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1890 airplanes. It has not yet provided
funds to purchase the airplanes which
1t authorized 10 years ago in the So
called "fve-year" program to build
up the Air Corps.
p OCULAR airmail service between
~ Washington and Honolulu, on a
421a hour schedule, and 6-day serv-
ice to Manila now Is available once
a week through connecting schedules
operated by Central and United Air
lines and Pan-American Always.
Mail leaving Washington on Gen.
tral Airlines at 3:35 pm. each Tues
day Is put aboard United Air Lines
overnight coast-to-coast transport
plane at Cleveland and Is transferred
to . Pan-American clipper leaving
San Francisco at 3 pm. Wednesday.
The big trans-Pacific clipper arrives
In Honolulu at 8 am. Thursday and
Manila the following Tuesday after
noon. Mail sent on from Manila by
steamer reaches Hongkong the follow
ing Friday and Shanghai the next
Monday. Return flights start from
Manila each Friday.
Airmail postage from Washington
to Honolulu is rs cents per half ounce
and to Manila, Shanghai and Hong
kong rs cents per half ounce.
Pan-American Airways now is oper-
ating the trans-Pacific service with
great regularity, 81 crossings having
been completed between San Fran
cisco and Manila. The thirty-eighth
flight, the homeward leg of the nine
teenth round trip, now is in progress,
according to local officials of the in
ternational line
In response to q request of Pam
American Airways to carry passen-
gers on the trans-Pacific route, the
Bureau of Air Commerce has as
signed two of its inspectors to fly
over the line and make technical
study, upon the basis Of which the
request will be granted. delayed or
rejected.
The inspectors who completed their
round trip to Manila this week are
E. L. Yuravich, airline inspector based
at Oakland, Calf, and Ray B. Quick,
engineering inspector, whose base is
at Garden City, Long Island. Their re-
port will be submitted to officials of the
Bureau of Air Commerce with recon-
mendations. No date has been set
for final action on the request.
7 OCAL air transport operations are
about to enter a new phase of
development, with the airport traffic
control tower now in operation and
the new Federal airways control sta
ton in process Of installation.
Within two weeks every airplsne
movement at the airport or on the
airways radiating from Washington
will be under constant check and air.
ways. and airport control crews will be
at work directing ship movements to
prevent possibility Of collisions along
the airways or congestion and hazard
at the airport, especially in bad
weather.
The new type Of control will place a
heavy responsibility upon the airways
and airport control crews. They will
be required to reach decisions prompt
ly and issue instructions Immediately
in handling the movements of airlines
moving ct speeds of 1S0 miles per hour
or better.
Obviously, keen judgment on the
part Of the traffic control crews is
necessary. Many of the men who hold
the more responsible posts in the Fed
eral airways control chain here and at
other points are pilots, in some cases
former airline pilots.
These men," it was explained by
the Bureau of Air Commerce, "are lay
ing the foundation for what promises
to become vital part of flight opera
tions on the airways throughout the
country"
Airway traffic control is another of
the operations going on to make fly
ing efficient and safe in good weather
or bad. Airworthiness of the airplane
and competence of pilots and co-pilots
are primary factors. Coordination
Of plane movements for the sake Of
safety and efficiency is a contributing
factor-the newest of many features
which are adding to the security and
reliability Of air transportation.