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In the course of the last three years the scheduled helicopter industry in the United States has had, as I guess many of you know, an increasingly serious problem, with the U.S. Congress. Personally, I am convinced that our troubles have arisen because of lack of information and knowledge as to what we have done and as to what our objectives are. In the next few minutes my efforts will be directed to an attempt to bring this matter into more accurate focus.

With the advent of ever faster, long-haul fixed wing aircraft, the need for expediting passengers and cargo from the actual point of origin to their actual point of destination is becoming increasingly apparent. There is not a single person here present who doesn't know how first-hand exactly what I'm talking about and how very annoying it is that very little, if anything, is being done about it. It obviously isn't enough just to worry about the journey from airport to airport. It's got to be the entire journey. Already, passengers, the [United States] [strikethrough] mail and cargo using high speed aircraft for transportation between two cities such as New York and Washington frequently takes longer to accomplish the complete journey than was