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Show Win go vers All The News That's Fit To Print - From The Delta Airport. By Dick Morrison TAKE OFFS AND LANDINGS . . . Nate Ward tells us that Wm. R. Staff of the CAA was a Delta visitor vis-itor Friday, on a routine inspection trip. Mr. Staff is a CAA supervisor whose district includes all the CAA towers and stations in Utah. Jack Forsey, CAA flight examiner, examin-er, is scheduled to be in Delta on Wednesday, this week. Lawrence Whitney, who did some commercial flying here last summer, called the airport from Denver Saturday night and chatted chat-ted with Bob Nichols and Lola Burraston. Whitney is now a copilot co-pilot on the Flying Tiger line. Which railroads intervened in an , airline case. The railroads regard Mid West as unfair competition be-1 cause it is owned by an '' -, of Purdue University, and thus its earnings are tax exempt. The action ac-tion raises once more the controversial contro-versial question of the extent to which institutions of higher learning learn-ing should be permitted to engage in business, on a tax free basis in competition with tax paying private enterprise. FYLING TIGER LINE, which now carries freight only, is running into in-to a little difficulty breaking into the passenger business. A CAB examiner ex-aminer has recommended against a proposal of Flying Tiger and Resort Re-sort Airlines to carry on certain passenger operations, on a charter basis. Flying Tiger has pending another application to run air coach service between New York . , D,,nrtn Kim. using 13 Private flying at the airport was 0 reduced to zero, Sunday, as was y visibility. There was snow and fog. fig The forecast was that the weath-J weath-J er would get worse 'before it gets g better, which is hard to take be-rl be-rl cause it is already bad as bad ' can be. . . 1 ROUTINE STUFF . . . i I have at hand a clipping from 1 the Iron County Record, of Cedar I City, for January. 10, 1952, which I gives what are purported to be I impressive figures of the work done by the Cedar City CAA station. sta-tion. It looks to me like somebody tried to make :a big blow about nothing. At first glance, a reader might get the impression that 'the CAA station at Cedar is something extra special, but at second glance any doughhead can see that the achievements listed are strictly routine. The item is headlined, "CAA station sta-tion makes 18,013 weather observations obser-vations in 1951". Now 18,000 of anything looks big, but when you stop to think that CAA stations usually make two such observations observa-tions per hour, or 48 per day, with occasional extra when changes in the weather warrant, one commences com-mences to see the 18,000 figure cut down to size. Delta made as many or more and so did every other station. The Cedar station claims to have supplied weather information to 2431 persons other than pilots, and briefed 1135 pilots on 647 flights during the year. Looks big, but 647 flights average less than two a day. The only point in bringing this up is to show just how a clever write-up can make routine work look impressive. There's nothing wrong with the Cedar City report. It's strictly "accurate. But if any reader should conclude from the "impressive" figures that the Cedar Ced-ar City station is extraordinary in any way, that reader would be swallowing publicity hook, line and sinker. and San Juan, Puerto kico, DC-4 planes, and charging about 3 cents per mile fare. PRIVATE JET PLANES have been developed by a French company. A low thrust jet engine built o Turbomeca', of Bordes, France, recently propelled a two passenger airplane at 238" mph. Continental Motors, through its subsidiary, Con tinental Aviation & Engineering Corp., has acquired rights to build the little jet engine in the U. b. Continental expects to sell it tor use in four-place executive type planes, of 200 to 400 mph. in this county. The chief problem to be overcome over-come is the engine's "super high fuel consumption. This, presumably presumab-ly must be reduced if a large market mar-ket for the engine is to be found. THE AIR FORCE, or at least a part of it stationed at Wright Field has been subject of both ribbing and criticism from Congress as a result of an order for 20,156 super deluxe upholstered typist chairs. It seems the chairs are fancier even than those which typists hold down in the seat of government and the. extra expense involved is $200,000. A Congressional subcommittee sub-committee protested the extravagance, extrava-gance, early in December, and in January got a reply saying the delay in replying had been occasioned occas-ioned by the need for "additional studies". The boys at Wright Field then' continued to "study" for weeks the question of whether use of the standard type chair would result in "real economy" for the government. The subcommittee, which is headed hea-ded by Rep. Herbert, (D-La.), finally fin-ally recommended immediate cancellation can-cellation of the order for sup-duper ohairs, and threw in the gratuitous recommendation that the Air Force use its personnal for testing aircraft air-craft for the defense of the nation and leave the testing of chairs to the General Services Administration. Adminis-tration. Congressmen decided that the" Air Force should "Get airborne, not chairborne", according to the Wall Street Journal. IN THE NEWS .... The Wall Street Journal is an excellent source of aviation news, as witness the fact that it is the paper most often quoted by the CAA Digest. Perusing the WSJ we have run across a number of items which, we imagine, may appear in the Digest before long. Here are some items that strike us as interesting: inter-esting: THE CAB has approved a tourist air rate to Europe of $270 one way, and $417 to $486 round trip, depending on the season. The Board lalso announced that it would not authorize non-scheduled flights across the Atlantic, partly because it desired to assure the success of the "experiment" of low fare tourist rates. Chartered flights by the scheduled airline will be autHorized, however. SIX RAILROADS, including the Union Pacific, asked the CAB to let them intervene in hearings to extend the certificate of Mid West Airlines, on the grounds that the operation of the air line will mean heavy loss in revenue for the railroads. rail-roads. The action was the first in |