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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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$10,000 to train, andabout 300,000 motor and plane skilled mechanicsand other trained assistants. A few thousandsof the pilots have already been demobilized—and they are looking for positions. The first fewthousand mechanics who were deijiobilized foundpositions elsewhere. The rest are also lookingfor positions. The Aero Club of America andthe Aerial League of America and the aeronauticpublications. Flying, Aerial Age Weekly and AirPoiver are flooded with applications for positions.The Peace Program of the Army and Navy plansto use less than 2,500 pilots and less than 15,000men. The Army Bill, now before Congress, limitsthe Air Service to less than 2,000 commissionedofficers. The Navy Bill, now before Congress,provides for the retention of only 350 aviators inthe Navy, out of the present 10,000 aviators inservice. (3) Now that we have aeroplanes capable ofcarrying fifty passengers and dirigibles capableof carrying 80 tons of useful load, and it is a LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH 319
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NAVY DIRIGIBLE COMPLETING ITS I500.MILE VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO KEY WEST common occurrence for aircraft to fly 600 or800 miles across country between sunrise andsunset, it is necessary to draft regulations togovern aerial navigation and air traffic. The third problem is a complex one. Alarge body of laws and regulations, includinginternational conventions, will need to bedrawn up in the near future. In solving thisproblem all countries will profit by the sug-gestions set forth at length in the report ofthe Civil Transport Committee, recently es-tablished in England. A plausible solution of the first and secondproblems, proposed by Mr. Hawley, would be to organize a Government Aerial Transport Cor-poration, similar to the Grain Corporation, whichshall take over and use for aerial transportationall the aeroplanes, motors and equipment notneeded by the War and Navy Departments. TheGrain Corporation, it will be recalled, was cap-italized at $50,000,000, all the stock being ownedby the Gov

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