Show 00 casc jo ad AVIM avignon AVI AnON ION NOTES airport chatter lorin duemeland of bismarck was elected president of the north dakota flying farmers and ranch ers association at concluding ses sep of the annual convention the dakota flyer an aviation paper ed cited by geneva show youthful mott N D aviatrix was named of association publication in the first annual air tour spon bored by the aviation committee of the illinois state chamber of corn merce 32 planes visited 16 comma cities on a mile flight most of the 16 communities will vote on establishment of a local airport authority this year and purpose of the to tour was 1 to acquaint citizens with the need tor for careful and ade quate air planning it is no more unusual to have a plane than it is to have a car in fact this airplane is much less trouble than some of the cars we used to have that Is the assertion of harmon cranz a pilot farmer of ira a sum mit county ohio village northwest of akron cranz who uses his plane chiefly for pleasure flights has converted part of the barn into a hangar for the first time in its history parks college of aero nautical technology at east st louis III is inviting its 2 grad bates from each of the 48 states and a dozen foreign countries to re turn to the campus august 1 2 2 lo 10 toa reunion and homecoming mark twain oace once said every one talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it but but he he didn dian t know davy crock ett jr who has helped save aa an 80 apple crop by warm ing up the weather with a cou con pie of personal planes taking off from the Hagers hagerstown town md airport at 3 30 a m crockett and a fellow pilot flew their oncas to the 70 acre orchard threatened by frost cruising back and forth 50 feet above the trees the two planes raised the temperature two degrees in 10 minutes the pilots warm ing the air by keeping it cincu lating patrolled the area for hours after which the danger of frost was past air museum providing a per manent exhibit of the air weapons used in world war 11 II a national air museum will be established in the mall maii adjacent to smithsonian lesti aution in washington according to tentative plans approved at a con terence ference of aviation men and army air forces officers it is planned that historic aircraft and items of aeronautical equip ment both foreign and domestic which already have attracted wide spread public interest in temporary displays and air shows will be turned over by army air forces to the museum A total of more than aircraft and several thou sand items of aeronautical equipment will be made available to the museum airplanes earmarked tor for the mu seum include the enola gay the 13 29 which dropped the first atomic bomb flak bait historic veteran of the european theater and the memphis belle AID IN TEACHING A former reconnaissance pilot lee A harper of logaa logan ohio uses his flying experience as an aid la in teaching ohio farm ami veterans harper now a vocational agriculture instructor uses his lus own plane to fly by di ill to his students farms and to his classroom at laurelville Laur elville ohio show postponed postponement of the 1947 na dional aircraft show tentatively scheduled to be held in chicago november 19 1 9 has been announced by aircraft industries association since personal aircraft were to con statute the major portion of the air planes to be displayed at this year s show council members felt feit that a postponement to next spring would provide more opportunity to plan a showing of new models not now in readiness tor for public display |