;
George Reed of Montpelier, secretary; r.
W. DIX of Burlington. treasurer: and
f. N. Swat of Middlebury IL member Of
the toard Of directors. The Aero club held
an Informal meeting in the dining room
IF the Van Ness hotel
In the afternoon Joi3t session which
had an attendance which filled tho roof
garden OF the hotel Vermont, was held.
1t wac here that the progress made IN
flying was really brought home to the
audience and the .act that II is an i'm
portant !. cans of transportation Impress
ed on them. TIE speakers were all in;er-
alton IS 1t exists to-day.
President James HARNESS Of the Aero
club presided and before introducing the
first speaker spoi,e on the Importance o.
ieNeryone's keeping an eye cat for suita-
BILE landing places IN Vermont. The dis
covery Of one should be followed 10 b.
reporting it 20 the club secretary, James
= Taylor of Burlington.
Col. g. C. Brant formerly stationed at
Fort Ethan Allen In the cavalry and now
department air service officer of the east
ern department at Fort Schuyler. N. Y.
was the first speaker. Colonel Brant said
in opening that the principal trouble with
most people was that they wanted to see
ships sailing through the air before they
were willing to take steps toward pro-
curing landing places, and Of course that
can never be. any more than trains can
be run before the rails are laid. 1t Is Just
as ecessary to provide air harbors as it
is to provide harbors for ships. Already.
flying has begun in Vermont. and he
mentioned the work being done by Cap
tain II. f. Stckney Of Bellows Falls.
THE progress made in army aviation
will largely depend on the advance made
by commercial aviation. One of the first
things to consider will be well-defined
aerial routes, and these must be dotted
with landing places Any aviator will tell
Won that he is safe so long as his motor
works Pint in an emerponcv whom tho
motor stops. he begins 70 look around for
n Mace to get down with reasonable
exnectation NJ rettinr down alive In
other SECTIONS ~ the country fields are no.
inc obtained IN eyery hand aud alreadv
some good routes have been provided"
| Co,oneI Brant sa,d ,bat pur,;nptop WAS
situated on the only route north from
! New yor. "a canada II is = good route
I'm tho uudson over Lake C:eorre and
J.a,.e C,bamn,air and in nearly every 9TH
or route the<tonopra IF the country
10 had with forests mountains etc All
that ,s readed along bere ;s suitable land
inc n,aces
! II bringing homo "a HE beorers tho
importance of eating in carly on tho
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po' '"'.' VINE" ~ 'o'''eS W inns ar
transportation Is the speeoiest metnod
ever invented d! man III is only Two
"ours run from burlington 10 Ne" hork
ana at tne present time air locomotion IS
as sate as iand iocomotion. There are no
acc'dents IN the services which nave been
maugurated Tor commercial purposes.
| burins the war safety was sacrifced
TO speed and manoeuvering qualities but
now the machines are being made hea yier