Show ea AV NOTES airport chatter lorin diemel duemeland and of bismarck was elected president of the north dakota flying farmers and ranchers association nt concluding sessions of the annual convention the aviation paper e edited d dakota flyer an by geneva show youthful molt diott N D aviatrix was named official association publication in the first annual air tour sponsored by the aviation committee of the illinois state chamber of commerce 32 planes visited 16 communities on a mile night flight most of the 16 communities will vote on establishment of a local airport authority this year and purpose of the tour was to acquaint citizens with the need for careful and adequate air planning it is no more unusual to have a plane than it Is to have a car in fact this airplane Is much less trouble than some of the cars we used to have that Is the assertion of harmon cranz a pilot farmer of ira a summit county ohio village northwest of akron cranz who uses his plane chiefly for pleasure nights flights has converted part of the barn into a hangar for the first time in in its history parks college of aeronautical technology at east st louis ill is inviting its 2000 graduates from each of the VS 48 states states and a dozen foreign countries to return to the campus august 12 1 2 tor for a reunion and homecoming nce mark twain once said everyone talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it but he be know davy crockett jr who has helped save an apple crop by warming up the weather with a coupie coopie of personal planes taking oil off from the hagerstown Hagers town bid ald airport at a m crockett crocked and a fellow pilot flew their oncas to the 70 acre orchard threatened by frost cruising back and forth 50 feet above the trees the two planes raised the temperature two degrees in 10 mir minutes rutes the pilots warming the air by keeping it circulating patrolled the area for hours after which the danger of frost was past air museum providing a comprehensive permanent exhibit of the air weapons used in world war II 11 a national air museum will be established in the man mall adjacent to smithsonian insel institution in washington according to tentative plans approved at a conference of aviation men and army air forces officers it is planned that historic aircraft and items of aeronautical equipment both foreign and domestic which already have attracted widespread public interest in temporary displays and air shows will be turned over by army air forces to the museum A total of more than aircraft and several thousand items of aeronautical equipment will be made available to the museum airplanes earmarked tor for the museum include the enola gay the B 29 which dropped the first atomic bomb flak bait historic veteran of the european theater and the memphis belle AID IN TEACHING A former reconnaissance pilot lee A harper of 0 logan ohio uses his hying flying experience as an aid in teaching ohio farm veterans harper now a vocational agriculture instructor uses his own plane to fly dy directly to his students farms and to his classroom at laurelville Laur elville ohio show postponed postponement of the 1947 na dional aircraft show tentatively scheduled to be held in chicago no vember 19 1 9 has been a announced by aircraft industries association since personal aircraft were to conof statute the major portion the air planes to be displayed at this ayearst show council members felt that a postponement to next spring sp would provide more opportunity y to plan a showing of new models not nu now n I 1 n readiness for public display |