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Show Qfffk AVIATION NOTES AIRPORT CHATTER A flying club is being formed at Parowan, Utah, with membership limited to men or women between the ages of 16 and 100. . . . Lt. John Mahoney of Gilman, HI., is doing a bang-up job dusting DDT powder in an experiment to kill corn borers. . . . Flying farmers of Colorado Colo-rado landed at Chuistman field, Fort Collins, July 16, to attend the first annual rural aviation day at the agricultural college. . . . Here's an altitude record not made in a plane: Ted Hodges of Laguna Beach, Calif., who had been paying $35 a month for an apartment, was 'notified that his rent henceforth would be $10 a day! The War Assets administration has decided to turn over Thunder-bird Thunder-bird auxiliary field No. 1 at Glen-dale, Glen-dale, Ariz., to the American Institute of Foreign Trade. The institute will use the 25 buildings and 180 acres of land to train veterans and others to represent American business and government agencies in foreign countries, particularly in Latin America. There was no charge for the field. COOLING A CABIN The problem of refrigerating plane cabins has been solved, according to Slick Airways. Through the use of three and four-ply lightweight fiber-glass insulation and the installation instal-lation of an aluminum alloy cooler charged with dry ice. Slick engineers engi-neers have succeeded in air conditioning condi-tioning the interiors of the company's com-pany's freighters satisfactorily. WEEK'S EDITORIAL Some would argue: "Why an airport? air-port? No one around here flies anyway." any-way." Yes, and before we had roads through this parish people didn't drive cars over them, remember? re-member? Iberville South, Plaque- Imine, La. CRASHES ON TEST FLIGHT . . . Howard- Hughes is recovering in a Beverly Hills, Calif., hospital from serious injuries incurred when his new plane XF-11, one of the world's fastest long-range photographic pho-tographic airplanes ever built, crashed on its test flight. PLANT GRASS BY PLANE In Illinois, grass seed has been sown successfully by a small plane on 1,200 acres of rough land. The plane sowed 40 to 50 feet in a swath and carried 150 pounds per load. The cost was 53.20 an acre compared to $6 per acre for hand seeding. . . Ninety per cent of the rice planted by California growers this year will be sown from planes. In Texas, small areas of the next rice crop are expected expect-ed to be seeded from the air. |
