The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-11-19

on TO the island of Corsica. the birth
place of Napoleon, We have u land
ing place there outside Ajaccio. and
we expect to fly from there on to
| Tunis. That line Will soon be COM
pleted and In operation. Another
branch will cross the Mediterranean
to Algiers. The distance is about five
| hundred miles over the sea and 1t
will probably be two years before
this service Is established. We shall
have flights from Paris to Biskra in
the Sahara. and probably a regular
service across that great desert TO
| Timbuktu and our other possessions
In the French Congo and the south
crn Sudan. Biskra is the great desert
winter resort of Europe and there
should be much tourist travel across
the sahara"
The Saving in Mall Time.
"To show you the importance OF
our mail service" said Mr.. Eynac.
during one month we carry as many
as 10000 or $4,000 letters from Tuu-
louse to CasablanCa which means a
saving of five days for every letter.
The weight Of the Morocco mail in
one month runs up to almost a ton.
The amount of mail and freight on
all of our lines is rapidly increasing.
The French companies alone in 1919
carried about seven tons OF merchan-
disc and less than one thousand
pounds of mail. In 1920 the freight
had increased 700 per cent and the
mail about 500 per cent. Last year
We had three times as much freight
as we had in 1920, and the mail was
more than u timas that of 1919. All
of the freight Is, OF course, of high
class and the mail is important com
muniCatiOns in which speed of de-
livery is a considerable item"
Flights Equals Six Trips 10 the Moon.
These figures indicate something
Of how our air traffic is growing" ."
the aviation minister continued.
Here are some more along the same
line. In 1919 there were four French
companies which carried 55S passen-
gers and made 9SS voyages covering
distance equal to about seven trips
around the world. BY 1890 the COM
panies had doubled in number They
made about 2.400 trips and flew
more than five hundred thousand
miles or over twice the distance from
tn earth to the moon. During that
year we more than doubled the num-
Der Of passengers and had seven
times the amount of freight. The
results of 1921 were even more re-
markable. We then had nine COM
panies, which made over six thou
sand trips and covered more than
100000 miles. This is equal TO six
flights to the moon or co around the
globe at the equator. The numbers
OF our pilots and meCaniCs have in
creased in proportion"
The Prevention of Accidents.
"What precautions are you takin :
as to the safety OF airplane traVel?"
I'VE are doing everything possible
in the way of research to discover
new methods TO make our planes
fool-proof and fog proof. We are
careful in the selection of pilots and
mechanics and take every precaution
to prevent accidents. At present no
plane is allowed to go out until ex-
amined i'm the most minute detail by
one Of the aviation inspectors per-
manently on duty at every airplane
division. This man must have a Ger
tifiCate from the government service
of aeronautiCs as to his efficiency,
and our examination is rigid, We
do not allow pilots to fly'unless they
have licenses showing their profess
sional knowledge Of aviation, their
education and experience, ard their
practical understanding of all air
plane machinery Every pilot under
goes a strict physical examination.
Moreover, the routes of travel are
carefully outlined and every airplane
has a wireless radio apparatus by
which the pilot keeps the airdTomes