With proper expectation of contracts to design airports, architects at the Architectural & Allied Arts Exposition in Manhattan (TIME, April 22), secured a day last week to express their ideas. Naturally they warned against too precipitate airport building. Aviation still does not know what it requires in fields. Bad example is England's Croydon field. It was remodeled and enlarged just a year ago. Now it must be altered again at great cost. Airport ideas presented at Manhattan included underground passages to holes where planes would be waiting ready to start, great landing platforms...
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