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Show Wiiigovers "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON FLEDGLINGS . . . E. A. Brush took his first airplane air-plane ride Sunday. He and his son, Dee made a 2Vj hour flight over the west desert, with Leo Burras-ton Burras-ton piloting the sedan. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Lamhert, of Long Pine, Nebr. enjoyed their first flight last Thursday. Their son, Bob Nichols, piloted them to Delta from Salt Lake. They expected to visit here a couple of weeks. There first flight might have been considerably longer, except that the weather man made a mistake. Bob intended to fly them to Delta from Nebraska but when the weather wea-ther forecast . indicated a storm front was about to move in, he cancelled the Nebraska trip. The front didn't materialize, and when his parents reached Salt Lake by train, Bob met them with the Aero nca sedan and the three flew to Delta. UPS AND DOWNS . . . Leon and Roberta Theobald flew to Cedar City for dinner Sunday, with Mr. and Mrs. Grant Taylor as their guests. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Tay-lor are here from Ohio for a visit. Mr. Claude M. Smith, chief of the communications operations branch of the CAA, sixth region ,is scheduled sched-uled to arrive at the airport Oct. 24, on a tour of the region. According Accord-ing to plan, he and Nate Ward, chief communicator here, expect to fly to Hanksville, Bryce Canyon and back to Delta Wednesday, Oct. 25. Mr. and Mrs. Walter S. Davis, of Burbank, Cal. set their Cessna 170 down here Friday. They spent the week end with Mrs. Davis' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Bullock, and took off for Burbank Sunday. Both Mr. and Mrs. Davis have pilots licenses, and are members of a flying fly-ing club in Cal. Fred and Betty Baker flew their T-craft to Ibapah last week. Gene Dutson flew the Cub duster dust-er to Provo, to use in the CAP air show, Sunday . NEW DEVELOPMENTS . . . The age of jet transports is in sight. The British got the jump on us in jet development because of a wartime agreement. The BOAC expects ex-pects to get its first jet powered DeHavilland Comet next February, and start jet service between London Lon-don and Australia within a year. Field crews are already building landing fields on the London, Rome Cairo, Australia route. The jet pow ered Comets are designed to carry 36 passengers and to cut the time in flight between London and Australia Aus-tralia nearly in half. Yes, the British got there first with the jets, but the Yanks are i coming. Lockheed has just announ-1 ced a Super Constellation which is designed to use turboprop jet engines as soon as the engines are available. Meantime, the Super Connies will use Wright 3350-1 piston pis-ton engines, with provision for in the field changeover to Wright 3350-D compound engines.The new Constelilations are the only transports trans-ports yet built that can accomodate accomod-ate the 35 hp compound engines. They are 113 ft .long, and can carry 110 passengers, with adequate ade-quate luggage space. Gross take off weight is 130,000 pounds. They are pressurized for 30,000 ft. altitude, alt-itude, at which the turbo-prop work best. Production is being increased for Boeing's big B-47 600 mph jet bomber, bom-ber, which is as big as a B-29 and fore than twice as fast. Last year the B-47 crossed the continent in less than four hours. It is sleek and swift in appearance, with its. swept back wings and tail fins and holds much promise for the future. The useful range of helicopters in rescue and other work has been increased as a result of successful experiments in towing 'copters behind be-hind planes. Announcement was made last week at Wright Patterson Patter-son AFB that this has proved practical prac-tical .'In the test flights, a C-54 towed a Sikorsky H-5 . helicopter. A big plane can tow a 'copter 1500 miles, with the latter's engine cut the whole distance. The 'copter can cut loose, fly or hover independently indep-endently as required, then re-engage the towing device and "hitch- hike" back to the starting point. The controversy over color television tele-vision is going on apace. The Wall Street Journal tells us that the "CBS color system makes television televis-ion set makers see red. "Electronics engineers dislike the system, which wh-ich has received the official FCC OK, because it uses a motor driven color wheel in receiving sets. This, they say, is awkward and impractical. impract-ical. The FCC, one of whose engineers engin-eers helped invent the device, says it is the most practical system. Engineers En-gineers of RCA, GE, CTI. and others oth-ers say an all electronic system would be much better, and that such systems are practically ready for commercial use. A full page advertisment in last Sunday's Tribune, published by Piiilco', stated that Philco considers the "whirling disc" system entirely unacceptable. This expresses the sentiment of a large sector of the industry. Sunday on the CBS net-v.' net-v.' rk, Robert C. Sprague, president of the Radio-Television Manufact-. urers Association said the "right k'i.'.d of color television set simply ; ":;n't. here yet." j "British agents trace lost atom scientist" says a headline. Why don't they go after him with a geiger counter? i |