Evening star., 1944-11-05
Scientists at World Air PorIey
Lay Foundation for Safe Routes
Luree Technical Stoff
From Capitol Aids
In Forming Code
BY W. H. sHIPPEN, Jr.

hViesiou 1ottoHt Inc 0taI
CHICAGO, Nov. IA large tech
nical stan from Washington is help
ing delegates here formulate the
first worldwide code for air navi-
cation attempted since international
aviation came Of age.
The job has been undertaken by
more than 100 scientists, techni-
clans, secretaries and clerical assist
ants under supervision of Civil Avia-
ton Administrator Theodore p.
Wright, veteran military pilot,
aeronauttcal engineer and war pro-
duction expert.
The United States, as host to
more than so nations at the Inter-
national Civil Aviation Conference,
Is supplying most of the framework
for technical committees charged
with gathering information on
safety standards. trafic controls,
navigation aids and the collection
and distribution Of weather infor-
nation.
The vast amount OF detail work
involved has fallen largely on the
stan OF the Civil. Aeronautics Ad-
ministration,s assisted by the Civil
Aeronautics Board, whose chair
man, L. WEIGH Pogue, and vice
chairman, Edward Warner are
members Of the United States dele
cation. Extensive Offices have been
set up in the headquarters hotel
equipped with files of background
material, batteries of typewriters
and mimeographing machines for
reproducing information of interest
to committee members.
Four primary committees will
treat with routes, technical annexes,
international air convention and
permanent body. and with the af-
fairs of the interim council.
subcommittee will deal with such
subjects as communications systems
and aids to navigation, air rules
and traffic control practices, licens-
ing Of operational and mechanical
personnel, airworthiness require
ments for planes, registration and
markings of aircraft, weather in
formation, international aviation
maps and customs and manifests.
Hope to Cut Red Tape.
AS to the latter subject, air line
operators say their planes can cut
the time but not the red tape in
volved in international flights.
1t sometimes takes longer for a
passenger to I'LL out the required
Government forms than to reach
his destination once he is under
way.
The procedure becomes almost
hopelessly involved when the pas
senger wishes to stop briefly in vari-
GUS small countries whose boun-
daries can be reached in a matter
of minutes.
The United States. it was said
here, is one of the worst offenders
in respect to out-of -the-country
visitors. Experts believe these form.
alities can be greatly simplifled as
to customs, quarantine and immi-
grafton regulations without injur-
ing the national interest.
The question of standardizine
aviation maps. especially with re-
CARDS to symbols and scales, will be
taken up here by jeremiah S. Nor
ton. OF the Coast and Geodetic
Survey.
Weather maps which will chart
wind currents in the ocean Of the
air" at various attitudes are one of
the primary interests of Delbert M
Little, special assistant to the chief
Of the Weather Bureau. who is sec
retary of the meteorological SUBJ
committee.
New facilities probably will be
established after the war for the
gathering of weather information
by all countries with an interest in
international aviation. On the North
Atlantic route. for example, ships
probably will be stationed at stra-
tegic points to sound the air cur
rents and report them for incor-
poration in weather charts.
Storms to be Charted.
Accurate information on storm
areas moving across the Atlantic
will enable airliners to pick up tail
winds and fly under clear skies most
Of the time, 1t was said.
An example Of international CO.
operation in transatlantic naviga-
ton was the iceberg patrol estab-
lished after the Titanic disaster
Nations whose ships piled the At
lantic contributed to an interna-
tional fund to finance a patrol op-
Grated by the United States. The
course of icebergs drifting south
into the shipping lanes was chartec
for years with a corresponding drop
in the accident toll.
How the CAA helps to operate
of the major international airline.
before the war. propOSed 80 routes