Evening star., 1931-12-13

been established along the 540-mile
route from Havana to Merida, with
upper air stations on the western tip
OF Cuba and the Mexican side of the
straits so that pilots may know of the
upper air wind currents which favor
their flights across the 300-mile water
jump.
Federal Air Program Urged.
Need for continuing programs of mill
try alrplane purchases by the Army and
Navy following the conclusion of the
fiVe-year programs of both services, as
a means of tiding the aircraft manufae-
turing industry over the period of de-
preston, was stressed by Temple N.
Joyce, World War flyer, noted test pilot
and now vice president and general
manager Of the BIZ Aircraft Corpora
ton, IN all address THURSDAY night at
a joint dinner meeting of the Aero
nautical Chamber Of Commerce Of
America and the Baltimore section of
the Society Of Automotive Engineers, in
Baltimore.
A well ordered program of purchases
for both services is Of vital Importance
as a means of partially defraying the
cost of research and experimentation
necessary to keeping this Nation abreast
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Joyce pointed out. Until the airplane
becomes a far more efficient means of
transportation and military aid than it
Is today, Joyce said there must be un-
remitting research and experimental
work carried on.
Such work is expensive and is too
great burden for the industry to as
sumo without aid in such troublous
financial times, 1t was pointed out.
Since aircraft development and progress
are closely linked with national security.
1t is to the interests of the people of the
entire country to keep the industry alive
and healthy, it was argued
He also discussed the Importance Of
the Nations airmail and transport sys-
TENS as market for the sale of com
mercial aircraft. and argued the neces-
sity for continued support of the COM
mercial air lines by the Post Office
Department.
1t is the opinion of aviation people
that, even though the Army and Navy
air services are not to be further en-
larged beyond the scope of the f1ve-year
programs, the contracts for the planes
necessary to replace Worn-out, destroyed
and obsolete planes and keep up the
strength of the air forces should be let
in accordance with well planned pro-
gram so spread as to avoid times of
plenty and famine for the struggling
aircraft industry.
Only on the basis of continuing pro-
gram so planned can the industry plan
manufacturing schedules which will pre-
vent the closing Of plants and laying off
Of valuable employees whose services may
be lost to the industry and the country,
it is emphasized.
Oil, Gas and Oxygen.
The pursuit pilot, wearing many
thicknesses Of wool, fur and leather.
electrically heated goggles and heated
mittens, thrusting his head out of an
electrically heated cockpit, Is likely, in
case Of future disturbances demanding
his official attention, to call not only
for gasoline and oil but for oxygen as
well every time he rolls his plane to
the fuel pit.
High altitude is the order Of the day
for the pursuit squadrons and high alti-
tude means flying at heights where man
cannot live in the raw. He must be
swathed in the warmest of clothing,
with the heaviest Of mittens electrically
heated to prevent stiffening of his
hands on long missions, goggles heated
to prevent frost formation, possibly
with the entire cockpit heated as we'll,