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Show VVWION NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER A new amphibian and seaplane base on the lake front in Wolfeboro, N. H., has been completed for service serv-ice of planes which visit .the New Hampshire lake region all year around. . . . James E. Wolfe, former army pilot, is now manager of the Hartsville, N. C, airport. ... To vary life a bit, pilots of personal planes at the Fair Haven, Vt., airport have been practicing formation for-mation flying. . . . Grant Eldredge, former army pilot, has leased the Salmon, Idaho, airport. He used to fly the hump in India with the ATC, so the Idaho mountains won't bother both-er him. . . . The Sportsmen's Pilot's association of Colorado will fly their planes to Estes Park for a convention conven-tion August 22 to 24. . . . Traffic at the Chicago airport increased 49 per cent in May. VETS AND AVIATION Thousands of wartime dreams are certain to crash, many aviation writers writ-ers predict. And yet we find veterans vet-erans getting most of the new jobs in aviation, not only as pilots but also as maintenance men, clerks, and in traffic control. Many vets are creating jobs for themselves in aviation. But government estimates esti-mates indicate that even 10 years from now the number of persons employed in the industry will not equal the number of men and women wom-en who, while in the services, were hopeful of making aviation a peacetime peace-time career. HELICOPTER FALLS Many people have asked: "If a helicopter's engine konks out, can Tthe craft be landed?" The question was answered recently at Dayton, Ohio, when an AAF helicopter dropped from 9,000 feet without damage to the craft or injury to the pilot. With its engine dead, auto-rotation, auto-rotation, or free-wheeling of the rotor blades, allowed the pilot, Capt. Irvin C. Steiner of Wright Field, to land his helicopter safely in a cow pasture. GOVERNOR WON'T FLY! Col. Roscoe Turner, the air speed king, has a project in mind for this summer to make Gov. John C. Vivian of Colorado get his feet off the ground! "Once I can get his feet off the ground and demonstrate what a wonderful thing it is to travel by air, I think I can change his whole attitude,'' Turner promised. "He'll become so air-minded it will be a great thing for the state." A survey of army and navy air forces showed around 1,000,000 were interested in postwar occupations related to flying. Present direct employment in aviation is around 300,000, of whom 185,000 work for aircraft manufacturers, 55,000 for the scheduled airlines, 10,000 for the federal government, 20,000 for airports, air-ports, and the rest in a variety of jobs. Quote of the Week "Farmers of the Great Plains are flying by the thousands. They would be flying by the tens of thousands if planes were available at the right price and for their special needs." Wall Street Journal. |