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Show Aviation notes NO AGE LIMITS They're never too young nor too old to become air-minded. Only one and one-half years old, Little Kim Weed of Denver, who already had traveled more than 5,000 miles by air, boarded an airliner for Anchorage, Anchor-age, Alaska. There she and her mother, Mrs. Harold V. Weed, will join Lieutenant Weed, who is stationed sta-tioned with army air forces. . . . Born more than a half century before be-fore the Wright brothers flew an airplane, air-plane, Mrs. Susan Holifleld, 95, made her first air trip on a flight from Pittsburgh, Pitts-burgh, Pa., to Los Angeles. "It was just dandy," exclaimed one of the oldest women passengers ever carried car-ried by a commercial airline. . . . It was a far cry from the boat and wagon in which she came to Iowa 91 years ago when Mrs. Lida Davidson, David-son, 94, stepped aboard an airliner at Des Moines for a flight to California. Cali-fornia. Mrs. Davidson had wanted to fly ever since she saw her first plane nearly 40 years ago at a Van Buren, Iowa, county fair, "But they wouldn't" let me." Satisfying this customer prob-aHly prob-aHly started a family quarrel. Impressed by the hostess service on a TWA plane, a passenger wrote: "It would be swell if I could send my wife to your hostess host-ess school so she would always be as pleasant as the two ladies servicing this flight." FLYING FARMERS IN EAST Interest in the use of airplanes on farms no longer is restricted to the Midwest and West. Chapters of National Na-tional Flying Farmers association recently have been formed in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Lauding the progressiveness of the 75 flying farmers who attended the organization meeting of the New Jersey Jer-sey group, W. S. Allen, state secretary secre-tary of agriculture, said, "There is greater use for a plane on the farm than in any other business with the exception of transportation." UNCONVENTIONAL DESIGN . . . The new Douglas five-place Cloudster is marked by unconventional unconven-tional placing of engines and propeller pro-peller behind the passenger compartment, com-partment, Increasing efficiency of the wings, eliminating propeller turbulence and reducing noise to a negligible level. DUBIOUS DISTINCTION Olmsted field, home of the Mid-dletown, Mid-dletown, Pa., air materiel area, claims the doubtful honor of hav. ing its name misspelled more often than any other army air field in the United States. Even though it is Pennsylvania's largest military installation, in-stallation, Olmsted has been referred to as Almsted, Ohmsted, Homestead, Olmstead and other variations. Mitchel field, N. Y., and Eglin field, Fla., may rise to challenge Olmsted's Olm-sted's claim. It refuses to compete com-pete with Apabchicola field, Fla.) . . . i |
