Imperial Valley press., 1936-10-11
Planes laundering
Through Air Lanes
Of Future Will Be
Rigidly Controlled
BY Blaine Miller

THE SUNDAY motorist of today shakes his
| head and complains bitterly of the traffic
Drivers will not stay within the confines of
their lanes and they crowd cars travelling in
the opposite direction
What would the motorist say if his speed
were suddenly jumped up to two hundred miles
per hour and he were travelling in opaque fog?
This is the problem of the transport pilot
A score of years hence will see the flying
schedules of the ma ior airlines tripled Flights
will run in multiple sections. The airlnes and
their feeder lines will honeycomb the continent
and the airline centers such as Kansas City and
Chicago will be a continual with planes
departing and arriving.
The next few years will the successful
conquering of the aviator's dreaded enemy
fog. Blind take-offs are of no consequence to-
day, provided the destination is clear Blind
landings have been made hundreds of times
experimental basis. Even now the Depart
ment of Commerce is installing blind-landing
system the VIVA air route Two more years
will see passengers not only taking off but
safely landing blind.
Because of this impending development, trans
port airplanes will fly in any and all kinds of
weather. And, because fog obscures the vision
the danger of collision will always be present
when flying by instruments
Two types of control will eliminate this
hazard. First, definite flying attitudes will be
assigned to various types of aircraft Already.
the airlines have touched this development by
requiring east-bound planes to fly at
thousands of feet, while their westbound trans
ports fly at odd thousands of feet
The Department of Commerce will go much
further and assign definite strata for various
types of planes. Swift mail and express planes
will e, tbo hicyl,a
This is desirable for their schedules will require
them to fly nonstop from coast to coast
Slightly lower, from 20 900 to 3O,0 900 feet, will
be the passenger transport level. However, al
ternate attitudes will be allotted the airlne's
planes at lower level, from 10000 to 900
feet in order that they may escape strong head
winds certain days.
1 ILITARY planes will be assigned lower
MI altitude from 5000 to 10000 feet, but in
times of national emergency, when a large
group of Army planes must make passage from
point to point special levels will be assigned
them until their flight is completed
Last of ALL private and sport airplanes will
be permitted to use the lower levels under 5000
feet because of the probability of their low
power and lack of special equipment so neces
sary for high altitude flight
National emergencies may require that
certain types of aerial traffic be grounded for
a period of time until necessary Army traffic
is cleared. In this way the future airways will
resemble the railroad in that special traffic takes
precedence
Even with the assignment of flying levels all
aircraft, when climbing descending, of neces-
sity, must fly through altitude stratas allocated
to other planes. Because of this each major
airport in the nation will have a Master
Dispatcher, official representative of the De-
partment of Commerce. He will have absolute
control of all planes arriving and departing
It will be his task to coordinate the flying
schedules of all arlines operating from the
airport in such a manner that the altitude re-
quirements do not conflict. That is, two