Transportation and communication in the United States 1925

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Identifikator:: 1767626746

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-195828

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Transportation and communication in the United States 1925

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Print. Off.

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: III S., S. 508 - 549

Digitisation:: 2021

Collection:: Economics Books

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£ g > Im x i . No by > ve * ¥1 J h 3 - oo I Ty 0 ie) - Ey 2 2 > —_ J 2 ht = ~~} 549 mations for hire, while others took over the work of crop dusting, it patrol, timber cruising, and aerial photography. notable development in the air-mail service was the inauguration 16 night service between New York and Chicago on a nine-hour dule. The greatest American achievement of the year in air- » performance was that of the United States Air Mail Service; ered a distance of 1,681,350 miles in day flying and 839,044 S in night flying with but one fatal accident, at the same time essfully completing 95 per cent of its scheduled flights. he most important factor in the speeding up of the mails during year was the enactment of the contract air mail law authorizing Postmaster General to enter into contracts with private concerns he transportation of mails by air over selected air routes. This offers an opportunity for connecting up the principal cities in a vork of air-mail routes and has given an impetus to the perfecting ommercial airplanes from the point of view of capacity and Y- It has also created considerable activity on the part of muni- lities and commercial organizations in connection with the es- shment of landing fields for this service. Following its passage Y Petitions for air-mail routes were filed, air-transport companies ted, and bids submitted, and by the end of 1925 nine contracts been let and three other routes had been advertised. a Teport issued by the joint committee on civil aviation of the artment of Commerce and the American Engineering Council “vey of conditions in aeronautics at home and abroad was made, attention was called to the fact that the delay in development vil aviation in the United States is due to the need of a definite status and an established Government policy to encourage the and industria] uses of aircraft, as well as to a need for commercial aft and equipment best adapted to profitable commercial obers. { 1 Importance to aeronautics and to thase establishing landing 18 the American Aeronautical Safety Code issued through the rican Engineering Standards Committee, having been prepared he Society of Automotive Engineers, the Bureau of Standards, ‘ePresentatives of all important aeronautical interests. This presents a statement of the best practices in design, construc- and operation of airdromes, airways, signals, balloons, airships, arachutes, traffic and pilotage rules, and qualifications for airmen. © year 1925 is noteworthy for the greatest awakening of American c Interest in the question of aeronautics and aeronautic develop- ‘since the first plane was flown over 20 years ago. ’ | i 7 ") “rw -r > x oo 3

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