Evening star., 1939-01-05
u. ). Civil Aeronauti(s
Gets 50PerC Boost
Over Former Unit
Budget Allows TotoI
OF $2l,230,000; More
For Air Facilities

Uncle Sans newest alphabetical
agency" the Civil Aeronautics Au-
thorilty, did rather we'll for itself in
its first budget estimates, obtaining
an increase of approximately so per
cent over the funds previously al
lowed for Federal civil aeronautics
activities, the budget message re-
vealed today.
The c. A. A., created last August,
has been allowed a total of $21 $780, =
900 in the 1910 estimates, as COM
pared with appropriations totaling
$l4,351 ,48O for the former Bureau of
Air Commerce, Commerce Depart
ment, and the Bureau of Air Mail of
the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion, which were absorbed by the
new Authority. The increasetotaled
S7,203,520.
Funds for the establishment of air
navigation facilities, including the
domestic civil airWays system, were
increased from the $4,575,000 appro-
priated for the Bureau of Air Com
merce for the current fiscal year to
$7O00,000 This is to include the
equipment of additional civil air
ways and .modernization of existing
air navigation facilities.
No Funds for Training.
Although the c. A. A. has been in
trusted with supervision of the pro-
posed program for training of 10000
college and university students as
airplane pilots, to create a national
reserve of military pilots, no spe-
ciflc funds for the purpose were in
cluded in the Authority's estimates.
1t is believed that President
Roosevelt plans to include funds for
this project in his proposed $500,
100000 national defense budget,
which is expected to be submitted
separately. An initial 100000 for
the training of 300 college students
this year has been made available
by the National Youth Administra-
tion and already eight colleges have
been designated as training centers.
For salaries and expenses of the
G. A. A. the estimates include a total
of $13,750,000, as compared with a
total of $9,451 4S0 for similar items
for the two bureaus, which were
merged into the Authority.
Safety Board S3SO,O0O.
The budget estimates allocate to
the Air Safety Board, an entirely
new organization set up by the Civil
Aeronautics Act of 1888 to function
in close coordination with the c. A.
A., a total of $380,O00.
Funds for the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, inde-
pendent Federal agency charged
with all phases of aeronautical re-
search, also have been substantially
increased in the budget estimates.
The 1910 estimates include total
of $1,740,000 for the N. A. c. A., an
increase of S240,000 over the current
appropriations. In addition, under
the general public works program, a
total Of $4,000 is included in the
estimates for the N A. c. A., as COM
pared with 100000 for the current
year.
The general public works item will
permit completion of large high
speed wind tunnel for which $780,
600 was appropriated for the current
fiscal year, and also will provide
$4,000 for remodeling existing
wind tunnel facilities.
The N. A. c. A. program, however,
is considered in American aviation
circles to be entirely inadequate in
view of tremendously accelerated
aviation research programs abroad,
especially in Germany, Italy, Japan,
Great Britain and France.