AERIAL TRAVEL

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 290, 3 September 1919, Page 7

AERIAL TRAVEL

WHAT IT IS COMING TO,

■ Lieutenant Edgar H. Garland, late of the Royal Air Force, who returned to Wellington by the Tofua last 'Saturday, leavce.again for America by the eame steamer at the end of the week.' 1 ' Lieutonent Garland, after an amazing career asa prisoner in-Germany, was sent to America as a member of the' British Military. Mission, and whilst there waa offered and "accepted the position of . manager of the Aircraft Implement and ■ 'Supplies Company, Inc., a , ,- company "' . founded by the millionaire, Mr. Henry Woodhouse, and which is making Atlantic City the first aerial port in America, ' if uot the world. Mr. Woodhouso has furc'hased 160 acres in Atlantic City,' and e intends to mako it a radial point to -■ air services to all-parts of the States and to the West Indies: Lieutenant Garlano. h*B already travelled over the Sante'Fβ railway route, and laid down a transcontinental course, with guiding electric lights every, five-miles and an aerodrome every'/ 50 miles the whole way. across. : This rente has already' been traversed-toy 'planes ■ carrying postal ■ -.matter." Lieutenant Garland states that ' *: there are. now 'plane services plying re- . "gulnrly between New York and Chicago, and New York and Washington," and ■wind and weather are no deterrent. He epeaki of a wonderful electrical instru- ■ ment that is to guide'aeroplanes lost , 'in _ ■'' a fog to the ae'rodrbme.they are seeking, \ and another contrivance, which, on pressing a button, will tell the direction and velocity of the wind at'any point to be covered by a departing'plane. Already aerial police are an establish- : ed fact in New York. Ho was admitted to membership whilst there. Whilst in Atlantic City, which , is visited by 3,000,000 every season, he saw the. President of Cuba arrive from Havana! by 'plane, , and land in a snowstorm.. In New York ha s.iw « hydroplane "stunting" over the heads of the people in Fifth Avenue, New. York, and when in Chicago an an- : chored dirigible.'advertising; motor tyres .cftught fire by accident., Two out of the six occupants cf- the cage saved themselves by using; parachutes—the Test were . ; killed. When.7ooft. above, tho earth the; engine fell witli a crash into a. big city .banking chamber, .killing,. 18. .people.-'; ' ; '.''-.' Lieu tenant ','Garland;;Said : that. America ■ made, thousands of aeroplauos, bit they ..were useless.for war purposes. The aeroplanes, which were, found -to be unsuitable for tho strenuous work of modern • war, cost i!10,O0O, and we're being sold in New York for ,£SOO each. At Atlantic City, everyone "went up ,, —old and young, and shy and'bold—all aeronauted, as easily and as merrily as-'they motored ■ before the war. There were hundreds of 'planes of a.ll kinds, like taxis, waiting about for business, especially during a fine spell in the season. One of the latest 'planes. is one with thin sheet steel planej,. without, stays of. any. kind—good Jittlo runaboute for one person—whilst there wcro big Pulliaan's witli luxurious seats for 50 p;'. ; «;igers, and a 'plane spread of over'., hundred feet and 6k i engines, any two ,ot' which would keep the bus aloft. ' *■