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Into the Army went the biggest, most important draftee yet-the entire U.S. air-transport system. The Presidential order gave the Army control of 19 privately owned airlines, some 275 sleek transports, millions of dollars' worth of vital aircraft parts, hangars and machinery, and 24,000 skilled workers (including 2,500 badly needed pilots, 5,900 crack mechanics and ground men). The Army did not take over the airlines to increase their efficiency-that has been tiptop for years. The reason was urgent need: Army air-freight and passenger traffic has priority on grounds of overwhelming volume alone...
...China might still not be altogether cut off. The U.S. is now equipping a great air-transport line, to fly war goods from India to China. The Japs were never able to ground China National Aviation Corp. by air attack. C.N.A.C.'s best pilots are helping to establish the India-China service, and they think that it can be maintained and steadily increased, unless the Japanese capture the bases at both ends...
When this "convoy" system has been set up, next projected step is in air-transport system, which ought to be far more efficient and far speedier than uncertain Chinese gasoline, mule-and coolie-propelled transport. Chinese in Washington are desperately trying to obtain priorities for 24 U.S. transport planes, which will operate from Myitkyina, Burma, the railhead north of Mandalay, to a point two-thirds of the way up the Burma Road...
...air-transport crashes have ever left so many live witnesses. But this did not solve the mystery. Had a cable parted? Had the tail structure failed again? Had some treacherous atmospheric lasso twisted up from the gullied Montana slopes to haul Flight Four to earth? To these and other questions, Inspector Niemeyer was at week's end seeking the answers...
...given hour spent as a passenger-carrying pilot in scheduled air-transport operation is about 88 times more likely to result fatally than the same hour spent on the ground. Pilots who carry mail & express but no passengers run a risk about 95 times normal; Army & Navy pilots, 170 times normal; Marine pilots, 480 times normal...