Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1929-07-09
FUTURE
OF AIR HERE
Aviation Official Tells of
Progress Made In
United States
Especial to The Herald)
FORT WORTH. July 9.-The fu-

FORT WORTH, July 9.-The fu-
ture of aviation is already here!
That IS how A. p. Barrett, pres1-
dent of Southern Air Transport and
its various subsidiaries, OF which
Texas Air Transport is one, answers
the reporters invitation to proph-
esq.
"People still have the habit" Mr..
Barrett said, of thinking about avl-
alton entirely in terms Of the fu-
ture. Certainly it has a great fu-
ture! But it has a great present as
we'll. Air transport is so e they
! cannot realize that all Of the large
cities in the United States are al
ready linked up by air lines and
| that within a few weeks all the
small cities as well will be on the
Always.
"Texas Air Transport began OPP
erations February 6. 1928-leSs than
a wear and a half ago! All It had
then we're contracts to carry air
mail from Dallas and Fort Worth
| through Waco, to Austin, San An
| tonic, Laredo, Houston and Gal
weston.
Since then the San Antonio air
mail line has been extended from
Laredo to Brownsville, the Gulf
Coast and st. Tammany Air lines
have been acquired and air mail
service extended from Houston tc
Atlanta via New Orleans, passenger
lines have been started from Dallas
and Fort Worth to Houston and
Galveston, to San Antonio and
Brownsville and to Ell Paso via Big
Spring and Midland.
New Lines Planned
"In addition. various other pas
senger lines are planned. If our
company and most other air trans
port companies continue to grow fo1
the next few years as they have
been growing for the last few weeks
it will be only a matter OF a few
months before the entire western
hemisphere is a network OF airlineS
extending in every direction, Serv-
ing small as well as large cities.
"And then it will not be but a few
more months or possibly years be-
fore instead Of one or two airplaneS
each way each day there will be
twenty five to fifty. The sky-dlne1
has already come in the east; the
sky-pullman will not lag many years
behind.
"AlI first class mail will be carried
by planes, and most passengers
Only freight and passengers going
short distances will be carried by
other means Of transportation.
"By that time. also, although we
are not ready for it yet, we shall
have giant air liners speeding ur
the crossing Of the various oceans
People Awakening
people are beginning to realize
that most of the accidents they read
Of in the papers occur in private fly
ing with obsolete equipment and in
experienced pilots or in military fly
ing in experimental maneuvers. Ano
with the public convinced of the
safety of flying, aviation is bound
to expand, for capital has already
seen the possibilities of the Speedier
mode of travel and has poured It's
resources into the new industry.
Texas is ideally located and
blessed with a climate that will
make her preeminent in this eX-
pansion. The advantages Of the
Texas climate for aerial activities
were first recognized during the war
when both United States and Can
ada designated it as a training cen
ter for aviation. 1t was during that
time that the phrase, IF you can
f1y anywhere. you can flv in Texas
originated. Texas has a minimum
of storms and of icy weather that
inhibits flying and Is consequently
an ideal state for extended opera
lions.