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Dial 532-1661 Pajt Il-C THE IX PASO TIMES-E1 Piw'i IIOHE wpapr Waat Ad Dpt. 532-1971 Soaday, 23, I8C9 Dedicate Orjjaii mm BRUCE BISSONETTE hi A dedicatory' recital will be presented on the new $35,000 Tellers Organ at Ft. Bliss' Chapel No. 2 by Allison Sal-ley, organist at the Frist Pres-b i a Church in Fort Worth, at 4 p.m. Sunday.

Salley holds a master of music degree from Texas Tech University in Lubbock and has appeared as a recitalist in the Distinguished Artists Series at the Air Force Acedemy in Colorado Springs, Colo. The organ which has a seven-octave range was custom-built by the Tellers Organ Company of Erie, disassembled, shipped to Ft. Bliss, and reassembled at Chapel No. 2 by factory-trained personnel. The installation of the 1,615 pipes, console and related items took some three weeks.

The public is inivted to the concert which is one of a series of musical events sponsored by the Ft. Bliss I i ONE VVS MEAT LONDON (AP) Two bandits rushed into a bank while a third waited outside with car engine ruT.r.ir.g. The inside pair snatched an important-looking parcel from BBC commissionaire George Meadows as he waited at a deposit window. The package consisted of a pound of steak for George and two pounds of meat for his dog. Week: Dick Chenausky will spend a week in Wichita, attending a training session for Cessna's 800 Nav-O-Matic autopilot.

School is being taught by King Radio, manufacturers of the Cessna crafted unit, which is also marketed by King as the H-14. Chenausky is in partnership with Charlie Cook in Avionics Associates, located in the old International Airmotive hangar, 6S05 Boeing. The new avionics facility is expected to be fully equipped and licensed by mid-December Don Hendrichs received a multi-engine rating at Catter-Beechcraft, where Burris McRee has been certified as a Gold Seal flight instructor and is now licensed as advanced ground instructor and ground instrument instructor. El Paso Aviation Association meets Monday night at 6:30 p.m. at International Airmotive for usual good food, entertainment and sneak preview of something new.

They turn into Collectors Items Put together your own authentic replicas. Build an army or a fleet for a battle at sea with detailed models with brass-fittings. Wooden Ships From $095 Hoondth World (rm 3 Brass Cannons from 11" Military Figuros-All Metal $109 Kits in Supor Detail font I craft is enjoying increasing popularity. All seats are fitted with 15-G shoulder harness, considered by builders as important to passenger safety, particularly in STOL HELIO COURIER 295 Tftc added large rear cabin windows and distinctive paint design mark major exterior changes of Helio Courier during its more than a decade of manufacture. Plushed up inside and with a beauti-; fully designed panel, the STOL air 8 fc Woodmen Present Flairs Woodmen of the World El Paso Camp recently presented American and Christian flags to McCombs Baptist Church and Second Baptist Church.

William M. Patrick, camp president, made the Courier grosses out at 4,420 pounds, with seats quickly detachable for pure freight hauling. Range is 690 but this can be extended to 1,440 with added tanks. Names In The News This id: TOTS by ROY? BASSETT CENTER AT ALL 3 EL PASO STORES AND LAS CRUCES ALWAYS FIRST QUALITY JV )) mMm towel sale; 11 In lit y) lnl fir SAiustDMs MPP'? mWi- BATH TOWEL, REG. 1.75, NOW UVjI: TW.YiV'Xv"rl hand towel, reo.

nt, now 77e '1T WASHCLOTH, REG. 55,, NOW 47' rXj 'INFATUATION'. Elegant tone-on-tone woven cotton jacquard with W'WiT 1 5r ''I fringed ends. General Aircraft Bedford, is little known to public, but its product, manufactured half a continent away, is the Helio, widely known throughout the general aviation market. 1 recall the first airplane -manufactured by General, the built in Lowell, in the days before World War II.

Its designer, Dr. Koppen, a professor of at Massachusetts institute cf Technology, came I up with the unique plane that "combined the principles of two-control design as put forth "in Fred Weick's Ercoupe, together with a few ideas of his own. The result was a beautifully Resigned, two-place, tri-cycle Reared high wing monoplane that had no rudders. It had two large vertical fins at the tail but they were stationary. With downward mounted engine, limited up travel on the elevator, and equipped I with F.aps, the Skyfarer was a big step in the right direction toward a spin-proof, so-called fool-proof, easy to fly airplane.

But a STOL it wasn't. With a geared 65 h.p. (75 h.p. at the prop) engine and a relatively heavily constructed plane, the Skyfarer was a slow climber although it did show up other planes that had even greater power once it was on the step. Very few Skyfarers were built, these being in late 1940 and 1941.

With the gathering war cloud its builders had other commitments to fulfill and the design died out in the war years that followed. But the idea of a safe plane continued to develop in Dr. Koppen's mind and eventually they emerged in the form of the Helio Courier, which made its appearance on the general aviation market a dozen or so years ago. The Courier and its turbo-prop companion, the Stallion, is manufactured in Pittsburgh, by Helio Aircraft a division of General. SAFETY BASIC There is no similarity between Koppen's Skyafarer design and that of the Helio.

save for the fact that both are high wing. Starting with basics in safety for its human cargo, Koppen designed a cabin of rugged Warren truss steel tube construction, surrounding it with aluminum skin that fairs back into a heavily stringered and formed semi-monocoque aluminum tail cone. With a high lift, high speed airfoil section, the Helio wing is of all metal construction, cantilever mounted to the fuselage. Landing gear is conventional, tail-dragger, with an awkward appearing main gear slung far forward. But this peculiar looking arrangement is for a definite purpose.

Slam-on, hard, short field landings in this plane offer no loss of directional control problems, and also eliminate nose-over tendency when heavy braking action is applied. On a flight demonstration in this remarkable plane, with Helio's tech rep Lawrence J. Montgomery, I had my eyes opened to the wonderful flight characteristics and capabili ties of the Helio design. That heavy braking action we just mentioned was demonstrated in a short field landing with the brakes on full at time of touchdown. The tail wheel didn't begin to lift up, even though a full stop was made with brakes on all the way.

And this with only two aboard. When Dr. Koppen created the Helio he was attempting to make it the safest plane possible. As mentioned previously he began with structures, with the them of rugged construction carried on throughout the entire airframe. Aerodynamics were then given the full treatment to provide the Helio with every desired safe flight characteristic possible in a fixed wing aircraft.

Long, slotted flaps, taking up a large percentage of the trailing edge, combined with short span ailerons, automatic leading edge slats (full span) and a unique spoiler give the Helio the ability to fly at 30 m.p.h. with no stall-spin risk. The spoiler, called an interceptor, is a small metal fence running parallel to the leading edge of the wing, mounted slightly Inboard of the ailerons, just aft of the leading edge slats. The interceptor operates in conjunction with the up travel of the ailerons, remaining flush on the down travel. SLOW SPEED The effect of this spoiler is to 'grab' the air while the plane is flying at slow speeds, where the up aileron would not be able to be as effective as at higher speeds.

The action of the interceptor is absolute roll control, even at speeds as low as 30 m.p.h. With maximum load the minimum speed of the Courier is only 37 m.p.h. with the 295 h.p. Lycoming. Our flight required a takeoff roll of three lengths of the plane.

With the airspeed indicator barely touching the 30 m.p.h. and beginning at the threshhold of runway eight, we had 2,000 feet between us and the ground when we passed over the tower, 2,500 by the time we reached Montana and 3,000 over the Freeway. About the closest thing to a stall is a gentle buffeting with the nose pointed nearly straight up. Wheel all the way in your lap, nothing else occurs, save the mild buffeting, and there is still plenty of lateral control. Doing a turn in this attitude, Montgomery closed the throttle.

This had an immediate effect on me, but the Courier merely shuddered a bit, then settled into a nose-high altitude with the airspeed pegged at 30. Naturally the plane isn't going to stay aloft, but it didn't stall. The automatic slats had popped out to full extent (They let you know they're there, with a good solid bang) and Montgomery leveled the wings and just let her hang there, nose still high. Dropping the nose just slightly, but still in a high attitude, stops the rapid rate of descent and the plane floats. On the, other end of the speed range, the Courier 295 tops out at 160 and gets there fast.

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