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Show Aviation notes DUAL EVENTS Bozeman, Mont., will rank as a hub of aviation June 20-22, with planes coming in from every portion por-tion of the state, surrounding states and Canada to attend two big air events. Montana Flying Farmers and, Ranchers association will hold its annual convention at Montana State college June 20-21. On the following day Northwest Airlines will inaugurate inau-gurate flight service to Gallatin field with special ceremonies. The flying farmer program will Include a tour of the college to inspect in-spect agricultural work now being done, a display of army planes and of light airplanes suitable for farm and ranch work, and a speaking program covering planes, hangars and the many uses "being made of planes. ' Launching an aerial war against coyotes after the animals ani-mals had made heavy inroads on farm livestock, Loren McDonald, Mc-Donald, H. F. Baker and Frank Tarter of Fredonia, Kas., have bagged 70 coyotes as a spare-time spare-time project. Baker, a veteran hunter, recalls his first shot from a plane, when he "missed at 10 feet." Now his marksmanship marksman-ship is as accurate from a plane as from the ground. AVIATION ADVANCES Flying has made rapid strides In northern Middlesex county, N. J., since its inception only a quarter century ago. Four new commercial airports and a sea base have been opened, most of them as a result of the postwar interest in aviation. The new fields are North Brunswick, Bruns-wick, Woodbridge, Ziogfield and Forsgate airpark while the sea plane base is at Perth Amboy. Had-ley Had-ley airport, established in 1935, now ranks as one of the busiest in the state. With aviation drawing many new cohorts, more than 650 persons in the county now are flying. The list includes instructors, commercial, private and student pilots. Figures show that there are approximately 130 ships at the various air bases. An increasing number of small towns' are providing airport air-port facilities for benefit of local flying enthusiasts and visiting pilots. The need for this service is pointed out forcefully by the Slayton, Minn., Herald, in an editorial, which says in part: "The town will fall far behind the procession if it doesn't look out. A bond issue or a government govern-ment grant isn't needed to fill the bill. About all required is a little initiative and organization." organiza-tion." STILL GETTING AROUND American pilots got around during the war and they're still going places overseas. A check of foreign airlines air-lines has disclosed that flying rosters in many lands are dotted with names of former American military airmen. air-men. Air France has 20 American pilots, co-pilots and navigators while Scandinavian Scan-dinavian Airlines system recently added 15 ex-army airmen to its roster. ros-ter. Linea Aeropostal Venezolana has eight American pilots and engineers. engi-neers. Chinese National Aviation corporation and Panagra use mixed American and foreign personnel. I k ... tM1 'FLYING BOXCAR' . . . Nicknamed Nick-named the "flying boxcar," the Fairchild Packet cargo plane is designed to transport heavy military mili-tary cargo or airborne infantry. Scheduled for long over-cean hops in the Pacific, the twin-engined twin-engined plane has a range of 4,000 miles, cruising speed of more than 200 miles per hour and maximum maxi-mum cargo payload of nine tons. RESCUE MISSION A delayed report from the interior inte-rior of northern Canada has informed in-formed army air forces headquarters headquar-ters of the dramatic flight of an AAF Douglas C-54 Skymaster several sev-eral thousand miles over the north, era wastes to drop food supplies to a group of starving Eskimos discovered dis-covered by a Royal Canadian mounted policeman. Constable Andrew An-drew Wilvert returned from a 30-day 30-day tour of northern Canada to report re-port a small colony of Eskimo! marooned at Petersen bay. |