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Show Aviation notes Airport Chatter Lorin Duemeland of Bismarck was elected president of the North Dakota Flying Farmers and Ranchers Ranch-ers association at concluding sessions ses-sions of the annual convention. The Dakota Flyer, ah aviation paper edited ed-ited by Geneva Show, youthful Mott, N. D., aviatrix, was named of- i ficial association publication. . . . In the first annual air tour sponsored spon-sored by the aviation committee of the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, 32 planes visited 16 communities commu-nities on a 731-mile flight. Most of the 16 communities will vote on establishment of a local airport authority this year, and purpose of the tour was to acquaint citizens with the need for careful and adequate 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 Summit Sum-mit county, Ohio, village northwest of Akron. Cranz, who uses his plane chiefly for pleasure flights. j has converted part of the barn into a hangar. . . . For the first time in its history, Parks College of Aeronautical Aero-nautical Technology at East St. Louis, 111., is inviting its 2,000 graduates grad-uates from each of the 48 states and a dozen foreign countries to return re-turn to the campus August 1-2 for a reunion and homecoming. Mark Twain once said everyone every-one talks about the weather but nobody does anything about It. But he didn't know Davy Crockett Crock-ett Jr., who has helped save an $80,000 apple crop by "warming "warm-ing up" the weather with a couple cou-ple of personal planes. Taking off from the Hagerstown, Md., airport at 3:30 a. m., Crockett and a fellow pilot flew their Aeroncas to the 70-acre orchard threatened by frost. Cruising back and forth 50 feet above the trees, the two pls.ncs raisec1 the temperature two degrees in 10 minutes. The pilots, warming warm-ing the air by keeping it circulating, circu-lating, patrolled the area for Z hours, after which the danger of frost was past. Air Museum Providing a comprehensive, permanent per-manent exhibit of the air weapons used in World War IJ, a national air museum will be established in the mall adjacent to Smithsonian institution insti-tution in Washington, according to tentative plans approved at a conference con-ference of aviation men and army air forces officers. It is planned that historic aircraft and items of aeronautical equipment, equip-ment, both foreign and domestic, which already have attracted widespread 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 100 aircraft and several thousand thou-sand items of aeronautical equipment equip-ment will be made available to the museum. . 1 Airplanes earmarked for the museum mu-seum include the Enola Gay, the B-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 Har-per of Logan, Ohio, uses his flying experience as an aid In teaching Ohio farm veterans. Harper, now a vocational agriculture instructor, instruc-tor, uses his own plane to fly directly di-rectly to his students' farms and to his classroom at Laurelville, Ohio. Show Postponed Postponement of the 1947 National Na-tional Aircraft show, tentatively scheduled to be held in Chicago November No-vember 1-9, has been announced by Aircraft Industries association. Since personal aircraft were to constitute con-stitute the major portion of the airplanes air-planes to be displayed at this year's show, council members felt that a postponement to next spring would provide more opportunity to plan a showing of ne models not now in readiness for public display. |