Great winds will blow and storms of tremendous intensity will roam almost at will through the upper atmosphere for the next few weeks. The stormy season is here. Airmen will do well to study weather reports closely before starting to go very far.

As this old earth warms up under the more direct rays of the sun, temperature differentials are being created. Winter's limbs will creak in protest as she is made to beat a fast retreat and these protests will result in storms covering thousands of square miles of the earth's surface.

Masses of cooler polar air will continue to move downward from the north and warmer moist air will pour in from the south. Both are being gradually warmed. When these two giants meet and wrestle for supremacy, earthlings below will be inconvenienced by the stomping of their feet. As they bellow in rage, trees will bend and sway in the breath of these monsters. Anything loose is apt to blow away in the face of this gigantic sneeze.

 

The peculiar thing about this fight, but true in a great many other cases, too, is that no one is going to win it. For both these gutsy fellows will be tempered by summer. Both masses of air will remain in the ring 12 months out of the year. their spring fight will wear them out, will take the edge off their violence and through the summer, only an occasional thundershower will indicate that they are both still hanging around, engaged in an occasional lovers' quarrel.

Special attention, private pilots, operators and town boards! Next Thursday the Indiana private flying advisory council, of which I am a member, meets in Indianapolis for a session with the direct of aeronautics. If you have any complaints or ideas, please get in touch with me before that time, in order that your voice might be heard where it will do the most good. Town boards who are interested in air-marking their towns--as provided by state law--can secure free engineering and diagrams and paint for this project. No town is too large or too small to come under the scope of this new law, which says they shall be air-marked.

Pilots have excellent ideas occasionally which would lead to safer flying and better flying, more useful flying and easier flying. Here is your chance to get your idea across. Drop me a line. Each idea will go direct to the director for consideration.

Some of you, no doubt, have genuine complaints to register. And those will give the "powers that be" an idea of what you need and what you want. This state council was created for your benefit. Use it.

Remember, a free sight-seeing airplane ride one of these fine days to the oldest reader of Sky Writing. Anywhere you wish to go within reason--or any other person you designate may take the ride.

Drop us a card. I you can qualify. Oldest of record to date is 67 years young. YOU can beat that!

Warsaw Daily Times Fri. Mar. 19, 1948

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