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MASS-DELIVERED FOR THE FIRST TIME

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Rotor-winged aircraft have never reached the "one in every garage" future predicted for them, but they are finding their rightful place in aviation for such use as crop dusting and spraying, rescue work, oil surveying, and airport-to-postoffice air mail delivery in larger cities--all fields of use in which they are proving superior to propeller driven winged aircraft. Here, lined up for a mass "fly away" delivery are eight new Hiller "360" helicopters, ready to take part in the first mass commercial delivery of rotary wing aircraft in aviation history.

New Executive V.P. Reports for Duty

The new ALPA office of Executive Vice-President was filled this month when Clarence M. Sayen, Braniff Airways, who was selected by President Behncke from a field of 11 nominees named by the Tenth Convention, reported for work on August 29. 

Mr. Sayen, who is on a leave of absence from his air line, comes to the important executive-vice-president post well-qualified by his educational, technical and air line piloting background. A first officer, his appointment indicates the great extent to which copilots are now taking a hand in ALPA activities with two copilots now occupying top ALPA offices.

Taught Navy Pilots--Mr. Sayen was born in Rock, Michigan, on February 11, 1919. His initial education was in the public schools in the town of his birth followed by a degree from two colleges--his B.A. from the Northern State College of Michigan and his M.A. from Southern Methodist University. 

Learning to fly at Michigan Tech and the University of Minnesota, Mr. Sayen taught Navy pilots to fly during World War II prior to going to work for Braniff Airways. 

Broad Background--The work habit came to Mr. Sayen early--the tender age of 13, as a matter of fact. Since then, he says he has been a jack-of-all-trades--lumberjack, merchant marine sailor, engineer, teacher and air line pilot. He served a three-year assistantship at Northern State College an was a lecturer at Southern Methodist University. His M.A. thesis was on the development of commercial aviation in South America and an economic analysis of the country's economy showing how aviation fitted into it. He has also authored an article in the Texas Geographic Magazine on air transportation in Texas. 

While in school, ALPA's new Executive Vice-President was a member and president of two honorary scholastic societies, Kappa Delta Pi, which is a national organization, and Phi Epsilon, a local fraternity. He was on the debating team and graduated second in his glass. Athletically, he was active in basketball, football, and track. 

Active in ALPA--As an ALPA member, Mr. Sayen was senior copilot representative for the Braniff pilots and served on the Braniff negotiating committee. He is a veteran of one Convention and two Executive Board meetings and served on the educational committee for the retirement plan. 

Mr. Sayen is married and the father of one child. His present home is Dallas, Texas, but he plans on moving his wife, Marjorie, and his four-year-old daughter, Cynthia, to Chicago. 

The job which Mr. Sayen takes over is one that was created by the Ninth Convention to relieve the President of the burdensome administrative detail which has grown to almost unbelievable proportions which the expansion of the ALPA and the growth of the aviation industry. 

The "Little CAA"

New York, the city whose politicians last year unscrupulously found a dead pilot a convenient political climbing stone, this year has a police department that wants to play "little CAA."

Within a 10-day period during August, some three hundred air line pilots flying into New York City received warnings of impending violations proceedings based upon alleged violations of municipal ordinances--takeoffs and landings that weren't noiseless. 

The Legal and Conciliation Department, working with New York attorneys regularly employed by ALPA, is currently representing one air line pilot who has actually been hauled into court on the charges. Apparently certain officials of New York City, without any regard for the safety elements and danger involved, feel it desirable for pilots flying into La Guardia, Idlewild, and other local airports to cut their engines several miles from the landing field in order to effect noiseless landings. As yet, however, they haven't had the bright answer to how to take off noiselessly. 

It's a strange choice, but not surprising that politicians would rather have the blood of a crackup on their hands instead of a little noise in their ears. Dead people don't vote, but people whose naps have been disturbed might vote the wrong way. 

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HISTORIC NAME Gen. Walter Bedell Smith removes the tape to expose the historic name "Normandy" on an American Overseas Airlines plane which later departed with a group of former U.S. war correspondents off for a fifth anniversary visit to Normandy and other European battlefields. At ceremony (l. to r.) are: C. R. Smuth, president of AOA; Michael Dumont, representing the French government and Jack Thompson, president of the Normandy Beachhead Correspondents Association. 

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