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Show miles, and its top speed over GOO mph. Its cruising altitude is over 50,000 ft - - - about nine miles up. Test pilots Robert Robbins and Scott Osier took the B-47 up for her maiden flight. Pilot Robbins re ported, " It became apparent that we could have no trouble. Call it intuition or whatever you want. We had it in the bag. The plane felt mighty good. We soon attained at-tained a true air speed of 360 mph and were throttled way back. It was nice to look out and see those drooping wings now bent upward." The wings of the Stratojet are long and thin, with a springy quality. When the plane is at rest they droop a little, but when it is flying they have a slight dihedral dihed-ral angle, or upward slant. It was this characteristic that Pilot Robbins Rob-bins referred to when he mentioned mention-ed the drooping wings that bent upward in flight. The B-47 Stratojet is tops. It has already crossed the continent at an average speed of 607 mph, the trancontinental time being three hours and 46 min. Less than a hundred years ago the pioneers took months to cross the plains. Had anyone told them that in 1949 men would fly across the nation in less than four hours they couldn't have believed it. But already, small Navy jet planes have flown hvico as fast as the Stratojet or over 1500 mph for short distances. LIFT BRIDGES BRIDGES' BLOCK Aircraft provide the fastest and and most flexible means of transportation trans-portation in the world today. They can transport anything, anywhere, and at almost any time over land or water. The ability of airplanes to provide emergency service is. being demonstrated once more in the tie-up of Hawaiian shipping. We are not here concerned with the issues of the strike of longshoremen long-shoremen and warehousemen ordered or-dered by Harry Bridges, but only with two plain facts: ocean going go-ing shipping is stopped, and airplanes air-planes are providing service to the islands. Record cargoes have been trans ported since May by Pan Ameri-ican, Ameri-ican, United and Northwest airlines, air-lines, and by Trans-Ocean, a non-sked non-sked line The islands normally import most of their butter and eggs, and these, together with machine parts are the chief items shipped in 'by air now. Special . orders for medicines are most essential, es-sential, but many luxuries are carried. car-ried. Fresh fruits vegetables and meats are among these. '-"v" " ' which is used by the islands' Orif tal residents is an important item. ( Win go vers ALL THE NEWS THAT IS FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT AIR-PORT DICK MORRISON NED'S FLEDGE Ned Church tried his wings for the first time at 7 a. m. Sunday accompanied by Frank Beckwith, Sr., with Leo and me piloting the sedan. For a fledgling flight, this one was a honey. We followed the ancient river bed and got some excellent pictures of Reservoir Butte, 61 miles NW, the Hot Plug and other items of Geological interest. in-terest. The air was cool and smooth; there was a hint of morning mist in distant valleys and the mountains moun-tains shone in the sunlight like a Maxfield Parrish painting two hundred miles across. STARTS COURSE Leon Theobald took his familiar ization flight Saturday. Technically, Technical-ly, Leon is already quite familiar with planes, having made many test flights at Hill Field. His present pre-sent course may lead to a commercial com-mercial license. FLYING PLUMBER James Arthur Cannon, former Delta resident from 1923 to 1930 set his T-craft down here Sunday. Sun-day. He is a relative of Mrs. Leone Daly and the Church family, the Taylor Riding family and the Tom this young sexagenarian are e-nough e-nough to make people half as young sit up and take notice. ORAL'S INSPIRATION Like gas station men, airport operators have to provide those certain essential facilities for the comfort and convenience of people peo-ple who travel in vehicles that don't have built in bathrooms. And like gas station men airport opeators learn to recognize that unspoken "quick where is it ?" look on the faces of the customers even before the vehicles, whether cars or planes, stop rolling. The Delta Hangar has two such rooms, naturally, but for a long time strangers had trouble finding find-ing them. Signs were needed on the doors, but where to get the signs? Anybody might have paint ed the signs, but nothing except stamped metal signs would be good enough, of course, and none were available. It took Oral Jensen to solve the problem.He and his ubiquitous kid brother, Verdel had thriftily kept all their old license plates, and they got them out and with a pair of tinsnips neatly cut out certain cer-tain letters, punched holes in them and tacked them on the doors. Then Oral and Verdel called Leo and proudly showed him their handiwork. On each of the rest room doors was a neatly lettered metal sign which read, " This is the place" THE AMAZING STRATOJET Joking aside, Oral Jensen is a good flyer and takes a real interest inter-est in planes. He kindly loaned me a copy of Flying magazine which gives some interesting facts on the new Boeing XB-47 Stratojet bomber. The B-47 is the last word in big planes. It is of beautiful design. de-sign. It has class. Its strictly functional fun-ctional lines give it a quality that is down right smart looking. The wings and tail surfaces are sharply sharp-ly swept-back, which makes it look fast. It is roughly equal to the B-29 in dimensions but is heav ier and much faster. It weights 62 tons or more. It is 108 ft. long and the wing span is 116 ft. It is powered by six GE J-36 turbojet engines of 4000 pounds thrust each, plus 18 Aerojet (JATO rocket motors of 1000 pt each to assist on take-off and for quick acceleration. The six main engines are mounted on the wings, and the JATO's are in the fuselage. New B-47's now being built will be even more powerful, with six GE J-47 turbojet engines bringing the total power to more than 45 000 pt. The Stratojet costs six million dollars. It can carry ten tons of bombs, or if adapted foi commercial work a heavier paj load and less fuel might be carried. car-ried. Its range could be up to 900C Judd family. Mr. Cannon is the flying plumber plum-ber who piloted Peter J. Peterson the 86 year old ox cart driver on his first flight recently at Salt Lake, as noted in the daily papers. SEXAGENARIAN ON X C Among the visitors who dropped in at the airport last week was Mr. H. W. Eagan, of 5124 Granada, Los Angeles, 42, Cal., who was piloting pil-oting his own Aeronca Champion on a cross country flight from Los Angeles to Logan, Utah, to attend a family reunion. Mr. Eagan reported that the cash outlay so far on his trip had been only $8.95. This covered cost of gasoline from Big Bear, Cal., near Los Angeles, to Delta, He carried sleeping bag and camp outfit. Mr. Eagan learned to fly at the age of 61. He is now 63, and pilots himself about the country in great style. Sixty three certainly certain-ly is not old, but the exploits of |