A war hero and pioneer flyer takes
a considered look at the future and makes
some amazing predictions.
Any attempt to visualize,
within 50 percent of
reality, what will be
accomplished in the next 50
years of aviation would, in
the eyes of his friends,
qualify one as a fit subject
for a m'ental hospital. I can
speak from experience, be
cause 25 years ago I ventur
ed such a glimpse 25 years
into the future.
Although several of my
predictions fell short of what
actually has taken place, my
description of multiengined
transports, trans-oceanic air
services, wide-ranging high
flying military aircraft, and
efficient helicopters sounded
to many like the outpour
ings of an unbalanced mind.
But, with this possible
indictment vividly in mind,
I will make the following
predictions for aviation in
the next 50 years.
Long before that time has
passed, military aircraft,
both fighters and heavy
bombers, will progress from
turbo-jet engines at the
speed of sound to the more
powerful ram-jet engines
that will drive speeds up to
2,500 to 3,000 mph.
- Even these will be only
stepping stones to rocket
driven guided missiles that
will make obsolete our pre
sent concepts of fighters and
bombers. Carrying a much
further developed and more
devastating atomic bomb,
these war machines will
be controlled electronically,
and will require human help
only for take-off.
Speeds of these nuclear
powered guided missiles will
increase progressively from
2,500 mph to 25,000 mph,
and will locate their targets
with acoustical devices as
yet undeveloped.
This, I admit, is an ugly
picture, but as man develops
his ability to engineer those
deadly instruments, the
need for them will diminish
proportionately. In this fact
lies mankind's greatest hope
since the beginning of time.
Spectacular as are the
developments ahead for
military aircraft, the ad
vance of aviation as the
world's primary means of
travel over appreciable dis
tances will be equally hard
to comprehend.
Transport planes will pro
gressively graduate from
today's "giant" aircraft with
speeds of 350 mph to verit
able air liners, which by
1960 will be cruising high
above the weather with
silent vibrationless comfort,
initially in the speed band
of sound, or about 600 mph.
Continuing advances in
the development of jet
power may move these
speeds up to 2,500 mph.
Chicago and Miami will be
30 minutes apart. You will
be able to cross the con
tinent in about an hour,
span the Atlantic in less
than two hours, and cross
the Pacific in something like
four hours.
The application of atomic
power to transport aircraft
will bring to reality avia
tion's potential of being
man's most economical, and
safest, means of travel.
Because of the infini
tesimal weight of atomic
fuel compared to that of
thousands of gallons of gas
oline now required for pro
pulsion, the atomic engine
will make possible tremen
dously increased payloads
and ranges. This will mean
far more efficient aircraft
and, consequently, relative
ly lower and lower cost for
the traveler and the shipper.
While these atomic-powered
air liners will link
major cities over the con
tinent and across the world,
helicopters will progress
from today's reciprocating
engines to jet-power and
then to atomic propulsion,
increasing in size to carry
50 to 100 passengers, and in
speed to the swiftness of
our present transport air
craft schedules.
To utilize this advanced
means of transportation,
cities of any size will zone
building heights in their
downtown areas and bridge
the streets to make heli
ports an ideal convenience
for the greatest number of
people in each community.
Development of electronic
devices and control will
make the operation of air
craft independent of the
weather's caprices.
Finally, in the span of this
next half -century of avia
tion, space ships will be
come commonplace for in
terplanetary travel. With
luxurious accommodations
for 1,500 to 2,000 passengers,
they will use atomic power
to develop speeds up to
5,000 mph or better with a
practically unlimited range.
In fact, space ships in the
year 2008 will be semi-self-sustaining
planets within
themselves.
What lies ahead for avia
tion? Our progress will be
limited only by the limits
of human imagination. To
develop these things and
even far greater wonders,
man already has God-given
intelligence, as well as the
capacity for the knowledge
they will require.
Yet, unless we can anchor
our knowledge to moral
principles, science may turn
out to be not the guide but
the betrayer of humanity.
With aviation's develop
ment in the hands of men of
good will, we have, for the
first time in our long
history, the one instrument
that can forever eliminate
the barriers of time and dis
tance, of ignorance and mis
understanding, which have
set men against each other
since time began.
In terms of human re
lationships, these advances
in aviation mean that the
world is growing pro
gressively smaller. The time
is not far off when people
of all nations will have the
means of meeting and un
derstanding one another,
and for eliminating the petty
hates and jealousies that
breed wars.
For, in the years ahead,
every community on the
face of the earth will be a
port of entry and departure
for every other city, town,
and hamlet on the vast
ocean of air on whose shores
every man lives.
Then, instead of being the
most deadly weapon man
has created, the airplane
will truly become the Angel
of Peace that God always
intended it to be.
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