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Show dim AVIATION NOTES j AIRPORT CHATTER j For the first time since 1934, ; Sioux Falls, S. D., will have air ! races in connection with a Civil Air Patrol air fair at the municipal airport air-port Sunday, May 25. Other highlights high-lights of the event will be competition competi-tion in "bomlj" dropping and spot landing, a mass parachute jump by local ex-paratroopers and the marriage mar-riage of a couple aloft in a plane. The Sioux Falls squadron is endeavoring endeav-oring to raise funds for a plane to be placed at disposal of the city, Red Cross and police or for use in emergency search and rescue missions. mis-sions. .- . . Newest of the Rocky Mountain empire's air transport services, dally flights between Den-, ver and Salt Lake City have been inaugurated by Challenger Airlines company. Stops are made at Cheyenne, Laramie, Rawlins, Rnck Springs and Kemmerer, Wyo. The company plans to 'open routes from " both Denver and Salt Lake City to Billings, Mont, in the future. . . . Mrs. Clara Frick of Goshen, Ind., experienced "the most thrilling day of my ,llfe' on her 80th birthday anniversary. She went for a plane ride with her son. . . . Mrs. Sarah Lunsford of Cobbs county, Georgia, utilizes her Piper Cub for a school bus. Because the roads art "terrible," "ter-rible," the school bus leaves too early and the family car "went out of commission anyway," Mrs. Lunsford Luns-ford last fall started flying her two children five miles to the school-house. school-house. The plan worked out so successfully suc-cessfully that she decided to continue con-tinue it indefinitely. "The children don't even get a thrill but of it any ' more," their, mother admits. airports Are quieter The noise nuisance from low-flying aircraft has been reduced substantially substan-tially in many parts of the country, T. P. Wright, Civil Aeronautics administration ad-ministration bead, reports in reviewing review-ing progress of the anti-noise campaign. cam-paign. Much of the annoyance can be avoided by changing the traffic patterns pat-terns around airports and by pilot cooperation In using suitable power and propeller-pitch settings, Wright declares., In many cases the traffic pattern has been altered to provide that planes travel over water, industrial indus-trial districts or wastelands rather than over residential areas. The campaign, he reports, has resulted re-sulted in a substantial drop in the number of complaints against noisy airplanes. . j i ... .".s-fX. j k . . .. i TROOP CARRIER , , . This Fair-child Fair-child 042 Packet, one of the ' latest-type troop carrier planes . developed for army air forces, , is demonstrating latest developments develop-ments In alr-borae equipment and techniques en a (0-day tour of the Paclfio area. .'t, .t.---7r--e.- SAFETY RECORD i More than two-thirds of the scheduled sched-uled International airlines, which operated In all parts of the world, bad a record of "absolute safety" In 1S46, International Air Transport association reports. Sixty of the member ' airlines flew a total - of 8,346,000,000 passengers miles during dur-ing the year. The scheduled airlines reported 33 fatal accidents, -resulting In 298 casualties, which would equal 28,314,000 miles per passenger fatality. Forty-two of the airline had no fatal accidents " r |