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Show Bench way to try to find the locale loc-ale of a picture. Frank Beckwith, Sr., took the picture some time ago. and then forgot where he snapped snap-ped it. It may have been near Crater Bench, or it may have been near Trout Creek. For all he's sure of, it may have ben somewhere else, too. It shows some old lake levels, as one might suspect. The search and rescue experts of the seven by horseback,' and the last three afoot. State Aeronautical director Del Fuhriman, and Lloyd Hoskins observer ob-server flew to the scene. Hoskins Is probably the pilot who made an emergency landing on Sevier Lake a little over two years ago, and had to abandon his plane, which is still there. i Wingovers "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON TWO FRANKS . . . If Frank Pace was flying in the manner of the Chinese pilot, Won Wing Low, Sunday afternoon, it was because his Cessna was carrying car-rying him in the left seat, and Frank Rawlinson, passenger, in the right. The latter Frank's 265 lbs., makes him nearly twice the man the former Frank is. Frank Rawlinson said he enjoyed enjoy-ed his flight. It was his third. He said that his first flight was very different. It was made a long time ago, at another airport. His pilot had just cleaned the engine with gasoline, and it took fire as they were taxiing to the runway. After extinguishing the fire, his pilot took him up and proceeded to do a lot of aerobatics. These two disconcerting dis-concerting experiences, one after UAr, IS LO lintl 'UlclL ajJUt OBaui. It's somewhere in the 7700 square , miles of Millard County, if it isn't in Juab County. The editor even disremembers what airplane he was in, but a wing strut on the photo looks like that of the Chief. We flew up and down the east side of Crater Bench, and we saw some terraces that look very much like the picture, but a further search sea-rch will be necessary to find the identical ones. Reaching the east boundary of the government design ated "danger area", which run past Crater Bench, we turned back, to avoid the possibility o'C getting ! chased by a flying caucer or what- another, lem 'ranK Kawnnson a bit skeptical about the joys of flying until he made a less upsetting upset-ting flight some time later. FLEDGLINGS ... Frank Pace put in quite an after noon flying passengers Sunday. Two who made their first flights with him were Mrs. Melda Rawlinson Rawlin-son and her sister, Mrs. Erma Roun dy. Both the girls loved it. Erma said, "There's just nothing like it" and Melda's comment was, in a word, "Thrilling". They both noted the feeling common to first-time-uppers, that as soon as they got ever it is that the makes the area officially dangerous for flyers. While we didn't identify the pic-turned pic-turned spot, we had a nice smooth flight. The sun was low in the afternoon; af-ternoon; crescent shaped sand dunes cast their shadows on the neat and orderly; the little plane dponed along smoothly; the air was perfect and there was nobody up there but just us birds. Speaking of birds, they have become be-come a problem in the hangar. They roost above the airplanes. An effort will be made to poision them. The birds seem to think the hangar is to shelter everything that fliers, including themselves. HELIMSHAP ... It's a good thing Santa Claus is immortal, because he is encoun tering more mishaps in his preseason pre-season appearances again this year At Bountiful the Helicopter he was riding in hit a power line, causing some little damage to the 'copter and slight injury to the pilot and Santa. Not only that, but he is just recovering from a case of Mumps. However, he has arrang-tA arrang-tA tn tfiv irTa nlane while the 'cop- off the ground they lost the sense of speed, though actually moving 100 mph. ' STARTING EARLY ..." Carl Baker, 14 year old son of Fred and Betty Baker, took his s first flying instruction Sunday with ' the objective of learning to fly so he can solo out on his sixteenth ' birthday, the minimum legal age j for solo flyers., Carl followed thru ! on some loops, during this first , lesson. This bring to mind that I got my own first and only loops in Fred's T-craft. The plane hesitated on the top of the second loop for what seemed like an interminable period before going over. Loops, my dear! ter is being repaired, and will be here Saturday if the weather is at all favorable. Workman and Theobald flew to Las Vegas and back Saturday. C-45 FOUND . . . The air force C-45, piloted by Col. Lorin Johnson, which was the object of the search conducted from Delta and other airports by the CAP early last week( was sight ed by a sheepherder Saturday, according ac-cording to messages received on the CAA teletype Sunday morning The name of the sheep herder was not given on any of the teletype messages. The plane had crashed high on the slope of Mf. Ellen, an 11485 ft. peak, about thirty miles south of Hanksville. Hanksville is a little town on the Fremont River 120 miles southeast of Delta, in an isolated section, difficult of GOOD AIR . . . You couldn't hope for a better flying day than last Sunday. During Dur-ing the afternoon a whole flock of flyers enjoyed it. Dick Wind flew to Clear Lake; Bob Jones, who is preparing to make his solo XC soon got in some practice; Lewis Buffington went 'round and 'round practicing landings. TWEET, TWEET . . . Leon Theobald invited me to go along on an hours' flight Sunday, so I did, and we went out Crater access except by air. HanKSvine radio and airport are part of the Denver-LA airway. A search and rescue party was organized and flown to Hanksville Saturday. The party stayed at the King Ranch, some thirty miles from the scene of the crash, and started up the mountain Sunday. Sunday night they camped on the mountain side, and they continued to the crash scene Monday. Of the thirty miles from the Ranch they could travel about twenty T)y Jeep, |