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Show Wlngovers All The News That's Fit To Print - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison QUOTES . . . Three quotations which have come to my attention this week seem to reveal the mental processes pro-cesses of three prominent figures as well as of a President who keeps two of them in office but fired the other. 1st, the visionaary. '"I have in mind a picture of the mountains filled with the chariots of the Lord, that are Invisible, and I thing that those chariots are all on our side, fcnd I have great faith in the outcome." - - Warren Austin, UN delegates, ta a House committee. 2nd, the equivocator. "If anything any-thing is important, if anything is true about the situation in Korea, it is the overwhelming importance of not forcing a showdown on our side in Korea and not permitting our opponents to force a showdown." show-down." - - Dean Acheson, in a State Dept. bulletin. 3rd, the American. "I suggest tha some way be found to end this dreadful slaughter". - - Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur, to Senate committee. I PROPWASH ... j There are now 750 planes engaged en-gaged in dusting and crop seeding in California. Also 500 others used by farmers for various jobs. A book made up of reports by elementary and secondary school teachers, dealing with ways of meeting the challenge to educa-1 tion made by aviation in the changing cha-nging world, has recently been published. Some 60 teachers have contributed to it, and the editing was done by Dr. Harold E. Meh-rens Meh-rens of the CAA. It seems" that students take an interest in airplanes air-planes and flying from the first grade up and this interest is being be-ing used ' to stimulate learning in many subjects. A first grade class began with a study of things that fly - - snowflakes, butterflies seeds and raindrops, with the airplane keeping interest alive. An eighth grade teacher asked her students to bring all their model airplanes to class, then organized the class along flying lines, as pilot crew, etc. Quieter airplanes may be in the offing, if research by government scientists can be brought to its log ical fruition. The research shows that propellers or the chief noise makers. The tip speed of some propellers reaches 600 mph, and the vortex of air from these blade tips creates the noise. The remedy rem-edy is slower turning props with bigger blades and more of them. Engine exhaust is the secondary noise maker, and the cure lies in developing practical mufflers. Britain's new jet transport the Comet, has brought Singapore to within a day's journey from London. If you were a soldier in the line, would you prefer as a leader the man who sees invisible chariots on the bleak Korean hills, the man who apparently wants the stalemated war to go on forever, or the General who wanted to end the war by winning it? P. S. We had air fighter superiority sup-eriority over Korea once. Now, the enemy has it! EPIDEMIC . . . The CAA interphone at the airport air-port was buzzing with messages Sunday as a result of an outbreak of what was thought to be polio, In Hanksville. Hanksville is a very small settlement in an isolated part of Utah. It has no telephone service, and the only fast communication com-munication service is the CAA radio. ra-dio. When five people in Hanksville were taken ill with what they thought was polio, Hanksville CAA radio transmitted word of the situation sit-uation to Bryce Canyon, from where it was relayed to Lake by CAA wire services. State Aeronautical director H.W. America's VOR radio range system sys-tem has been adopted by nearly all nations of Europe as the standard, stan-dard, with only England holding out The British have a "Decca" ' system of their own which they j consider superior. j A simple practical gear for cross wind landings has received CAA approval . It is called the Geisse Gear after its inventor. The device has performed perfectly when used us-ed on a Cessna in a 50 mph 90 degree cross wind. Bement, piloting the state owned Beech Bonanza, flew two doctors and a nurse to Hanksville Sunday, an a B-26 bomber, manned by CAP personnel, flew in with oxygen and other supplies. The doctors returned to Salt Lake Sunday evening, and reported that the epidemic was not polio, but tonsilitis and other throat ailments. QUANDARY . . . "My Ten Years In A Quandary", is the title of a book by Robert Benchley. Ray Steele may not have spent ten years in a quandry, but he spent some time in one last week after receiving an order from headquarters to take an inventory of the supplies at air site 46, of the LA-SL airway. Ray finds this order hard to carry out for the simple reason that air site 46 was closed down and everything moved away in 1947. It used to be a beacon site south of Black Rock. MONITORS . . . Atomic radiation monitors, Barry Bar-ry and Wueest, were taken to Salt Lake on the 21st by Grant Workman. Work-man. MEL AND BOOTS . . . Jess Done hauled out hi3 Aeron-ca Aeron-ca Chief the other Sunday and made a flight to the Hot Springs. Melvin Terry accompanied him. Boots tells me he has shortened his farm landing strip to the length len-gth of one forty and he needs every inch of it. If he overshoots, I suppose the thing for him to do would be to continue across the river to the airport where he can land on a runway that is 6011 ft. long. "FROME SALT LAKE" It's hard to imagine anything harder to keep track of than a flock of airplanes, even when they are stationed at the airport. But when Cliff Anderson decides to land across the street from Orlin's or Buck Frome sets down on the highway near Paul Whicker's, at Hinckley, the difficulties of keeping keep-ing tabs on them are compounded. Mr. Frome is a friend of Paul and Freda Whicker. If you call him mister, he may tell you that his name is Buck and he is "Frome" Salt Lake. Buck pilots a Navion for the Gulf Oil Co., and has been making frequent flights to Millard county. Freeman and Reed Damron made the flight from Salt Lake to "Hinckley "Hin-ckley Airport" with him Sunday, Nov. 18. |