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Embry-Riddle Company - Sky Traffic Newspapers 4-1929 The Embry-Riddle Company Sky Traffic 1929-04 The Embry-Riddle Company Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.erau.edu/embry-riddle-company Scholarly Commons Citation The Embry-Riddle Company, "The Embry-Riddle Company Sky Traffic 1929-04" (1929). Embry-Riddle Company - Sky Traffic. 2. https://commons.erau.edu/embry-riddle-company/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Newspapers at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Embry-Riddle Company - Sky Trafficy b an authorized administrator of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. YOU WANT A Production Job l -' L__ - ~~~~......._ ......... __--"''----"-'-'- ~-- -------=""------'-------~ BECAUSE Fairchild sold more dollars' worth of ship is flight tested before it is sol<l, and every ship commercial air transportation units in 1928 than any carries an engineering log to facilitate rendering service other n::a:rnfacturer, Fairchil<l is far in the lead in the to Fairchild users. We believe that Fairchild planes can applicatio:i cf modern production methods to the manu be serviced more rapidly and more economically than factere of airplanes. any other planes now being built. Every Fairchild "71" performs like every other "71" Whether you are a training school operator, a trans because these ships are built to rigid specifications of port operator, or a business executive who is prepared design, materials, and construction. All parts are inter to buy a plane, we submit that a regular production job changeable, including wing and tail surfaces. At its will serve you better and more economically. price the Fairchild "71" represents the greatest value For detailed information concerning any or all of the in a single- motored transport plane now being offered current Fairchild models-the "21," "41," and "71" to the public. write or telegraph Fairchild Airplane Manufacturing This is equa~ly true of the "41" and the "21." Every Corporation, Farmingdale, L. I., New York. HE FAIRCHILD "71" seven-placecabinmonoplanefor trans T port, mail, and commercial uses . A larger passenger and cargo capacity (145 cu. ft.) than any other 400 h.p. plane of its speed. Folding wings. Floats or skis installed in a few hours. Fine interior finish. Sound-proofing. Heater. Disposable load 2500 lbs. High speed 138 m.p.h. Cruising range 750 miles at 110 m.p.h. F A R c H I L D AIRPLANES r S. K Y TRAFFI C r-'fHE long afternoon's cross V ~ountry 1s over . the haze creeps up from the horizon and lights wink from a million win dows . and at the Gibson a thousand restful rooms welcome you with service and conveni ences that make the fatigue of the hop just a memory happy landings' HUcrBL RALPH HITZ, Managing Director CINCINNATI 2 SKY TRAFFIC ~------ CONTENTS 1 Page Editorial . 3 United States vs. E;uropean Lines (by Burt Schellenbach) . .. .. .. .. ..... 4 Technical Information . ... ..... .. ..... .. .. 5 The Executive Looks at Aviation (by Powel Crosley, Jr.) •.. .... .. .. .. ..... 6 The Embry-Riddle School of Aeronautics (by Wright Vermilya) ...... .. ...... .. .. .... 7 Along the Road from Then 'ti! Now (by Ted Hubbell) .. ... ... .. .. .. .. .. .. 8 Passenger Schedules and Tariffs ..... .. ... ... ..... ..... .. .. ..... .... .. .. ..... .. 9 Contract Air Mail Schedules .. .. .. ..... .. ... ............. .. ..... .. .... ... 10-1 1 Using the Air Mail (by Carl Anderson) . ...... .. ...... .... .. .... .. ... 12 Lighting the Airport from the Air (by W. E. Stillwell) . ... .. .. ....... .. ... 14 Give 'er the Gun (by Ted Hubbell) ... ... .. .. .. ... ... ... ... 15 The Flying Personnel .. .. .. ...... ... ... .... .. .. .... ... ...... ... .. .. 16 L Pointing the Aecial Camern Towatd Bu''""' (by Butt &hdlenbaeh) . ..... ....... ... 18_J THE EMBRY RIDDLE COMPANY T . HIGBEE EMBRY, President SUSAN H. EMBRY, Vice-President JOHN PAUL RIDDLE. General Manager, Secretary and Treasurer D. A. SCHRYVER, Comptroller E. W. Chatfield, Ass't. Comptroller Helen Bauer, Secretary to President and General Manager OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE William Nutty Manager- Stanley C. Huffman Joseph C. Maher Assistant Manager- W. R . Vine Edward Doome Operations Clerk-Harold Pielemeier SCHOOL OF AERONAUTICS Eugene Jones · Director-Wright Vermilya PILOTS Assistant Director-C. 0. Meguire C. C. Wehrung Director Ground School-W. H. Cunyus Frank Merrill Maxine Wiegand, School Secretary Thomas Hill Mary Sellers, Records Sam Sharpe PROMOTION James Douglas Director- Ted Hubbell Earl D . Barnes Traffic Assistant- Carl R. Anderson Chas. Vermilya Advertising and Photography- B. W. Schellenbach Harold Distlehorst SALES MAINTENANCE Manager-J . H. Stewart Assistant Manager- Rex Harker E. P. Davis, School Representative Hangar Foreman-Don Griffith John Sutherland Assistant Hangar Foreman-J ohn Millholland John R . Johnson Ben Craycraft Lloyd Easterling Lionel Eckberger '-';, ;- £ Irene Backer James Clark OFFICE AND RECORDS -Lionel Stephan M anager- J . M . Clements Ellis Jones Theodore Dugan, Bookkeeper Vernon Dennison Martin Devaney, Bookkeeper M. C. Hall Mae Jordon, Bookkeeper Ray McNay Ruth Huff, Information Desk Miller B. Allen Eva Jung, File Clerk Wm. D. Hankey Daniel O'Leary, Night Clerk Robert M artin John Battie, Porter Albert Shultz E ckford Hodgson REPRESENTATIVES Russell Garrigan Chicago-Frank Ware, Gray Goose Hangar, 63rd & Cicero Chester Huffman Indianapolis-D. A. MacConnell, Stout Airport, Mars Hill Samuel Carson Ashland-Ed. Burgess-Tel. 59. Earl Purdy Portsmouth-Ray Jones, Raven Rock Airport Dominick Angieri Cleveland-A. G . Schnitzer-Tel. Main 31 11. -- C,ye) E D I T 0 R I AL~ (\\]HAT if our today's difficulties do over pair. To admit the void impassible, to surrender '- w shadow our yesterday's triumphs and to dispair, is neither the spirit nor the methods of obscure the bright visions of tomorrow. those great hearts who have gone before. If by any What if the jolts of misfortune threaten to jar sacrifice of ours- if by any knowledge we may loose our judgment from its moorings. '\x.?hat gain- if by any plans we make, this great indus if our plans upset and whole days and weeks of try, to which our lives are devoted, is advanced and effort seem to crystallize into a single hour of the people safeguarded, we are willing to do ancL concentrated bitterness. In aviation we must make. L et us not forget that in the grease and always keep foremost in our minds those sunny grime of the shop-that in the sweat and dust of summits of success typified by our remembrances the factory- that in the routine and dullness of of flying upward through fog, rain and darkness, the office, there is responsibility in -every way relying upon the instruments and knowledge of com.parable to that of the actual pilot and that our ship until we burst through above the clouds these too . are integral parts in the picture of the and fly in a world apart, with the sun shining whole. Let them not go unsung! on the fleecy white mountains and valleys, which Gf/C) so shortly before held terrors and anxiety for us. Permit our toast to aviation. In the past on OJ course, the road has hills to climb as well as the front line in France, we remember, " To valleys to cross, but what pioneering road ever Death, And The Next 'One T o Die;" - - It is was smooth? Often we come to a chasm of dis changed. Today we toast "To Life! A nd The couragement through which runs a torrent of dis- Glorious Future OJ Aviation!" 4 SKY TRAFFIC United States versus European Lines B y BURT SCHELLE N BACH HE commerci'al use of the airplane for passen bomb-carriers, with competent crews all trained to ger traffic began in 1919, when, in Paris, handle them, from her presmt operating passenger Farman bombers were converted into passen lines. The all-metal) unkers, carrying twelve passen ger planes and used on sight seeing tours gers, with fu ll equipment even to t he extent of meals over the battlefields of France . The fact that this served on board ; the mammoth Superwal, built by venture was entirely successful prompted, before the Dornier, whose four engines easily lift a hundred close of the year, a conversion of British bombers for a passengers from the surface of a terminal harbor - - cross-channel, London to Paris service. Simultane this fleet alone, were it backed by proportionate battle ously, the Germans came to the front with a remodel craft, could make Germany the supreme power of the ed lighter-than-air craft, the Bodensee, which was world to-day. This information is given with a put into passenger service between Cologne and points purely informative purpose in mind, and it is hoped on the upper Rhine. that it will be received as information only . · In America, the first transportation service was Probably the fact that Europe's air lines operate conducted by the U. S. Army Air Service, who pion over comparatively short distances is a deciding factor eered the Dayton, Ohio-Washington-New York in the minimizing of their rates. Besides this, their schedule for official use. But American Big Business volume, or passenger-miles, reaches a high peak on must have speed. Money and securities accumulated account of short hauls with large ships. · costly interest even while speeding from city to city Those who are striving against heavy odds to oper in mail trains. Thus was made apparent the founding ate a passenger line in this country often wonder in factor of air transportation in the United States-the desperation why the good, solid, Babbit-type of Air Mail. Backed by the Post Office Department, citizen who firmly declares that hy will "keep one foot the first line, between Washington and New York, on the ground" breaks down and flies from London to was put into operation in 191 8. Although not an Paris or a similar journey when he goes abroad. This outstanding success, this route showed the feasibility is the most discouraging fact; not bad weather, not of air mail service, so it was followed by the New York lack of equipment, nor lack of passengers, but the Chicago line.