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Show AVIATION NOTES Airport Chatter More than 1,000 private plane? will converge upon University ol Illinois airport at Urbana-Cham-paign August 4 when the Flying Farmers of Prairie Farmer Land gather for two days of meetings and demonstrations of agricultural and flying equipment. Governors of Illinois. Illi-nois. Indiana, Wisconsin and Michigan, Michi-gan, the area covered by the organ ization, have been invited. Crop dusting demonstrations with a helicopter heli-copter are scheduled as one of the convention features. . . . Flying Farmers Day will be a headline attraction at the annual Farm and Home Week scheduled at Louisiana State university August 12-14. Air-minded Air-minded farmers throughout the state will be invited to fly their planes to Baton Rouge to participate partici-pate in the program. . . . Second annual reunion of the Order of Fi-finella Fi-finella (ex-Wasps) Is scheduled at Ponca City, Okla., August 24-27, under auspices of the Piper Mid-Continent Mid-Continent plant and the Chamber of Commerce. Approximately 150 ex-Wasps ex-Wasps are expected to attend. . . A long hotel strike in Phoenix, Ariz., took a new twist when the hotel management used a helicopter to deliver food and beverages over picket lines. Flying Eggbeater Several distinctions are claimed for the unique commuter service offered by a helicopter, which operates oper-ates between Boston's Logan airport air-port and the roof of a downtown garage. The flying eggbeater, as the plane is known, is the only helicopter in scheduled passenger service in the world; is the only one landing regularly regu-larly on a roof of a building; it flies on the shortest airline route in the world; it charges the highest rate per mile, and it flies at the slowest speed of any scheduled passenger j plane. The distance is about two miles as the crow flies, and its mechanical cousin, the helicopter, flies. Considering Consid-ering that the fare is $3.50, tax in-eluded, in-eluded, passengers are paying at j the rate of $1.75 per mile. But the j purpose of the helicopter service is not to save money or to go fast but to save time. Another First The nation's first aerial cleaning service is operated by Wayne L. Troutner of Winslow, Ariz. Daily when his Stinson Voyager glides to earth on remote northern Arizona landing strips. Indian natives both young and' old cry a greeting "Ka-Ya "Ka-Ya - Pa - Ne - Sha," meaning "the cleaner who flies." Since inaugurating inaugurat-ing the aerial pick-up and delivery service to the widely scattered trading trad-ing posts, ranches and resorts. Troutner has more than doubled the volume of business for his Wins-low Wins-low plant. 'KA-YA-PA-NE-SHA' Indians Greet Flier . Neck Breaker' Walter Bullock of Minneapolis, Minn., is lonesome for the first time hat he tried to break his neck. It J back in 19.6 at Newport News Va that the veteran pUot into a ramshackle plane and flew It T, e Jane had no instrument board being operated with only a switch and throttle. It was made of bam- ; boo and the engine was .trunj , up .t ,h hack of the wings behind the fn, As he wants the thrill of ' P S "a r. k again. Bullock If build-SVsimiLUe-and will fly it! |