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COMING GENERATION PILOT'S HOPE.

[By Israel Klein.k

It isn't the present generation but the next one that will decido: whether flying will be as popular as motoring is to-day.

Furthermore, we may treasure the feeling

of safety on land, but take it from perhaps the most Intrepid aviator In the United States and the most experienced.

there's no comparison between

about it than anyone That's a sign of what

uf

expert in the future.

More Scared of Taxis.

the

James H. Doolittle.

danger of ice formation on wings,

fre

THE NEW ROAD LAWS AT HOME.

How the Limit is Evaded.

Ramsgate, Apr. 22, fand, with the increased vigilance The removal of the speed limit] shown by the police over motor- for private motor-cars has not conches, now that private motor- completely taken away the duties ears were no longer governed by of police patrols responsible for limits, the signalling system had tripping on the roads. They are been evolved among drivers talk now concentrating their attention Ing over meals at the end of the on trade vehicles, and even more journey,

on motor coaches, for which a

limit of 30 miles an hour is now he said, "and cannot keep to a 10 "We have to make good time," applied.

.

mile limit. We have to do the

In the air and whatever there is of it on the highways. It is the coming generation that will know it

experience. It by actual The assurance comes from Major James 11. Doolittle. fearless, stunting Jimmie" Doo-

The result has been that motor-return journey London to Rams- little who has left the U.S. army

coach drivers, many of whom gate each day, and if we kept to become Director of Aviation

break the speed-limit regulations below 30 miles an hour all the for the Shell Petroleum Corporn-

on every journey which they time, we should be tion. The other day he received

muke, have evolved a complete

ut work for the coveted Harmon trophy for

Bignalling system, by means of about 12 hours a day. Inciden- his valuable services to aviation,

which they warn colleagues of tally, there would probably be no especially his courageous for fly-

passengers if we took five or six ing experiments that promine safe

poller traps. strate and wires promise soon to flying in bad weather.

of Having just made the journey hours for the journey, and tips Doolittle has my hopes for the be dispelled with the use

If, for one are always searco methods und

by coach from London to Rums reason or another, the trip is a appliances that adult of to-day, for, he repeats several organization

now gate along a roud operated by slow one. Since we must exceed, the old adage, you can't teach an working on.'

many different companies, each the limit, we must also protect old dug new tricks." But the

We'll Watch the Instruments. with regular services two or three

ourselves DN much youngster?

as possible "Ask the boy of 19 to-day about The use of modern instruments, times a day, I have seen this Byg aviation," says the fans pilot, he adds, also helps assure safety tem working in all its aimplicity from pullee interference."

Law Flagrantly Broken "and he'll be able to tell you more for the dyer, as he himself has and effectiveness.

50. proved various experiments. Whenever the couch passed The distance from London to we may But here comes up the point police patrols, whether they were Ramsgate Is about 75 miles by whether the modern motorist, who set out as an orthodox "trap" er rond. The coach in which I Goesn't even watch the few instruwere merely isolated constables, travelled covered the distance in "As for safety in flying as comments on his automobile dash every coach driver proceeding in a little less than three-and-a-half pared with motoring, why I got board, will keep an eye on more the opposite direction encountered hours, including a wait of fifteen may grey hairs from sitting behlad instruments on his aeroplane.

during the next five or six miles minutes at, Lenham, where prac- those wild New York taxi drivers: "When the flyer knows that was warned of the watching policetically all coaches on the Thanet as they dodged in and out of watching his Instruments means traffic and missed pedestrians and a matter of life and death, he'll which driver of the coach in service halt for refreshments, and Including nearly an hour taken up ther ears by inches: flying from keep a close eye on them, you may

The system was as follows: Aladen districts de Vauxhall, Ken- in crawling through such traffic- city to city was a relief and a be sure," the noted pilot saya.

"It's all 'n matter of education and [soon as the other conch was near pleasure to ine.

Camberwell, Peckham, enough our driver flashed his nington, necessity."

Aviation may be perfected to right hand and made a "slow New Cross and Lewisham before the point where not only small, down signal, concluding by turn-the open road is reached, not to safe, easily operated and pleasanting down his thumb. The passing mention towns such as Maidstone. Only two developmenta are pes of planes will be manufae-driver would acknowledge with af Canterbury. Margate and Broad-

stairs. nerded to make flying as popular tured, he adds, but where some of wave of his hand, followed by a as motoring in Dolittle's opinion, the instruments may be dispensed similar signal if he, too, had Obviously to achieve such a One is a system of making up for with, ferving only those that are recently passed police patrols or high average speed, the cour the time lost by motoring to and absolutely necessary to keeping if all were clear for some miles driver is compelled to travel fast

behind him. with In from airports, and the other is up in the air.

over long stretches of road in the the design of ships that will y Even to-day, several manufacthumb.

open country. On several f- ferent occasions the speedometer safely under all weather condi- turers are making planes designed

Increased Vigilance. tions. Both, he believes, are in especially to appeal to the indivi

of the coach which was clearly a fair way toward realization, dunt owner. Were it not for the

This performance was repeated visible, from the inside vents, "First,"

he says, "there is pro-present business depression, Dov- mise of ushur such small planes little comments, purchase of such regularly throughout the journey. hovered between 40 and 50 miles many Dinutes Discussing the autogyros for taxi service planes would make up a consider-

system the together. told. between air fields and the tops of able proportion of the aviation driver

me that it hnd city office buildings, in order to

business.

originated from an ordinary wave Doubtless the majority of motor get transport passengers and aero-

So he expects this to boom as of the hund between drivers who conch drivers are highly skilled, plane owners to airports and back on as people have the money passed each other on the road their brakes. ure powerful and in as short a time is possible.

again to buy. And when they do, each day. Later they began to their vehicles ma" be safer than "Secondly, a great deal has the people will be buying their warn one another of police traps many, but the law applies a speed- been done toward assuring safe own planes for as little as $1,600, by calling out as they passed. limit, and that law. is flagrantly fying under all conditions. The he concludes,

This, however, was too obvious, Innd regularly proken.

"Aeroplanes are safe for fiving ven to-day. But they're making them even safer, and easier and plensanter to fly."

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