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PORTAL-TO-PORTAL TRANSPORTATION 
BY HELICOPTERS

Paper to be given by Richard Wheatland 
Vice President, New York Airways 
to the 
New York Academy of Sciences 
and the 
American Society of Mechanical Engineers 
New York City - August 29, 1967

     The Air Transport Industry, in its development of high speeds and passenger comfort, has demonstrated itself to be one of the most progressive industries of all time. Never in history, have the barriers of distance, of national borders, and of languages been breached in such a short time, creating opportunities for better understandings among all people. Countless passengers and enormous quantities of cargo daily are carried routinely throughout the world. But, one may well ask whether or not the industry has done all it can do to extend the advantages of time-savings and convenience to the millions of passengers who have come to accept air travel as a way of life? 

In the early days of air transport, a passenger was happy to fly from one city to another. The basic time savings over the railroad was so great that it never occurred to him that what he really was doing was flying from the airport of one to city to the airport of another. Not that it really mattered, for the ground time at each end of his flight was a relatively small percentage of total elapsed time. As airplane speed increased, passengers were even more pleased with the great savings of time as they flew between the airports 

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