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POST WAR AVIATION The eyes ef future young people will be turned toward the skies. Their thoughts will be in the air, for undoubt- edly the airplane will pisy an impertant role in the postwar world. The plane, which can cause so much destruction during wartime, can provide new impetus to transportation and furnish jobs to thousands of returning servicemen. The large transpo that designers have promised us ticnizc foreign trade. quickly and easily fre Fruit, which is picked Maine on the follewing able goods to prices within there is, the reach ef t planes of ttday and the larger ones for the future will revolu- can be carried much more Freight . the Atlantic Coast tc the Pacific. Florida, can be marketed in today in day. Not only will this allow perish- be mere widely distributed, but it will lower all, for the mtre demand and production lower the prices will be. ' Commerce between nations will be greatly accelerated. Freight that has had to travel by way of sea can be flown in a fraction of the time to its destinatien. When people can get access tc products, they arp tempted tv buy. This will be especially true in the years after the war'when the demand for goods fran War-torn countries will be great. t Changes in iviction are going to be ctnfined to large corporations or usiness enterprises. Many civilians are already planning ftr their own private planes. These may be modeled after the type We see ttday, but more prtbably the majority will be helietpters because if their many advantages. The time required tu learn tv pilot one is small--three hours at the most. A helicrpter does nrt need a large field in which tc take eff or land. It can gc straight up er dawn, or ntver in the air. Its possibilities fir ftrest rangers or fire fiehters are limitless. To so tv New Ytrk fer dinner cr Q Q to Flurida ftr a week-end ls almost unbelievable, but not improbable. ' The success of pest-war aviatien is guing tc depend nn the use be which planes are put. .If their users can see in them a means tt further transptrtatien, to increase exports and inptrts, te increase our economic security by providing constructive jobs fir thuusands ef men, to bring pleasure,' then, indeed, will the airplane Lf the future lie a blessing to mankind. If, un the Lther hand, the citizens ef ttmerrow are no more successful in cantr-lling their use than they have been--if speedier, more pfwerful airplanes are develfpcd to be used tu blast cities intv piles cf rubble, tc heap death and destruction fn millions cf innrcent victims then the airplane will becnme a curse tw its very inventrrs. Let us htpc we will be a little wiser than our ancestors. - X David Plympton '46
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