C.B.F. Macauley: author of "The Helicopters Are Coming"

              Charles S. Pearson PRESENTS 
C. B. F. MACAULEY
 AUTHOR OF 
THE HELICOPTERS ARE COMING


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Lectures:



THE HELICOPTERS ARE HERE
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With a 20-minute 16 mm. color film
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What is a helicopter?  .. Will it supplant the auto as the family car?  .. Will housewives fly to market in helicopters?  .. How difficult is it to fly a helicopter?  .. How much will they cost to own and operate?  .. Speed and maneuverability of this newest form of aircraft .. their safety and reliability .. How helicopters are used in war by our armed forces .. How they will be used after the war for ship-to-shore services, on farms, for exploration, for downtown to airport and commuter transportation, for mapping, surveying, forest conservation and fire control, package delivery, etc... Companies engaged in production .. When they will be available.
YOUR LIFE IN THE COMING AIR AGE

Geographical barriers now gone forever .. every place on the globe's surface equally accessible .. technological advances brought about by war have jumped aviation decades ahead in a few years .. air transportation will be as safe as any other, more reliable, much cheaper than ever before … new 300-passenger super-airliners .. jet-propulsion, the offspring of rocket bombs .. family planes with simplified controls, improved instruments requiring far less instruction and skill to operate safely .. the facts of airports, airparks and landing strips .. traffic regulation at airports and along airways .. radio communication, direction finders and automaitc pilots improved and simplified … the place of personal planes in business and recreation .. conventional airplanes versus helicopters … airpower and national security .. America on wheels must now take to wings … aircraft industry and the national economy .. reconversion problems .. how these changes will affect the daily lives of millions of Americans.



C. B. F. MACAULEY



Clinton Bowen Fisk Macauley was born in Philadelphia, Pa.  Next to Igor Sikorsky, famous aircraft designer who invented the first successful helicopter in the Western Hemisphere, Macauley is the stoutest prophet of the helicopter.  He was the first private citizen in the world to order a helicopter for personal use and is still awaiting delivery.




So confident of the helicopter's important place in the future of transportation was Macaulay that he resigned his position as editor of an aviation magazine to work on the book THE HELICOPTERS ARE COMING.  Research completed and the manuscript dictated all within two months, the book was published by Whittlesey House in 1944.  It was the first complete book ever written devoted to helicopters, tracing the history of helicopter development, describing their present uses and predicting their social impact in the post-war world.




While Mac was still in his teens the flying bug bit him, and he tried to 
crash
 the aviation unit of Admiral Byrd's Antarctic Expedition by the simple expedient of advancing his age a few years.  Failing in that, he ran away from home and joined the U.S. Army to become a flier.  Unable to continue as a professional pilot because of defective vision, he then turned to newspaper work and for a number of years was a Washington correspondent and White House reporter.




At the first opportunity, however, Mac returned to his first and foremost interest — aviation.  Following a period on the editorial staff of NATIONAL AERONAUTICS, organ of the National Aeronautics Association, he served for two years with the Civil Aeronautics Authority as Chief of the Publications Section and Editor of the CIVIL AERONAUTICS JOURNAL, official government technical periodical.




In April, 1941, he joined the staff of AVIATION as Washington editor, in the fall of the same year transferring to New York as Associate Editor, and in January 1942, he became Managing Editor of that leading publication.  After this, he was Assistant Director of Public Relations for Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation.




Macauley, formerly Vice-President and Treasurer of the Aviation Writers' Association, is a regular contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica on the subject of World Aviation.  He also contributes regularly to national publications and aviation technical journals, and has written more on the subject of helicopters than anybody in history.  He is a Technical Member of the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences and an instructor in the Manhattan Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol, volunteer auxiliary of the Army Air Forces.  He is listed in the December 1944 supplement of WHO'S WHO which will be included with the next edition.




During his years as a technical and industrial writer, Macauley constantly was engaged in studying at first-hand the manufacturing problems and techniques for production improvement.  He participated in industry's difficult conversion to war production and is consequently alive to the needs of manufacturers in the difficult task of reconversion.




Of the helicopter, Macauley says 
The helicopter is man's newest form of transportation and is destined to become the safest and most convenient.






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