| Show 1 G Q AVIATION ION NO NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER For the first time since 1934 Sioux Falls FaUs S. S D D. will have air races in connection with a Civil Air Patrol air ah- fair at the municipal airport airport airport air air- port Sunday May 25 Other highlights highlights highlights high high- lights of the event will be competition tion in bomb dropping and spot landing a mass parachute jump by local paratroopers ex-paratroopers and the marriage marriage marriage mar mar- of a couple aloft in hi a plane The Sioux Falls squadron is endeavoring endeavoring endeavoring oring to raise funds for a plane to tobe tobe tobe be placed at disposal of the city Red Cross and police or for use in emergency search and rescue mis mis- Newest of the Rocky Mountain empires empire's air transport services daily flights between Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver and Salt Lake City have been inaugurated by Challenger Airlines f company Stops are made at Cheyenne Laramie Rawlins Rock RockSprings RockSprings RockSprings Springs and Kemmerer Wyo The company plans to open routes from both Denver and Salt Lake City to Billings Mont in hi the future Mrs Clara Frick of Goshen Ind experienced the most thrilling day of my l life e on her birthday anniversary She went for a plane ride with her son Mrs Sarah Lunsford of Cobbs county Georgia utilizes her Piper Cub for a school bus Because the roads are terrible terrible ter Uter- the school bus leaves too early and the family car went out of commission anyway Mrs Lunsford Lunsford Lunsford Luns Luns- ford last fall started flying her two children five miles to the school school- house The plan worked out so successfully successfully suc suc- that she decided to continue continue continue con con- it indefinitely The children dont don't even get a thrill out of it any anymore anymore anymore more their mother admits AIRPORTS ARE QUIETER The noise nuisance from low-flying low aircraft has been reduced substantially substantially substantially in many parts of the country T. T P. P Wright Civil Aeronautics administration ad ad- ministration head reports in reviewing reviewing reviewing review review- ing progress of the noise anti-noise cam cam- Much of the annoyance can be avoided by changing the traffic patterns patterns patterns pat pat- terns around airports and by pilot cooperation in using suitable power and propeller-pitch propeller settings Wright declares In many cases the traffic pattern has been altered to provide that planes travel over water industrial industrial indus indus- trial districts or wastelands rather than over residential areas The campaign he reports has reI resulted re re- re- re I suIted in a substantial drop in the number of complaints against noisy I airplanes d r. r t TROOP CARRIER This Thus Fairchild Fairchild Fairchild Fair- Fair child C 82 Packet one of the type latest-type troop carrier planes developed for army air forces is demonstrating latest developments developments developments develop develop- ments in borne air-borne equipment and techniques on a day 60 tour of the tho Pacific area SAFETY RECORD More than two thirds of the scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- international airlines which operated in all parts of the world had a record of absolute safety in 1946 International Air Transport association tion reports Sixty of the member airlines flew a total of passengers miles during during during dur dur- ing the year The scheduled airlines reported 33 fatal accidents resulting resulting resulting result result- ing in casualties which would equal miles per passenger fatality two Forty-two of the airlines had no fatal accidents |
