From the floor (unidentified)

I would like to say a few words as a member of the flying public. For these purposes I have perfect arrangements. I would like to make sure that we don´t lose sight of the forest for the trees. I mean the real problem before us Is to land an airplame no matter what the weather is; and we are very very far away from that. Just yesterday I tried to leave Boston to get here by plane and I found all American Airlines flights cancelled into New York. One flight going into Idlewlld, and my flight out of New York, of course, could not be connected with and I had to take the train. This still happens way too often. I hear about improvements, but when I originally read the CAA Specification for the instrument landing system (at that time in 1938) I thought an instrument landing was a device to land planes without any visibility whatever of course we cannot claim that yet and still I think that we should take the bull by the horns sooner or later and postulate what our real problem is. I would like to emphasize that this primary problem is being able to detect an airplane and being able to land it without any visibility whatever, each and every time and safely. We must admit that we are very very far from having an adequate solution.