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TO FURTHER AMPLIFY MY REMARKS ON THE QUESTION OF AIR SAFETY, it should be pointed out that there is a strong tendency today not to utilize fully the airway aids, landing aids, approach lights, and aids to air navigation generally, that have been developed and proved. This tendency has been now is to fail to utilize today's proven developments, and instead, to look always to the future for something vaguely planned and partially developed, which the stargazers choose to term long-range planning. A certain amount of this is, of course, wise; but when long-range planning stymies present-day air line development, we'd better realign our sights on what's happening today on the air lines and utilize what is necessary today to make air line transportation safer and more dependable and not what may be developed and proved practical at some undetermined time in the future.

IN THIS RESPECT, IT IS URGED THAT THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION call into consolation Capt. Ernest Cutrell of American Airlines, one of the country's top experts on airway aids, air navigation aids, and approach lights as the y relate to the immediate needs of air safety in air line transportation. Capt. Cutrell recently was the recipient of the OCTAVE CHANUTE AWARD OF THE INSTITUTE OF AERONAUTICAL SCIENCES given annually for the year's most notable contribution to aeronautical science. If given the opportunity, Capt. Cutrell will have much to contribute. The air line pilots strongly recommend he be called before the Commission to give his views and recommendations. 

Some believe that CAB is so busy passing on new routes and routine matters that they have not gone sufficiently deep enough into the matter of a definite policy for air line development. The CAB should be a policy board for the air lines as well as a legislative body. Salaries should be adequate. What can be done about the salary question is something that will have to be answered by others. Nevertheless, a good question at this point is, "How can a man of the caliber of Chairman James M. Landis, Civil Aeronautics Board, be expected to stay very long on this job at $10,000 per year?" A great deal more could be said about this part of the problem but at least this much is ample food for thought. 

While appearing here before President Truman's Air Policy Commission, the air line pilots desire to make a new air safety recommendation, in addition to their recommendation for the re-establishment of the independent Air Safety Board. THEY URGE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BUREAU OF STANDARDS FOR AIR SAFETY -- this Bureau to be made a part of the civil air regulatory division of our government and established along strictly independent and politically free lines. This Bureau of Standards for Air Safety should pass on every component part, that it in any way related to air safety, which goes into the construction of each type of air line aircraft. This Bureau of Standards for Air Safety should go into and approve all parts having to do with fire prevention, the plumbing, the instruments, and the controls of each type of plane. This Bureau should approve the structural requirements