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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1959)
SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1959 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALIi!, OREGON PAGE FIVE Boom In Air Freight Seen Only Beginning By ROBERT J. SERI.ING WASHINGTON (UPD The next revolution in commercial aviation will take place in the field of air cargo. Air cargo has been increasing steadily both in tonnage carried and in revenue, but even the gains of recent years will be dwarfed by what lies ahead. What this means can be gathered from the fact that since 1949, air freight and express tonnage carried by U.S. scheduled airlines has climbed by 410 per cent. These airlines collected 191 mil lion dollars from air cargo busi ness in 1956 and upped that fig ure to nearly 210 million dollars in 1957, the last year for which complete data are available. But Vice President Willis - G. Lipscomb of Pan American World Airways predicts that within the next 10 years, revenue from air cargo will equal and may even surpass passenger revenues. Oth er industry leaders say a;r cargo will Le at least a billion-dollar-a year business in another decade Before this comes about, how ever, aviation officials interviewed by UP1 said the following must be achieved: Development of planes speci fically designed for cargo-carry ing; presently the airlines are using converter airlines which ate relatively inefficient. Improved methods of packag ing, loading and unloading, such as a recently-developed system called "unitized shipments;" un der this highly-mechanized system, an airline shipping furniture, for example, moves it direct from house to house, via truck, plane and then truck, without a human hand touching the shipment en route. nates must come down, as they undoubtedly will if shipping efficiency is improved. Robert W. Johnson, president of a- leading air cargo consulting firm and an adviser "to the Air Force on airlift problems says the air cargo industry actually is in its infancy. "Right now," Johnson points out, "when you ship something from New York to Chicago, it spends 15 per cent of the time on the ground and only 15 per cent of the time en route in the air. Because of inefficient packaging and handling methods, and the use of planes that weren't design ed to haul cargo, it takes at least two hours to unload a plane and then load it again for the 'turn-around' trip. This time can and must be cut to 15 or 20 min utes." Johnson believes a specially-designed all-cargo plane could do (he work of three conventional airliners. Such an aircraft com bined with new handling .meth ods, also would reduce the num ber of trucks and ground per sonnel needed at air cargo centers. These innovations, Johnson adds, "would enable the carriers to reduce their rates from the present 3 cents per ton-mile to as low as 10 cents." The airlines currently are de voting only a small part of their aircraft to purely cargo duties. Of the scheduled carriers' 1,800- plane fleet, only 159 aircraft are employed in all-cargo flights and many of these are designed for rapid conversion to passenger configurations. Such planes are 1 n e f f i c i e n t mainly because they are hard to load and unload. Doors are too narrow and their low wing de sign (wings are underneath the fuselage) makes it necessary to lift all cargo into the aircraft Air cargo enthusiasts would like to see manufacturers come up with high-wing cargo planes that could be loaded from the front or rear of the fuselage or even both literally driving trucks right into the cabin for loading and unloading. Britian already is producing such a plane the Armstrong Whitworlh Argosy, which has car go doors at both ends of the fuselage. One American all-cargo carrier, Riddle, has ordered four BAKED APPLESAUCE NEW YORK (UPD Baked ap nlesauce with cider tortnme is a good cold weather dessert. Place (2 1 -pound cans) applesauce in 1'4-quart casserole. 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Pan-Am, which frankly admits it is seriously considering buying all-cargo jetliners, is interested iu a proposed cargo version of the Boeing 707 which would have the rear half of the fuselage on hinges, so it could swing open to permit easy and fast loading. Even with the lack of real car go planes', the airlines have made vast strides in the field. Surpris ingly, furniture-moving is one of their booming - revenue sources. Tlie airlines say they can fly house furnishings overseas cheap er than it can be transported by boat, and more and more com panies are moving employe goods by air. The advent of the jet age is no small boon to air cargo. A single passenger jetliner can carry up to five tons of cargo in a hold that is bigger than the entire cabin of a DC 4. And there seems to be no limit to what cargoliners can carry. Pan-Am last year hauled a 65- ton cotton gin from New Orleans to Costa Rica. It was flown in eight separate shipments. flum 3xIppii ? 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