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Show JEWS OF FLIERS AMD FLYING WILL USE 'FILOGATOES' During the war the Air Transport command trained a few "piloga-tors," "piloga-tors," pilots who are also navigators, naviga-tors, at Rosecrans field, St. Joseph. Mo. And now the commercial airlines air-lines show a trend toward doing . away with the specialist navigator and using only pilogators. This is true not only with the international airlines, but it may be extended to domestic lines as well. Right now Pan American airways and the international division of Transcontinental and Western Air are putting pilots through schools of navigation. The present plan is to let them fly co-pilot after they have completed their navigation courses and naturally move on, in time, to first pilot. This means that eventually even-tually all pilots will also be navigators. naviga-tors. ... MINNESOTA AIRPORTS Minnesota has already doubled the number of public airports in use since prewar days, says L. L. Schroeder, state commissioner of aeronautics. Minnesota now has 78 operating public airports compared to 36 before the war. Number of civil aircraft has increased from 500 to 700. The state is developing a state-wide airport system. Construction Construc-tion work on airports has started at Fergus Falls. Detroit Lakes and Park Rapids, and other towns are ready to go on flying field improvements. improve-ments. ... FLYING THE NEWS Philadelphia Evening Bulletin reporters re-porters and photographers now have their own plane with which to execute exe-cute quick assignments anywhere within 1,000 miles or a six-hour cruising radius. In Florida, the Day-tona Day-tona Beach Examiner, a weekly, made its bow April 18 and two days later it inaugurated airplane delivery deliv-ery to New York City and Miami. Fred W. DeMotte is editor and publisher. pub-lisher. ... Kites which can be made to dive and maneuver like airplanes air-planes originally designed for use as aerial targets for wartime war-time training of anti-aircraft gunnery crews have been placed on sale by the WAA. |
