Show go 3 ca 6 AVIATION I 1 CN NOTES 63 POSTWAR YEAR yead busy BUST at 91 with the transition from rom w war var i ir peace accomplished mool w with 11 acs I 1 s troa 0 1 we ble than even the most t P t imi t rf had anticipated the aviation india ind I 1 try found the 12 months a s since ce V to lt day the busiest in the 40 odd year of flying now the industry starts its sei se ond postwar year with more than i billion dollars worth ol off unfilled all plane orders fairly well divided b tween civil and military and its iti to lit tal personnel nearly four times tb ahn y of prewar idars years highlights or of the first postwar year were the first off official lelal steps along the path to pow 0 ered cred flight in the course ol of the I 1 year international aviation ablation 0 agreements took a place lim I 1 a I 1 the front line of national policy ey making possible the world air routes now being flown airlines doubled the number jl planes in use and tripled the c irly carry i ing capacity the number 0 ot p vate planes also doubled double dIron 0 to more than R re c r turn of flying personnel also aa ac 12 counted for a marked gain in t thi tb number of certificated civil airam alonea fro from m to during the I 1 11 months or more than 10 times th total before the war i aircraft manufacturers cross crossed the great divide between war in anil I 1 I peace and found themselves inta 1 despite abrupt cancellation of 0 mort more than 20 billion dollars worth of mill mili r tary contracts 1 the change is shown graphical graphic all aU by the tact fact that in july the indu ind try produced 67 military plane compared with the wartime feas e of while within the year pr prix of civil aircraft rose arc troia zero to more than in july 9 0 0 1 RURAL AVIATION GROWS 1 the average farmer Is 33 pal pelt cent more eager to buy an airplay airplane air plana than his city brother that th w i conclusion of civil aeronautics adl ada ministration after a survey 0 T uses tor for small planes it estimate that a third more farmers are bujo bu ing airplanes than city dwellers I 1 arii i proportion to the percentage of th the i population that each group for some rural owners the airplane has become a farming tool like the automobile or phone the CAA said common rural uses are to sprays and dust crops to spray mos mosquitos quiton oi breeding spots to patrol irrig abA ditches or fences to hunt Mi to herd berd wild horses to locate I 1 loss cattle and to spare away birds tha thail feed on young plants the CAA sur our suri i vey showed listed as unusual chores for farm planes are spread i ing fertilizers spraying soil with aa il solutions and stocking str streams earnS and lakes with fish W 14 I 1 aw 4 s STILL AIR MINDED when orville inventor co of the airplane celebrated his bis birth day anniversary recently 01 felicitations feli citations from family friends set the day apa apart rt from big b asua usua usual I 1 routine of 0 working 1 in his bis laboratory seven days a week we last time he was in the air was two years ago when he pilote piloted constellation NEW classification A new system for classi classic f fi cation rating them by the number f of operations per hour has teen teea f proposed by air transport assoria if tion in a manual or on selection and a layout of airports the manual Is it first of a series of six presenting viewpoints of scheduled airlines as 85 to facilities they require A second manual dealing with airport light i ing facilities also is ready for ds trib ution the publications are part pa of at the general ATA pra to vt ls solve current operations IL I 1 f |