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365 Helicopter Air Service Program Mr. TIPTON. I don't have anything further, Mr. Chairman. Senator MONRONEY. The sweetest words of poem or pen are the words that you are willing to sit down and see if this can't be worked out. Mr. TIPTON. We will work on it, Mr. Chairman. Before the hearing closes, I would like to offer the United Research Report on the outlook for vertical lift aircraft. I am not sure whether it is in this record or not. Senator MONRONEY. The report is in the record. Mr. TIPTON. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Senator MONRONEY. The record will be open for comments from other Members of the House and Senate, those who appeared. We thank all those who came here at their own expense to participate in these hearings and to add to what I consider to be a very fine record, the first one every made on the helicopter industry as it exists in the year 1965. We are grateful to all of you for the constructive way in which you have aided the committee in exploring this problem. I think it offers great hope for the future. Thank you all for your attendance. I thank the press particularly for the diligence with which they have covered this. The committee now stands adjourned. (Whereupon, at 2:58 p.m., the subcommittee was adjourned.) (The following material was submitted for the record:) STATEMENT OF SENATOR THOMAS J. DODD BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITEE ON AVIATION OF THE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, MARCH 11, 1965 Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to have an opportunity to submit a statement on the matter of Government support for helicopter operations serving the New York area. It is my understanding that testimony has been given on behalf of Los Angeles Airways, and you have also received testimony dealing with the Chicago situation, as well as testimony from Senators Javits and Kennedy. Connecticut has a vital stake in transportation of all types going into the New York Area. I have, on number of occasions, expressed my interest in and concern over the New Haven Railroad situation and its commuter service, and I am equally concerned that new and alternate means of transportation be developed as rapidly as possible. Government subsidies for helicopter service which would be phased out over a 5-year period appears to me to have a great deal of merit. It would provide assistance at a time when New York Airways and the other helicopter services are beginning to make their operations economical as a result of new and more efficient equipment, additional patronage, and better scheduling. It appears to me that the relatively small sum of $11.4 million requested over the 4 1/2 years is more than justified in view of the fact that the New York and other helicopter services have within sight profitable operations which only need a little more Federal help to be successful. It is my understanding if we do provide this assistance to the helicopter services in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, that new and more efficient helicopters can be built by Sikorsky and Kaman, such as the Sikorsky S-65, which will have a range of 250 miles and carry in excess of 65 passengers at a cost of 3 cents per seat mile. This improvement in helicopter service can be an important step forward in our mass transportation facilities. In addition, Connecticut as a whole is one of the most densely poppulated and highly industrialized States in the Union. Our economy is inextricably linked with the success of the solutions now being sought to the problems of urban congestion and short-haul transportation within the so-called northeast corridor of the United States. The helicopter and sill more anvanced vertical flight aquipment to follow, must continue to be regarded as one of the means of attack upon these difficult long-range problems which are daily becoming more critical.
