Evening star., 1923-03-18
i. S. PUSHING AVIATION
ON AN EXTENSIVE SCALE
Notion That This Country Is Idly
Watching Developments Abroad
Mistaken One.

these different agencies in Uncle
Sans aeronautical work:
The Army, Navy and Marine Corps
are using aviation for military pre-
paredness.
Purpose Of Mail Service.
The fundamental purpose of the
air mail service has never before been
/ publically defined, but, as stated in
special report called for by President
Harding and submitted by the ma
tional advisory committee for aero
nautics, it is:
To demonstrate the safety, relia-
bility and practically Of air trans
portation of the mails and incident
ally of air transportation in gen.
eral. In particular, the report says,
Il should
(a) Develop a reliable thirty-six-
hour service between New York and
San Francisco and make that service
self-supporting by creating the neces-
sary demand for il and charging a
rate between ordinary postage rates
and night letter telegraph rates.
(b) Keep strict records of the cost
of the service and strive in every
way to reduce such costs to a mini
mum, thereby demonstrating the
value of air transportation from an
economic point of view, and in par
ticular making il possible for private
enterprise eventually TO contract for
the carrying of mails by airplane at
a rate which not only would not ex-
ceed the income from such a service,
but would permit the Post Office De-
partment to provide other postal air
ways TO meet the demands of the
people for the more rapid transpor-
tation of the mails. In the present
undeveloped state of the art it would
be wholly impracticable to operate an
air mail service by contract, the re-
port to the President stated.
MobiIizes Technical Skill
The national advisory committee
for aeronautics heads UP the best
technical skill of the country for sci
entific study of the fundamental
problems of fight. The Army and
Navy air services depend upon this
independent establishment for the
study and solution OF the more diff
cult problems of flight.
with other agencies of the govern
ment, but co-ordinates all the re-
search and fundamental investiga-
tional work undertaken by all the
government agencies using or con-
| cerned with the development of aero
| nautics.
The line of work that falls 10 each
of the scientific agencies with respect
| to aviation is as follows:
In the bureau of standards, as
/ stated by Fay C. Brown, acting di-
rector, "the aviation work is for the
most part undertaken in cooperation
with the Army and Navy air services
and the national advisory committee
| for aeronautics. They finance the
work and decide on the problems to
be solved. They also furnish the
practical flying experience and in a.
general way they do the engineering
part of the work as distinguished
from the scientific. The function of
| the bureau of standards is the solu-
| tion of the technical problems in
yolved and the discovery of basic
natural laws and the measurement Of
data. 1t supplies the fundamen entails
| on which later development is based"
Weather Reports Essential.
The weather bureau is concerned
with the study of the relation of the
| atmosphere to aeronautics. Accord
/ ing to the national aeronauticai
| policy, II is TO furnish weather re-
ports along the national transconti-
! mental airways as they are establish
, ed, without which there can be no
safety in the air nor success in COM
mercial aviation. The weather bu-
reau has now in operation six fully
| equipped f1rst-class astrological sta
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