$10,000,000 Airports

Fairly popping with earnest energy U. S. Director of Aeronautics Eugene Luther Vidal turned last week from $700 airplanes and $6,000,000 seadromes to announce plans for 2,000 new landing fields. The fields will be a gift of the Government to small cities and towns and, indirectly, to the unemployed. Their purpose is to extend the Federal airways system into remote sections, to increase the number of fields for safe intermediate landings, to stimulate local private flying.

To do the job Director Vidal got Civil Works Administration to allot $10,000,000 of which more than 80% will go for wages to 50,000 laborers. At an average cost of $5,000 each the landing fields will be unpretentious, unlighted, will consist in most cases simply of two landing strips 3,000 ft. by 300 ft. Municipalities will provide only the unimproved land, will loan road-building machinery if they have any.

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