Show ex 0 10 40 ION AIRPORT CHATTER prank frank hartman denver real es e tate agent and a commercial pilot with 15 years of flying experience combines his flying and selling skills to advantage he recently closed a large ranch sale in a 8 single ingle day after showing the property er ty to a customer from the air the ranch buyers said they learned more about the property fro from m the air in a half hour than they could have learned during a week riding horseback after criss crossing the pacific ocean for or 26 miles on a survey flight to singapore and the royal netherlands east indies in a big DC 4 Sky master plane mrs mamie B nelson 67 is convinced she is just as batty about a air ir travel as my son her son with whom she made the flight is orvis nelson president of air lines and vice president in charge of international operations for philippine air lines fred farmer near davis junction ill finds it convenient to allow roger lace local air enthusiast to use part of his pasture for a landing field the arrangement works out to their mutual advantage cholson Rl finds since lace frequently makes trips to nearby cities for badly needed farm equipment cranberry bogs in massachusetts are being dusted and sprayed with pt a helicopter purchased by national Cian cranberry berry association tor for use of its members airplane dusting used tor for the first time last year is being continued on larger bogs but the helicopter supplements its work on small and inaccessible bogs there here were no complaints received or arrests made for intoxicated flying in pennsylvania during 1946 that evidence of 0 the lack of tipsy fliers Is taken from the pennsylvania aeronautics c s commissions annual report PO rt on aeronautical violations AVERAGE PILOT the average airline pilot and copilot in the united states is 32 years old and has been piloting planes 4 hours this is a part of the picture picture of the average airline pil pilot 0 I 1 as produced by a civil aeronautics administration study looking toward possible reduction of the nu human element in ale air accidents the program for of physical standards for airmen will vill take into consideration the physiological effects of extended occupation cu as an airline pilot and the pa possibilities of increasing air safety through use of pilot selection methods other than alose those of proficiency determination the average pilot and copilot co pilot weighs pounds and is 5 feet 10 inches tall there were fewer lan than three chances in that he wore glasses only 27 2 7 per cent requiring a lens correction the group average lor for solo flying hours included flying of all binds kinds and in aircraft of any description during 1946 this group aver aged 63 hours a month 37 during daylight hours and 26 at night CAA allows an airline pilot to fly 1000 hours a year an average of about 83 hours a month AX e yie thil this Is the Air maller a new helicopter model designed and produced by bell aircraft corporation specific ally tor for service on new helicopter airmail routes to be proposed by the post office department OWNER DIRECTORY an official directory of registered aircraft owners in each of the 48 states has been completed by air review publishing corporation of dallas tex under contractor to civil aeronautics ministration administration ei d for the first time an alphabetical listing of each owner by states is provided supplanting the governments former method of listing aircraft by license number the directory also includes the owners address and complete information about his plane |