Evening star., 1927-04-23
Press Predicts Great Future
For u. S. Commercial Aviation

In time the bird will be beaten at
every turn, and then the aerial age
will be here in all it's glory" says the
Ann Arbor Times News, for in the
opinion or the Boston Transcript, such
flights help on the coming Of the day
when everybody will fly, and fly
safely" and the Detroit News sug-
gests that ''it IL difficult to estimate
now how great will be the stimulus to
all flying as quickly as the average
plane acquires such endurance and
the same ability to travel indefinitely
which the ordinary automobile has
gradually acquired over the years"
The test was less dramatic than 1t
might have been" remarks the New
York Sun, "if the pilots, instead Of
droning about in circles above Long
Island, had headed west, flown over
San Francisco and then returned to
Roosevelt flying field. They might
have done so, or they might have
headed east and dropped in on London
or Paris. In either case they would
not have covered a greater distance or
required longer time. AS it was, they
did the important thing, which was to
show that without refueling an air.
plane could remain aloft for sufficient
time to fly from New York to Paris
The airmen are believed by the
Louisville Courier-Journal to have
made record which is IAN important
phase of that process which, by
achievement following achievement,
may blaze the way for worldwide
| commercial flying"
Finding that 1.-THE airplane is being
made safer and more reliable every
month" the Kansas City Journal con.
tends that ''it is not at all Utopian to
believe that within a few years at the
most 1t will be used on a large scale
for transcontinental and transatlantic
travel" The Pittsburgh Sun agrees
that "all Americans will take patriotic
pride in the making of new records by
their fellow countrymen," but adds
that there is greater reason for pride
in the fact that aviation is succeeding
In this country as a commercial enter
prise without the governmental sub
sides with which the European air
lines are supported"
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The Waterloo Tribune is optimistic
enough to forecast that this year
ought to see the big start made toward
successful air transportation between
the United States and Europe" and
the Helena Montana Record Herald
feels that eventually there should be
IAN airplane that can be operated con-
tinually over long periods. equipped
with safety appliances that will pre-
vent 1t from falling, and hence adapted
| to passenger service for the ordinary
| public"
In comparison with the proof that
has been offered by these two airmen
that "long-distance flights in the air
| are not only possible but plausible"
| the New London Day observes: Most
| feats' Of that kind mean nothing. The
person who swims the English Chan
| mel or moves at a speed of 200 miles
| in an automobile, or Charlestons for
20 hours straight, proves nothing" but
| that 1t is possible to do those things.
| AS the record was made over
small area on land, the Hamilton
| Spectator directs attention to the fact
| that there will be a mental hazard in
volved in the subsequent transatlantic
flight that was absent in the cruise
| about Roosevelt Field, and there will
be treacherous air currents above the
| rolling deep to be contended with"
| but that paper still believes that 1.-The
| odds are all in favor of the nonstop
| flight being successful" The New
| Orleans Tribune finds the outcome
most encouraging, noting that "the
motors functioned perfectly the entire
| 81 hours" and "the distance flown
was more than twice that from New
York to Paris"
| 1.-THE gradual perfection of mechan-
| ism, the increase of mileage per gal.
| Ion of fuel, the better use of instru-
ments. the strengthening OF weak
Places" In the judgment OF the