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Show the Delta AirPrt by AND LANDINGS . . . 1 uiter took his first air t' ?nv with Dee Brush and ; sedan- .Th Franklin and Fred Bak-Bsh Bak-Bsh 'd's T-craft on a jaunt C", the desert Saturday, look-olove look-olove , d Horses. They located M lor Skunk Springs. i0nie "elu nutson flew in Thursday, Geae,useombe, for a visit with sinUanungton. I'm - daft, thought Fabien, to be ; smiling, we're lost." "And yet - - at last a myriad dark arms had let him go; those , bonds of his were loosed . . . "Too , beautiful", he thought. Amid the far flung treasure of the stars he : roved, in a world where no life i was, no fainest breath of life save , his and his companion's." ! The foregoing is from the novel, Night Flight, by Antoine de St. ; Exupery, commercial and military ' pilot, who helped pioneer the air mail in South America. Derral Wright has received h private pilot license. eCeived hls spinsesnundTahrba'; PraCUced Two Connors brothers and a' guest of the Connors Motor Co of Helena, Mont., dropped in last week on an XC to Lai Vegas, fly-in fly-in a 4 place Stinson. , i Pilot Cliff Anderson of Manti ' oidn't let the low ceiling (100ft ) i or poor visibility (300ft.) prevent! a take-off in his Luscombe a week 1 ago Friday. However, a take-off! under such conditions is against CAA regulations, and the pilot of j the Monarch Airlines DC-3 which! was weathered in here at the time 1 reported the violation. What disciplinary dis-ciplinary action the CAA will take has not been reported. short runways; good visibility to the sides and downward; a wing curve design to create a down -draft which will assist in spraying, seeding, etc.; space to cany some farm treigth and even livestock; and a pilot's seat so situated as to give protection from spray or dust being despensed. While nearly 6000 small planes are now in use for farm work such as dusting spraying, seeding and fertilizing, most of these are conventional planes which were adapted for .these jobs. Their average av-erage speed of 75 to 120 mph is a little too fast for ideal service as I they require greater turning rad-: rad-: ius and longer runways than the new plane. Airplanes have already proved i their practicability for the jobs mentioned. When spraying or dust ing, for instance, they can blanket a field with insecticides without distrubing crops such : alfalfa there is a constant stream of new : developments in airplanes, jets, I and rockkets being announced by the various manufacturers. Among ; 1 these is a new guided missile by ; Ryan Aeronautical Co. Named the j Firebird, it is a pilotless, rocket ! driven missile with a built-in radar, and electronc navigational system which causes it to seek and destroy des-troy enemy aircraft. I North American Aviation has developed de-veloped a new means of detecting breaks and current leaks in the I radar system of aircraft. The new system sends 500 volts through a 24 volt system, making possible j location of leaks resulting from slight scuffing of the spun glass insulation; previously a very difficult dif-ficult task. Radar wiring is ex -tremely sensitive to such power leakage. Douglas Aircraft has announced the completion of its first C-124 Globemaster II transport. It is now being taxi-tested and is expected to make its first flight this month. It has a wingspread of 173 ft., length len-gth 127 ft. and height of 48 ft. Its "payload" is 25 tons, gross weight 175,000 lbs. and range 1700 miles. Is has a double deck interior; can carry 200 troops with field equipment equip-ment or as an ambulance, 136 stret cher patients with 52 attendants. Among other features is a built in elevator which can be lowered to the ground. Seasons. From a few hundred feet above the earth the ordinary landscape land-scape lakes on a look of clean orderliness, of fresh color. As a plane mounts into the blue the horizon widens unfolding new vistas, vis-tas, and the mountains look like wrinkles on the surface of the earth, ear-th, which, tn fact they are and cities can be seen in clear air more than a hundred miles away. Sometimes a rainbow can be seen in lull circle. All who fly like to recall scenic views that have "thrilled them. A view, perhaps, of Notch Peak as it looked in the blue and white world last winter from a haylift plane; or as it looked in the morning morn-ing shadows in May; the low brok en fog clouds over Utah valley one day as the T-craft sailed high above; or maybe the frosty, glistening glist-ening world seen from two thousand thous-and feet above Fool Creek Peak that October morning. A certain writer who loved to fly gave us the following bit of description which will bear quoting. quot-ing. He wrote it as if seen through the eyes of a fictional character in a novel, but it could only have been written by one who had seen it himself. In the story, Fabien, a pilot, and a wireless operator are the two-man crew of an early air mail plane flying between Europe and South America. They fly into a storm of which the inadequate weather service of that day had not warned them, and we find them at a moment when after a seemingly endless period of bucking buck-ing and plunging through the storm clouds at night, Fabien saw above his head, across a storm rift I a few stars. "Little by little he spiraled up out of the dark pit which closed again beneath him. As he rose the clouds began to shed their slime of shadow, flowing past him in cleaner, whiter billows. Fabien rose clear." "And now a wonder seized him; dazzled by that brightness, he had to keep his eyes closed for some seconds. He had never dreamt the night clouds could dazzle thus. But the full moon and all the constellations con-stellations were changing them to waves of light. "In a flash, the very instant he had risen clear, the pilot found a peace that passed his understanding understand-ing Not a ripple tilted the plane, but, like a ship that has crossed the' bar, it moved across a tranquil anchorage. In an unknown and secret corner of the sky it floated as in a harbor of the Happy Isles. Below him still the storm was fash ioning another world thrilled with squalls and cloudbursts and lightnings, light-nings, but turning to the stars a face of crystal snow." "Now all grew luminous, his hands, his clothes, the wings and Fabien thought he was in a limbo of strange magic; for the light did not come down from the stars but welled up from below from all that snowy whiteness.'" "The clouds beneath threw up the flakes the moon was pouring on them; on every hand they loom ed like towers of snow. A milky stream of light flowed everywhere laving the plane and crew. When Fabien turned he saw the wireless operator smile." "That's better!" .he cried. "But his words were drowned bj the flight; they conversed in smile: seed. New chemcals which can be dispensed from planes are constant ly being developed. One of these is designated as 245-T, it is used to kill woody shrubs. Other chemicals chem-icals can kill specific types of plants or weeds without harming different types in the same fields. It is estimated that there will be use for 3500 new farm planes in the near future. Once the details de-tails of design have been settled, plane manufacturers will be given the opportunity to bid for the job of building the new planes. "TOO BEAUTIFUL" Scenery from the air is always beautiful to the point of being awe inspiring, and infinitely varied, changng with the hours and the FARM PLANE . . . Development of a new plane that will do nearly any job on the farm except pull a plow or mik a cow is the object of research resear-ch being conducted jointly by the CAA, the CAB and the Dept: of Ag., according to information made public by Delos Rentzel of the CAA General ideas of what the projected project-ed farmer's plane should do and how it should be designed are being be-ing worked out and it is expected that the first experimental plane incorporating those- ideas will be flying within a year. The National Flying Farmers Association is assisting as-sisting wth the project. The experience exper-ience already gained by this organization or-ganization in farm flying should make the advice they can give of much practical value in working work-ing up the new design. The govern ment departments concerned do not intend to go into the plane manufacturing business, but will use their resolrces to assist in designing de-signing the plane. Some of the features which the sponsors hope to build into it are: easy maneuverability at 60 mph; ability to take off and land on DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NEWS . . While the farm plane just described descri-bed is still in the planning stage, |