Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-16
NEW JOBS IN THE AIR
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

with an apparent shortage Of jobs
on the ground, an increasing number
Of ambitious men and women are look
ing to the air for jobs and large num-
bers are finding them. The advance
in flying has been roughly comparable
to the feverish building Of railroads
from half TO three-quarters OF O GEN.
fury ago. Each year sees the estab-
lishment of new lines, operating In the
regular commercial trade, but this Is
far from representing the whole Of the
flying business.
The carrying Of passengers and mail
over regular routes has been supple
mented by certain business phases. In
all OF these branches opportunity for
employment Is multiplying. 1t Is o
branch Of American activity In which
Jobs are steadily increasing in number.
Among the business phases Of flying
are to be found aerial photography.
advertising, surveying, timber cruising
and other types of prospecting and
such agricultural operations as the
busting Of crops with insecticides.
The aerial photograph has come TO
displace old-fashioned charts, plats and
pictures in the handling Of real estate.
The dealer seeking to sell q large
country estate finds he can best show
It's relative position and its advantages,
as well as It's distinctive features, by
photographs taken from the air. Archi-
tectural features, gardens, fields, pas
lures, wood lots, together with ad-
jacent lakes and streams. as well IS
nearby towns and railway lines, can
all be shown in q photograph taken
from the air aS in no other manner.
Similarly, the developer Of sub
division in the suburbs Of city can,
by means Of aerial photography, spread
before prospective purchasers OF his
lots and dwellings visual evidence Of
every advantage of location, environ
ment and improvements.
The bird's-eye view which In the
past has usually meant q figure OF
speech today Is O matter Of practice.
Actual surveying by metes and bounds
has not been refined 70 the point OF
furnishing data for the writing Of deeds
to land, but 1t Is practicable TO make
general surveys Of large tracts, Indeed,
no method has ever been devised which
can so thoroughly provide quick infor-
nation concerning the physical features
Of o tract of land as the aerial photo
graph. The extent of forests and
can be speedily established from the
air.
Preparation Is Necessary.
Every year some millions Of dollars
worth Of crops are destroyed by insect
pests. Chemical preparations which
defeat these plant enemies have been
perfected but their use has often
been discouraged because Of the great
amount Of time and labor consumed in
applying them. BY use of the airplane,
fields and orchards can be busted in
q few hours which by use Of ordinary
methods would require many days In
treatment Moreover, for certain ground
crops the treatment Is regarded as more
efficient In that an even spread, cover
ing every plant, Is assured.
With such jobs, in addition to the
usual passenger and man transport jobs,
increasing in number every week, there
Is Q steady demand for flyers. But all
Of these jobs require special prepara-
ton. A man cannot suddenly decide
that he viii 60 to work as q flyer and
the next day find himself on the pay
roll. He must prepare himself.
It must be remembered that airplanes
cost considerable money. A company
or an individual owning plane IS not
willing to employ pilot or flying me-
chanic who Is likely to crash his ma
chine on the first or an any flight. The
flyer himself, presumably, has some re-
gard for his life, but the employers tirst