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represents a capital investment of close to a million dollars. It is undoubtedly the prototype for many other similar city center heliports.

It seems not unlikely that, with the development of larger, faster and more efficient helicopters, short-haul flights, those up to 200 or 300 miles, may all be operated by VTOL aircraft operating in air space and under controls exclusively reserved for their purposes and designed to take advantage of their special characteristics.

With this in mind, isn't it possible to think that within the next several years, many airlines operating in high density areas will find helicopters not only an adjunct to their present fleet but actually a replacement for some of their fixed wing aircraft?

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Only recently I have been started to find that some key people in positions to affect the continued existence of the commercial scheduled helicopter industry are almost totally [strikethrough] ignorant of the very [/strikethrough] |fundamental differences between the economic potential of the helicopter and that of the short-haul fired wing aircraft. The helicopter requires minimum landing space. It operates, generally speaking, under the weather. It takes a minimum time in approach and take-off procedures. In New York

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