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Show and got his private pilot license the day before, and then spent Sunday giving plane rides to his friends. Bob's mother, Mrs. Millie Jones went up as his first passenger. It was also her fledgling flight, and she came down to earth a flying enthusiast. She says she prefers flying motorcycling. She said, too, that when flying over the Jones farm she saw some things she now intends to move, just for the looks of it. Chief of these is the old Salt Lake City street car, which Dave Richardson moved there and lived in for a while. Once the pride of Salt Lake's trasportation system these old cars are now widely scat tered. I'll never forget the 'feeling of befuddlement I felt the day I drove past the Jones farm and saw it parked there. Maybe it would be well to move it. - Cal Jones, Bob's father, was his second passenger, and after that the field was wide open.-Ladd, Bryant Bry-ant and Sherman Jones, and Earl Steele all got their turn in the air. , Wingovers "ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO PRINT FROM THE DELTA AIRPORT" DICK MORRISON AMONG THOSE FLYING' . . . Sunday was another beautiful day for flying, and a number of Delta people took advantage of it to take plane rides, many for the first time. Dick (down wind) Wind got in some practice flying the Champ, and then took his children, Harry, Kay, Jolyn and Jer ry for a ride in the sedan. Leon Theobald was at it again, too. He treated Bud and Dutch Fullmer and Joe Christensen to their first air rides. Mr. and Mrs. Verrue Theobald and their young child went up. Speed and Ardella Riding drove out to the airport toward evening, just to look on, and at my invitation invitat-ion they soon were looking at Delta straight down from 2000 ft. The air was delightfully smooth. GETS PRIVATE . . . Bob Jones was happy as a lark' Sunday. He passed his 'flight test a laxative at all." In that case, I'd like to ask, what good would it be? A cartoon in the LA Examiner shows a weary GI kneeling by a snow bank saying, "Lord, give me the strength of a hundred men. Let's make this a fair fight." FORCED LANDING ... Sunday afternoon at 1451 Bob Nichoels of Delta Radio heard a navy plane calling Salt Lake, saying say-ing had just made a forced landing land-ing in the mountains. The pilot did not give the exact location, nor did he give reason for the landing or extent of damage. Max Kay, on duty at the watch house a little later said the plane's radio operator operat-or talked naturally, did not seem excited, and the presumption was that no one was hurt. Monday's dailies reported that James Mash, o't Murray, crash landed lan-ded a naval training plane on a mountainside in Morgan Co. Sunday Sun-day at 1525. The. plane was out of gas, made a wheels up landing and was extensively damaged, although al-though the pilot was not hurt. He walked through heavy snow to hiphwav 30 and was later taken DOWMDRArrS ... I An Eastern Airlines Constellation Constellat-ion took a 300 ft. drop in a freak downdraft last week. No harm was done, but the 60 passengers were thrown to the ceiling aisle. This recalls the time a transport trans-port in Alaska dropped 500 ft. during dur-ing its landing approach some time back. Regardless of how big they are or how luxurious, planes are planes and they are all subject to the same aerodynamic laws. Stalling speed, angle of attack, steep banked ban-ked turns - - they all mean the same for Constellation or Cub. A private pilot might have enjoyed feeling the Connie lose its lift, but the sensation may have been a bit rough on some ticket buying flyers. There may never be an end to the stories of that bad winter two years ago. Louella Mc Allister was just telling how she used to ride to work on the snow plow. Archie Barben, Howard Day and her husband, hus-band, Le, used to haul her down to the cafe on it to be sure she was there to fix their morning coffee. TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . Leo Burraston piloted Jay R. Udy of the Utah Fish and Game Commission Com-mission on an antelope counting trip over the desert Wednesday. Samuel E. (Ed) Duncan took up his duties as aircraft communicator here Jan. 9. He is transferred from Los Angeles, and thinks Delta is a cold spot. His wife and two small children are remaining in LA during dur-ing the cold weather. to Salt Lake by a state trooper. BACKS AIR POWER ... Major Alexander P. de Seversky, noted aircraft designer, added his voice to those who want America to rule the air, in an address to the Utah Legislature in joint session ses-sion last Friday. He said the U. S. should build an air force capable of striking anywhere in the world, some critics of this idea have called cal-led it a Maginot line philosophy. How anyone can compare 600 mph B-47's with the stationary defense line is beyond me. JESS UP . . . Hawk-eyed observers noted Jess Done's Aeronca Chief flying over the airport Sunday, but we can't say where he was going. He didn't stop in. Didja know an Ornithopter is an aircraft designed to fly by flapping its wings? - - P. S. - -They weren't very successful. Considering the impasse in the UN and the Korean war, shall we say that "One World" led to another? an-other? "The art of flying is a fundamental funda-mental one", said the report quoted quot-ed in Wingovers a month ago. It advocated "gTass airport" train -ing for a future air 'froce. - In this connection, we have just learned that after the Treaty of Versailles forbade the Germans to build airplanes, in 1919, the Germans Ger-mans built gliders and taught flying fly-ing by that means. Indeed, the art of flying is fundamental. When Hitler took power a host of German Ger-man youth already knew the fun-dametals, fun-dametals, and by 1939 Germany had the world's biggest air froce. P. S. - - Within three years after af-ter that, the U. S. had the biggest Mr. and Mrs. Bob Nichols and their young son flew in to Salt Lake Jan. 9. THOSE RADIO ADS . . . Most of us have become so as-customed as-customed to bad taste in radio advertising that we can listen to the praises o'f a patented depilatory depilat-ory during our dinner hour without with-out turning a hair. Recently a spieler for some kind of physic hit a new high in something some-thing or other when he said of it, "You'll hardly know you've taken man luftwaffe. The point is that flying in small planes or even gliders teaches the principles of flight. QUESTION OF RANK . . . Wives and mothers of reserve members are not the only ones who dislike seeing their loved ones called for duty. The husband of a 2nd lieutenant recently protested to Sen. Johnson when she, a WAC reserve, was called. "He doesn't want to give her up" said the senator. sen-ator. And that brings us to the question quest-ion of whether it is correct to refer to a W A ,C 2nd looie as a lady shavetail. TIMBER 111 Leo Burraston and Gene Peterson Peter-son devised a new way of harvesting harvest-ing Xmas trees a while back. Being Be-ing out in the hills with shotguns and no axe, and finding some nice trees handy, they just gave 'em both barrels right at the base. |