Opportunities in Aviation

Inconsistent hyphenation in the original document has been preserved. Click on the image to see a larger version. OPPORTUNITIES IN AVIATION OPPORTUNITY BOOKS OPPORTUNITIES IN AVIATION By Lieut. Gordon Lamont Captain Arthur Sweetser OPPORTUNITIES IN THE NEWSPAPER BUSINESS By James Melvin Lee OPPORTUNITIES IN CHEMISTRY By Ellwood Hendrick OPPORTUNITIES IN FARMING By Edward Owen Dean OPPORTUNITIES IN MERCHANT SHIPS By Nelson Collins HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK Established 1817 At work on one of the F-5-L type of seaplane at the Naval Aircraft Factory, League Island, near Philadelphia. The F-5-L is one of the largest type of naval seaplane, and flew from Hampton Roads, Va., to Rockaway Naval Air Station, L.I. OPPORTUNITIES IN AVIATION By Captain ARTHUR SWEETSER U.S. Air Service Author of " The American Air Service " and GORDON LAMONT, Late Lieutenant in the Royal Air Force, Canada Frontispiece HARPER & BROTHERS Publishers New York and London Acknowledgement is made to the New York Evening Post for some of the material which first appeared in its columns. Opportunities in Aviation Copyright, 1920, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published, January, 1920 To that great new gift which is so soon to come to us, this little book is enthusiastically dedicated by the authors. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE Introduction i I. War's conquest of the air 1 II. The transition to peace 11 III. Training an airplane pilot 24 IV. Safety in flying 39 V. Qualifications of an airplane mechanic 52 VI. The first crossing of the Atlantic 63 VII. Landing-fields—the immediate need 76 VIII. The airplane's brother 85 IX. The call of the skies 96 Addendum 107 INTRODUCTION ToC Any ordinary, active man, provided he has reasonably good eyesight and nerve, can fly, and fly well. If he has nerve enough to drive an automobile through the streets of a large city, and perhaps argue with a policeman on the question of speed limits, he can take himself off the ground in an airplane, and also land—a thing vastly more difficult and dangerous. We hear a great deal about special tests for the flier—vacuum-chambers, spinning-chairs, co-ordination tests—there need be none of these. The average man in the street, the clerk, the laborer, the mechanic, the salesman, with proper training and interest can be made good, if not highly proficient pilots. If there may be one deduction drawn from the experience of instructors in the…