European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 by Ira Henry Freeman yank staff writer youve just finished dinner in the Airport restaurant at new York when the last Call for passengers on the 8 London express comes Over the As you walk through the bustling administration you recall that every 45 seconds theres a transport leaving or Landing at this big the double decked plane you go aboard is far larger than the transports the army used during the War it takes a Crew of 11 to run about 100 passengers get on some in the Day coach with the rest in the Sleeper which has Pullman Type after your ship has left the two mile youre surprised by the Lack of vibration and you Stop a cute stewardess and ask How High the plane Twenty thousand she your ears Are not ringing you have no trouble no distress when you that because the Cabin is pressurized to the atmosphere of she tells you at it was pressurized to sea time Doest you find a fellow Raveling Slick Chick and buy her a drink in the lounge on the lower toward Midnight theres a Brief refuelling Stop at then you let your reclining chair Way Back and fall while the transport runs Down its easting at 300 up in the sunlight in your eyes wakes you very the crowded washroom reminds you of a while you Are eating breakfast from a tray the stewardess has the plane sits Down for a Quick Call at in about an hour and a dark Forest patches give Way to buildings an occasion Al ribbon of Road to a web of someone says that the smoke fog Cloud there hides when you quit the plane at Croydon for the bus into you Are just 12 hours out of new although the time difference makes it 1 in Only half a Day of your two week vacation has been lost in your ticket Cost or All this and too Only 45 minutes and four Bucks farther that is no Buck Rogers vision of the next Gen it is a composite preview of what the american aviation Industry and Public agencies Are seriously preparing for immediately after the As Early As 1946 if the government per whether Japan is finished off by then or the giant planes to make possible this Cannon Ball service across oceans and continents Are Al ready designed costing a total of Mil Are contracted the manufacturers say that if the government thought it Wise to release they could get the first new airliners ready by next construction of Idlewild larger than any existing Field and 1 of a string capable of handling the Mammoth has been started in new tables of Lon distance passenger not much above prewar tourist steamship have already been submitted to the Federal government for like a lot of other development of air transportation has been both hindered and helped by the in prewar there were 358 transports on Domestic with 18 companies competing Over perhaps Miles of scheduled in the foreign there was Only one american pan american the worlds with 100 planes assigned to 98 000 route Miles in 56 in 1941 the leading airlines were ordering larger planes and planning extensions of service faster travel and cheaper the attack on Pearl Harbor knocked All their plans into a steel the army and Navy transport services grabbed hundreds of planes from commercial lines and ripped out chairs to make room for bucket seats or All transport planes produced after that were the commercial transports just before the War were mostly Douglas dc3s known in military service As two engine 21oas Senger planes weighing 13 tons and having an average cruising Speed of 180 there were also some four engine like the Boe ing Clipper a 42ton 72passenger flying and the Boeing Stra Toliner a 33pas Senger land plane used on overseas routes for the army air transport a Fleet 6 the dc6 similar to the army is expected to be one of Thi principal passenger planet right after the War the aviation Industry promises a new York Tolondo trip in 12 hours to Cost the passengers Only 4 cents a of Many thousand transports has been manufactured since Pearl 70 percent of them the government airplay procurement program has progressed so Well that about 200 have been re turned to civilian during the the at has spread a network of nearly air Miles Over the Only four years after commercial transatlantic service was the at flies the North Atlantic both ways on on hour headway throughout the the Navy air transport while a much smaller also de serves a great Deal of the credit for our aviation development since Pearl experience gained in the three years of War has resulted in advances in Airport Light weather forecasting and navigation by radio beams and All of which should pay off after the War in More and safer night flying As Well As Blind thick weather As for leaders of the Industry boast right now that no place with a Landing Field need be More than 60 hours flying time away from any other place on the habitable As a matter of the economic and political problems aviation May be tougher to solve than the purely technical this was brought out at the recent International con Ference in to which 52 nations sent Dele Gates to discuss the Best and fairest Means of handling global nonmilitary air the american position was that commercial routes and schedules should be set everywhere by open Competition among the some european the British expressed fear that our head Start in aviation would give us a competitive advantage that other coun tries could not these delegates pro posed that the postwar Field be divided in and Vance so that All competitors could be sure of having a whatever the final it seems Clear that no nation wants to see the Rush for postwar aviation business develop into a cutthroat which would be a source of friction among Friendly postwar volume of travel the civil aeronautics administration Calls for firs class air stations in the Continental United states after the there Are now 286 cities certified for biplane but Only 112 of these Are in Good no existing com Mercial Airport could accommodate the enormous land planes scheduled for 1947 and Only five years after the end of the War Domestic air travel will be seven times the1940 and planes will be Accord ing to h director of business research for the Curtiss right corporation he will amount to 110 million contrasted with 3 million in american our leading Domestic Pas Senger and cargo will add 40 percent to its prewar total of calling at 87 cities in 32 United air trans Continental Western air Eastern air lines and other important companies All propose Simi Lar expansion of their Domestic service in plan to enter or expand their inter National besides the Many thousands of Miles of routes in the Canada and the civil aeronautics Board has mapped 20 major routes total ing Miles of foreign airways it wants american planes to Fly with passengers and freight after the Welch chairman of the says that perhaps most of the Over seas passenger business will be in the it is estimated that passengers a year will travel Between Europe and the United states by As Many As monthly during the warm ten years from round trips Are expected to be clocked annually across the North constituting half of All inter National air seventeen of the great ships As yet inbuilt Are scheduled to make 50 departures a week for pan american airways alone from new York Detroit and Chi Cago for european cities during the Peak of a postwar summer vacation just As before the three quarters of All airline customers Are expected to be thirty seven percent will travel on family Busi Ness and 44 percent on Holiday the rest on com diplomatic and miscellaneous the scramble for this business is already on everybody wants to get into the More than 370 american concerns have applied for franchises to give service Over foreign and Domestic these include not Only airlines but also steamship railroads and even bus one of which wants to run helicopter shuttles As an Extension of thirty ranging in Grade from private to lieutenant in the aah and have formed he Norseman air transport to give 50 new he Nai Servic t0taling 2500 Miles after i postwar speeds and fares reason More people have not flown up to now is the High Cost of air travel faster planes will mean lower fares the key to aviation Progress in the postwar world is fast planes the whole transport Industry is concentrating on increased size with the addition of Only a few of the High Speed 100passenger pan for could increase its Pas Senger capacity in latin America 100 or five times the greatest volume carried by sea and air combined in the Best prewar freight capacity would be increased 18 times the 1941 pan american also figures that three 100seat planes could carry twice As Many Pas sengers Between California and Hawaii As Ever travelled by sea and air in the Best year up to the 200 new planes ordered from manufacturers for postwar delivery to Domestic trans port lines will take passengers in Day coach 30 percent More than All 18 Domestic fleets combined could carry in prewar the full list of 225 postwar planes ordered so far will have an aggregate capacity 60 to 75 percent greater than the entire prewar the new planes will be Able to aver age 13 hours aloft compared with 10 hours for prewar and to run 900 hours be tween engine overhauls As against 700 in this extra stamina has the same effect As More or larger by raising average cruising Speed of the postwar planes from the 180 Mph of the prewar dc3 to 300 or even 340 the world shrinks in a special study for the Brookings Parker Van Zandt declared that before Long no place on Earth will be More than two Days look at these space eaters the Douglas aircraft company claims for its proposed dc6 a coast coast schedule of 8 hours with a full pay Load As against 17 hours for today fast trains take three Days in a Chicago would be brought within 2 hours 40 minutes of new the dc6 would Roar into London from new York in 11 hours 56 including two intermediate the latest commercial record is 14 while be fore the War the flight took 26 on the Queen you bounced for 4 at Between new York and the Boeing aircraft company asserts that the a commercial adaptation of its would make it possible to leave new York after lunch and have dinner on the West or to Board the plane in new York after break fast and arrive in London before even counting the difference in National airlines has filed a schedule with the cab which Calls for a flight Between new York and Miami in the dc4 in 4 As against nearly twice that time with present equipment on the proposed Douglas dc7 or the immense Lockheed you could Wing Over the Miles of open water Between the Golden Gate and Honolulu in half the 16 hours it takes steamship time is five the great planes would make the Long journey from York to Calcutta in 40 hours 10 instead of nearly six Days As at they would go rolling Down to Rio in less than 20 clipping 46 hours 10 minutes off the present they would whisk you from san Francisco to Manila in 23 hours a five Day trip by pre Pearl Harbor plane or to Australia or new Zea land in one Day Flat from new York to Bermuda in 3 Bur How about the moola for All this global gallivanting listen to Juan pan american airways president in the air age we Are no american who works will world travel beyond his we propose to move boldly ahead to provide mass transport a in travel a after the War Johannesburg Africa Brazzaville Australia Teheran Istanbul Moscow i Vladivostok Algiers Casablanca North America Minneapolis Chicago Charles bar Retros Bello Hor Zante new Orleans a Nevil a Barranquilla South America Iquitos