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Show yVIATION NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER Frank Hartman, Denver real estate es-tate agent and a commercial pilot with 15 years of flying experience, j combines his flying and selling skills to advantage. He recently closed a large ranch sale Jn a single day after showing the property prop-erty to a customer from the air. The ranch buyers said they learned more about the property from the air In a half hour than they could have learned during a week riding horseback. . . . After criss-crossing the Pacific ocean for 26,074 miles on a survey flight to Singapore and the Royal Netherlands East Indies in a big DC-4 Skymaster plane, Mrs. Mamie B. Nelson, 67, is convinced she is "just as batty about air travel as my son." Her son, with whom she made the flight, is Orvis Nelson, president of Transocean Air Lines and vice president In charge of International operations for Philippine Phil-ippine Air Lines. . . . Fred Richol-son, Richol-son, farmer near Davis Junction, 111., finds it convenient to allow Roger Lace,, local air enthusiast, to use part of his pasture for a landing field. The arrangement works out to their mutual advantage, Richolson finds, since Lace frequently makes trips to nearby cities for badly-, needed farm equipment. . . . Cranberry Cran-berry bogs in Massachusetts are being dusted and sprayed with a helicopter, purchased by National Cranberry association for use of its members. Airplane dusting, used for the first time last year, is being continued on larger bogs but the helicopter supplements its work on small and Inaccessible bogs. "There were no complaints received or arrests made for intoxicated in-toxicated flying in Pennsylvania during 1946." That evidence of the lack of tipsy fliers is takev from the Peunsylvania Aeronautics Aero-nautics commission's annual report re-port on aeronautical violations. AVERAGE PILOT The average airline pilot and copilot co-pilot in the United States is 32 years old and has been piloting planes 4,859 hours. This is a part of the picture of the average airline pilot as produced by a Civil Aeronautics administration study looking toward to-ward possible reduction of the human hu-man element in air accidents. The program for redetermination of physical standards for airmen will take into consideration he physiological effects of extended occupation oc-cupation as an airline pilot and the possibilities of increasing air safety through use of pilot Selection methods meth-ods other than those of proficiency determination. The average pilot and co-pilot weighs 165 pounds and is 5 feet, 10 inches tall. There were fewer than three chances in 100 that he wore glasses, only 2.7 per cent requiring a lens correction. The group average for solo flying, 4,859 hours, included flying of all kinds and in aircraft 'of any description. descrip-tion. During 1946 this group averaged aver-aged 63 hours a month, 37 during daylight hours and 26 at night. CAA allows an airline pilot to fly 1,000 hours a year, an average of about 83 hours a month. tvx:-s. - , J 'AIRMAILER' . . . This is the "Airmailer," a new helicopter model designed and produced by Bell Aircraft corporation specifically specific-ally for service an new helicopter airmail routes to be proposed by the post office department. OWNER DIRECTORY An official directory of registered aircraft owners in each of the 4 states has been completed by Ail Review Publishing corporation oJ Dallas, Tex., under contractor tc Civil Aeronautics administration. For the first time, an alphabetical listing of each owner by states ii provided, supplanting the govern ment's former method of listing air craft by license number. The directory direc-tory also includes the owner's ad dress, and complete informatioi about his plane |