Eagle Speaks

Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh opened his mouth last week in the Manhattan offices of the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics, to explain to reporters the plans of the Transcontinental Air Transport Co. of which he is "technical adviser." As he (lid so, something escaped about his outlook on his own future. Asked about an age limit for pilots, he replied: "I can't recognize that there is any limit. I will continue flying until I am no more able to handle a machine.

"I can see no reason why I shouldn't fly. If a pilot has been properly trained, he is just as good when he is old as when he was young. Some of the best pilots in the service today are getting along in years."

Two chief obstacles he saw to the perfection of all-air transportation for passengers from coast-to-coast: 1) The fog hazard, which he expects to see solved by radio; 2) The problem of safe night flying with passengers. Said he of the latter: "I don't think we are ready for such a thing at present. It shouldn't be carried out until we have in this country a reliable four-engined job. The details of such a plane, I believe, we should leave to the aeronautical engineers. I have no definite ideas as to the arrangement of motors on such a ship. Maybe they would be in tandem, one behind the other, maybe they would all be in one line."

Almost as if he knew what Col. Lindbergh had in mind Anthony Fokker, addressing a banquet aboard the new Holland-America Liner Statendam, announced that within six weeks his company would complete a 32-passenger plane powered with four 600 h. p. motors.