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Show LOCAL GROUPS TAKE TO AIR, VIEWJINGHAM One of the most remarkable sights to be seen from the air, the Utah Copper company open pit mine, was viewed from a DST sleeper 28-passenger Mainliner SnnHnv Kir qa t j j j w w piiouiia Bingham Canyon. The largest passenger plane being used by air lines in United States today, the Mainliner weighs 25,000 pounds. The trip was arranged by Art Kelly, traffic manager of the Western Air Express, and was ken by Lions club members, their friends and families. It is Mr. Kelly's opinion, and he has been pilot and i regular air passenger over western United Uni-ted States for nearly ten years, that only a few sights are comparable com-parable to the Utah Copper pit in grandeur from the air. Those Mr. Kelly mentioned were Boulder Boul-der dam and the Teton range. The immensity of the copper mine, the uniformity and eve-ness eve-ness with which levels are carved car-ved into the sides of the mountains, moun-tains, the fantastic curves of the-surface the-surface mine about the narrow canyon, can never be fully appreciated ap-preciated except from the air. As is the case with Zion and! Grand Canyon national parks, distance hides some of the beauty beau-ty of soil coloration, which is, of course, not so remarkable in range and intensity at the copper pit, but is one of the surprises tourists always note when viewing view-ing the mine. The group was divided into three parties, only 28 being allowed al-lowed each trip. The Mainliner sped 100 miles per hour down the runway on the take-off, and cruising crui-sing speed was about 190 miles per hour. Fred Kelly, a veteran with one-and-one-half million miles to his credit, was pilot. The plane rose to an altitude of 12,500 feet and on the one hour trip circled over Great Salt Lake, Magna-Garfield, Tooele, Bingham, Timpanogos, Park City and canyons adjacent to Salt Lake City. |
