Evening star., 1943-06-07
100000 u. 5. Planes
In Operation by 1850,
owl Forecasts
Agency Quotes Stanton
As Saying Other Forms of
Transportation to Increase

Transportation to Increase
., By the Associated Press.
Americas enormous wartime
expansion of air transport was
described glowingly today by the
once of War Information,
which warned, however, against
"extravagant" claims for the
peacetime role of aerial freight
hauling.
In a long review of the activities
OF the Army and Navy Air Trans
port Services, Owl said:
The great wartime expansion of
air transport is being accompanied
by vast, worldwide development
OF airWays. communications and air.
ports which will be available to serve
civilian air transport after the war
Exclusive of certain military air.
dromes, there will be about 865
major airports in the United
States by the end of 1943, all of
them with paved runWays of $500
feet or more, capable of handling
the largest craft. Less than 100 such
fields existed in 1910. In addition,
there are we'll over 1000 lesser
fields"
Half Million Planes FOreseen.
owl said that in 1943-when total
aviation production will be $20,l0O,-
900 000-more than one-fourth of all
twin-engined and four-engined air
craft will be transports. Before 1850,
the report said, the United States
may have half a million private,
commercial and military planes in
actual service.
But the agency said more than
merely the planes and pilots which
America will have available in such
great quantities after the war" is
needed for q successful aiar trans
port system.
Availability and expense of fuel
are limiting factors in air transport
today and will continue to be so long
! as airplanes fly on gasoline" Owl
! said. IN the words of C. I. Stanton,
Civil Aeronautics administrators
1T is perfectly obvious that in
, the not too distant future high-value
. cargo of all kinds will be commonly
transported by air both domeStically
! and overseas; planes will carry pas
: sengers. mail, express and freight
> In ever-groWing quantities.
- But why stretch the facts? Why
claim that air transportation will
: be the only form of tranSportation?
. Far from bringing about decrease
: In surface traffic, expanded air traf
flc will increase it, for the fuel to
keep the planes in the air will have
to be hauled by surface craft
Lack Ships Capacity.
!, AS an example of the limitations
on air transportation, Owl quoted
Mr.. Stanton further:
"A clipper can carry 3D. tons of
. freight from New York to England
If it refuels in Newfoundland,
$ freighter can carry from 5000 to
! 5000 tons of cargo, together with
fuel and stores for the round trip
Wherefore a good many clipper
trips would be needed to carry the
tonnage which one 10000-ton
= water borne freighter can handle
on one voyage.
Furthermore, $500 tons of gaso-
line would have to be got to Eng
land to fuel these hundreds of clip
per trips back to Newfoundland,
and l0500 tons would have to be
got to Newfoundland to fuel them
between Newfoundland and Eng
land and Newfoundland and New
York"
Fly Parts to Submarines
Owl cited these examples of what
the Armv,s Air Transportation has
. done with time, space and difficult
ties:
One pilot crossed the ocean II
times in 13 days: plane few
from Australia to California in the
record time of 33 hours 27 minutes;
complete hospital was flown to
Alaska in 36 hours: battle damaged .
submarines in distant waters re-
celve repair parts by air and are
In action again in few days in
stead of being idle a month.
Wounded are transported by air
and planes which fly needed careoes
out to combat areas and elsewhere
return loaded whenever possible,
often with strategic materials used
IN American war plants.