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*rf e <4 ,$j Besides Carnjin.0 Pas senders. Freight and Mail Planes Can be Put to Manu Uses,But There Are Difficulties to be Overcome. ^ few-drops then tiftsore, ttochy -cocns off vfMir'&g fingers w , . .fhelr places when ma- . 'jphines were available, . . !#md from 11 to 15 thou- •*" • J, ;^and trained or In train- V; ; • {Ing In this country, not , .1/ ^counting gupernumeraf . ales to the total of 100,- , . |p00 young American* ^'^trained for aviation. ; Now that the war la ^ >•" |®ver is all that training it 4iand its outlay to go for V .J. .(toothing ? To be sure j"we. are going to turn krom 4,000 to 6,000 fight- ' ling planes into mail :t7>ixawork; but here the ; ^ ^ractlcal man grows ' Wt rtuptlml and uo> T; - HAT are we going to do with all our expensively trained aviators when they come back from the war? From four to six thousand flew In United* States machines and other machines acove the firing line, with 8,000 others ready to take $ t The Doesn't hurt a felt I Drop a litfli I Freezone on an aching corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then yott lilt it right out. Yes, magic! • tiny bottle of Freeaoae costs bat a few cents at any drug store, but Is suffl- j dent to remove every hard com, soft • corn, or corn between the toes, and the calluses, without soreness or Irritation Freesone is the sensational discovery at a Cincinnati genias. ft Is wonderfcL o Sweetmeat intheW)rld!^W v. X I S**7 . « a s a r i e o rm#rS A r r & u n f c * . m- I ; J30I%5WF21zrrc^AB2^ra7f C^PZZ7y&7Z?lyF~ form •certain, writes Agnes C. Laut in New York in. • Can it be done? To what uses can we turn *6,000 machines and 30,000 men that wlU give returns a(^ all commensurate with the enormous out* lay? Hadn't we better figure all the outlay up And charge it to war and let it go at that, and not jbreak more necks? That Is the practical man's attitude; and the airplane manufacturers' attitude ' ds just what the motor manufacturers' was ten • years ago. ^ As well ask to what use can we put our five mil- -v lion output of motorcars? How can we use air- *• (planes In practical everyday life? Here i>» the ali» plane man's answer, and when you have pondered 'it you will not count very many airplanes going ito waste or.to spare: " <"*• - - Some of the. Possibilities.^ ' '~ Fast mail, fast express, light rush as perishable foods; fast transcontinental and ocean passenger service, joy riding, sightseeing to (places inaccessible by rail, such as the upper ^reaches of Grand Canyon or the Holy Land or the sacred city of Tibet; coast guard and revenue patrol, ocean survey work, weather bureau work, •exploration, such as across the pole or the hot tropical forests of Africa and South America, -which would not be hot by the air route; boundary Ipatrol, patrol or power lines and oil lines and gas •lines, bird's-eye sightseeing of cities, country to •city commuting, patrol of forests for fires, first aid "7' Jin medical work, quick relief in such catastrophes ias flood, fires, earthquakes; life saving at sea In* case of wreck, carrying supplies to inaccessible itnines such as those In the Klondike or on the ^Coppermine river or in deserts where lack of water bars out man and beast; mountain climbing' on wings, military and naval reconnaisance. For all these purposes no right of way is required, no rails, no grading. Both extreme heat -and extreme cold can be avoided. Any one of these »manifold uses would absorb every airplatie now •engaged for war. All the uses combined would demand and absorb as many airplanes as there are < motorcars--say 5,000,000 for this country alone. At this stage, the practical man has a touch of aerial vertigo. He is too polite to tear his hair out in handfuls; but--well, he Interrupts with, <4Show me!" Very well. Take malls. Mails are already being •carried between New York and Washington, and "New York and Chicago; and if all the war planes are absorbed for mall use, as 1,000 of them already have been assigned, malls will be carried before the end of 1919 between all the leading '* cities of the United States. Is this mail business going to be practical? Will . It pay? Will it save, say. some money, as'well as time? The rate talked of just now is 16 cents an ounce, or 43 cents a mile for 20 pounds, which is so vague that it leayes you all up in the air as to ultimate charges. This scale Is absurdly high. During the experimental period It is all right, tout when aerial mall routes are as common w rail «nail routes, how about charges? Profits in the Aerial Mail. f Here you are in the realm of pure speculation, but, basing your speculation on facts, the govern- ' ,ment could do more than save time. It could save money and make oodles of money by the air mall route. Suppose the charge Is 25 cents a pound, which is cheaper than oUr letter rate today. ----JLanu uiai-hiut-s asat-preseafc -const?acted 8 9 * I > carry at least half their own weight, but now that war requirements are past, their construction can be changed to lrft|>rpve vastly on that. They will , not need machine gilns. They will not need bombs.^*5 -- _ They will not need devices for quick ascent or * 'If-he does come down, all he will hit is water, terrific velocity or head-on Impetus and Impact in case of a charge head to head. They will dispense with all war equipment. That will give carrying capacity for other work. But take even the present proportion. One ma- Ltj~AS chine for bomb work can carry from five to six tons. There is another machine for ocean work that can carry eleven tons. Average the mail carriers or fast express planes at eight tons capacity. Eight tons are 16,000 pounds, and a rate of 25 cents a pound would give a daily revenue between Chicago and New York of $4,000. Now the government is not talking 25 cents a .pound. It is talking of from 10 to 16 cents an ounce. Yon caa figure the revenue on that basis yourself. • Or take the paisenger rate from Paris to London, $75. Suppose we have a passenger service from New York to Florida at $100. There is a machine capable of carrying fifty passengers from New York to Florida. That would be a revenue of *5,000. •;;v? But the cost of the machine and pilots? The Jittle machines require only one pilot, the big ones two. Pilots can be hired for from $100 to $200 a month, especially If they are permitted to retain their present military or naval status. The gasoline will not run at more than 32 gallons an hoar, at not less than 12 gallons per engine per liour. Of the machine cost, we have only war figure* now, with wages and material at war levels; but . after the war, men like Curtlss and Wright believe the machines with military equipment now running from $7,500 to $50,000 can be produced for industrial purposes at from $1,500 to $15,000. Now, I don't know of many locomotives and trains or .steamships that can cover all the way from one. third their cost to all their cost in the revenue of . one trip. That is, I don't know- of methods of transportation that can do so when freights are not at war levels. • After those figures, I don't know how the practical man feels, but I do know the airplane manufacturers are thankful to heaven the war is over 43 that they can put the airplane on as sound 4 commercial basis as any other industry. "But before the airplane can be as generally adopted for Industrial uses as the motorcar, just as much will have to be done. Everybody knows, or should know, that the motor was the inspiration of the good roads propaganda, which has run over the country like wildfire for ten years. Thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent on the good roads propaganda till It became a national slogan. Then millions were spent on the food roads themselves; and they have paid back Compound Interest on every dollar. . ' And do you mean to say we have to build good roads for the airplane through the air? Yes; that Is exactly what I mean, only they won't be roads, and you won't have to spend any millions on either the propaganda or the roads themselves. It will be a strictly and entirely • government job. Only instead of roads, it will be charts you will lay oat ; and they bed, grading,' political graft. >n° More Anxious Over the Land. The airplane man is far more anxious about air '"'lifer the land than air over the sea. Over the sea. On the land, if be comes down without a proper landing place, something as small as a stray cat, a fence post, a telephone wire, a two-foot ditch, a rain-sodden cow path, or a jdry desert arroyo might •wreck his machine. j^lt isnt proper that concerns the dyer. It is the hopping up place aad coming down place at Cfch end of his air route. That is what is meant by "Charting the air;" so you pted not have cold shivers about road building graft. The airman can no hiore follow the shortest distance between two points through the air with mall and fast express matter than a train can run without stations and switches at each end of the route. At these air route stations must be landing fields, hangars for the machines, gasoltne supplies, spare parts, charts, maps, weather forecast signals, engine mechanics, receivers for the quick .transfer and delivery of mail, express matter or whatever It Is. What types of landing fields? And where 6hall they be located--outside city limits or it In city parks cleared of buildings and trees for the ,f purpose? Another point; Special charts will hate to be prepared for the pilot to follow. For instance, crossing the Atlantic, going east, the airplane would, I am told by engineers, have to follow east : a little by south. Similar charts would have to be drawn tq guide the pilot during prevailing trade or seasonal winds. The Chinook winds of the Rockies, for Instance, would add from 20 to 50 miles an hour to a pilot's speed coming east and Impede his flight to the same extent going west. The deserts, the Mojave, Arizona, Mexico, Utah, have their dust storms from March to June. Which way do they blow? Montague, I think it is, says the brown fogs of the Atlantic can be surmounted at from 10,000 to 15,000 feet, but while the airplane will1 take the flyer above the dust, will It take him above the hurricane that creates the dust? The meteorological, bureau of Washington and the chamber of commerce of San Diego have done most up to the present time In charting air currents for aerial flights. It is an entirely new world, and it Is a puzzling one; for remember, the airplane may grift from its course, just as ships drift In ocean currents without the compass giving an inkling of it, and here again the army and navy could, an they would, a tale unfold. But if is in the region of the mountains that the lighthouses with powerful lenses are most needed for aerial routes. This air region is an entirely unknown world, and it is dangerous as reefs off Labrador for a landing place. Cases are on record (n which fighters in the war interlocked wings and- came down and stuck In a treetop without so much as a scratch on the skin of either pilot. But quite afe dangerous as treetops and rocks coming up to meet you through the floor of your car are the gusty air pockets above all mountains. It is not known yet whether the air above mountains Is as gusty at night when the sun is not creating upcurrentsbut If by day the sun creates Niagaras of air, and If by night you may run Into a blizzard of snow, say, above Pike's Peak, there Is a lot to do In charting air roads above the Rockies before we get that section of our transcontinental air route as safe as flight above the ocean. Still, as late as 1880, the fur traders of the mountains scouted the possibility of even wagons ever crossing the Great Divide. Today, trains, motors and wagons cross all sections of the Divide with less thought and danger than pedestrians cross Fifth avenue. New York; and by 1930, it is a safe wager with your son that airplanes will do the same. But thi« is not all there is to charting the air, not by -a long, long shot. How about direction signals? ' Rule* of the Road Needed, ffjch machine must always be given its own space, or twice Its own space, to pass or meet another machine, but how about direction signals? Do you pass to the right or left? What are the penalties and who pays them, if you don't take the correct side and a collision results? Who has the right of way, the coming-in machine or the going out? What rate of speed is to be allowed for certain levels, and who is to police the air and regulate the traffic? Did you ever think what a gorgeous streak of adventure an air robber, a Captain Kidd of the sky route, could have If he made off with a plane good for eleven tons cargo and 167 miles speed? You might catch him on a peak of the Rockies, or he might have cached his loot In the moon. You may smile, but are any of these possibilities more unlikely than were the actual achievements of the airplane In the war? The apprehension of the airplane in Industry being chancy because its engine may go dead or Its controls go out of whack does not alarm the airman. Dufll engines, dual controls and two pilots will minimize that risk; but there is a very definite apprehension in the airman's mind. He knows the airplane is going to leap Into industry as spectacularly as the motorcar, all right. He wants the air charted and the rules of the game established before the argosies of countless winged fleets are in the air. 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