The Gary American

Coffee Shows Value in Aviation

Nurse Jean Hesslar, diet expert, serves coffee to aviatrix Beverly Tustin before taking off on a flight from Los Angeles to Seattle.
Aviators cannot afford to have jumpy nerves, slow mental reactions and sluggish muscles. Their lives. and the lives of other people, too often depend solely upon their ability to act quickly and surely.

And most aviators are coffee-drinkers, which forcefully indicates that coffee is a valuable article in the diet, as psychologists and biologists have often demonstrated.

On two of America's greatest air lines, Western Air Express and the mighty Boeing system, hot coffee is served at airports and also to passengers in the air. A recent survey showed that on these two lines an average of nine out of ten passengers drank hot coffee during flights of 300 miles and over.

Other lines have the same story to tell-coffee is necessary to those who fly. Indeed, the leases of some airports contain a clause stipulating that hot coffee must always be ready when planes are arriving or departing.

No great air expedition within the last four years, with the possible exception of two, has been undertaken without the inclusion of hot coffee in thermos bottles to sustain the aviators through the long grind.

In the Army and Navy. flight surgeons unanimously approve coffee for airmen whenever they want it.

Miss Jean Hesslar, dietitian for one of the largest air lines operating in California, has this to say of coffee: "Coffee has a psychological value which is often underestimated by those who deal strictly in calories and vitamins. In reality, it is a valuable tonic, and particularly among fliers who have found it to be of great benefit in the diet. I always prescribe coffee, both for pilots and passengers."