New-York tribune., 1922-12-08
Engineers Ask
Federal Laws
To Aid Flying
Call on Congress to Create
Civil Bureau of AerOnaui-
les and 10 Grant Assist
ance in Testing Airways
Aircraft Rules Proposed
Interstate COmmercialAerial
Transport Seen as Factor
i'm Our Economic Future

Congress was urged 20 enact legisla-
tion for the promotion Of flying at the
concluding session yesterday Of the
American Society Of Mechanical En-
ginesrS, which has been holding its
forty-third annual convention In the
Engineering Societies Building.
Believing that the development Of
interstate commercial aerial transport
70 be Of great Importance 20 the eco
nomic future Of the United States" the
resolution reads, "the aeronautie divi-
sion Of the American Society az Me-
ehanical Engineers favors the adoption
OF a Federal Law for the regulation Of
the operation OF aircraft; urges the
necessity Of the formation OF bureau
Of civil aeronautics in the Department
of Commerce. and advocates the imme-
diate adoption OF legislation relating
10 the granting Of government assist
snee in the trying out Of airways and
the provision OF ground organization
for civil aircraft"
The notion that air transport is ex-
pensive was demonstrated 10 be a fall
lacy by Archibald Black, OF Gorden
City, ". Y, who designed the LWF
model G., the first American lighting
plane and the experimental airplAne in
which the first Liberty engine was In
stalled.
"The distance from New York 10 Chi
eago Is 90S miles on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, or about 700 miles in a
straight line, a flying disanee, say, Of
from 750 10 500 miles" said Mr.. Black.
Were IL possible 20 load the airplane
fully on each trip the operating cost
would be 6.5 cents per passenger mile,
or fls.75 10 t52 per passenger. This
compares with the railroad rate Of
$3.50, including fare, excess fare and
Pullman.
Allowing for the trip 70 and from
the fields, as we'll as an intermediate
stop, the time by air would average
about nine hours, as against the
twenty hours by the Pennsylvania
Railroads Broadway Limited. The only
reason why VIC cannot carry passengers
at such rates to-day is that II costs
too much 10 get the business"
Ralph II. Epson, Of Detroit, said that
the New York-to-Chicago route BY afr
Is "the very worst from a weather
bLanQpolnL. ne SAID NnAt HlbHNis
twelve-hour service in both directions
could be maintained 400 per cent or
time" for n season Of six months. FoI
the full year, however, the on-tlmc
trips would be cut to about 93 per cent
approximately 100000 industrial
accidents occur annually. Morton g
Lloyd, chief OF the safety section oi
the United States Bureau OF Standards
declared earlier In the day at a joini
session Of the Mechanical Engineer
and the American Society Of Safety
Engineers.
According 20 DR.. Lloyd the railroads
paid more than t33 100000 In a single
year for accidental Injuries which
might have been prevented. The states
he said, spend twice as much for acei
dent prevention work as the Fedora
government does. the government
spending about l.3 cents per capita
/ He urged the adoption OF nationa
safety codes, such as the boiler code
which has been enacted into law b.
seventeen states and ten elites.
The convention closed with dinner
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