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Show WEATHERED IN . . i "" The sudden blizzard Monday, last week, caused two planes to stop over here for the night. One was an air force B-26, piloted by Lt. O. L. Lund, With two other men, in flight from Phoenix to Salt Lake The other was a two engine Beech craft, also out of Phoenix, piloted by Bob Vinson. The six passengers in the Beechcraft continued their trip by train, while pilot Vinson remained re-mained overnight and took his ship off Tuesday morning. DONE'S TAIL WHINCUS . . . A gadget lying on the counter in the hangar office Sunday was, I was told, a business which Jess Done had ordered to install on the tall of his Aeronca Chief, so it will be easier for him to back it into the hangar at his Sugarville farm. Is has a dubissary that flips around ar-ound when the plane is pushed backwards, connected through the through the whatcha-may-call-it to the mejazzma, thus avoiding the necessity of lifting the tail to prevent pre-vent its going antigoddlin' off in the wrong direction. I abhor technical definitions, but ' can't seem to make this thing clear without One, SO for the benefit of any who didn't get me the first time I wish to say that the thing Jess now has is a steerable full swivel tail wheel, so help me. SEARCH LOCATES FRANK VAN . . Frank Van is still alive. That fact alone may be news, but there was a time last month when his wife, Geraldine, feared the worst might have happened, or if it hadn't maybe something else just as bad had occurred. One cold winter day Frank set out in his wrecker to pick up a car out west. He didn't get back that night, and next day Gerry was plen ty worried. She had all kinds of thoughts of poor Frank sleeping out and freezing to death, or some thing, so she decided to inagurate an aerial search. She called Del-Aero, and Leo, with Grant Workman and Ted Dal-ton, Dal-ton, took off in the sedan to drag the western desert for Frank and his wrecker. The found him, alright. The wrecker had conked out on him on the return trip, but fortunately Mr. and Mrs. Harold Parker had come along in their truck, and they gave Frank a tow. When spotted by the aprial sparch nartv thp whnlp rnu. circuits how operated by CAA, WONDERFUL WIRES . . . In this day of radio, radar and VOR range stations, we are inclined inclin-ed to regard the familiar telephone as a rather old fashioned means of communication. Yet progress in telephony has been as startling in recent years as that in radio and television; in fact these related sciences have all borrowed from and contributed to each other. Interesting are the means by which many messages are now sent over a single telephone circuit. cir-cuit. Today the long lines handle, in addition to millions of telephone conversations, a multitude of radio programs, teletype services, and, jm co-axial cables, television programs. pro-grams. The many services now provided by the telephone wires could not have been handled with the techniques tech-niques of a few years ago. It would have been impossible to string enough wires to do the qob. Enough metal to make the wire for them has never been mined. There are, at present, three wires which connect Delta with the Bell System at Eureka .These wires carry five circuits, of which three are leased bv the CAA. leaving two , Wingovers "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" Diclc Morrison. SMITH TO FLY . . . Aircraft communicator Stewart Smith, who was transferred to Delta from Needles, Cal., last Nov. has deceided to take advantage of the fine facilities of Delta Airport Air-port and learn to fly. He will seek a Commercial Pilot's license, under un-der GI training. This license will open certain opportunities to him in CAA service. BURRASTON TO SPRAY ... Leo Burraston has ordered CAA approved liquid spraying equip ment for installation in the Champ This will pro vide, a service supplementing sup-plementing the duster. Last year Del-Aero dusted some 5000 acres of alfalfa seed. ' alcade, Harold Parker's truck, Van's wrecker, and the car being pulled by the wrecker, were laboring up Marjum Pass, Since there was not much the fliers could do about it, they flew back to Delta and reported repor-ted to Gerry that she could expect Frank home in due time. The three car cavalcade arrived later. KA FOR CAA . . . A new "express service" communications commu-nications circuit will be openeed March 1 by the CAA according to Skyways, the flying column by Mar vin Miles, in the LA Sunday Times .if Jan. 22. The new circuit, designed XA, (express service A), Will link about 10 large cities in a nation-wide net work. This will reduce congestion on regional circuits, and result in improved weather service. It will enable the weather service to follow fol-low important fronts, blizzards, etc with hourly reports at key stations rather than three to six hour reports re-ports as formerly , according to Skyways. The new circuit will add 10,000 miles to the 75,000 miles of for use of the general public. This serves well for local requirements, but on the transcontinental lines, Single circuits may carry thousands of messages at once, without interference, inter-ference, of course. Sending messages ovdr the wires on different frequencies, comparable compar-able to the frequencies which separate sep-arate radio stations, is one means of accomplishing this .Another is to pulse signals, which technique may be compared to "chopping up' audible sounds and sending the "pieces" out on the wires, one after af-ter another. These must, of course be unscrambled and reassembled at the other end of the line - - an amazingly ingenious process. This process, Pulse Code Modulation (P CM) gives "time division" of messages, mes-sages, and used in connection with differing frequency bands which give "frequency division" it multiplies mult-iplies the usefulness of the wires tremendouly. The Bell laboratories have brought forth many wonders, including e-lectrical e-lectrical recording of phonograph records, which was developed as an incident in the work for b.etter tele phones, but they have never yet invented the one improvement peo pie want most: a means to keep the phone from ringing when we are in the bath tub. |