Show tooele thoele pilots stop for gas at delta airport 11 4 TV T V 40 4 IS 4 vl W A U s ik V tom steele is pictured as he gasses up his new 4 place stin son on the trip to ely last week mr steele is the owner of the tooele thoele flying service and re bently acquired the plane for eleven pilots make fast T trip rap to delta ely eleven members of the tooele thoele flying school returned friday from a trip to delta and ely as part of their training program five planes made the trip led by tom steele manager of the local airport and frank gregr ch instructor leaving thursday at noon the flyers flew to delta first then on to ely a total of air miles they stayed overnight at ely and returned friday morning the trip was made to familiarize the local pilots with the airports at other towns and also as part of the cross country flight they are supposed to make during their training per lod this group expects to go to san francisco los angeles den ver and other cities when they be gin to qualify for their commercial licenses this particular trip was arranged by gilbert edecker and bert winn a week ahead of afi time mr steele states that there are at present about 50 enrolled at the I 1 j tooele thoele flying service and that ov I 1 er 30 have received their private pilot pilots s licenses in the past barthl garth I 1 christensen has just been given his commercial license and clyde al len will get his next week these licenses are given to pilots who have hours of solo flight time and have passed the various writ ten tests and handled other types of air craft A few weeks ago somebody drained most of the gas from one of the planes parked outside the hangar at ngat and as a result the pilot who took it up the next morning ran out while he was m the air nir and had to make s 4 forced landing fortunately no one was hurt but such an incident could I 1 ave caused a real disaster had the pilot not been on his toes another lenort was received that a trans lent pilot who had bad stopped at too ele for the night had his fur lin lined lind d jacket stolen from his plane as rt R sa on the field during the night training purposes at the sc school hool also in the group are left to right front row frank greg rich tillie gregrich bert winn back row lynn bennett george kramer james W B inglesby and jack kesler bob macgregor was also on the trip and took the picture and made line kramer was not pictured but accompanied the group on the trip |