Fly paper, No. 6 , October 15, 1940

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Number 6
^SAFETY —
"Fly paper"/Is pleased to reprint the followinrr memo rancnno 'regarding "Safety”. We were particularly struck by the phrase "in whatever capacity", in the third paragraph of Nr. Harllee Branch's letter to Mr. Juan Trippe. That phrase to us is the real keynote of safety and really "puts the finger" on each and everyone of us in the respect that we are all of us, in a sense, inspectors and as such should report to our immediate foremen anything we see, no matter how seemingly trivial, that may seem to us, not just right.
"The safety record'of the air transportation system of the United States, of which you are a part and with the success and progress of which the Civil'Aeronautics Board is githllY	wGau*s-
more and more impressive. We have recently called attention to the fact that the number of passenger-miles flown since the last fatal accident has reached 1,250, 000,000; that the number of miles flown has ..passed 125,000,000; and that the number of passengers carried during the period of immunity has passed 3,000,000. Congratulations are again in order; but with congratulations, on any such occasion, goes the note of caution and the reminder for the need for unremitting vigilance.
"You have no doubt seen the editorial in the NEW YORK TIMES, based on a recent press release of this Board, of which I enclose a copy. Delighted as we are to see the brilliant performance of the airlines and of the governmental and private agencies that work with them to keep flying safe receiving the attention that it deserves, we are particularly struck by
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the phrase: ’On the premise of past experience, some relaxation of the constant watchfulness that spells safe transportation might have been expected after the lines had set their record for a fatality-free year.' There is the m. cognition of what we who have long been concerned with aeronautics have learned through bitter experience.
"The extension of an accident-free year into an accident-free sixteen months supplies the evidence that there has been no relaxation as yet. You will agree with us that every possible action must be taken to insure that there will be no letting dean in future, and no feeling that a battle has been won. The battle continues; every day calls for a fresh victory; and the victories can only continue in an unbroken chain if every person concerned, in whatever capacity, keeps himself forever on guard against allowing any imperfection to pass uncorrected, and forever on watch to take all possible advantage of any occurrence that may serve to point the way to the avoidance of some future accident.
"The beginning f winter in °"ily three months away. 1939-40 proved that it was possible to have an accident-free winter. Having been done once, it* can be done again, by maintaining the same high standards and displaying the same caution; and the passage of 1940-41 mil elevate accident-free winters from the status of brilliant achievement to that cf established custom."
AN AFTERTHOUGHT
While on the subject of safety we note two letters fr^m the Division Ac-