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200 HELICOPTER AIR SERVICE PROGRAM
Unless this program is adopted precisely as it is, we cannot expect to survive. I propose to demonstrate that to you if you wish. 
On the other hand, I think all you have to do, really, is take one look at our books. We have accumulated a loss in each of the last 5 years. We cannot go on that way. However, we have prospects - extremely good prospects - of being able to live withing the CAB program. 
But everything, or just about everything, has to go our way if that is the way it is going to turn out. But we are determined and we are convinced that it can be done. 
With that comment, I want to actually tell you what we are doing in order to get within the program presented by the Civil Aeronautics Board. I have a suggestion, I think, which may be useful in solving the problem with which we are obviously confronted. Nothing that I say is intended to minimize the seriousness with which we take that problem. 
I am not going to read my paper, in line with your suggestion, because it is a matter of record. In any case, I think the matter of most concern now is what are we doing and how do we expect to get this thing into shape where it can be an economically self-sufficient enterprise in the true capitalistic business sense. 
We are doing a lot about it. We expect within the next 4 or 5 years, to the extent that it hasn't already been done, set a pattern which can be followed and will be followed by many other communities suffering from the general sort of ground congestion that Senator Javits spoke to you about this morning of which we are all so familiar with. 
There are lot of cities. They have been enumerated here before. The setting of a pattern has been our principal objective since the very beginning of our operations in 1952. In the course of the last 2 or 3 years, we have brought to fruition some of the projects which we started on way back in 1952. That is 14 years, but, sometimes, it appears like yesterday. Sometimes, it appears an awfully long time ago. I don't know which frame of mind I am in at the moment. 
The fact is that on February 16 of this year we were successful in obtaining authority to commence operations under instrument flight regulations. We had started a drive at that result as early as 1951 before we ever flew a helicopter. 
We have accomplished something which is of great use in Vietnam, and it isn't generally known. The only navigational aid which is now being used for helicopters in Vietnam was purchased off the shelf by U.S. Army 2 years in advance of the time it otherwise would have been available if it had not been for the work that our company had done in collaboration with the Decca Navigator Co.  That is testified to in appendix 9 of my prepared statement. 
It is further testified to in a letter which is not part of my prepared statement, which I would like to read into the record at this moment. It is a very short letter. 
Senator MONRONEY. You may proceed. 
Mr. CUMMINGS. It is from the President of Dynasciences Corp. and it concerns a problem which we ran into recently as last year, that of static electricity in the aircraft.