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Show AVIATION NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER A municipal airpark has been approved ap-proved and licensed at Plainwell, Mich. . . . Use of Lamesa field, Lamesa, Texas, as a municipal airport for that city has been allowed al-lowed on a temporary basis. . . . Some 48 CAA towers are now guarding guard-ing the 131.9 megacycle for private flyers and the number will be increased in-creased to 100 by June 1. . . . Remember, Re-member, July 1 is the deadline for the annual inspection of aircraft by the CAA. Owners or operators of uninspected un-inspected aircraft will be subject to penalties of the civil air regulations after that date Howard W. .Sinclair, .who., has. been with CAA smce,1942, has been appointed assistant as-sistant administrator for aviation training. . . . Col. Fred M. .Glass, wartime chief of staff for the Pacific division,' ATC, has been appointed vice president in charge of PCA's southern region. Students ' of meteorology, cloud formations and other aeronautical aero-nautical subjects at the Midlothian Midloth-ian elementary school, Tinley Park, Chicago, are given a plane ride by Lester Palmer, their teacher. SOLOS BY ITSELF! At Fremont, Nebr., recently a pilotless plane took off bv itself when its engine was left running. For nearly three hours it flew over Nebraska and finally landed 42 miles from its take-off point with only a damaged wing and tail and a broken propellor and its gas tank empty. OWNS AN AIR FORCE Paul Mantz, a Californian who learned to fly about 20 years ago, owns more airplanes than any of the smaller cations! His 509 planes make him the seventh largest air power in the world. He recently purchased pur-chased 475 surplus planes from the U. S. government, but plans to cut his fleet down to about 110 planes. Paul holds the world's outside out-side loop record 45 in succession. succes-sion. His planes are used for special spe-cial trips of all kinds. Ex-Army Pilot Leases Field The Gettysburg, S. D., city council coun-cil has given management of the municipal landing field, south of Gettysburg, Get-tysburg, to Bob Clark, ex-army pilot. I ' ' f J ' PIPER PA-12 . . . Carries three passengers. Has 100 hp motor and cruising speed of 100 to 105 mph. SOURCE BOOK FOR FLYERS A guide in teaching aviation to youngsters, "Aviation Education Source Book," prepared under direction di-rection of Dr. Paul R. Hanna, Stanford Stan-ford university, for CAA is now available. It contains 1,400 pages and more than 1,000 photographs. But it costs $8.00 a copy! Twenty students are enrolled In the flight training course at the University of Arkansas. The course includes both ground work and Bight training. |