Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-02-16

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terminal facilities is considered one
of the principal handicaps to aerial
commercial traffic development. II
Iaerial transportation is to become
Universal. aircraft manufacturers
tpoint out that there must be es-
Itablished adequate airdromes with
4 definitely marked landing places,
convenient to business centers and
! with facilities for housing the air.
I men and their machines and pro-
/ tiding them with fuel and repairs
| At the height of 5000 feet. consid-
cred the minimum at which COM
mercial planes of the future will
travel. especially over cities, ii is
set forth that an airplane, the mo-
tor of which has been stalled,
could volplane or glide a distance
of four or five miles IN a horizontal
direction.
Several large lumber companies
in the northwest are using the air
plane for forest patrols and sur
vCys. A Newark, n. j.. department
store delivered merchandise by air.
plane to customers in Asbury Park
last SUMMER, while large Chicago
clothing house made a specially
Of delivering clothes to college stu
cents within 100-mile radius of
that city. A canadian aviator car
ried 400 pounds of furs from To-
ronto to Newark, n. j., stopping at
Clayton, n, Y, to pay customs
Eduties on them The, navy con-
Quoted experiments in guiding
fishing craft by airplane at .Glou-
cester, while the army conducted
la coast airplane patrol' between
New York and Newport News, Va.
One of the strangest uses for
which the airplane is being consid-
cred is the spreading of the gospel
in the Congo states Of Africa A
large American manufacturer re-
ceived a request for prices from
the Congo mission of the Church
of the Disciples Of Christ, which
proposed to replace steam launches
with flying boats. The plan has not
yet been carried into effect. Air
! planes and spare parts, valued at
several hundred thousand dollars,
were recently sold by American
manufacturers to French interests,
who are planning airplane COM
mercial routes in the orient. Deliv-
cry of the material has begun.
In Europe three English COM
panies maintain regular passenger
and parcel post service between
London and Paris and London and
, Brussels. On one of the trips a
grand piano was carried from a
, London store to its customer in
, France by airpane. In accordance
with British aircraft regulations
adopted last April, pilots of these
commercial craft are examined
physically and technically, and H.
censed by the government, landing
fields and prominent points along
the route are distinctly marked
standard signals are used and reg
ular air lanes are followed.
Two French companies carry
passengers or sight seeing tours
over the battle lines and there is a
regular service between Paris and
Brussels and some of the large
French cities. Merchandise carried
on the first Paris to Brussels triI
included 800 pounds of Holsters
Regular mail service between Paris
and Geneva was established last
May when "A Swiss aviator made
the trip of ESQ miles in five and
one-half hours, including thirty
minutes spent on French soil as Q
result of a forced landing in a fog
London, Manchester, Paris and
Berlin newspapers are successfully
employing airplanes in the delivery
Of their publications.
Zeppelins as well as airplanes
have been used extensively fol-
commercial purposes in Germany
Although little is known of Ger
man aviation development durlne
the past few months. it is reported
that several long air routes, lhcluu-
ing one from Berlin to London VIA
paris or Brussels, and another from
Berlin to Constantinople, via VI
emma, will be put into operation
during the coming year.
Commercial aerial service mas
been put into operation between
johannesburg and cape Town
South Africa. Australia already mas
established a transcontinental route
from sydney to Port Darwin on
the north coast. distance OF 2,aoo
miles, with stopping points every
900 or 400 miles. Experimental
commercial aerial journeys of more
than 1000 miles also have peel'
made from calcutta to other points
In india and regular routes are
now under consideration.
A British company was ORGANIZED
last June with a capital OF many
millions of dollars for the estab-
| Hshment of airship lines virtuaiiy
laround the earth. Alrships OF
100000 cubic feet capacity, near
" twice as large rs the British d.
rigibfe R-34, the first lighter than
air craft to cross the Atlantic, are
contemplated These airsl1ips
would be able to carry fifteen tons
of passengers and freight and have
a cruising radius of $500 miles at
a speed OF sixty miles an hour.
a route from London to New
York will be the first TO be put INTO
Operation, if the company's plans
are carried out. Lord Northcliffe
recently predicted that the time
was not far distant when London
morning newspapers delivered by
Iairplane would be sold in New
York on the same evening, allow
ing for the difference in time.
If congress adopts the extensive
programs planned for the army
navy and postoffice air services
American manufacturers are
counting upon the greatest airpfane
development in history during the
coming year. Availability of hun
drees OF. army and navy ffers, they