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The Civil
Aeronautics
Administration
(Speech by Brig.-Gen. Donald H.
Connolly, Administrator of Civil
Aeronautics, before the luncheon
session of the annual convention.
National Aeronautics Association.
Tuesday. June 6. 1941. at the Ken
tucky Hotel, Louisville. Ken
tucky.)
The role of the airplane in mod
era war has been dramatized
more during the past week than
at any time since the fall of
France.
It was dramatized at Crete and
in the Atlantic. At Crete an en
tire invading force was borne by
air across open water and landed
on an island. At Crete, land-bas
ed aircraft inflicted heavy losses
©n too many British naval units
to leave a pleasant impression.
And in the Atlantic, aircraft of
several types, largely American
built. wrote the doom of the dread
r.aught Bismark. They made it
plain that the very word “dread
r.aught” now is obsolete; for the
battleship of today certainly has
cause to dread one thing at least.
Lockheed airplanes spotted the
Bismark in a Norwegian inlet.
Catalina seaplanes shadowed her
from the clouds. And when she
had outrun the British ships, an
other Catalina found her and dir
acted the avenging forces to her.
Then British torpedo planes from
the Ark Royal so disabled her
that she could only wait her
boom.
The same week saw the Presi
dent of the United States asking
Congress for another three bil
lion dollars for military and na
val aircraft.
I know that the devotee of civil
avialion views these develop
ments with very mixed emotions.
First there is our natural resent
ment for any one who makes war
as a nat onal policy. We want
©nly to be let alone to pursue our
peaceful commerce. Second, we
love our individual freedom, and
any military effort always involv
es some degree of civil regiment
afion. Third, we hate the destruc
tion and the intolerance that go
with war.
On the other side, Adolf Hitler
—without intending to—has put a
silver lining inside his dark
cloud. He has forced recognition
of the airplane and its potential
ities, and to be perfectly blunt
about it, his evil deeds have put
aviat m forward 20 or 30 years.
I am sure you will not accuse me
of bein.g a Nazi for saying that.
He has misused the airplane. He
has taken an invention which can
and eventually will make good
neighbors of the nations of the
world; and he has used it to kill
and enslave his neighbors. But to
cope with him, we are being fore
ed to develop aviation beyond
our wildest imaginings.
Two years ago. in this country,
there were 50,000 workers in the
aviation industry. Next year there
will be at least 400.000. Two
years ago this nation’s aviation
products were worth $125,000,000.
Last year they reached $550,000,
000 and next year they will ex
ceed three billion dollars in val
ue.
Two years ago there were
about 25,000 civilians pilots in
the United States. Today there
are 100,000.
We started out last year under
somewhat forbidding circumstanc
es. All sorts of dire predictions
•were in the air concerning the:
future of civil aviation. We did-1
u’t pay much attention to the ru
mors. We simply went to work.
We had experienced men to work
■with — largely the same good,
sound career men who had made
the fire record of the Civil Aero
nautics Authority. They were
working under the same rules; in
fact, the same rule-makers were
making the rules.
In the early months we had
some unlucky breaks. There were
a few accidents in the pilot train
mg program, and a few accidents
on the airlines. We checked and
double-checked everything we
knew to check. But the prophets
of disaster set up a great out
cry. and in very short order we
were being investigated by both
Homes of Congress.
I am convinced now that the
industry itself, after it had had a
reasonable period to look us over
and measure our intentions by
our acts, was relieved of most of
its misgivings. At least I have
been so informed by a very com
forting number of leaders in all
phases of aviation, including
some of the most active oppon
ents ol the Reorganization Or
ders. We are not going to get
complacent about it, but I want
to say here that I appreciate the
general fairness and the sport
man's attitude which this indus
try has shown to us the past year.
We have tried to deserve it, and
we will keep on trying.
This seems a proper time, as
the fiscal year nears its close, to
review briefly what has been ac
complished by the Civil Aero
nautics Administration since last
Julv.
Last summer, as most of you
know, we faced a 900 percent in
crease in our funds for civilian
pilot training. You will remem
ber, also, that in some quarters
this was called too much. It was
said a large program would be
unsafe, and that it could not con
tribute substantial help to the air
services.
Most of you know what happen
ed. Tiiis record-breaking pro
gram is coming through, substan
tially on schedule. More than 900
Paining centers are operating to
day. Eighty percent of the col
leges are giving regular academic
credit f r the ground work,
which means that aviation is now
a recognized part of the average
curriculum. This program preduc
es private pilots at the rate of
more than 3,000 per month, and
turns out 750 secondary trainees
per month. Today these boys are
volunteering in the Army and
Navy air services at the rate of
over 500 per month. At the last
check-up, our pr. gram was sup
plying 22 percent of all the flying
cadets recruited by the Army
from all sources, and 27 percent
of those going into Naval avia
tion.
You know, also, that it is only
large-scale “incubator-’ of flight
instructors the country has; and
of course you know that because
it is so far-flung, it has done
mere to bring aviation intimately
into the daily lives of millions of
Americans than any other force.
If you want to know how the
military people feel about it at
this time, I can do no better than
to quote part of what Brig. Gen.
Davenport Johnson of the Air
Corps said to an appropriations
committee less than two weeks
ago. (1 quote;)
“The CPT Program is unques
tionably assisting the Air Corps
in the execution of its current ex
pansion program. By far the most
important factor in this connec
tion is the training of flying in
structors for the civil contract
schools that are being utilized by
the Army in the initial phase of
instruction. The present expan
sion to a 30,000 pilot production
rate per annum will require the
acquisition of at least 2,000 addi
tional qualified civil instructors
by our civil contract schools. The
scarcity of qualified instructors
is a matter of serious concern.
The numbers of American pilots
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$35,000 Fire In
Machine Factory
WHEELING. W. Va„ June —
Fire swept through three build
ings of the Wheeling Machine
Company, causing damage esti
mated at $250,000. Fire fighter.'
made an effort to keep the blaze
from spreading to nearby stor
age tanks.
Four firemen suffered burns
and injuries while fighting the
blaze, which was first noted wher
the pilot of an airplane dived sev
eral times toward the burning
structure as a warning to Watch
man Clark Haynes.
Federal Bureau of Investiga
ti >n agents were called to invest:
gate the origin of the fire, since
‘.he machine company hold gov
ernment defense orders.
that are being used in Canadian
schools and the attractive offers
made by the British to ferry pi
lots have only served to further
reduce the availability of exper
ienced personnel. I can say with
out hesitation, in the absence of
the CPT program, it would be
necessary for the Air Corps to es
tablish school? at considerable cx
pense for the specific purpose of
training these instructors. The
Civil Aeronautics Administration
has fully realized the needs of
the Air Corps in this respect and
they are cooperating in every
possibly way to furnish the num
bers of instructors needed for
our expansion. Only through the
CPT efforts would it be possible
to train these men and give them
the necessary experience in ac
tual bying instruction. The num
bers cf instructors being used
in the CPT Program provide a
proper reservoir for our civil
schools and the necessary
steps have been taken by the Ad
ministration to insure the pro
per rotation of flying instruct
ors through the CPT Program in
order that instructors diverted to
military schools can be promptly
replaced. I cannot overestimate
the importance of this factor to
the success of the Air Corps pilot
training effort.
"As you gentlemen well know,
the demands of the aviation in
dustry for trained pilots have
largely been met in the past by
the military trained pilot. As it is
no longer practicable to release
these piots from the military ser
vice, the CPT Program must
necessarily meet this demand.
The requirement for ferry pilots,
airline pilots and test pilots is
one that must be met as we pro
gress on the problem of National
Defense. I feel that the Adminis
tration is contributing and can
continue to contribute greatly in
this direction.
"An increasing number of OPT
primary graduates are constant
ly being accepted for military fly
ing training. Approximately 22%
of all those entering our civil fly
ing schools have successfully com
pleted the CPT primary course.
I can corroborate the testimony
of General Connolly which, in
dicates that only 12% of the CPT
graduates are eliminated in our
elementary schools as compared
to 39% elimination rates for stu
dents who have not had the ad
vantage of CPT course.
"This makes it possible to ach
ieve an increased production
with the same facilities. Advan
tage of this factor is being taken
in our present plans for expan
sion.” (To be concluded in the
next issue of the Nugget.)
Highway Men
End Meeting
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The Juneau meeting of the In
ternational Highway Commission
just concluded, was extremely!
u-eful asit enabled members to
■heck several doubtful ponits on
:he route between Whitehorse
ed Fairbanks, the section in
■ !'.ich the American commission
is chiefly interested.
This was the report of Commls
si; ners as they passed through
Juneau enroute to their homes.
Several difficult places on the
route, particularly the crossing
of the White and Donjec Rivers,
were scouted from the air. The
rivers, typical Alaska glacier
streams, have beds which vary
greatly from year to year, pre
' senting engineering problems in
road consrtuctioo. The Commis
: sion, however, located suitable
! terrain which will not take the
! highway far out of its course and
1 which will enable crossing both
[ livers at narrow points where
they flow through canyons.
Juneau Approaches
While in Alaska the Commis
sion had an opportunity to study
two possible approaches to Ju
neau and gain information as to
their practicability and advisabil
ity. One lies in the Taku River
Valley and the other via Haines.
Th s latter route would entail ex
tending the Glacier Highway
north to Berners Bay and extend
ing the Haines-Boundary road
both southward toward Juneau
and northward to intersect the!
International Highway route j
near the east end of Kluane Lake,
This road would follow the old,
Dalton Trail route. A ferry would
be necessary between Berners
Bay and the head of Lynn Canal.
Returning from Fairbanks late
Saturday evening, the members j
said that city will no longer be
abnsidered the International!
Highway terminus. Since con-:
struction has begun on a defense
road connecting the Anchorage
and the Richardson Highway sy
j stems, the terminus will now be
! the “Alaska road system” just as
I the southern terminus will not
be any particular point but the:
entire American highway system.
All Together
The Commission was very hos
pitably received by the people of
Fairbanks. After they arrived at
the Interior citt, the entire Ameri
! can Commission was in session
i for the first time in its history.
I Member James Carey met the
i party at Whitehorse.
Carey flew south by PAA Lode
star to Seattle with Chairman
| Warren Magnusen, who slipped
| in an air trip to Sitka to inspect
the Navy Air Base. Former Gov.
Thomas Riggs will stop over in
Juneau a few days to visit
friends. Donald McDonald re
mained in Fairbanks.
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