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Show 'Copter Caravan Comes to Delta All Day Friday Utah's first and only helicopter will be on display all day and evening eve-ning of Friday, July 14, in Delta, a stop on a state-wide tour sponsored spon-sored jointly by the Utah National Guard and the Salt Lake Tribune and Salt Lake Telegram. The Strang looking aircraft will be carried aboard a national guard trailer, and is called the '"Copter Caravan." The caravan will arrive in Delta from Nephi around 10 o'clock Friday morning, and after an overnight stop will go on to Fillmore Saturday. Everyone is invited to Delta to view the helicopter at close range. And for more detailed account of a helicopter, read Dick Morrison's "Wingovers" this week. Dick gives a comprehensive view of what a helicopter can do. The 'Copter Caravan will park in Delta near the post office for all day, where the public is invited in-vited to inspect the craft. WU1 Demonstrate Friday evening the caravan will go to the ball park just north of Palomar and there Wallace Child, of Kemp and Kelsey Air Service, Inc., pilot of the helicopter, will put the ship through its paces. I There will be a demonstration and flights from the ball park, showing how it can move straight up and down with ease, backwards, back-wards, forwards and hover. Also with the caravan are Don aid L. McMahon, warrant officer, junior grade, in the Utah guard, and Bob Arentz, well-known Utah photographer and writer, who is reporting the trip and taking aerial aer-ial views of the cities and towns visited on the tour. Mr. McMahon is official representative of the state's army unit. Helipix in the Tuesday Tribune gave an aerial view of Spring-ville, Spring-ville, first stop on the tour. Friday aerial views will be taken of Delta as the helicopter is demonstrated. The purpose of the 'copter caravan cara-van is to acquaint Utahns with the helicopter and its unique uses, and also to emphasize the importance impor-tance of the Utah National Guard and the part it plays in providing protection for Utah and the nation. |