The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-10-22
. BEHIND THE SCENES
IN WASHINGTON Q

combat and transport something
Enthusiastically different from any
thing contemplated a few years
ago. Colonel Gorrell can appre-
ciate this difference, perhaps
better than almost anyone else
in aviation today. for he was
chief of air staff for General
Pershing in World War /, and he
has watched and had a leading
part in the development of mill
tary and civilian flying since
that time
To-day says Colonel Gorrell,
great aerial battles are COM
manded long distance by an
officer sitting in a empowered
room hundreds of miles from the
scene Of the conflict. The devel-
opment of new devices almost
literally permits the commander
10 follow his own forces into
action"
FUTURE OF AIRLINES
Applying this development TO
postwar commercial airline OBJ
erations, Gorrell foresees revo-
lutionized civil air transporta-
ton, regulation and operating
methods, all in the interests Of
greater safety and efficiency.
A divisional traffic superin-
tendent in an office in say Oma-
ha, may a few years hence be
guiding the landing of an air
transport carrying passengers
between Wichita and Topeka.
The problem of the air traffic
dispatcher in many respects will
be similar TO the problems of the
commander now directing bomb
ers over Germany. For the
bombing of Germany is nothing
more nor less than the transpor-
tation of cargo, as speedily and
efficiently as possible, under all
conditions of weather, over long
distances and on split-second
schedules.
This is precisely what will DE
involved in creating tomorrow'S
civil air transport system. The
cargo will be different, and in
stead OF being concentrated in a
few channels over enemy terri
tory. it will be spread over the
entire world.
UNIFORM LAWS
Colonel Gorrell uses this in
creased intensity of postwar
flying and It's real need for every
chronological aid in communica-
ton between ground and plane
and the control OF planes from
the ground 10 drive home a plea
for uniform regulation of air
traffic.
Under present law there is
nothing TO prevent an individ-
ual state from regulating air
transport movements in the
space everything that state. In
fact. some states have actually
imposed air codes Of their own.
II such local regulation is per-
mited 10 grow, consider what II
may do to the division air traffic
superintendent above referred
TO, sitting back in Omaha. II he
has TO consult and comply with
Kansas regulations for every
landing or takeoff ne is direct
ing in Topeka or Wichita. and
those regulations differ from
the operations over Nebraska or
Iowa. his task will be hope
lessly complicated, and he will
need lawyer at his elbow at all
times.
Pending in Congress now Is
the Lea-Bailey bill which would
provide for federal regulation OF
all air transportation, and which
would prevent regulation by the
individual states. All aviation in
terests are backing this pro-
vision as sound foundation for
the development of postwar
civil air transportation and for
adjusting legislative provisions
TO the tremendous chronological
developments such AS the radio
and electronics devices which
have been developed during the
war.