The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-08-13
SAYS FREIGHT
 WILL 60 BY AIR
 AFTER THE WAR
By ANTHONY c. DeLORENZO United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Detroit. Aug. 13-Tne transporta- tion miracle of the postwar period will be freight trains on wings"
 This is the forecast of Col. Ed ward s. Evans, Detroit industrial ist, inventor, explorer and pioneer gliding enthusiast whose job for 25 years has been developing quicker and cheaper methods of loading freight cars.
 Tremendous strides in hauling freight by air already have been made by the Army Air Forces, but these developments, according to Evans, are only the beginning.
 Postwar America, he said, will see thousands of freight plane trains carrying millions of pounds of freight" not only to every point in the United States where airport facilities have been arranged, but also to strategic centers throughout the world.
 Cites Burma Road
 "We are going to be able to trans port this freight" he explained, fin one-tenth the time of the aver age train haul and in one per cent of the time of the average ship haul. Furthermore, costs will be lower than railroad or truck rates"
 When the war is over and air. craft manufacturers resume pro- duction of commercial planes, car- go transports and motorless glid- CTS, Evans believes freight will take to the air, leaving railroads to haul only coal, ore, sand and gravel and probably grain. A transport plane serving as tractor" he said, could haul freight across the coun- try in eight hours at cost of 4 cents ton mile.
 One plane, because of it's speed, can deliver as much freight per day as 100 trucks, Evans said. He cited the Burma road as an example. There were approximately 4,500 trucks in use on the Burma road before the Japanese cut it off he said, and they delivered 30,000 tons of freight per month. About tWo- thirds of the freight, he added, was fuel for the return trips, leaving only about 10000 useful tons of de- livered materials.
 Evans said it would require a fleet of only 35 cargo planes to equal the delivered cargoes of 4,500 trucks because the Burma road is only 360 miles long by air against 726 miles on land from Lashio to Chungking.
 The most important factor in air transport, according to the De- troit industrialist, is the use of the glider.
 Glider Can Carry More
 "A glider as large as an air trans port would have one-third the head resistance and would carry a much heavier payload," he said. While the air transport would have to carry gasoline, engines and other equipment, glider only would need one or two men, and virtually no equipment"
 Thus, he explained, where an air transport could carry 10000 pounds of payload, an air transport glider could haul more than 50,000 pounds. By hitching three gliders behind transport, he said, i've can carry 190,00O pounds of freight with the same horsepower and a reduction in speed of only approxi- mately 40 per cent"
 If the transport plane which acts as tractor would have speed of 300 miles an hour, the train could make a speed of about 180 miles an hour" he said.
 As far back as 1929, Evans pre- dicted great air liners, perhaps with a speed of 90 miles an hour, carrying 50 to 100 tons, which will be used for transporting our freight"