Douglas daily dispatch., 1928-03-02
TRIPLE A ONLY
CLASS OF PORT
SAYS JACKSON

Coming to consult with j. p
Sexton, manager of the Arizona
Edison company, and other members
Of the aviation committee for the city
Of Douglas on plans for lighting the
new municipal air port at the inter.
national border, H. w. jackson, a
representative of the WESTINGHOUSE
Electric and Manufacturing company
of Pittsburgh, Pa, arrived in the city
yesterday and will be here for two
or three days. His purpose, accord
ing to Mr.. jackson, is to make sug-
gestionS on plans for the lighting
of the air port and eventually submit
figures when the local people have
reached the point in the development
that they are ready to begin making
the Improvement
proper lighting of air ports is
one of the most important things in
that sort OF development" said Mr.
jackson. Our company is giving it
much serious and careful study. We
believe that we have ideas that are
equal to the best that has been
achieved in the work Our ideas have
proved practical and are in use in
many air ports all over the country
air ports, too, that are regarded as
the best that have been developed
What Douglas must have is what
the u. S. department. OF commerce
has designated the Triple AZ type
which is the highest standard. You
have q splendid field here as q start
ing point. You have a field that is
susceptible Of easy and fairly mex
pensive development and when that
is done, you will be surprised to find
how rapidly it will attract planes in
flight across the country
I'VE have already installed our
lighting plan in the fields at the
following points: Boiling field, Just
cutsioe Washington, D. c.; Hartford,
Conn, municipal air port; Green's
boro, n. c., air port; Springfield, III,
municipal air port Long Beach,
Calf. municipal air port; Port OF
Portland, a municipal air port; Oak
land, Calf, air port; and one at ST
Joseph, Mo. These are DuJ few
OF the larger places in which we have
been installing our equipment and we
have evidences of satisfactory results
available to your committee and it
Gt1A1 A1ANA1IC dO " J14C OtSblO1dCOIO11 OQ1
system in giving elsewhere"
Mr.. jackson pointed OUT Inat the
local committee could make a mis-
take by haste IN action more easily
and more costly in character tfan
would happen by some delay i'll COM
plehng the improvement, He said he
would seriously caution against too
haSty decision on any element of the
Improvement but suggested that the
Improvement be made only after the
best ideas obtainable had been studied
and advice of people giving their
thought wholly to the line be secured
He related experiences of other cities
where haste had proved a regrettable
factor and where some of the features
had to be replaced or changed,
thereby entailing a complete loss or
practically so, Of the expense Of the
initial feature.
Douglas, with the splendid site 1t
has for an air port, must be satisfied
with nothing less than a Triple A
port" said Jackson. Just what that
will cost is a matter of some con-
lecture until we know just what is to
be required, because while we could
give the exact cost of equipment
needed, the items of distance from
the feeder lines. cables required and
the labor item all must be reckoned.
After we have studied the situation
a little more fully we will be able
tc estimate it quite closely. s