Show 1 G I AVIATION NOTES OfES NO AGE LIMITS They're never too young nor too old to become air Only one and one half years old Little Kim Weed of Denver who already had traveled more than miles by air boarded an airliner for Anchorage Anchorage Anchorage Anchor Anchor- age Alaska There she and her mother Mrs Harold V. V Weed will join Lieutenant Weed who is stationed stationed stationed sta sta- sta- sta with army air forces Born more than a half hall century before before before be be- fore the Wright brothers flew fiew an airplane airplane airplane air air- air air- plane Mrs Susan Holifield 95 made roade her first air trip on a flight from Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pitts Pitts- burgh Pa to Los Angeles It was just dandy exclaimed one of the oldest women passengers ever carried carried carried car car- ried by a commercial airline It was a far cry from the boat and wagon in which she came to Iowa 91 years-ago years when Mrs Llda Lida Davidson Davidson David David- son 94 stepped aboard an airliner at Des Moines for a flight to Cali Calt- fornia Mrs Davidson had wanted to fly ever since she saw her first plane nearly 40 years ago at a Van VanBuren VanBuren Buren Bure Iowa county fair But they wouldn't let me Satisfying this customer probably probably probably ably started a family quarrel Impressed by the hostess service on a plane a passenger wrote It fit would be swell if I could send my wife to your hostess hostess host host- ess em school so she would always be as pleasant as the two ladles ladies servicing this flight FLYING G FARMERS FARl I IN EAST Interest in the use of airplanes on farms no longer is restricted to the Midwest and West Chapters of National National National Na Na- Flying Farmers association recently have been formed in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Lauding the progressiveness of the 75 flying ying t farmers who attended the organization meeting of the New Jersey Jersey Jersey Jer Jer- sey group W. W S. S Allen state secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary of agriculture said There is greater use for a plane on the farm than in any other business with the exception of transportation k v K nY UNCONVENTIONAL DESIGN The new Douglas place five-place Is marked by unconventional unconventional placing of engines and propeller propeller propeller pro pro- peller behind the passenger compartment compartment compartment com com- increasing efficiency of I the wings eliminating propeller propeller turbulence and reducing noise to toa r ra a negligible level DUBIOUS DISTINCTION Olmsted field home of the Middletown Mid Mid- Pa air materiel area claims the doubtful honor of havIng having hav hav- ing ng Its name misspelled more often than han any other army air field in the United States Even though it Is Pennsylvania's largest military Installation installation In in- Olmsted has been referred to as Almsted Homestead Olmstead and other variations Mitchel field N. N Yr Y and Eglin field Fla la may rise to challenge Olm Olin teds ted's claim It refuses to com corn pete etc with Apalachicola field Fla I I |