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Show AVIATION NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER When the temperature dropped to 26 degrees, J. J. McDonald, Cashmere, Cash-mere, Wash., apple grower, called in a pilot and his dusting plane to "blow the frost away" from the orchard. or-chard. The pilot flew just over the treetops for several hours until the sun rose. The propeller, stirring the air, sent the temperature up to 30 to 31 degrees. . . . Dedication of the new Iowa Falls, Iowa, municipal airport and an air show are scheduled sched-uled for May 30. A flight breakfast at 7 a. m. will open the day's activities, ac-tivities, which are expected to attract at-tract pilots from all parts of the state. ' . . . J. J. Schecter, rancher near Alamosa, Colo., utilized a plane to sow a section of land. Crested wheat grass, clover and brome grass were sown from a plane flown by Norman Kramer. . . . With recent acquisition acquisi-tion of a $16,000 war surplus link trainer, Augustana college at Sioux Falls, S. D., is planning to offer a two-semester course In civil aeronautics. aero-nautics. . . . Five Holstein heifers, all "expectant mothers" and valued at $11,000, have been shipped to Uruguay Uru-guay breeders. They were sent from Seattle to Milwaukee by train and from there by plane. Breeders in Uruguay bought the cows with the stipulation that they arrive before be-fore giving birth to their calves. Dodge City, Kas., fabled cattle town of the early days and site of Boot Hill cemetery, stressed modernity at its recent 75th anniversary an-niversary celebration. An air show, featuring everything from stunt flying to dummy bombing, provided a modern touch to the colorful old - time celebration. Pilots from Colorado, Oklahoma and Kansas gathered for the event. . STANDARD RISKS Of 100 life insurance companies surveyed by Institute of Life Insurance Insur-ance for current practices in connection con-nection with aviation risk, two-thirds accept as standard risks without limitations applicants who contemplate contem-plate air travel on U. S. scheduled transports in the western hemisphere. hemi-sphere. M. Harding James of Bing-hamton, Bing-hamton, N. Y., likes to fly but he also believes in keeping a promise to his wife. When he flew from Binghamton to Toronto, Toron-to, he kept one foot on the earth all the way. The earth was in a small box. BETTER TRAVELERS Babies are better air travelers than grown-ups, according to Pan American World Airways stewardesses. steward-esses. Babies, they claim, seldom get airsick air-sick or restless. They sleep peacefully peace-fully or play near their seats. Stocks of baby foods and a baby kit with comic books, rattles and games keep them happy. Some toddlers even have crossed the Atlantic unaccompanied. unaccom-panied. Difficulties do arise occasionally, the stewardesses admit. On a recent re-cent trip "emergencies" exceeded the emergency supply of diapers. One small traveler debarked wearing wear-ing the plane's fanciest dish toweL N ('- .-:---r-i.'.-.'.":x.-'-'-y'-':':-: :: yy--;.iYs''&''t ..:'-:;- -l MASS PRODUCTION . . . Dramatic Dra-matic new aviation assembly line methods, patterned after the Detroit De-troit type which once before changed the nation's form of transportation, have resulted In peak production at the Stinson division of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft corporation In Wayne, Mich. A new production record of 316 multi-purpose personal airplanes, air-planes, like the craft shown above, was set dur;- An-'l. SMALL AIRPOKT GAINS Progress in design and manufacture manufac-ture may be relied upon to reduce production costs, improve performance perform-ance and decrease noise of small aircraft, it was brought out at the national personal aircraft meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Wichita, Kas. To reduce costs, Beech Aircraft representatives recommended rec-ommended that costs be considered during the design stage and that manufacture of planes be coordinated coordi-nated by engineering and production departments. |