FUTURE OF AVIATION

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 90, 4 July 1930, Page 5

FUTURE OF AVIATION

“STUNTS” UNNECESSARY. SAN FRANCISCO, May 14. Hazardous “Stunts” in the flying realm have just about served their purpose, Colonel Charles Lindbergh indicated in an interview in New York. “There is a marked tendency on the part of pilots and the personnel element of flying organisations to plan more practical flights,” he said. “I see no reason for a long non-stop flight when it would be more feasible to make an intermediary stop and re-fuel—that is, if such a stop could be made. Pioneering flights have carried out a definite purpose. But the others yet to come will be of a more practical nature.” Colonel Lindbergh denied that he planned to attempt a flight from Paris to New York, as was recently reported. “I have no plans,” he asserted. “How about women and flying?” he was asked. The slim, bronze-faced youth smiled broadly, the cleft in his chin deepening. “I see no reason why there should not be as good a future for women in aviation as in any other Industry. “The general trend is toward faster and larger airships, towards monoplane construction and the building of allmetal planes,” said Lindbergh. “For passenger traffic multi-motor ships are the best. They must be able to maintain altitude at all times with one motor dead.” He expressed the opinion that air transportation “will come to higher altitudes.” How high he would not say—that depending upon experiments yet to be made. The weather is better at a higher altitude, the air smoother, and planes are capable of making higher speed, lie said.