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Show Hi SOARS DVER CITY IITITSI FLIGHT Local Flying Corporation Official Says Air Conditions Condi-tions Are Ideal. Willi Chiir D. Sprnguc as a passcu-Ror, passcu-Ror, licorRo C. Beck, chief pilot for the "Western .Aircraft corporation, yesterday i made ii fifty-miiuUo flight over Salt Lake, circling the. city several times nud testing all parts of the valley for air currents. "' Conditions are ideal for flying here,'- Beck said. "There are no air pockets or cross currcuts. "We experienced experi-enced no bumps at all. This section is fully as good as San Diego for flying." Keck has had n great deal of experience ex-perience in flying, it. was stated, spending spend-ing 47.5 hours in the air, more than any other American aviator who did not get across. He was pilot of the .UeHavi-laud .UeHavi-laud airplane which flew from New Jersey to Ohio with seven passengers. He. was for fourteen months test pilot for the government and has flown airplanes air-planes in twenty-six states. Leaving the flying field near the I Buena Vista race track in west Salt Lake, tlio pilot made four separate trips into the air, rising at times to a height of 3000 feet. The balance of the week will be spent in testing the four machines ma-chines of the corporation, it was s'aid, and no passengers will bo taken until Pilot Beck has thoroughly investigated air conditions and searched for every possible dangerous atmospheric condition. condi-tion. Full confidence is expressed by Beck that the Curtiss planes will bo quite successful in their flights here, as they are under ideal flying conditions. |