Show 1 AVIATION NOTES AIRPORT An abandoned government build build- building buildIng building ing project the former civilian con con- conservation conservation corps camp at Milford MUford Iowa has been transformed into one of the largest private airports in the state Stanley Fuller who has been connected with aviation in north north- northwest northwest west Iowa since 1918 bought the camp and buildings and an addition addition- additional al acres He built bum two runways 2640 2040 and feet long converted some of at the buildings into airport use and plans to build bud additional unit multiple-unit hangars Five Het Hefner Hefner ner Tex men banded together to purchase a II horsepower two pas pas- passenger passenger Super Cruiser The new I ship brings to 12 the number of ot I planes permanently at Miller Lewis Hefner Hetner 02 year old full-blooded full Seminole Indian from Seminole Okla ranks as the first member of ot his tribe to take an airplane ride Following a recent hop at the Seminole municipal air air- airport airport port Miller said Its hokay Something new in homes front homes front door on the highway and back door on onan onan onan an air strip strip strip-Is Is claimed by Mr and Mrs Postelle Cooper of ot Deming N. N M. M A hangar is Js built right into the house A driveway connects the front door with the highway while the back door opens on en a mile half air strip from which Cooper banker and insurance executive flies to lo hie hi appointments More lort than persons or approximately one out of every ery five flee employees in the aviation I i industry are veterans of the army navy na marines or mer mer- merchant merchant chant marine Aircraft Industries association reveals re The figure taken from a II recent sur sur- survey sury wry vey of ot 14 major aircraft corn com companies panics paillEs Includes more than 1400 disabled or physically handi handl- handicapped handicapped capped veterans now working orkIn in inthe Inthe inthe the industry WEATHER An army air forces force's testing lab lab- laboratory laboratory laboratory oratory is Js being built at Wright field Dayton Ohio which will willbe willbe be able to reproduce the worst type I of inclement weather encountered In hi any part of the world When com com- completed completed the laboratory will be the country's most modern environmental tal testing facility The test branch of the air materiel commands command's equipment laboratory Is charged with development and test testing ing trig of ot more than 1000 aircraft ac ac- accessories each of which must b be I capable of operating under any con eon conceivable I ble weather eather condition ti I I o I ib b a I F FLYING WING StING first firs jet Jd propelled flying firing wing the Arm strong Whitworth strong strong Whit orth 52 V A was placer on display for the first fit t time at Cov Coventry Coventry entry England Rudders are art ot ct the th wing tips lips and the engines n an art I built into the wIng vine Itself DUAL RATE SERVICE SIR Colombia the mountain studded mountain South American nation that gars the western hemisphere Its firs I commercial airline and its Us first air al snail mall stamp has chalked uj ul f another revolutionary re first in is com corn commercial commercial mercial aviation a Nad Naci ondes de Colombia noted the anniversary sary of itt Iti I founding rounding by inaugurating the firS firS' I rate dual passenger service ser In air airline I line lIDe history bistor De Dr first doss and tourist second class ser let I is it offered |