San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-11
In SERVICE
LAYsROUTEs
| OF: COMMERCE
ives Way for Develop
ment Of Aerial Trans
portation.
AN ANTONIO ACENTER
Foposed Always Lead in
All Directions From
Here. A
IN ANTONIO ACENTER


iular schedule as do. railroads, it
| | find that the Army Air Service
already mapped out specific air
t@eSor it's planes to follow As in
case of the early development of
|lroads, the army has taken the
ID. Congress has ordered that the
Service in, each of the nine corps
las map out airways suitable for
|nmercial aviation between the lead
cities therein.
When commercial aviation reaches
point where regular schedules can
maintained. it will find in the
Ehth Corps Area that airways have
In mapped out between all the lead
cities of the five states included
that military division. With San
|tonio as the hub, airways have
I'm established by the Army Air Ser
e; radiating to border points and
cities, north. east and west.
From San Antonio, army aviators
Kelly Field have traversed the
|lte and made maps of airways south
LAREDO, Fort Ringgold and Browns
be. West of San Antonio airways
lie been established to Maria, to FL
so, and to other important cities
New Mexico and Colorado. East.
airwaJs disseminating from San
tonic lead to Houston and to New
leans; north they lead TO Dallas,
lisa, Okla, and on to Kansas City
the Seventh Corps Area. Fort
|orth is also one of the important
|ermediate points marked on Eighth
RPS Area airways. and will be the
|ation for one of the principal COM
|rcial landing fields when CONNER
i aviation begins to figure prom
hntly in the life of the American
|blic.
Small Towns Must Help.
Denver, Colo, is probably the most
IRENE northern point outlined in
Z airways mapped out in the Eighth
| rps Area, and from it are dissem-
biting airways to Fort Worth
|eblo, New Mexico, and to Ell Paso,
| x.
Probably the greatest thing that is
|arding the development of CONNER
/ aviation today is the proper CO.
|osstion and understanding Of the
baller towns. All towns on air.
! ys mapped out have been desiSna ted
the air maps but in many Of these
Evns there are not airdromes. land
( fields. or even signs by which the
! ot of a flying craft might know
|actly where he is. Plans are under
by that may lead to the names of
|wns on the airways being painted
the top of tanks or the prominent
|ildings, and will thereby enable the
! OF of an aircraft to determine just
here he is at all times. e
|The establishment of landing fields
Id airdrames over the commercial air
|utes is just as essential to national
& transportation as is the garage
automobile transportation.
THE airdrome is the garage for the
|rplane. and until they are estab-
he'd and maintained in the towns
|signated on the airways. CONNER
ll aviation cannot assume the pro-
|rtions which its proponents hope
ID are striving for.
3O.OOO-miIe Airway.
ITO quote from a recent edition of
L United States I.irs Service. an
my publication, the United States
Is been studied as a whole with ref
|ence to the requirements for air.
|aft in travelling between various
|ints. Transportation, living as it
|es by its ability to connect various
rye centers. or to feed large Gen.
|rs. must therefore include in all
its various means the organization
|Guired for placing these means in
|eration. In working out these air.
hys the Army Air Service has not
lily followed the states highways
tt also the interstate railroads to
large extent.
To quote the. United States Air
krvice further. the present system
outlined includes about 10000
lies of airways. comprising in the
kiS.Shree transcontinental routes and
Fe main routes from north to south.
he development of these in general
|ust be considered for the future. as
is apparent that the demand for
|ese airways at this time TO organize
bon such n tremendous scale. The
FIR Service magazine further states
lat il would not be advisable to
|rther organize upon a larger scale
htil il is thoroughly understood the
fcessities of a fully equipred air.
by. ..... ....
Must Know of Weather.
The resent plan. in general. pro-
dies for main stations or airdromes
intervals Ct 200 miles along any
be Of the airways.> and these air
ZONES should be. provided by the
|cality or community there. The
bids should be pronerly marked.
(ould be equipned with hangers and
|cilities for the operation and main
nance of aircraft. and the care Of
ansient aircraft passing through.
here should he at these airdromes
pes of communica lion such as radio.
lesraph and telephone; and adequate
Gather information should be avail
pie. not only as 70 the weather in
|e immediate vicinity. but also as to
|e weather which, NAV be expected
the routes leading from the par
tular station.
Between all of the regular landing
hld. the Air Service recommends sub
ations. or emergency landing fields
often as possible between Important
>ints. These fields should he marked
Id designated on the nilot's map.
~ airplane pilot flving without
Gather information is like an ocean
Assel steaming without a compass.
onsequently the next sideration
for the provision Of adequate
Gather information. This is in order
at the pilot before leaving on his