MR TRANSPORT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 12

MR TRANSPORT

ORGANISATION IN AMERICA SIDNEY. Mnwh IS. Lcoturin? during rhe sereomne oi films qi'riTi': • * (lapses oi Air rrans port iii I'.-K-A..*' ?it *M»sw>t Aerodrome Clubhouse, C&fftsin C. F. Hughes Yi.O.. Australian Flying 'Corps, president oi the Aero Chib of Nov, South "Wales, said that neople here had no rotieep-

"lion Of tin -perfection to w-hich the American passenger and ni vices had attained. l>.ta! accidents

were eotnparativelv f«f, notyvitfeSTWidhu* that tli'O 'Sierra Xevndn, with it* multitude of 10,000 to 12,00M5, high peaks, w> crossed daily, ami the loss of mails ivas of rare occurrence. The services wore maintained by a bewildering variety of machines. in some trt which the radiation of hot air was so perfect 1 that the wearing of tyingclothing was unnecessary. The me• iority of the pilots specialised in cor tain Twite*, generally of about .'*od miles, and so well did they know the ••road" that when mists obsenrwl the mountain tops they thought nothing of flying comparatively low and utilising the valleys as air-ways. In America everything was being done to assist the air services by the s.'r-oorts. with administrative offices,

restunrants. and proporly-oqi takinpoff and landing- gronn.ls. in ad dition to which a chain of woath bureanx »nd beacon Sights had beet established.

The films shown amply bore out al that Captain Hughes said ns to thi obstacles that had been overcome 11 making air-flights an every-day oc enrrenee in America.