The Winslow mail. (Winslow, Ariz.) 1893-1926, 1925-04-17
THE FUTURE OF FLYING.

A MONG the prominent civilian
"A flyers invited to be present at
and take part in the celebration
dedicating the Tri-State Airway in
Winslow on May Is and II, was DR..
Frederick Whitney, of Los Angeles,
a man who achieved great fame os
a physician and surgeon, and later
took up the science of aviation for
hobby, as some men take up other
forms of sports.
DR.. Whitney has become recog-
nized as one of the leaders in aero
nautical science, and is member
of the Aero club of California. In
response to the invitation sent him,
Mr.. Whitney replied:
ST was glad to get your letter Of
April 4th and hasten to assure you
that I think the events on your
program are unusually well chosen
and entirely practicable at your
altitude (4,S43), which is not at all
excessive for full-powered ships,
provided your landing field is good
and long in approximately the di-
rection Of the prevailing wind. 1t
does not take a long field to land
in anywhere, but it does take long
field to get off at any considerable
altitude, and the higher the latter,
the longer the field must be.
Il can not commend your enter
prising and progressive city enough
for the stand it is taking in encour-
aging and fostering commercial
and military aviation and the ex-
tension of the air mail service by
laying out the Tri-State Airway,
with it's many splendid municipal
and emergency landing fields.
Aviation, in it's infancy now, is
the most forward-looking develop
ment extant. The age of flying,
which will mark a more marvellous
step in the progress of the world
than has the age of electricity or
the age of steam or any other age,
is just around the corner, but it is
as dependent on the laying out CT
Always and, landing places as the
automobile was dependent on the
building of good roads. In twenty
short years automobiles have be-
come so numerous that it is becom-
ing less and less pleasant to travel
about in them, but there can never
be a similar congestion in the air,
because if the whole surface of the
earth was covered with airplanes
they would all have plenty of room
to fly in as soon as they We're a
few thousand feet up in the air.
Flying is therefore the solution of
the travel problem and the Tri-
State Airway, passing, as it does,
through some of the most beautiful
country in the world, will, when it
is extended on to Kansas City, be
by far the best and heaviest trav-
eled east and west route. Far
enough south to avoid too heavy
SHOWS, and far enough north to es-
cape the heat and sandstorms, it is
the ideal route for air travel, just
as it has been, and is, the most
favored route for transcontinental
automobile travel, and the beautiful
and progressive city of Winslow
"the Meteor City," will some day
still more appreciate its pretty
pseudonym, as it contemplates the
multitude Of aircraft, both great
and small, gliding, meteor-llke
across the azure skies of Arizona.
MAY I add that the civil and mil
itary aviators of Southern Califor-
MIA, as we'll as all who are interest
ed in aviation, are deeply apprec1a'
tive of the untiring and unselfisf
efforts of your Mr.. Bob Hausler
and that steps are being taken t.
make it possible for him to carry
on with his invaluable and abso
lutely necessary work, followins
the Dedicatory Air Rodeo at Wins
low May 16 and II.
"That these dedication exercise;
will be a grand success, long to b.
remembered by all who are fortu
nate enough to be present, is thu
confident belief of your most ap
preciative well wisher,
Frederic Whitney,
"1143 Browning Blvd,
LOS Angeles, Calf,