Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1922-02-27
GALLAUDET SEES GREAT
OPPORTUNITIES IN FLY

Edison F. Gailaudet, Yale, 'sS stroke
on the varsity crew for two years and
captain during his last season, who since
leaving college has had a brilliant ca
reer mechanical engineer, Specializing
In airplane designs, and who during the
war Contributed important iioations
to the navy department, winning several
governpment prizes, calls the attention
Of Yale students to the great opportuni-
ties offered by aviation in a statement
which he sent to the student body at
New Haven. Mr.. Gallaudet Is oinfdent
that the time is nearing when one may
| fly almost anywhere he chooses. He
says:
at should first be emphaticaTy stat
| ed that the airplane industry in the
! course of time will offer the finest pos
| sible opportunities for college trained
| engineers and business men. 1 believe
/ this to be true in spite of the fact that
| at the present time the industry is at
| low ebb.
Though so much is already known
about the airp1ane there is no appar-
ent slackening off in development of new
| information in regard to its desige and
| construction. Airplanes have seadily in
creased in size, speed and carrying ca
psclty, and this increase is still con-
| tinuing, The French have pushed the
| speed up to approximately 200 miles
| per hour. The Germans have started
| to fly without any motors at all imi-
| tating the. soaring of birds All over
| Europe passengers are flying daily be-
tween the principal capital cities In
| the United States, the postoffice is main
tanning regular mail service between
| New York and San Francisco. The op-
portunities for development are enor-
nous and I believe that within the
next few years travel by afrpiane will
grow to such extent in our own
| country that you will be able to fly al
| most anywhere you wish.
The possibilities for a career in the
| development of commercial aviation, to
| my mind, are almost unlimited The
| airplane needs only a very small in
crease in its present factor of safety
In order to make it the most valuable
| means available for long distance high
| speed transportation. It seems to me that
The particular opportunity in the com
| mercial field Of aviation is for men whose
| ability and determination are sufficient
| to enable them to interest capital and
perfect the grGund organization nee
essary to esta~-@l long distance air
i plane lines for carving mail express
| and passengers. One of the most i'm
portant of these lines would be between
New York and Chicago, kith branch con
nections including Pittsburgh, Cleveland
and Detroit. The successful operation
of such a line would lead to extensions
| that a reasonable tine would include
! practically the whole country. I am pos
| tive that sutTl lines can be established
| and operated at a profit
TT is natural to ask how they can
be operated with a guaranteed safety
for those who may wish to use them In
answer to such question I should say
that it Is now perfectly possible to con
struct all-metal. multiple engined pas
senger planes in which the speed is suf-
fcient to combat amy sort of weather
the fire hazard, and multiplicity of en-.
gines removes the danger of engine fail
ure. If you add to machines of this
character wireless equipment which keeps
, the pilot at all times informed Of the
weather conditions ahead of him, ant
II you provide landing places close
enough together to take care of that re
. motely possible forced landing which M
one can absolutely foresee. you have az
outfit which can offer high a degree
of safety as any railroad system.
THE development necessary to accom-
plish this will undoubtedly be the resul
of efforts Of men highly trained by ex
perience in engineering and In business
and it Is certain that many of them will
: be college men,"