Kansas City is building an airport to cost $900,000, and Omaha is spending $41,000 for a like purpose. Both K.C. and Omaha are raising their funds by the floatation of bond issues. Other cities are taking similar steps to avoid being put on an airline sidetrack. The larger cities already equipped with airports are either enlarging their present aero parks or are hastily constructing new ones. Eastern citires in particular are rusnhing to complete their airports as soon as possible in order to get on the trancontinental lines. Many towns have had their growth handicapped by not being on the main railroad lines across the continent. Will these same cities grasp the present opportunity to become a main station on a trans-continental airl line or will they delay their progress again by disregarding the new transportation? Swamping MacCracken Thos figures have undoubtedly increased while this was being written. The Motor Age moved fast, the Air |
Age will move even more swiftly Keeping Out Incompetents The aerial death toll does not yet threaten to approach the automobile slaughter figures but the government is making the air as safe as possible thru enforcement of air traffic regulations and the licensing of all flyers engaged in interstate commerce as well as others who want licenses. Apparently the qualifications are not unduly stiff, for only one out of the first 100 applicants failed to pass. This flyer was practically blind in one eye and had no judgement of distance. Aid For Transportation Lines Heretofore, lack of financial support has held back the development of this phase of aeronautics in the United States, while European operators have already taught a great percent of their countrymen its advantages. |
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