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Show ' ) VIJ $ ) gP ; , AVIATION NOTES NOTESAirport Airport ChatterFliers Chatter ChatterFliers Fliers from several Midwestern Midwesternstates Midwesternstates states participated in m the first all allUpper allUpper Upper Peninsula Perunsula tour conducted un under under der auspices of the Michigan state statedepartment statedepartment department of aeronautics The Thefught Theflight fught covered 289 miles stops bemg bemgmade beingmade made at eight elght cities Ten char charter charler ter members mcmbers have signed up tor for the therecently therecently recently rIymgclub organized orgamzed Decorah rIymg Flyingclub club at Decorah Iowa The club clubhas clubhas has purchased an Aeronca Ch ct ctplane ctplane plane Dedication services for forthe lorthe the new Worthmgton Minn Mmn aIrport aIrportare airportare are scheduled July 5 and 6 More Morethan Morethan than 120 private plane owners have havebeen havebeen been invited to participate in the theceremonies theceremonies ceremonies Plans for a senes senesot seriesof ot ghtbreakfasts district meetings and fl fi ght breakfasts were perfected at the an annual annual nual meeting meetmg of Flying Flymg Farmers of ofIowa ofIowa Iowa held at the Ames mun cipalairport clpal clpalairport airport The statewide orgamzahon orgamzahonfounded organizationfounded founded March 18 1946 at a meet meetmg meeting mg on the Iowa State college cam campus campus pus now numbers more than 500 500membcrs 500members membcrs from some 70 countiesAn counties countiesAn An air show will be among the theheadline theheadline headline attractions at the Amen Amencan Amencan can Legion summer jubilee at atHarper atHarper Harper Kas July 16 19 . . . Aerial Aenal DetectIveMark Detective DetectiveMark Mark up another use tor for the air airplane airplane plane m ill agriculture agnculture agricultureW agncultureW W V Alhngton Allmgton plant pathologist pathologistof pathologistot ot the department of agriculture agnculture IS ISusing isusing using an aerial survey to spot eVl eVldence cvidence dence of ot a fungus disease-brown disease brown diseasebrownstem disease - brownstem stem rot-that rot that rot - that is reducing reducmg soybean soybeanYIelds soybeanyields YIelds in the Midwest MidwestAllmgton MidwestAllmgton Allmgton who is stationed at the theregional theregional regional soybean laboratory at Ur Urbana Urbana bana 111 III uses his privately pnvately owned ownedplane ownedplane plane to make aerial aenal photographs photographsof of soybean acreage over a iv w de dearea dearea area In the pictures plants in In Infected infected fected fields show up much 1 I ghter ghterin ghterill ill color than those m In non mfected mfectedfields infectedfields fields By comparing his Ius aerial PIC PICtures pichires tures with road maps Alhngton Allmgton 10 10cates locates cates the fieI fields is < where the fungus m mfectlon infection fectlon appears to be most serious . . . Girl Scouts have taken to the thellr theair llr ! in m a big way More lIIore th\n th n thin5 ' \ 5 000 Girl Scouts receive prc prcflight prcflight flight training trammg and flight expen expenence expcnence ence as members membcrs of 315 Wmg WmgScout WingScout Scout troops in m 42 states and andlIawau andHawaii lIawau Wing Wmg Scout is the thename thename name of the oran organ & , zation zatlon sown sownCub s ownCub Cub plane presented to them by bynilliam byWilliam nilliam T Piper It is the only onlyairplane onlyairplane airplane owned and used by a anational anational national youth " sen "en en ing mg agency . . . Cn Cmc IC Cooperation CooperationCl CooperatIOnCI Cl CI maxmg an unprecedented example ex example ample of ot pract cal cooperat on be between between tween two cit Clt es ded cat on cere ceremomes ceremonies momes were held for the jo nt mu mumClpal mumcipal mClpal airport at Arkansas City and andWmfield andWinfield Wmfield KaS K"s Ks " The two progressIve progressIvecommun progressivecommun commun t es m a rich oland o 1 and agrl agrlcultural agncultural cultural belt of southeastern Kansas Kansasburled Kansasburied burled the ha hatchet tchet to acquire acqUU'e acqUUe ' Stro Strother Strother ther field former AAF fighter tram trammg traming mg base as a joint Jomt project in August Au August gust 1946 Facilities Facllltles offered by the thefield thefield field permitted the two cities to se secure secure cure a new Industry the Fauch Fairchildpersonal d dpersonal personal planes divisionGov division divisionGov Gov Frank Carlson cl Gt Kan Kansasmade < ; as asmade made the dedicatory address at a aprogram aprogram program which wluch featured an elabo elaborate elaborate rate air fair Starting Startmg with a dawn dawnpatrol dawnpatrol patrol breakfast the day s programincluded program programIncluded Included an exhibition and demon demonstratlon demonstration stratlon of ot personal planes m militaryaviat ltary ltaryaVlat aVlat on d splay model airplane airplanedemonstration airplanedemonstration demonstration flights by women womenpilots womenpilots pilots and fliers filers over the age of 40 40parade 40parade parade and trap shoot . . . . . r- r rf r - " ' " " \ " ' rr ' ? f . " jr- jr jri - i I KNEELING KNEELI\G KNEELI G ! \ DOWN A bend bendIng bendIng Ing nose eear gear which enables afighter a afightcr fightcr plane to kneel down on onthc onthe thc crowded deck dcck of an aircraft aircraftcarrier aircraftcarrier carrier is a feature of or one of the thenavy thenavys navy s fastest alrpla.nesorth airplanes alrpla.nes alrplanes . \orth orth ! \ NorthAmencin orthAmerlcn Amerlc\n Amerlc n ' \ Aviation s all jet jetFJ \FJ FJ 'FJ \ " ' 1 1The 1The The equipment cqulpmcnt Is dcused deIsed de\ de \ Ised to tofacilitate tofacilitate facilitate nindling h\ndlmg h ndlmg ' \ of the fighter fighteron on the fround ground and a.nd . stownife stowage ondeck on ondeck deck * . . . Sky LabNine Lab LabNine Nine flying fiymg lightning rods ha\e ha e haeteamed haveteamed \ teamed up at Clinton Clmton county army armyalT armyair alT field nt at W Wilmmgton mmgton Ohio in a amodern amodern modern version version of Ben Franklin Fran.lm Franlm ! . s sinvItatIOn sInvitation invItatIOn tl to ' the lightning l1ghtning to bl ster sterhis sterhis his hind h'lnd hlnd ' by way of kite key and andrmg andring rmg Purpose purvose of the scient selent flc tic ad adventure adventure venture into the rain clouds which whichis IS being conducted by the air mate material material rial command is to determine the thebehavior thebehavior behavior of an electrical storm by byjumping byjumping jumping right into the middle of It Itwith itwith with cameras camera ! ; instruments and andtramed andtrained tramed observer observeTt * |