. Bell telephone magazine . the flights of all airplanes flyingover the Federal airways. Over Coney Island, the next checkpoint on the route, a similar proce-dure is followed except that after theinterchange of information betweenthe captain and the radio operator the necessary information as to winddirection and velocity, barometricpressure, other nearby planes in theair, and directs him to the proper run-way at La Guardia Airport. Afterhe lands and taxis to the position as-signed to him, he switches back to his 190 Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN own radio operator and reports histime of land
. Bell telephone magazine . the flights of all airplanes flyingover the Federal airways. Over Coney Island, the next checkpoint on the route, a similar proce-dure is followed except that after theinterchange of information betweenthe captain and the radio operator the necessary information as to winddirection and velocity, barometricpressure, other nearby planes in theair, and directs him to the proper run-way at La Guardia Airport. Afterhe lands and taxis to the position as-signed to him, he switches back to his 190 Bell Telephone Magazine AUTUMN own radio operator and reports histime of landing. Thousands of messages of thistype fill the air today and they allhave to do with the operation safelyand on schedule of more than 500commercial transport planes and the principal measures of the ade-quacy and efficiency of the facilities and its gen-eral system of control is the fact thata recent Annual Report of the CivilAeronautics Administration showsthat the passenger fatalities per 100,- • i. This young woman, a radio telephone operator for a commercial air line, is conversingwith a pilot in the air and recording his report thousands of military aircraft oper-ating on scheduled flights over morethan 35,000 miles of Federal air-ways. Back of these messages is theelaborate communication system andthe efficient personnel of the CivilAeronautics Administration. One of 000,000 passenger miles flown bycommercial airlines has decreasedfrom in 1936 to in the same period, airplane flightsalong the Federal airways have mul-tiplied many times over. This extensive and efficient traffic 1945 Guardians of the Skyways 191 control system of the Civil Aeronau-tics Administration has grown froma modest beginning. Scheduled airtransportation in the United Statesmay be said to have started in 1918,when the Post Office Departmentopened the first air-mail route be- way between Chicago and Cheyennewas equipped with revolving lightbeacons, and over thi
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