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Show Wednesday, October 25. 2006 USU shows off new planes in Vernal By Janine Shannon This summer, USU received ten DA40-FP Diamond Star planes and two DA42 Twin Star planes to be used for flight training. Flight instructor Kari Webb said there are only about 12 Twin Stars flying in the entire en-tire United States, and this has been a big draw for students to attend USU. On top of that, the new fleet features state-of-the-art equipment like Garmin's G1000 integrated avionics system, sys-tem, which computerizes everything. every-thing. "USU has a quality program that combines the best instruction instruc-tion with the best equipment," Webb said. Webb and Brandon Clark, also a flight instructor, piloted the planes that brought USU dignitaries to Vernal two weeks ago. They both graduated from the program at USU and became flight instructors in order to get the 1,000 flight hours needed to fly commercially. USU offers at least six pilot ratings, where most schools only offer three. According to Webb, USU is also one of the most inexpensive flight schools in the country. Students graduate gradu-ate with a four-year degree in Aviation Technology, either in the Professional Pilot Program or in the Maintenance Management Manage-ment Program. Students in the Professional Pilot Program, like Webb and Clark, graduate gradu-ate with about only about 230 flight hours and so they opt to get in flight hours by instructing. instruct-ing. Both have completed their hours and are looking for commercial com-mercial pilot jobs. Express Writer Two brand new planes from Utah State University's flight program touched down at Ver-nal's Ver-nal's airport a couple weeks ago, bringing USU dignitaries to a meeting with community leaders. Scott Hinton, USU dean of engineering, highlighted the aviation program and discussed the possibility of bringing the engineering program to the Basin. Ba-sin. Flight instructors Kari Webb and Brandon Clark piloted two of USU's brand new planes, which brought USU dignitaries to a meeting in Vernal a couple of weeks ago. Photo by Janine Shannon , Vernal Express, Utah State University's aviation program now features 12 brand new planes for flight training, like this DA42 Twin Star. Photo by Janine Shannon Welding books at Uintah County Library Books 'N' Things By Dr. Frank Alan Bruno People who use the Uintah County Library are interested in learning new skills that they can use at work and at home. I have always felt that the public library should be a place where people can go to find practical practi-cal how-to-do manuals on just about anything. A few months ago a shop foreman came to library and asked me to recommend to him a couple of practical videos and books that could help a novice welder learn how to weld better. bet-ter. I checked our collection but there were only two or three old outdated welding books. I consulted Amazon.Com to see what the most widely purchased pur-chased welding materials were across the country. I decided to purchase the same books for our library as I recommenJud . he purchase for his workplace shop. A good quick starting place for learning to weld is: Introduction to Welding (Call DVD 671.5 Int). The 17 minute min-ute video describes "The various vari-ous welding processes and how to take necessary precautions when performing welding tasks." Welding can be very dangerous. You can burn yourself, your-self, cut off a finger by accident, acci-dent, or get metal shavings in your eyes, if you are not careful enough. We picked up 32 new welding books on basic and advanced welding as well as some specialty spe-cialty welding techniques. A few interesting basic ones that aren't too boring are: How to Weld Damn Near Anything (Call NonAdult Fiction (NF) 671.5 How); John Todd's The Complete Book of Home Welding (Call NF 671.52 Tod); Karen Ruth's Welding Basics: An introduction to practical practi-cal and ornamental welding (CallNF 671.5 Wei). A few advanced welding books are: Richard Finch's Performance welding handbook hand-book (Call NF 671.5 Per); P.T. Houldcroft's Welding and cutting: cut-ting: a guide to fusion welding (Call NF 671.5 Wei); Frank Marlow's Welding fabrication and repair (Call NF 671.5 Mar); Kevin Bowditch's Oxyfuel gas welding (Call NF 671.5 Bow); Don Geary's The Welder's Bible (CallNF 671.5 Gea). A few specialized welding books are: Richard Finch's The Farm Welding Handbooks (Call NF 671.5 Far); Dewayne Roy's Welding for arts and crafts (Call NF 739 Roy); Larry F. 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