AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958 - (Page 28)

C Communications Officer George Palmer, M Sf., shows sons, George and Robert, tow the station works Dm Clausm, left and Charles Tinmen started it all with dreams about a modern airport for their hometown b F. LELAND ELAM Ai r-Ase Today, you would have to search far and wide to find a small city of eomparable size where aviation is so ima n of the "municipal" airport, have portant i the lze of the comdQ. asked themselves this question: It Isn't difficult for almost any visitor "WhatcanIdotogetthis-town to Crescent City to sense that someinterested i aviation so that we can thing important and different i takn s get a decent airport ?" ing place there. Usually the question goes unanIt all came about aa a result of a swered, and the jolting ride to the theory Claosen and Thunen held 12 a d and discouraged-looking hangar years ago: If you want to stir up goes on day after day. At Crescent interest in aviation, work through C t ,Calif., (population about 8,060) the youth of the community. Both iy it didn't. believed that' if you can get the Two AOPA members, Don Ciauaen youngsters interested in flying, the (AOPA 84366) and Charles Thunen papas and mamas will not be far (AOPA 99138) found the answer. behind. Since Ctausea and Thunen Back in 1945 they, too. were unhappy put their theory to work, it is rather about the lack of interest in aviation. difficult t o find a Crescent City famin their hometown and the poor facil- ily that does not have a personal inities at the Crescent City airport, but tereat in aviation. The town 'was the they were determined to do some- first western city to install aviation thing about improving {he sitnation. training in its high school as a reguow many bumping Hturn-offon pilots, whilerunway to an ill-kept the to dilapidated hangar along Instructor Jerry Anderson sees to It flat his kids know what to expect from BIBinstnimeirts THE AOPA PILOT

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958

AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958
Contents
Calendar
Legally Speaking
Editorial
What About Airspace Use, Mr. Pyle?
10,000 Seconds Under the Hood
Flying Weather One Month Ahead
AOPA Weathercast
AOPA 185579
Air-Age Teenagers Give City a Lift
Your Radio and You
Operation Cost Cut
Put Your Fabric to the Test
Are You "Compasss Punchy?
Yankee Duster in Latin America
South American Challenge
I Lived Through a Graveyard Spiral
Safety Corner and Accident Report
On the Airways
Travel
What's New?
Classified Department

AOPA Pilot Magazine - March 1958

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