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of traffic between urban centers and the airports by which they are served, increase the public utility of the airports, and help to relieve the increasing traffic congestion both within the urban centers and between these centers and the airports as well as at the airports themselves. 

Scheduled helicopter operations are being conducted at New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles by air carriers holding operating certificates granted by the Civil Aeronautics Board under the Federal Aviation Act of 1958. However, the development problems which have thus far confronted these carriers have inhibited their ability to realize their full operating potentials even in their own areas. Moreover, the scheduled services at two of these cities (Chicago and San Francisco) are now confined to single-engine flight equipment lacking the capacity and performance characteristics needed for the type of operations contemplated here. 

It is believed that the demonstration here proposed will provide valuable data bearing on the solution of these problems. More particularly, it is felt that the proposed service will be of material assistance in defining an economic basis on which needed helicopter services can be made available on a continuing basis (not only in the Washington area but in other similar urban areas of the United States) while at the same time obviating the necessity for the long-term commitments to federal subsidy support which have heretofore restricted the development of this type of service under the Federal Aviation Act. 

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