Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-29
Geographic News
Bulletins by the
National Geographic Society
rur FTTrTJRE OF FLYING

Aviation by radio Is one OIL the
startling early developments of air
! travel predicted by Brig. Gen. Will
liam Mitchell, assistant CHIEF OF n
air service of the U. 8. Army. in a
communication to the National Ge-
| ographic Society.
"Aeronautics is progressing o
| rapidly at this time both from a
| scientific standpoint-as far as the
| development of flying machines Of
all kinds is concerned-and also in
art of actually handling and flying
planes" Gen. Mitchell writes.
Can Rise Vertically
"a speed of two hundred miles an
hour has been accomplished. To
rise vertically from the ground Is
on accomplished face. We are able
to fly at night, through the storms.
and through the fog. Our worst
even there we are making progress
in eliminating fog over our landing
fields.
Radio biography makes it pos
sible for us to talk from plane ~
plane, from the ground to the plane
and from the plane to the ground
Radio is also able to guide us to
our landing fields or to any place
that we desire to go. In fact, air.
planes al be sent on long jour-
neys with no living pilots in them,
but controlled by gyroscopic instru-
ments. These automatically con-
trolled airplanes rise from the
ground and fly at whatever altitude
10 set.
Radio Controls Plane Fleet
"In addition by the aid Of radio
impulses, their curses nay be
| - paI nv ~ h1Oun off fha rnYJrlA
by the wind, they may be brought
back to 1t. Airplanes ma be cor-
trolled by radio from the air as we'll
as from the ground, 10 that it Is
entirely within the realm Of posi-
bilities that an airplane with It's
crew may start and control a num-
Der OF others flying near and
around 1t.
Aircraft are the only things in
existence that are able to deliver
their cargoes at a station in the air.
Nothing a compete with them in
this respect, so that, from a mill
tary standpoint. when 1t is desired
to deliver a bomb, gun, or observer
wherever they will have the most
effect on an enemy aircraft have
no equals.
Each day sees an increase in the
radius Of action of the airplane. In
our WI Air Service the airplane
has remained aIoft for thirty-five
hours and during that time has
covered some three thousand miles
The distance from Ireland to New
found1and is only seventeen hun
dred miles. One Of the great Yep.
pelin airships turned out by the
Germans could carry sufficient fue'
to go around the world at the lat
itude OF New York.
Operating Cost Reduced
From a commercial standpoint
as a means of transportation fol
passengers and freight, the airplane
Is expensive, but the saving in time
is tremendous. Gradually the OPP.
Grating cost is being reduced, sc
that aerial means Of transportation
are becoming more and more able
to compete with transportation on
land and water.
During this year our own Post
office Department will establish q
mail service between New York
and San Francisco and will make
the trip in twenty-seven hours
total elapsed time.
THE public, in general, has
misconception of the dangers in
cident to aviation. Military avia
zion Will alWdyB Dc dangerous pS'
cause the aircraft employed mus
have the greatest speed. the great
est gun power, and the greatest
lifting capacity. These things are
stra ned to the limit SO we may IL
able to compete with possible enc
mics, also, in order to be able tc
support each other, military ai7-
planes have to fly in close forna-
lions. through all kinds of weather
and under all conditions.
Safer Than Land Travel
~On the other hand, commercla,
aircraft may be constructed with
slow landing speeds, large factors
of safety. and with reliable motors
that weigh little bit more than the
military engines. The airways; witt
their landing fields, weather GER
vice, and radio telegraphy between
lairdromes, may be so organized
that they will give more security
than the railways with their block
systems, switches, and repair iacii'
tiles.
"Ir Europe the commercial all
service carrying passengers and
freight, has operated more milet
with fewer casualties than have the
railways during the past year.
1.-THE airplane really originated in
the United States and today we
hold the worlds altitude record, the
worlds endurance record, and the