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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. 
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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. ’ 
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