Identifier: bellvol24telephonemag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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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 11.2 in 1936 to 2.1 in 1944.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 this route theworlds first regular night air-mailservice was inaugurated on July i,1924. In February, 1925, the Postmaster
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Air traffic at and near the airport is controlled by radio telephone from this C.A.A. control tower tween Washington and New York.Army planes and Army pilots wereused in this initial undertaking, andflying was done only in the daytimeand in good weather. In 1922 thePost Office Department undertookexperiments in night flying. The air- General was empowered to makecontracts with commercial airplanecompanies for carrying the mail.This quickly attracted private capi-tal, and a number of air transportcompanies were organized and start-ed operations within the next two 192 Bell Telephone Magazi)ie AUTUMN

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