Show e AVIATION ION NO NOTES IFS AIRPORT CHATTER A flying club is being formed at parowan carowan Pa rowan utah with membership limited to men or women between the ages of 16 and lt john mahoney ot of gilman gilman ill is doing a bang up job dusting DDT powder in an experiment to kill corn borers flying farmers of colorado landed at christman Chu istman field fort collins july 16 to attend the first annual rural aviation day at the agricultural college heres an altitude record not made in a plane ted hodges ot of laguna beach calif who had been paying 35 a month for an apartment was notified that his rent henceforth would be 10 a day the war assets administration has decided to turn over thunderbird auxiliary field no I 1 at glendale ariz to the american institute of foreign trade the institute will use the 25 buildings and ISO acres of land to train veterans and others to represent american business and government agencies in foreign countries particularly in latin america there was no charge for the field COOLING A CABIN the problem of refrigerating plane cabins has been solved according to slick airways through the use of three and tour four ply lightweight fiberglass fiber glass insulation and the installation of an aluminum alloy cooler charged with dry ice slick engineers er have succeeded in air conditioning the interiors of the com banys freighters satisfactorily 4 4 WEEKS EDITORIAL some would argue why an airport no one around here flies anyway yes and before we had roads through this parish people drive cars over them remember iberville south plaque mine la CRASHES ON TEST LIGHT FLIGHT F howard hughes is recovering in a beverly hills calif hospital from serious injuries incurred when his new plane 11 one of 0 the worlds fastest long range photographic to airplanes ever built crashed on its test flight 0 PLANT GRASS BY PLANE ILANE in illinois grass seed has been sown successfully by a small plane on 1200 acres of rough land the plane sowed bowed 40 to 50 feet in a swath and carried pounds per load the cost was an acre compared to 6 per acre for hand band seeding ninety per cent of 0 the rice planted by california growers this year will be sown fr from oln planes in texas small ar areas cas ot of the next rice crop are expected to be seeded fro from the air |