Air Transport FactsWorld Speed Records by Airplane
High speed airlines promote safety, reliability and greater efficiency in operations. They permit the pilots to circumvent bad weather areas more easily, and they are able to fly farther for every hour in the air.
Safety in landing is no wise impaired by higher speed because of improvements which bring landing speeds and other characteristics well within the practical requirements enforced by the Aeronautics Branch of the United States Department of Commerce.
Air transport, with the manufacturing units of the industry, uses more than 50 varieties of raw materials and about 1,000 different kinds of fabricated materials manufactured outside the industry proper.
"The transport airplane manufacturing plants are practically dependent upon the air lines to supply a market for cargo and passenger planes and support the constant engineering research and development. Thus the air lines help maintain an important branch of the aircraft industry which would be called upon for the greatest possible number of planes in the event of war, and so are potential reserves for the national defense. If war were declared, the contract air mail lines would provide fast, reliable transport service needed from the first day of the emergency, for mobilization and thereafter for movement of troops and indispensable military (naval) supplies."
Dec. 1, 1933
REAR ADMIRAL E.J. KING
Chief of Bureau of Aeronautics, U.S. Navy