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• More Adequate testing of Gyro instruments for "spilling."

• Consideration of membership vote on retirement ballot and consideration of future steps.

• Fourteen items relating to recent resolution of the International Federation of Air Line Pilots Associations.

The fourteen IFALPA resolutions pertain to: standardization of units; pilot authority on matters of weather minimums; runway markings; high intensity approach lighting; crew complement; command of aircraft; instrument rating for first officers; conditions of service; accident investigation; altimeter settings; assistance to member organizations (for ratification); representation of air line pilots on IFALPA; operation of aircraft; and many others.

• Single engine VFR air line operations.

• Utilization of pilot weather reports on landing approaches with respect to landing limitations.

• Many other questions vitally affecting the air line piloting profession.

The Delegates-Following listed alphabetically according to air lines, are the delegates that will compose the Fourth Executive Board:

ALASKA AIRLINES: J. A. Horning and P. J. Bliss; ALL AMERICAN AIRWAYS: A. L. Tucket and D. G Reubert; AMERICAN AIR LINES: D. S Shipley and F. A. Spencer; AMERICAN OVERSEAS AIR LINES; B. O. Sparks and J. F. Scott; BRANIFF AIRWAYS: W. W. Betts and C. N. Sayen; CARIBBEAN-ATLANTIC: P. A. Dye; CAPITAL AIRLINES: H. G ROSS AND R. G. Ratcliffee; CHALLENGER AIRLINES: W. A. McChrystol and J.B. Schade; CHICAGO AND SOUTHERN: H. E. Croft and C. H. Kunz; COLONIAL AIRLINES:   H. E. Clark and D.J. Dionne; CONTINENTAL AIRLINES: R. M. Powers and C. W. Hart; DELTA ARLINES: Floyd Addison and    G. G Farnsworth; EASTERN AIR LINES: H.O Aigeltinger and    R. M. Tedlock; EMPIRE AIRLINES: H. H Whithed Jr. and C. F. Hall. 

HAWAIIAN AIRLINES: B. M Murray and E. J Pepin MID-CONTINENT AIRLINES: C. P Walters and R. D. Benell; MONARCH AIRLINES: A. F. Clark and J. G Carney; NATIONAL AIRLINES: C. H Ruby and R. J Rohan; NORTH-EAST AIRLINES: E. A Cataldo and K. F. Ritz; NORTHWEST AIRLINES: J. A. McKeown and G. C. Bewley; PACIFIC NORTHERN AIRLINES: G. W McCracken and R. W. Stevens; PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS: A. J O'Donnell and F. W. Saul; PANAGRA: H. D. Hicks and J. Timko; PIONEER AIRLINES: B. J. Anderson and R. W. Cage; TRANSWORLD AIRLINES: D.W Richwine and W. A. Dixon; TRANS-TEXAS AIRLINES: L. A Downes and J. A. Hodge; UNITED AIR LINES: W. E. Fallon AND A. W. Knox; ROBINSON AIRLINES: J. L. Lewis and R. S. Bower; WEST-COAST AIRLINES: J. S Hale AND I. A Dorey; WESTERN AIRLINES; W.T. Homan AND A.F Gardner; WISCONSIN-CENTRAL AIRLINES: A. W Hinke AND J. H. Downing. 


IT HAPPENED ON THE THIRTEETH

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The number 13 is reputed to denote bad luck, but this month it spelt a little bit of good luck as well as bad to ALPA. On Monday, June 13th, bad luck reared it head when crash went the roof in the President's Department that has been over ALPA's head for 17 years, but the silver lining in the roof cave-in was the lucky fact that it occurred at 5:30 a.m before the office staff was at work, thereby, averting possibly serious injury to ALPA's personnel. Here is how ALPA's office looked when the staff arrived for work-a graphic reason for hastening construction of ALPA's new Headquarters Building on which construction has begun in earnest now that legalistic red tape has been cleared away. 



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ANOTHER LESSON
Although there have been fatal accidents among the scheduled carriers in international operations, of all the thousands of over-ocean flights, a lift is yet to be lost in crossing and a plane has yet to go down at sea. Among the charter operators, however, where there seems to be less regard to safety, the picture is not so bright. Mid-ocean ditching make the headlines periodically. The last was on June 7 when a Miami-bound charter plane crashed in the Atlantic with a loss of 47 lives. A group of the survivors are shown huddled on a Coast Guard boat as they came into San Juan Harbor.

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Test Super DC-3

The revamped workhorse- the Douglas Super DC-3- successfully completed its first test flight at Santa Monica, Calif., on June 23. John F. Martin, chief company test pilot, stated after the flights that indications were that the plane would be even faster than the 243 MPH cruising speed expected of it.
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