The Winslow mail., 1925-01-02
AIRPORTS BEING
PREPARED ALONG
PROPOSED ROUTE
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of the above mentioned means of
transportation could not be brought
to a successful development without
the proper establishment of adequate
terminal facilities, and therefore if
aviation is to be brought to success
full establishment as a means of trans
portation, attention and support must
be given to the establishment Of ade-
quate terminal facilities for the air
craft being used.
A glance at the development Of any
one of the above means of transporta-
tion and the accompanying growth in
population and industry of the termi-
nal centersj incident thereto, shows
very clearly how closely the two are
interdependent one upon the other. In
the same manner the growth of coast
al and river communities has been
found to be most closely related to
the harbor and docking facilities for
the watercraft in use. Therefore it is
not unreasonable for us to assume
that from the standpoint of aircraft
this development and this growth will
result interdependently one upon the
other.
inequalities, should they desire to pre-
pare themselves in an adequate man
ner for the development of aviation
of a commercial nature, both in It's,
application as means of transpor
tation and with reference to its ut1l-
ity in a community, must as primary
step establish adequate facilities for
the development of an air port.
The benefits to be derived from the
establishment of a suitable airport by
a municipality may be covered from
two standpoints: first from the stand
point of the proper support being CIV
en- to commercial aviation, and second,
from the standpoint of it's share of
contribution to adequate preparation
for national defense.
The building of an adequate air
port Immediately places the city or
community so doing in the system OF
commercial aviation in the United
States. The city or community is
then available as a terminal or stop
ping point for aircraft and the bene-
fits of rapid yet comfortable means
of transportation is available both to
or from the airport.
With aviation established as utili-
ty Of the community, the various uses
of aviation are brought to it's people.
The every day civic uses of an air.
plane may be stated as follows: Archi-
tectural studies of individual buildings
or groups of buildings; city planning
and Improvement; ambulance service;
police patrol; fire patrol; mapping OF
forests; location and reporting OF
fires; photographs of forests for iso-
lating infested areas; patrol against
raids and depredatiOnS OF any charact-
er; location of desired timber; bound
ary patrol; mail service; military and
naval; official government service;
map making and national survey;
preliminary study of grounds for pre-
pairing development plans; engineer
ing studies; factories, buildings and
massive construction work. progress
sive photographs; observations from
all angles for inspection purposes, and
hundreds of other commercial uses.
Personal uses of airplanes include:
overland travel to business; from sum-
mer home to city; missionary socle-
ties operating in localities that are
Ear out of regular paths OF travel;
service vehicles for doctors and other
professional men; vacation trips,
weekend trips; fishing; flying to and
from hunting trips; sports and scien-
tific purposes.
The late world war was means
of developing personnel in this coun-
try familiar with aviation from re-
latively small number previous to the
war to a number running into the
hundreds of thousands at the close
of the war, this number including
pilots and men trained in the care
of aviation material. There are some
twenty thousand former officers of
aviation now returned to civil life. II
the training of these men during the
last war is to be capitalized in pre-
paration for the future, facilities must
be afforded in peace time for them
to carry on their interests in avia-
ton and retain fair degree of prac-
tical and theoretical knowledge with
reference to the subject