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Next Decade to See Changes in Air Travel
That Seem Fantastic to All but Aviators
This Glenn Martin super-passenger liner is not a plane of the ‘‘far
future”—rather it belongs in the ‘‘near future” for plans for its production
already exist.
But Most of Us Will Live
To Learn Every Prophecy
Has Come True!
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
C ALIFORNIA high school
youngsters will spend two
weeks’ study - vacations in a
China reached after a fast hop
in a plane or a huge dirigible.
The graduating classes of Hud
son’s Bay Eskimo elementary
schools will fly to New York or
Chicago for supervised study-
visits.
Half-naked natives from the
forests of Malay will fly to uni
versities in California or Aus
tralia and fly back to the native
villages as agronomists and
physicists.
“Impossible! ” you say — or
perhaps only: “Not likely! ”
As a matter of fact, it’s not only
possible but it’s entirely probable.
You can take the word of a man
who knows!
He is Harry Bruno, who grew up
with American aviation and with its
early heroes. If any man is quali
fied to forecast what’s ahead in an
America that has always pioneered
in flight and that will probably be
even more dependent on air travel
in the future than it has in the past,
he is that man.
So when he makes such proph
ecies as those given at the beginning
of this article, don’t just laugh them
off. Instead, read these words of his:
“All this—and more—can be accom
plished with the planes and airships
that exist today. But the world of
tomorrow will fly greater, faster,
more economical flying machines
and airships than now exist.”
You’ll, find those words in a new
book, "Wings Over America—The
Inside Story of American Aviation,"
written by Harry Bruno and pub
lished by Robert M. McBridge and
Company of New York. It’s not
only an interesting book because it’s
the “inside story” told by a man
who, as one of the six original “Quiet
Birdmen” and as today’s foremost
aviation publicist, has first-hand
knowledge of every memorable and
spectacular event in the develop
ment of America’s aerial power. It’s
also an important book—important
right now when America is engaged
in a life-and-death struggle. For, as
Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, who
wrote the introduction to Mr.
Bruno’s book, says:
“The United Nations will win this
war through superior science, or
they will not win it at all. We must
cut loose from the past and embark
upon audacious new strategies, with
air power as their core. We must
utilize our superior technological set
up to spring intellectual surprises,
in machines and strategic innova
tions, on the enemy. And thus it
will be that the dreamers, the pio
neers of yesterday’s aviation will be
come the realists and leaders of to
day and tomorrow. The dynamics
of air power are so intensive that
we must plan for tomorrow if we
want to be on time today. Fortu
nately America has the leadership
to achieve this. Harry Bruno tells
us where and why.”
Such being the case, let’s “cut
loose from the past” (so far as our
ideas of the limitations of air travel
are concerned) and “embark upon
audacious new” voyages into the
future with Mr. Bruno. You can do
that by reading the last chapter in
his book—“The Next Ten Years.”
Always Look Forward.
At the outset of that chapter he
says: “The gods of aviation have
one rule which all must obey: al
ways look forward.” Then he ad
monishes us to “Look ten years
ahead to a post-war world in which
the defeated Axis gangs are a thing
of the past, and you see one of the
most powerful reasons for each and
every one of us to buckle down and
do our utmost to guarantee this
victory. Thanks to aviation, this is
one of the most glorious ages in
world history.”
Besides his predictions about the
California high school youngsters,
the Eskimo school children and the
half-naked natives from the forests
of Malay, Mr. Bruno foresees also
the day when:
“Shepherds will fly from the crags
of Tibet to universities in Vladivos
tok and fly back to their native vil
lages as doctors.
“Plane loads of professors will
take off from Madrid to train South
American Indians in new universi
ties established near new airfields
in Colombia, in Venezuela, in Peru.
“The whole world will become the
oyster of any American with a two
weeks’ vacation—and the low cost
of airplane and airship travel will
make a most enlightening vaca
tion in Norway or India a reality
for the Detroit mechanic or the Bos
ton librarian.”
Planes of tbe Future.
How will they be able to do all
this? Here is the answer in Mr.
Bruno’s words:
“The big planes of the next decade
will glide through the stratosphere
at speeds of 600 mijes an hour and
more. They will enable a man to
breakfast in New York and have
dinner in Paris on the same day.
Citizens of Detroit and Denver will
be able to do exactly the same, even
though their planes will fly non
stop from their home towns to Eu
rope and South America.
“Their planes will not be patterned
after the huge flying boats that now
cross the oceans. The new planes
of 1952 will be huge stratosphere
land planes, whose sealed, oxygen-
equipped cabins will carry more
than 200 passengers in all the luxury
and comfort travelers enjoyed on
luxury steamships like the Queen
Mary and the Normandie. They will
be powered by banks of gasoline-
PROPHET — Harry Bruno, who
“grew up” with American aviation,
makes some startling—but “too con
servative,” so say his friends—pre
dictions about air travel during the
next ten years.
burning engines of 5,000 horsepower
each. But the use of gasoline, in
aviation, will some day be as ob
solete as the era of steam in auto
mobiles. Electric engines of 10,000
horsepower, receiving their impulses
through rays transmitted from
ground stations will supplant gaso
line engines within two decades of
the end of the war.
“Passengers with more time, out
for a more economical ocean cross
ing, will ride in the comfortable
helium-filled dirigibles of the new
world. These giant cargo and pas
senger airships will cross the Atlan
tic in about 36 hours, carrying fast
freight and about twice as many
passengers as the fast planes.”
If you decided to sell your auto
mobile because of the inconvenience
of gas rationing and wait until after
the war to get a new one, don’t
count too much on becoming a
“motorist” again. For, according
to Mr. Bruno, automobiles “will
start to decline almost as soon as
the last shot is fired in World War
II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will
be as well known as Henry Ford’s,
for his helicopter will all but re
place the horseless carriage as the
new means of transportation. In
stead of a car in every garage, there
will be a helicopter.”
Why? Well, these marvelous ma
chines can do everything an auto
mobile can do, do it better and be
sides take you up in the air, far
from the gasoline fumes of the
crowded highways. Look at this pic
ture of a Sunday afternoon pleasure
“drive,” as Mr. Bruno paints it:
“The family will take off in its
helicopter from the backyard or the
roof hangar, climb straight to the
level authorized by government reg
ulation, fly on to their destination,
and land on earth, on a roof top, or
on water—as fancy dictates. In
stead of wheels, the craft is mounted
on rubber floats—inasmuch as it
rises and descends like an elevator
anywhere, wheels are not needed.
These ’copters will be so safe and
will cost so little to produce that
small models will be made for ’teen
age youngsters. These tiny 'copters,
when school lets out, will fill the
skies as the bicycles of our ycuth
filled the pre-war roads.”
But ’copters aren’t the only ma
chines that your children and their
children will be driving. For, says
Mr. Bruno, “the great sport of our
youth will be motorless flight. Glider
meets will be held all over the coun
try, much like the sailing meets of
other years.”
However, the glider won’t be a
machine for “pleasure driving”
only. It will become an important
economic factor in the transporta
tion of the future. “Powerful cargo
carrying sky trucks will tow trains
of cargo carrying gliders—since all
but the bulkiest slow freight will be
carried by airplane or glider-towing,
cargo-carrying dirigibles. The glider
will also become the great transpor
tation medium of commuting."
Trains of Gliders.
Which means that when you de
cide to visit Aunt Emma back in
Syracuse or Cousin Will out in Ore
gon, here’s how you’ll go:
“Glider trains, towed by a lead
passenger-carrying plane that will
fly hundreds of miles, will drop glid
ers carrying local passengers at air
ports all along the route. Thus, a
trip from New York to Albany, for
instance, would be made in a glider
attached to the New York-Buffalo
sky train. Passengers would board
the train at the overhead station of
Rockefeller Center. The sky-train,
which started from LaGuardia Field,
would pick up the Albany glider at
Rockefeller Center (and pick it up
in flight, too) and continue on
toward Buffalo. Over Albany, the
conductor-pilot of the Albany glider
will cut his craft loose from the
train and glide to earth. By the
time the lead plane reaches Buffalo,
he will have dropped all of his glid
ers along the route.”
“But all of these machines can
still fall down and kill people—no,
sir, I’ll stick to good old Mother
Earth!” you say. The aviation of
the future will become increasingly
safer, Mr. Bruno believes. He
writes: “All aircraft will have tele
vision weather survey sets, enabling
them to see and hear weather con
ditions along the routes that lie
ahead. In this manner, they will be
able to fly above or around storm
areas and add to the comfort of
each flight.
“All airplane factories will be en
tirely underground, air-conditioned
and deep enough so that no aerial
bomb can ever hurt them. Airports
will also go underground and what
will appear to be an empty field will
suddenly become active when a
plane lands on it. A quick taxi to a
designed spot, and down will go the
underground hangar as the surface
sinks under the operation of a large
elevator. An international police
fi rce, armed with the newest type
of air weapon, will have no trouble
maintaining order and understand
ing.”
Such is Mr. Bruno’s preview of
“things to come.” Do you find, them
hard to believe? Then reflect upon
these final words:
“These predictions are a lot more
conservative than the flat prediction,
in 1900, that before the century was
over man would build a machine
that would really fly. If anything,
most of my friends—men like Igor
Sikorsky and C. M. Keys, who read
this chapter, for instance—mark the
predictions down as being too earth-
bound, too conservative. And thii
should tell you that mojt of you will
live to see them all come true!”
Aviation Pioneers Made Possible Heroic War Exploits of Today
America will never forget the
courage and heroism of such World
War II heroes as Capt. Colin Kelly
Jr., Lieut. Edward H. O’Hare, Gen.
Claire Chennault and Gen. James
H. Doolittle, who wrote their epics
in the air and signed them with their
honor. Let us not forget, however,
the names of the pioneers who made
these war exploits possible—not only
the Wright Brothers, Glenn Curtis,
Billy Mitchell and Admiral Byrd,
with whose activities we are all
familiar, but the many other auda
cious men whose reputations have
been obscured. Here is a partial
list of the roll of honor: Galbraith
Perry Rodgers, the man who flew
across the continent in 1911 and one
of the outstanding aviators of pre
war America; Jimmy Taylor, the
unassuming, little known flying
genius who for 20 years was one
of our ace test pilots; Lincoln
Beachy, a great exhibition pilot who
made tests that saved thousands ol
lives; Vernon Castle, a brilliant war
time aviator who is remembered (il
at all) as a dancer; Roscoe Turner
a speed demon with a useful pur
pose; Clifford Henderson, the Bar-
num of aviation, who did more thar.
any aviator except Lindbergh to at
tract American attention to flying.
These Americans gambled theii
necks, their brains and their money
that aviation might grow.—“Wings
Over America.”
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By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST, D. D.
Of Tbe Moody Bible Institute of Chlcafo.
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
Lesson for April 18
. Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
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PETER AND JOHN IN
GETHSEMANE
LESSON TEXT—Matthew 26:36-46; Johr
18:10-12.
GOLDEN TEXT—Watch and pray, that yt
enter not into temptation. Matthew 26:41.
The morning of that great day
when atonement was made for the
sins of all the world was nearly at
hand. In the darkness of the night,
following the institution of the Lord’s
Supper, and the words and prayei of
our Lord (John 15-17), He and His
disciples came to the Garden ol
Gethsemane. Taking three of His
disciples He went deeper into the
shadows to pour out before the Fa
ther His soul, “exceeding sorrowful
even unto death.”
It is a sacred scene, and we feel
a sense of awe and reverence' as
we approach it, feeling that we .too
would prefer to tarry outside the
garden, did we not feel that we
should try to understand a little bet
ter what took place that night.
We are especially concerned with
Peter and John, who with James
shared our Lord’s sorrow up to a
point, and then so sadly failed Him.
We note that they had a
I. High Privilege (Matt. 26:36-38).
To be asked by Christ to stand by
in this crucial hour was to be en
trusted with one of the greatest
privileges a man could ever know.
As there swept over His holy soul
a great tidal wave of sorrow unto
death, He wanted and needed their
fellowship. As Dr. Maclaren puts it.
He “grazed the very edge” of hu
man endurance. “Out of the dark
ness He reaches a hand to feel the
grasp of a friend, and piteously asks
these humble lovers to stay beside
Him; not that they could help Him
bear the weight, but that their pres
ence had some solace in it. His ag
ony . . . they could not bear with
Him, but they could watch with
Him, and that poor comfort is all He
asked.”
Undoubtedly they intended to do
it. Jesus bore witness that their
spirit was willing (v; 41), but in spite
of that, and all the boasting of Pe
ter at the table that he would never
desert Him, they failed Him in His
hour of need. It was
U. Sad Weakness (w. 39-46).
Our Lord’s prayer showed great
faith in God the Father, the terrific
recoil of His soul against being
blackened with the burden of sin,
and a complete surrender to the Fa
ther’s will. Here was true denial of
self and submission to God, but it
was nonetheless an appalling expe
rience for our sinless Lord. So He
went back for fellowship with His
three trusted friends—and they were
asleep.
Jesus recognized that the weak
ness of the flesh caused them to for
get and slumber. We may profit by
a little closer scrutiny of the scene.
Was it just a physical tiredness?
That doubtless entered in, but was
not Jesus even more tired than they
could possibly be? Was it not rather
the weakness of indifference? They
did not yet fully believe that their
Lord was about to die. 'That was
why they were quickly scattered in
unbelief when He did die. This mat
ter was not so serious in their sight,
so it was not difficult to yield to the
tired body and the deep, quiet dark
ness, and fall asleep.
We are in much the same posi
tion. Danger—grave, spiritual dan
ger—threatens our souls, our fami
lies, our nation. We who call our
selves Christians have declared our
readiness to stay awake and alert.
But we hav become at home in
this world, the enemy soothes us
with the assurance that all is well,
time goes on and nothing too seri
ous happens. So, we go to sleep
right in the midst of danger, and
sleep on even though the Master
awakens us again and again.
But now the scene changes. The
mob has come to take Christ, and
then the sleepy Peter, now much
awake, indulges in
III. Foolish Courage (John 18:10-
12).
The act of Peter was courageous,
even to the point of recklessness.
What chance had he against a great
armed multitude? It was the natural
impulse of a loving heart, but it was
misguided and foolish.
What did he think to accomplish—
to deliver Jesus from those who
would crucify Him? That would have
meant no death on the cross and no
redemption. The hour for the offer
ing up of the Son of Man as Saviour
had come. Peter might have learned
that with our Lord in the garden,
but then he was asleep. Christ who
had hitherto walked right through
the crowd of enerhies (Luke 4:30),
now submitted. In the dark hours
of the night He had been prepared to
drink this bitter cup (v. 11).
We need to learn from this expe
rience of Peter’s lest we make the
same mistake. There are all too
many in the Church who are asleep
as far as its spiritual struggles and
opportunities are concerned, who
are eager to wield a reckless sword
in outward conflict. In their folly
and ignorance they do more harm
than good, and yet they think they
are working for Christ.
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