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Show $ AVIATION NOTES Airport Chatter Fliers from several Midwestern states participated in the first all-Upper all-Upper Peninsula tour conducted under un-der auspices of the Michigan state department of aeronautics. The flight covered 289 miles, stops being made at eight cities. . . . Ten charter char-ter members have signed up for the recently-organized Decorah Flying club at Decorah, Iowa. The club has purchased an Aeronca Chief plane. . . . Dedication services for the new Worthington, Minn., airport are scheduled July 5 and 6. More than 120 private plane owners have been invited to participate in the ceremonies. . . . Plans for a series of district meetings and flight breakfasts were perfected at the annual an-nual meeting of Flying Farmers of Iowa, held at the Ames municipal airport. The statewide organization, founded March 18, 1946, at a meeting meet-ing on the Iowa State college campus, cam-pus, now numbers more than 500 members from some 70 counties. ... An air show will be among the headline attractions at the American Ameri-can Legion summer jubilee at Harper, Kas., July 16-19. Aerial Detective Mark up another use for the airplane air-plane in agriculture. W. V. Allington, plant pathologist of the department of agriculture, is using an aerial survey to spot evidence evi-dence of a fungus diseases brown stem rot that is reducing soybean yields in the Midwest. Allington, who is stationed at the regional soybean laboratory at Ur-bana, Ur-bana, 111, uses his privately-owned plane to make aerial photographs of soybean acreage over a wide area. In the pictures, plants in infected in-fected fields show up much lighter in color than those in non-infected fields. By comparing his aerial pictures pic-tures with road maps, Allington locates lo-cates the fields where the fungus infection in-fection appears to be most serious. Girl Scouts have taken to the air in a big way. More than 5,000 Girl Scouts receive pre-flight pre-flight training and flight experience experi-ence as members of 315 Wing Scout troops in 42 states and Hawaii. "Wing Scout" is the name of the organization's own Cub plane, presented to them by William T. Piper. It is the only airplane owned and used by a national youth-serving agency. Civic Cooperation Climaxing an unprecedented example ex-ample of pra'ctical cooperation between be-tween two cities, dedication ceremonies cere-monies were held for the joint municipal mu-nicipal airport at Arkansas City and Winfield, Kas. The two progressive communities in a rich oil and agricultural agri-cultural belt of southeastern Kansas buried the hatchet to acquire Stro-ther Stro-ther field, former AAF fighter training train-ing base, as a joint project in August. Au-gust. 1946. Facilities offered by the field permitted the two cities to secure se-cure a new industry, the Fairchild personal planes division. Gov. Frank Carlson of Kansas made the dedicatory address at a program which featured an elaborate elabo-rate air fair. Starting with a dawn patrol breakfast, the day's program included an exhibition and demonstration demon-stration of personal planes, military aviation display, model airplane demonstration, flights by women pilots and fliers over the age of 40, parade and trap shoot, . .-4 V- r 'KNEELING DOWN' ... A bending bend-ing nose gear which enables a fighter plane to "kneel down" on the crowded deck of an aircraft carrier is a feature of one of the navy's fastest airplanes, North American Aviation's all-jet XFJ-1. The equipment is devised to facilitate handling of the fighter on the ground and stowage on deck. Sky Lab Nine flying lightning rods have teamed up at Clinton county army air field at Wilmington, Ohio, in a modern version of Ben Franklin's invitation to the lightning to blister his hand by way of kite, key and ring. Purpose of the scientific ad-venture ad-venture into the rain clouds, which is being conducted by the air material mate-rial command, is to determine the behavior of an electrical storm by jumping right into the middle of il with cameras, instruments and trained observers. |