I U.S. FAMILIES...SIZE AND NUMBERS
Air Taxis Fly Over
Four Million Passenger
Miles Last Year
The age of the “air taxi” is
here, according to an article in
the current issue of “Planes,” of
ficial publication of Aircraft In
dustries Association of Los An
geles, Calif.
Some 82 operators of light
planes have banded together to
form the National Air Taxi Con
ference and today are system
atically carrying passengers from
the nation’s main air hubs to
neighboring towns that do not
have scheduled air service. They
are doing so at competitive rates.
In some cases, air taxifares are
lower than those of surface cab
transportation. For example, one
large manufacturer is located 71
mile from the nearest city with
major transcontinental airline
facilities. To get from the airport
to this plant costs a passenger $40
by surface airport cab and takes
two and a half hours. But the
passenger can take an air taxi
and be at the plant in 30 minutes
for $30. And, as with the surface
cab, additional passengers share
the fare proportionately.
The air taxi business is snow
balling. Based on 1952 fiscal re
ports by 17 of the member-oper
ators, total air taxi business for
the past year grossed an estimated
$650,000 in passenger revenues
plus an additional $67,500 for
carrying freight. These figures
represent an approximate 12,500
air taxi trips and in excess of 4.5
million revenue passenger miles.
New York Judge May
Become GOP Chairman
WASHINGTON, UP) — Former
Rep. Leonard W. Hall of Oyster
Bay, New York, indicated after
a White House conference Sat
urday that he would take the Re
publican National Chairmanship
if it is offered to him.
He said however that he could
make no specific comment on whe
ther he would take the job as long
as he is wearing the robes of a
judge. He is surrogate, or judge of
wills and estates, in Nassau
County, New York.
Hall said the chairmanship
came up briefly in his conference
with President Eisenhower.
The Republican National Com
mittee has been called to meet
here next Friday to elect a suc
cessor to Wesley Roberts of Kan
sas who resigned under fire on
March 27.
Hall was endorsed Friday by
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and other
New York State Republican lead
ers.
Another presidential caller Sat
ui'day, Gov. Arthur B. Langlie of
Washington state, said the chair
manship was not discussed. But
when asked by newsmen if he be
lieved Hall would make a good
chairman, Langlie replied he had
known Hall one year but regarded
him as a man of great experience
who “sure would” make a good
chairman.
Langlie added he did not know
what was in the President’s mind
or in the mind of the National
Committee.
A recently - developed turbojet
engine is two and one-half times
as powerful as the combined four
engines of a World War II heavy
bomber. Yet, its weight is less
than one of the older bomber’s
older engines and propellors.
Wrecked Jet Found A$
Air Force Grounds All
F-94 All-Weather Fighters
ANCHORAGE, (ff! — Wreckage
of an F-94B all-weather jet fight
er, one of three lost in Alaska
last week, was found late Friday
atop snow-covered Mount Susitna
where it had smashed into a
canyon wall.
The pilot and radar observer,
only men aboard, were killed out
right.
The crashed jet was found af
ter search planes spotted a hole
in the snow near the mountain
top.
The discovery came shortly
after Lt. Gen. Joseph H. Atkinson,
head of the Alaska Command,
and Air Force officials ordered
all instrument flying by F-94B
jets curtailed in the far north.
The ban will remain in force
during an investigation to find
out if instrument trouble caused
any of the recent jet fighter mis
haps. *
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