The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-08-25
AIR COMMITTING
IN Ten YEARS
Experts Predict Development
Like Autos, 1905 to 1915.
PEOPLE CAN LIVE Anywhere:

Airplanes will be used for business
and pleasure in the United States
within the next ten years on a scale
commensurate with the extension OF
automobile traffic between 1905 and
1915, 1t is predicted In a statement
issued by the Department of Com
merce.
Experts of the bureau of standards
say that people of moderate wealth
will find air machines useful for COM
muting. for business trips and for
weekend and vacation trips
1.-The effect of the airplane, if devel-
oped as is expected" the government
announcement says, will be to extend
very greatly the distance to which
such trips can be made in given
period of time. They will permit COM
muting from distances of a hundred
miles. while weekend trips can be
made from New York to the Thousand
islands; from San Francisco to Yosem-
lite; from Washington and Baltimore
to the mountains of Virginia, and from
Boston to the Maine woods.
Can Live Anywhere.
eff the visions of the experts ma
terialize. people whose business re-
quires only occasional visits to the city
can live almost anywhere they choose,
while some of our wealthiest men can
spend their winters in Florida and
their summers in Nova Scotia, and
still keep in touch with business in
terests in New York
Possibilities such as these, the de-
partment's experts contend, Indicate
a considerable extension of the city's
influence, with rise in real estate val
ues and an Increase in prosperity for
many of the smaller towns.
"But it must be remembered the
statement adds, "that the airpIane
traffic will not he evenly distributed
The flying people go where landing
facilities are provided The town that
first provides these facilities should
become popular with aircraft, and
may in later years be the fashionable
resort Of the region.
GOOD rail and motor roads, COM
,ined with beautiful scenery, have
made our fashionable suburbs and
summer resorts of today, and, even |
so, good landing fields, combined with |
,ther desirable characteristics, should |
lelp make the fashionable suburb and |
resorts of the future"
Landing Fields.
In discussing landing fields, the De- |
,artment announces that the requisite |
proportions. and equipment
AVE been thoroughly studied by ex-
,erts and the best modern knowledge |
N the subject is embodied in the Ma
ional Aeronautical Safety Code now
icing prepared under the auspices Of |
he bureau of standards and the So
iety of Automotive Engineers.
Fields rated as frst-class will have
angar space, repair equipment, tools,
tc. supplies of fuel, oil, water, and
pare parts, telephone communication,
9tel near, and convenient transporta-
ion to the metropolis for passengers
nd freight; attendants at all times;
uard to enforce field regulations, OBJ
tacle lights, course lights and night
round wind indicators visible beacon
nd radio communication.
Fields with less equipment are rated
S second, third and fourth class. All
elds must have good markings and II
God runways.
In addition, other places for emer-
ency landings should be provided at
-equent intervals, the statement says.
The airways section, office Of the h
lief of air service, War department,
is the registering agency |
)r landing fields. Descriptions Of all |
Inding fields should be sent to this
flee and it should be notified Of any
langes or of abandonment Of exist
lg fields.
The Office also is prepared to furnish
dvice regarding the design and or
anizatfon of landing fields.