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opinion will you give reasOns?"
A.-"The Army has not been
rs efficient in carrying the mail
rs the commercial lines were.
The Army had only 10 days to
take over routes the commercial
lines have been carrying for
years. The Army lacks the
equipment needed for this work.
HAVE TO LEARN ROUTE
OVER
II you would turn the prob
lem around and assign all the
commercial pilots to new routes,
1t would take weeks for them
to reach the same efficiency dis
played on routes they were &C
quainted with by long practice.
T know II I went back on
my old route from st. Louis to
Chicago, I would have trouble
flying it. It would take me
months to be able to fly 1t.
Q.-'"They were not qualified
by experienced"
A.-"NOt qualified by expert
ence in the type Of work they
were taking over"
Salary Basis Monthly
Colonel Lindbergh said his $4,000
salary from the Transcontinental
Western Anyways had ended or
the first Of the month"
Q.-'Tc that because Of the
cancellation Of the cOntracts?"
Ar don't know what hap
pened."
Senator Barbour asked Colonel
Lindbergh how long the T. A. T
needed in 1929 to start its oper-
atoms. Colonel Lindbergh said ii
took two to three years to be ready
to fly the TranScontinental route
Q.-''Was there any night fly
ing Of passengers at the Start?"
A.-"Origfnally, no. That's .
more recent development"
Q-'Did the T. A. T. adopt
multiple-engined planes for
night flying on your recon-
mendatiOn?"
Ayes, recommended it."
ENTITLED TO SAFETY
Q.-"Then you do not believe
it sound to use single-m0tOred
planes to carry passengers at
night?"
A.-"Under all conditions I
believe passengers are entitled to
the safety of multiple-engined
planes in night flying and over
rough terrain in day flying"
Colonel Lindbergh gave Sen
ltor Barbour a list of all the stop
ping places on the T. A. T. line
Senator Barbour cdmplimenteo
Colonel Lindbergh on your fine
memory and your knowledge Of
geography"
Replying to another question
oy Senator Barbour, Colonel
Lindbergh stated:
81 piIOted a plane part of
the way on the initial trip over
the T. w. A. tranScOntinental
route"
Asked About Competitor
Senator Barbour asked Colonel
Lindbergh if the United States
Aviation Company had bid against
the T. A. T. for its transconti-
rental mail contract.
Ayes, I believe it did"
Q.-"WaS this United Avia-
ton Company as well equipped
as your company for carrying
mail and passengerS?"
Al don't believe it was
serviced very long. But 1 never
investigated that company"
@. "Did the comptroller gen.
eral rule against the cOmpany?'
A. 81 understand the COM
pany was not qualified to carry
the mail"
@. "Did it have multi-mOtOred
planes?"
MADE NO STUDY
A. 81 never made a study of
that company. Without more
knowledge 1 hesitate to describe
its facilities"
@. 81 take it that it requires
quite as long to build up the
personnel"
A. That is quite true. The
building up Of morale is one of
the most important phases of
aviation"
Q.-"Then this breaking
down of personnel is the most
serious part of this cancella-
tiOn?"
Ayes, except that the can
collation. of these contracts
without giving the companies
. right to be heard is to my
mind one of the most serious
things that could happen.
America had built up the most
efficient commercial aviation
industry in the world.
II believe it will take years
to rebuild the industry to the
same point of efficiency"
I'm the meantime there's very
little the pilots or mechanics
can do about it,"