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Caption: Dedication - Willard Airport
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DEVELOPMENT OF THE AIRPORT President ARTHUR CUTTS WILLARD ILLINOIS AIRPORT was COHCClVed T HE UNIVERSITY OF and has been developed to implement a comprehensive program of education and research in aeronautics and to provide commercial and private landing facilities for the promotion of air transportation and national defense. It has been the policy of the University during the seventy-seven years of its existence to meet so far as possible the demands for new and varied educational and research programs growing out of the rapidly changing social, industrial, and professional life of our State and Nation. The most recent demand for a new program of education and research at the University rests squarely on the amazing growth of air transportation all over the world. The supreme importance of the airplane in war has accelerated research and development in design, and has caused a vast increase in the manufacture of many types of aircraft, in the training of pilots and ground crews, and in construction of airports. Air transport will assume as much importance in the post-war economy as it did in the war. The present airport facilities of the United States can be compared with highway facilities twenty-five years ago. There were then fairly good automobiles, but their use was limited by lack of paved roads. Billions of dollars have since been spent for highways. We now have good airplanes, but their use is limited by lack of airports. This is true of the middle west in general, and of the State of Illinois in particular. i8>
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