The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
GIRO LANDINGS
WILL BE BUILT
ATOP BUILDINGS
Philadelphia to Have Two
Such Fields Within
Few Months.
BY ERNIE PYLE
Scripps-Howard Aviation Editor

WASHINGTON. Dec. 1s-The
dream of airportS on top of city
buildings may not be Just a dream
after all. jim Ray, the auto
giro man, says there will be auto
giro landing fields on top Of two
Philadelphia buildings within a
couple of months.
One is the new poStoffice. The
other is the Pennsylvania railroad
terminal. When they are fin
ished, there may be an autogiro
service between Camden airport and
downtown Philadelphia.
Ray thinks, a similar arrange
ment would be feasible in New York
City. He says there are more
than twenty-five places on Man
haitian island where he could land
an autogiro. F.. 1t is his ambition to
land on Fifth avenue at Forty-sec-
ond street early some Sunday morn
ing.
Considerable clothing was stolen
out of Colonel Charles A. Lind
bergh's locker at Newark airport.
&. Also the Ludington Line for a
couple of months missed tools and
gasoline. Now five mechanics
at the airport have been arrested
and are said to have confessed.
Air Guide Appears
Al Williams, the famous speed
and acrobatic pilot, has been writ
ing daily column on the Charlotte
On. CO Observer for the last two
weeks He dealt with all sub
jectS in the days news, not just
aviation, and said he enjoyed it
almost as much as flying Tip
to airplane manufacturers: The
Swedish government is interested in
American-made air mail planes.
There long has been talk of the
need for a little air magazine to
be placed on all passenger planes
flying on the regular airlines
There is one now, just out
called "Sky Lines-Air Travel
Guide" published monthly in
Chicago.
It gives the complete schedules
and fare tables Qike a railroad
time table, of twelve big airline
systems, and the rest will be added
later In addition there are
articles and pictures on aviation
A copy will be placed in every seat
of every plane on these twelve lines.
Million Miles; No Mishap
Century Pacific Lines, one of the
big independent" air lines on the
west coast, flies $500 miles daily,
employs twenty-eight pilots, and
since July Of this year has piled
up nearly 100000 miles without an
accident
Did you know that, if you pay
cents to send letter by air mail,
and the weather causes the letter
to be sent on the train all the way.
you can get cents back from the
postof1ce if you have the time and
patience? =. Newark On. j. air.
port has ninety-eight arrivals md
departures of scheduled planes daily
-. Washington-H Hoover airport,
in the nations capital, has
sixty >.
Benny Myers, assistant air mail
superintendent at Chicago, has
Travelled 10000 miles by airplane
since May l on business for the
government When weather
forced him to take a train from
Washington to Chicago the other
day, it was the first time he had
ridden more than 100 miles on
train for year.
Seek Medal for Mail Pilot
Because he discovered fires, dived
his plane until residents were
aroused, and saved eight lives and
an entire village, the residents of
Lowell and Wallace, Ind, and Cen
tralia, Ill, are seeking a Carnegie
hero medal for mail pilot M. G.
DOC" Ator. He flies the night mail
for American Anyways between Chi
cago and Atlanta.
The postoffice department has
ordered air mail contractors, in
buying new night mail planes, to get
nothing that cruises less than 40
miles an hour.
David S. ingalls,, assistant navy
secretary for air, just has bought a
four-p passenger cabin monoplane
and will use it in his campaign
for Governor of Ohio. ingalls, flies
his planes himself; was the navy's
only ace in the World war.