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Show O "Offjm AVIATION NOTES Airport Chatter Establishment of an "air-age" class in Kent, Wash., high school is planned from proceeds of the city's first Sky Fair, staged at the Kent airport under auspices of the Lions club. Highlights of the program included in-cluded formation flying by 30 navy planes, stunt flying, an air style show for women, exhibitions of aircraft air-craft and military equipment, parachute para-chute jumps and a helicopter demonstration. dem-onstration. . . . Colorado communities communi-ties seeking airport improvements will be aided by a new state pro? gram calling for state contributions to help the local communitities match federal funds allocated under un-der the 1947 airport program. Despite De-spite budget cuts, Colorado still is eligible for about $250,000 of federal grants. Communities seeking airport air-port improvements are Trinidad, Gunnison, Rifle, Monte Vista and Greeley. ... A tour of the U. S. dryland field station at Akron, Colo., was arranged for Colorado flying farmers. The farmers and ranchers, most of whom piloted their own planes, were guests at a flight breakfast after their arrival in Akron. A lawsuit on file in Santa Monica, Mon-ica, Calif., court accuses helicopter heli-copter pilots of using their machines ma-chines to peep at women sul bathers "attired either scantily or not at all" at a swank beach club. The suit, seeking an injunction in-junction against the flying "peeping Toms," named as defendant de-fendant the Los Angeles Airways, Air-ways, Inc., whose helicopter mail route passes near the club. Military aviation appropriations after World War I made possible the first air mail service, the start of aerial forest patrol, crop dusting and aerial mapping. ? i ti ANOTHER FIRST . . . Miss Ann Kirk Shaw, 23, of Sonthport, Conn., who Is shown at the controls con-trols In the cockpit of a helicopter, helicop-ter, ranks as the first woman to solo a "flying windmill." Need Small Fields To accommodate the personal flier who has use for light planes as a means of transportation, a "tremendous" "tre-mendous" number of little airports are needed throughout the nation, according to William T. Piper, plane manufacturer and "father of light plane flying. Piper reports that personal flying is increasing lithe li-the Middle West, where farmers and ranchers have found that H solves their transportation prob lems in the spaces where roads are few and weather enuable. |