SLEEK AND JETS RULE

FAST AIR

The jet fighters above

recognition tyros

should be familiar
buzz

to

since they

the skies

over the United States, but how many know

what nation the twin-jet

RECOGNITION

below Ries for and

what fype it is. Check answers on last page.

NAvAl AVIATION NEWS

February 1950 No. 302

C"lIlm,alld

O/ler",tio"J's €m&ter Offers

CI','.,U!fl To Lea,."

You.,,_g O"ice,·s

THJ2 OLD bAY a figbting ship's skipper was his own Officer-of-the-Deck, navigator and gunnery officer. Today he has help in making decisions. Through au evolutionary process the skipper has come to place more and more confidenceo_n these who work for him. Technological warfare has changed the pisture, From a sail iag ship to today's mass of steel contaicing complex maEhillery and electronic apparatus is a big jump. Today-'s skipper makes his decisions only after ha ing consulted one or more departments under his command. It is even conceivable thar the Captain could fight his ship without setting fOOt on the..pri~ge. What makes such a situation more than a p<;lssibil·

IN

•••

Essence

01

CfJ'DUllftDII,;

I.'-""t,.re

S/dpp@r/j Tu,/.,e Note

Command Op€rati0lls Center. N0 matter whether it be a mighty airera ft ca rr i-er 0.1' a sera ppy Little des teayer, is the hub of the universe the entity to which all questions are directed for an answer, Manning hese center are bdght young officers and men, J ighly trained in the essentials of dlcecting aic and surface op€l:ati ns. It is toward the training of the officers that we direct our attention now. The Command Operation Center Schoo! (Fonnerly Combat Information Center School}, officially known as the Na1-'aJ Air Technical Training Unit <it l'be Naval Air Station. Glenview, Ill., plays an important role in furnishing triggeHluick. straight-thinking minds for the rop Eghting ships of the U.S. Navy,

ity is the nerve center of every ship-dIe

cac

coe

Restricted
From 40 to 4'5 Navy officers sritute eaeh dass.

and
iust

six to 10
:1J1

.A F officer-s cooIf
[1\

NATrU. Glenview,
evenly divided there to learn

isn't

';lviatLJ(s scheol,

air officers. They are ill ;, Bhir·:. org,IJ'IiZ(Ltion, what IL does ill relation t anyone shif' how it fits into the operations of a [ask force, where combat information cernes fromand the control of aerlal .l1ghting fortes ..

between surface the place of

co .

aud

!,'1owta.

cac
W
o

Is Liaison Between Modern Science

HEN 'rHIi

Since the move to Glenview in )947 there has peen a steady Erorn one .small building the school has grown to jndude the oversize lean-to of a large hangar rontaining one of the most complex clr:ctronieS inslallatiens in ~he Navy. Captain '\II, B. Mechling, the ornmanding Officer, although located on a naval air station, bas a separate corn' maud. Under him Me some 50 o{ficoer·jnstTu tors and over 200 men. from this complement must come [lot only the people to run the school b-u~ those who perform bouse-

SCHOOL IS WELL EQUIPPED It has been n,Q small job e.stablishillg 11 coc school. If c1.'lS5rOOm were (ill that were necessary it would he simple.

And Tactical Activity of Fighting Ships

heart of a :ihip had its name (hanged last fall from Combat Infcrrnation Center to Command Oremtions Center it leJt a nostalic memory f(;lr all ronllcctecl with it. "Co~ba(' had been the familiar answer over the intercom. of $cientific information and applies il to tactical activi\y. It is the coord inator. It I!> also the ideal spot for a career officer absorb ;L solid foundation ll'l what makes naval operations rick, Once he is qualified for cae he has been informed in tactiC'S. nltviglttion, ommunieations

keeping duties as well. " Number, two UDder Capt. Mechling

IS, Cdr., W. G. Logan, the executive officer. Cdr. W. G. Wnght LS the uperin-

operational

rnrerpreter

is a preduc' of modern science. It serves as the

to

gunnery

In some measure an officeJr is trained ill these subjects in a normal career, but eoe offer.s 11 in concentrated form
The u c of radar and the empha 1~ on air warfare re· . ulred in the development of co as we know It today, An immediate need not onLy or- the Navy bu~ the other armed forces a well f~ a cere ~f officers eapliliJe of manning cac's. As time goes On every naval oInct!' will have an Inrroducrion
am! 10 the manner that a gunnery officer, op'el'11_tjons officer, exec or skipper would encounter it in line of duty,

Iiuison and electronics,

:a

teadent of t'raiuin,g. Although the organization Is one mainL}1 devoted to train.iIlS! the nature of operarions tt;quil'cS a siitabJe maj~tel1.1nce force. A busy electronics-crew under Lt, R 13_ Hams keeps more radio and f:ldar gear- in operation than at.1y bJp ever dreamed of. In the 16 weeks spent at the school the course offers a concentration 'Of suhjects in cornmurticaticns, electronics, navi8:ttion and piloting, ail' control, surfa.ce control. tactic~ and CDC [unrtiorrs, The last four subjects tome UDder the heading of operations. We<1I take II closer look tI.I. them

air

1ittle later. An es ential l'l<ltt of the srboo]

Lake

or

northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin we st ef Micbigan is a permanent (ombal area with intec-ccptions
on a nOfmulworkiog.

is air operations. Pla~e~ used

The

gJlore

F6F-SN':; and SNB'S. For one week during every cour c, a. PfHW comes lor a visit to farailiarize every. student ,it t'b(;

day,

are

:F8F?S.

to the subjeCt sc:hoo4. Glenl'iew

and

-practical

training

outside

of

specific

I_t is this. immediate Heed the

is fi.lIing.H

offers ing tQ n aval officers -an~ 14

16 weeks

coe

(Officers)

school at

school' with Airborne Eacly Warning Operations, NATTU is :1 unit of the- Naval Air Technical Training Command located at. Nlelliphi~. Its mission is to rraln and qualify officers fOf all the duties which ate required of a CDC officer on board. ship. Many pilots shudder al the th0lJ~ht of co work. Thls

weeks

of intensive train, to Air Force pfficc[s.

Rest'r'i{)ted

with air operations. TIle Navy's u:rgent need now is (or young COColTIcers. During the war these jobs were ~Ued by top 9uality AV-S officers who were UlQSt1y la.wycr,'i er school te,,~er:& with facile tongues. Now that these ofI:ict~rs' hlnte rerumed t@ civil ian jobs their places must be ~nken by regul.tr office!s. There are mandatory fleet quolas to be filled. In most cases officers attend the school wUUngly, but nervously. Their uwnkenil'1{; is a pleasant one as they dive into tlre infricacies or technical warfare and reallze that this is truly

cae is

[eat of being shl"ll'ed int0

II.

vital pan ofthe Navy, and is intimately

11

dark corner is un founded.

connected

for

tho!; right path

Those entering the drool represent a variety of back,grounds. To determine those but2kgrollods several tests are given. These are not intelligence tests but were designed by 1\ professor -at a nearby IJn.ivcrslty to See just what tin individual needs, To a certrul1 extent Lhey prOJdict lrnw \VeU an officer (."d.Il aud will do, but their star accernplisbrnect is spotling those WJ10 will prob,ably need extra help, By this means estraatrention may be given to these students early in the course and thus insure maximum benefit frOID

careers.

fqr quulili:ra.tio!l

in command later in their

the great variery of lnsrruerion given.

Now we'll take a look at what the school offers.

In !l typical classroom setup, a central desk is the control point while ~tudenQ; man headphones and microphones in small booths, There is no a.ethod as effective as th IS one in unf)'ing the tOngllE: when Itillew students and an instructor all are looking on with :L critical eye. For J pilot (his rna)' .seern like simple business, but cac cornrnunicu{Ions embraces a much wider lield than aircraft. EYE FOR RADAR IS DEVELOPED have to be a tecbnician but jusl to make him appreciate what he's working with he takes a quiek look inside some of tbe equipment he will be u mg. This is an electronic age so a general indoctrination is ,given in the fundamenruls of radio arid radar, The course is designl."d to acquainc with basiceleccronics even these "'With only 11 SJJl!ll'tc-rlng of engineecing 111 thdr background. Everythll1g from antennas to transmitters are studied. The operat'Jon of the heart of every radar, the cathode 1.'1y oscilloscope, is soon understood, Arter lbi.o; initial famiUariz!ttiGlI1, checkol.Jt,s begin on H1t: various: lYpes of equipment. TIle J1r~t one is the remoteInd iClltor pictured in tne JOWer tight hand corner of page three. There Follows work Qil shippome equipment UGh as search radars; VK, VJ. SP, 'X, main battery fire ontr-ol radar, and autcmatic weapon-s radar. Airborne equipment,
s4cb as tht.: APS--I., I', 1\1, [S, ~1 and ;1';, are studied and used while the prinriples of Airbnrne Early Warning -are disCttssed. Ai this point the PIHW equipment, mentioned. ftarlin, is . pentted. Radar countermeasures conclude this pa It of the syllabus.

{\ cae

offieer doesn't

Students Get Big Dose of Communications, Navigation, Electronics, Anti Air ,Intercepts
f€ATIONS, electronics and navigation, the fir t phases of the COtW;c. are all tied together in the finill phase, 0pef~.liohs_ They are the husk .subjerts, Sim:~ commun i~tjons ties aJJ operatinns together, it is naturally put into the number one position. Publications and security aft' !>tudiel.l, while the pecuJu(lities (')1 naval messages get their share at scrutiny . Many tudenrs at the school never had. much of a chance to use voice- cieouils. ince practice makes perfect. they are given voice work 00 ound-powered phones and mock radio circuIts. Af.ter finding the cap1tbHities and limitations of radio f requencies and swaying the construction of shipboard and airborne equipment. fnan}, hours are st'<tnt on radlotelephone I?foceduft:. The Joint air warning -;rod defense l'!Ode is used.

C three

OMM

Not the least- pnrt 01 the CO ',; work i:; in maaeuvering a sbip, Thus navig:atton plays an important part of the officer's work. '1'h!OfC lire times when tl- 0iptain must depend completely on hi~ COCto .get tile ship through a tight ph,('cdurtng period' of Iov visibility. An e sential item I. navigatioo is the maneuvering board. Any surface officer j. acquainted with it_, but many pilots without shipboard du\}' neve! heard of it. The transition Is e-dsy, however, beeause the board is sU:l'l.iJlu to the aviator's 1I1k. III plotling board. Both use vector triangles. althougb d ailed operation differs sl ightly. . With the maneLlver'ng board.--"mooring boar-d" or shoIl'-relatitre motion problems-are worked involving curse, speed, time, two speed solutions, tucking exercises arid intetceptions. Torpedo jjriug is geae into in detail while ship man(lu.ve.ring incJudin·s the problerns of advance and transfer, accel ..r-at1on and deceleration and other pilol;og procedure useful! to a 'kipper are 5000 understood. Air piloting and air navigation finish this syllabus. Last but not least are the Iuncrions of CDC itself. UOT

F'LYNN.

PR.OCEDURE

15 PRACTICED

Reslricted

thi phase the hangar is the student", workshop,

Scattered througJJ this fascinating building are CO setups for almost every kind of ship. Along with studyinf: CO doctrine, air operations and antisubmarlne warfare, actual work is done in CDC's identicul with those in cvss.: V's, AGC,~, sn's, DO's, and DDR's. Tilde are four destroyer COC's and two or the picket destroyer type. While these inst:tllation, are not exact duplicates of actual shipboard installations they arc so nearly identl~a1 that transition from mockups. to shipboarJ CO 's is smooth. Wllene,'er weather conditions permit. air initrcflptions are conducted, emp,loyiqg the aircraft of NATT11. 111i system provides. the student officer wieh much practice In air. intercept control work During period 6f inclernenf wel~the.c air to tercep! practice is conducted uslDg ingenious synthetic radar target producing equipment, These trrtgct gC11e(alOIS put synthetic plnnl:s in the air. with rourses, iil~ttldes and speed controlled by Of1etatotli actillg as pilOts, V ario IlS tation.ing areas or orbit pOints are located

throughout an operating area between the true bearings of 220(> add 010" from Glem·jew to a distance of 50 miles. Air J nter ept control is not the Qnly function of CO that is practiced in CDC mockups, Air and surface problems are conducted in order to. sllcw student officers l'he opportunity 'Of working 10 all the positions in COe. These exercises are designed to demonstrate all functions of co in both surface and air control, with the end ill view giving the trainee practice In ondacting: 0 '5 of various tj'Pes of ships under various conditions of re.adiness and in all siteafions dealing evea remotely with 'OC. Tn, an llncla~si6.ecl description sut;h as thiS., method: and specific operations cannot be mentioned. More detatl tim be fOMl'l(1 by rt:uling the CO magazine and USF publicalions, or if Y0lj. arc In Cl'OSS, ,olJnt~y reach of Glenview a visit would be educational. The road to command is a tong one. In today's Navy tb'l5e IS no beltertraiflin:g for theyoLlng officet aLong thal path than that offered at OC Officers school, Glenview.

or

Restr'! ted

How Would You Do?

The p-Uot of 0 helicopter climbed OlJt of the wre(kage foilowing a take-(!jlf accident at an isolated recrearlon center in Alaska to find that the rotor blades had :lOlputaLed beth legs all tlj.01 of two spl:!ctators who were observing the take-off. The third observer W:L~ less serioLlsly inJured. The passenger

Winter Sa,fetyHit1ts
•. Gr<lmpau> P~tlib.D"1!: JPYS:

who had.

g;otten out ahead

of the pilot

wss manning a nreextinguisher as thehelicopter was mnu!tencin:g t9. bum near the exhaust, There were 110 other per:)Uns nearby ~nd the nearest town w:a..s 11 miles away, The piXot slwuled to hIs passenger t'o t.I rQP tile fire- Extil.'[gulshu l1,n~'1 I' lle:l him <lpply tourniqncts to the injured men. This was . L1lcomplJsned usin,g pieoes of bailing rope ari:d ra..lio cord, The passenger and the less seriously injured spectator w,erethen sent teWal'o town ror help, while the pinct tried to make the men whose- l.e~ had been ap:\plll~ted as romfoftablt as possible. 1'he piJo~ theu xrawled back in ~he inverted -helicopter, discovered tbal the batt.e!}' was still Fl1ijcti0rilng, repaired ~ broken headsee cord, !IDd began 10 transmit "Maydtly. MJl;yday, Afo.g!1ak Rcc;realion C1mp. two man dying." The (few II. PaV taking off from ne~!rby Naval Air Station,. Korlin,", Alaska,

-~~U/~
regive ol.('tjc}I1. The pilot brought the stick nil the war buck against the IItO:P and J;J.ve it full pOWeJ1, but crashed befate he was able to regain eonrrol.

.... ,;; Wh~th.e;r we like it or not winter i~ 11 pon us !lila Ino wtrh it eo r,ne haZards to !light -and gl"OundGpelluions not enccuee",red in ...... ncr mon.th5. Ycu'veseen " these win(er "1;,. fety rul es befdro'!!,but if -..ii IJ j?'1)' you to rend themagain, andstay our o('my "cd dent dik! l. Demand .allihe available, weaf,her ;",fQrI'rIIllr/OQ beforeevery fJigor, Plan yow: flighf to ""'oid .o1lillld_C5 w/ietj! i'Ciu8 i~ IJre'rol 2. If fOU should.en....,w'tf.l:C Instrumenr weather wb.ilc On a\l'!ill31 flight plan,

"l""

DON'T

".tarly one-third

tim fatalities Ia~t winter. L,md at the nearest airport wh¢te CQ/Uqcl CQlldi.ljo'lI!prnai/"

PUSH TI-JROUGH

of all

This caused

in an tl;llll'rgenlo1', kept !his bead, and .saved rwo li,,~ by prompt and eJl,llCtivl! lim aid ll1a<J.~. De4ipjfe his (llyn injuries <lod shock, he imp:ro,vire(l and applied lOin -to Url1iqu~.tIi in j ust about tl, e j (U)_gth Q f time ellat it 11<15 (alien ~'OU to l'e~d- {his brief
~CCQU·n'f.

~.J

'_G'ulmpa:w
Here's

PelliblJde

5<1Yf:

a chap' Who knew what

to do

3., If ygU are flying ovel' water. k;now emergency rescue procedure, <lI1d ... eae 'all exposuee suit. You Wo-n'[ IasrIong "W ith(tUI an e",posure $WI in WOllet' ·oJ (ll' near flluri ng, remper-atur@. 4. Just bdore 'lilY take-oJf, be ~te to c:.bt'!=!<. all llontruls fot r~"e mo,;,!!:nwnl, :tni:!
rOIll"

Could
cmdrgru-lcy?

you

J-f

do
[10["

as

well if! jJ similar you!d betferger youI!'

a few l"dUEI'S

clea:r Y9nr en.gine thoroughly. Nevee rakeoff witlb. snow or (ros{ Oil the wmg~ A very !ITI1aJl amCfUntcau deStroy y-Qur lilt. j ..Ch«k th.. runw"y condition" wid'. the lo'wer befoN:'- landing, lIT spo,ts on runway~ caused f!'l:my groundlcops and

Right surgeon oa Iirst aid,

to schedule

or

AL TIMETE!R ,QUIZ
How 1'Iluch .:10 you kllOw abQUI the -w~:yyour alIi meter reacts .w elm !lses in

I~st win_let. 6. By ~II means le:II;'I"Iwe ,CJ)lTeCl way to epernte every pieoe of de-iciJlg equipmCl1t on your airplane b~foTerOll get .i'nlhe
nOSC--OYefS

heard

it to thebase, and flew over the scene of fhe

this

message,

relayed

air. 7. Don't yow up,Us...

let

ice ;n the pirot tuhe-foul thepitQI cover 'whe>J1 seeue-

the crashed h.eli('oprer. -WbEo the dostor arrived he found _that the pHat_ h'lld wrnppe~ 1JH.' men in

acck!ent. A emst Guard PBY WIth a doctor and two corpsmen WaS di~-PB.tched a.l once ani.! landed on a litke rlnse to

tem pt'r.'I tu re and ba toO rnetri~ press urer' Check yo u rself on fhe q ues t ions below, In fiig:ht pl~y it safe, Get -fhe .latest ,! 'It 1rne~"-l" ,~etti:b8 (,or [he Uelli tn -which rIll:!' ~re !lyl'ng, Yo.llmn tcq).lut it
f.(!m the Deiu"'~t t<tdl"

i:ng th.e -:J l rcra fl.. Use pit ~I heat in. frj!e1ing or near' heezing weatllef. ,8, Brakes arc- oJ little- help wben taxiing en. icy
aJ'C"~,

Tari

SLOWLY

and ,11.

low YOIlr-S!'lf -a .Iarge

stopping

distance,

tMilit),.

blsnkets, given them water and cigareftt:t,:lnd bad clone ~ v<!ry skillful job (If .i~PJllying the [our tourniquets and some pressure bandl1Ees. The doceer sWC$ tl,iat frmm the amount oI bletclitl8 atld the seriousness of !h'C: illjli.ti~' l1e believes ~hllJ neither

nml allit-ude Ii(:<wrnt"~ higher than Ihl;

llilll'l" t~ Z. Wilen

J Wh~n' flying into an area hi gnc t hnnutJ. etri (" pte5SI..1 re, the

Ilr

Acci,den:tRates Improve
€If the J.(tldtmt

,K-

.dtitucle.
air

TI"(,U'E(l'

FO'iLSE.
IS

temperature

above-

abJ~ IInprovement

s(~nclJlrd (I'

degrees

o:;enl;grJde)

11,(:

man could have !n.H'II" ed e-xr<."P f Q, r the r:trl ~hal ~ou rt n igu~t~ we.re. _applied t,o. all tOll rex· ltcmll!es within four mtnures.

Mtu"lIl u]tltud" il> nbove d:lt: jJlUiarfn n ltirudc. TRUE 0/' PALSE.

The ·u(ch1ern was due to a cpmbinution of circumstances, The helkQpttt wa~ IOlld.~ at the j:·orward limit of rhe center of gravity. and had .:\g.ross weiglll of 52-36- pounds (allowable Jim"it BOn),
01' 3bOll t

r, 0 r0J'll ,1phk J if ti"8 !tId!:! ~eJ bl' ;jll flow'ng (I\'N fll(I!.l!It"io~. m\ly C,.\t,c errvrs SO rflRt tlre aetual alutude L!; Ipw. er rlTan the ind Lrn:~ed;,1Ii! ude, rRL' E or FJiLS£.
4"

ciderrr rates cannot he computed. However, inlbe n];st nine months of ]949 t1~eNav),tlew some- 3-'5(\),000 mere hours

of flyil'l;g time are not allln

over 194.8, partieularIya 'r-egards Iatal acdd~nt$. The reports

a quick tabulsrion total for the year indicates that 19'4.9 will :;how ;1 (0I1Siderto' press

As wega

yet. so ac-

When .the.hd icoptt:_fn:;ach~lfm all il;ud~

thre-t!- teet
tp t}le

1J.~f,jre take-tiff YIlU ohtn H1 alld y ~~. Ihe ~orrtcU ultJ mO:I'n ~O:ling fdr ththeld from tJ,(:; tu,';vel:. The hunci5 III your ~.:rtirt1el.rt \Vd.1 t1wn rCdd
YES
,fir

a I'~er tak",-otr.

!'he

NO?

*'""".

nose dropped fot'w:a.r:d and

lind It bi:gafl to !'nove ri,Mht d.espite CQr-

than in the S3Q1e ]94.8 period. In spire a ( lh is in.c:rt'1lSt: n 0 p e:rali OB ~ ..t::b ere were i )<Hewer fatalitie~ in 1949 than in 1948. Fligh~ operatiQ[)s In the Naval Air Reserve T raj rung proar-a111 we-re .1t a new high llnd the week-end w:l.rriors cOI1t(ibuh:d to tb~ jmpcol'eJ nll~s by coUing thei[ fatal aCCident rllte by near-

ly

let\, r.:-Ontinue

m%_

~tcl

improve'

in

9~O.

Dear Grampaw
thi:

Pettibon.e:
ba k in

Whel'l J first joined the fleet

feet tn lhe (I.Ir for day~ on end. Finfllly after somet-hing like- 900 hours us pr;lYl;r _ft11t!)t iLl,tf :l~is~!lnt ro£fee maker, they ler me take a plaM out alone J!:If to see what it WaS like, I took It up to .I rhl.l~lsallJ red. It )!JIc:: W.!S .1 _gmnd feeling acting like the boss 01 creaticrr. A fl e r ,Iwhile, however. the. lack ox)' 'eJ~ got Info' and [ went on d wn t ru rrn.i] alutude. N rurally, Irom m.tny hour' of this type ·Aylll~, 1 W(lS iIH.iodl'JIHTtCJ mru {'eWIU1 )'1nrtern of comlud. such t1,'1 bow to treat all cflginl: l yOur bi:st need, \\ 11 'n po siblec to lund softly. and lhitl~~ like t!-ltt! there, After various touts of Jut}', m!), ll)' strJpped 10 a desk, I ;![rived at In).' pCt'!t:111 station where ~ lor or Ayl ng c t !1 It'll 0 I d iffon.'ItL typic'S (;){ pi aile] IS dOne. uite ,I few or Ibt· bo)'s .ute' exNATS flliol· and 1 am consrandy mbroiled in arguments with th~m over how to Ay. Frankly. snme of the thjn~1I they tl and advocate .• hake my ('hildish f:'lIlh 111 my old Instructors. The other evenin$' over 11 small. g.lhget beer, we agreed 011 what WI'" d lS<lgrced on, uud

when l n,(.'uttn uir ranked liex! to C, cd) r never did gel mmt than 100

~~ys

Huoresrent lights. T usually say It was crosswind or too much bounce bu-ilt into the lire, And as (Of \ hite light;> iJ, the eeckplr. how can yQu Set: what i~ t(ojn~ on outside it you use them? Your visunl ,Iluity i. just a little bit shot. Besld " somewhere .along the lin the medical dl:rar~mtnt must ha e ajJit

10 .an altitude to tuaueuvee

where I.'IU hav "little. room in case. of an I!fIler£cne ,

talked
)'OU 011

or

in ,111 R..JD is a ull $1.111. Hit rhc tail whe-el fir~t, It m.1y startle the pll.SScnge:rlo II bit. but it pllt~ tilt!' 1",11111(' on the grouuJ
ntore afelv, J say: t~) I [en't know much about

proved' fluorescent lightillg. Tlley ~ay' ) . The best I.wdlng

eo on ~he the qtJe~iilJn (If leaving we ~ps aloue. un!il you h~... e tum· d. oj{ lil runwav, Although \here is linle chance of confusing 1I,ips u,d glOar on the R4lJ, J hey $I)' rhar ti" plafje will slow down fll'!et with rhe Haps down ..
tll,trOll

(2) The people J R,4D desk agree with

(3) A reemendousamourn of expeeirnenIs underway 10 develop better "ys,em

0\

1 will admit II makes :1 niee but that airfr!Hl1I;! u e'i/i't h ok ,IS if If wu buill [O( that sort of strain. If 101.1 ever missed. llfl!:! ~[rorptd ill rlOnl about 11l cct. it stems ro me us if that ru~eLige would develop .1 few wrinkles. Now we Oint.' to a fl mr that l beI~ eve aft...! the:' don' t. I sa y: ('.) r ri n yOur ap_[l:roacb for ~ Ian ling. you do not exceed I! rate lic.'Kl'llt of 1- 0 f et rniaute, the pla(1e will Flot bounce wIH!" 11 lands, A plane tOUt.h In!! do~ 1'1 at l'j () fed 1'1 r less, is
R·W,

the

fuji

,:it-Ill landing.

of ckptl lighllng. ,luQl"esCenr Jj;;hm are knowll 10 produce certain uudc>.-ir-ahle dfl!cts on the eye. II ellQugll ~ellU!er .. d ulcl'l1.vinl"l radi.lluon t 'Ile pil;"1,, ey' "fter nfiect.ion from the 1>lil't-:lce <,f thl> instrument pa" I, eertaiu .,ub.m:nces wi.lhin lDL' ,~}'ebl,H becomes tlllore&cent and cause the lnterioe of the eyeball to glow. his gives the pil I th· subjective sensaliuD ~)f·eing surNJunded by a luminous hrrze, ""h;-<!Il ls sllfI.itMr I(). ,h" appearance ohl"injid ",b.m sitting in II room filled wfth tobacco -smoke. Tl:ri~ ·f1uol'..scence is "nn<>ying and it ~l~u interferes with 1110' pilot's .. night visj(>o whun he looks outside the "irm,,11, 'The 1Dedico~ h,1I Ole- the red :floQdligltting or indirect red Hghtinl.: is the tOoming I bing as far 35 cockpit ill umination _goes. but· w..bti! ),011 have an improved .·Y$tcm

"roes-

installed in the plane you happen

equwulent to dropping the whole plaJl<J verncally a distance of about one-half' ail

decided
ment.

(0

,lrpClU to yau for

(I)

I:nll,gnI'ef1

U.e fu.1I power on al! take-offs, regard.less of load. Thty 'lllot~ as J1;Ithor.ity tilt p&W Complluy and various engineering decrees. 1 say: (I) Use the 10we$1;- rower CODsistent IV ith safe take.n!f. You never know when that old P&W will have to givt' ou everythiu it's got orne d;lrk IlIght .Ind thoy only build so m~uly usable hours; of horsepower into an engine. If jou ha ve 20 miles of go d calm bay ahl':ld of you, and ;1 li~hl load, why usc .111 the power? BCl.by (he lffiJ;ille a hit.. They claim: (2) Up your flaj1~ .lS soon as you t tIde This will brenk our Ji!r, drop the t;dl and give you 11 Iittl!" better ~ir I'O:;>SistJllCC for iowing Jt)wn hy increasing the an.gle of attack oj the J .;t}: (2) 1.e!tve tile d,unn ihll) alone unln you have tut[].ed off tlw r.u!lw-ay. . at .I~ J safety mea1u.re-which it i5but bcraw.e you will :;10.,.,> c:!OWIT (a~let lea jog them down !.blln you will by ll'yiJ'l,1; LO u~e lhl.: maill pl;LlllO ;15 .m >.I,if yOltr fluQrCS((lO[ lights .in the t:o(kpit when n i};lht Ayin,g, s(" the whit~ Ones. If you u~e the OUIJ(-eSCCClr, 10.1 will de~tr{,l}' your derth erceptiol1 and dot bet up
IJ~

They claim:

inch, ltfld the tires and oleos nre designed to absorb thal hark. The 5ay: The don't !lay anything, ther just laugh. So, lhere is my problem. Mr, Pettibone. r would appreciate it if YOLL W(I\1Jc.I iinJ time to answer and I could say to the e ignoramuses. "1 toll! YOll .';0." Of course. if r am wrong, which I couldn '( possibly be, i!.lSi ~er).d me a. note to thlll effect mucked "personal" .md t will drop the whcle subject.

r»

}'un h<lve to do the best you can wrlh whal ~'ou have, Gertllini)'., .as you point Qu1, with dIll wbire lights on you can't isee whar's goi t'lg on Olll5id .. '!.Do:t you have impaired your dark adaprnrion, Per$oQaUy, r think thM well-shielded fiuores-

th'i"g.

1:0

00

cent lights are prefer-<tble to white lights.

but ...hichever type of illumination you employ, it is 'Worthwhile to keep the light level .in "the eockpir ar the 1'.ninilTlutn which will eo-able you 1.. see rhe ;nstt'Ument

dea..,!)'.
(4") The I.... Ull rfHI- R4D ,design desk d,s teU me that the pr",feeroo landing is one where Oll w'easl:t it (00 the back "'d,, of the ftOI1l wheels with the about a

YOU.f

truly,
NAVY.

LCDR, D.
• GriJl1Ip(JJIf

rhat it i~ pUji.'S'ible; ro wrinkle the fuselage by leveling Qui too high lor a full stall landing.
foot" off the run\V<ly and

r"a

Pettibone sars,:

(5)

T think

you're

01'1

rhe rigbl

track

I talked to " bm:lch of exp=in o'Ul t ~ gee tneung'3.l'bled word on these quesrions which seem to pop up whenever a buJI'e-s~ion gets under way. And hett's l.he best info.r:rllCation 1hat _l could geu

"';.:) efforl

a~ regneds eJrminaring bounces although I 'believe Ihat ytlU wOilJd also 1m,,!! H! add the fllctor of treel airspeed. SOIDe years
ago T Hew through South America in PV.,2 with II L"ckbtled lest pilot ",h .. -had over' l4,OOO boun of -q_idinc. ex[ull'iencc, This "hap told' TIl" Ihllt he h~d ICI gl\te-up. commercial tl'"anspol't flying bc.cause h", e-yes wel'e ~bol and h· l:iad pI'"JC1ic.'111 no ' deplh perception. HtJI"cver in "II the- deIll0lllir .... ioll A.ights n 1 notrcecl tlla( be made excellent landings

wing

llipeciaUy in tin

!lAO

,the idea tbm you'1:e "$Iv-{ng d.e· "gin,," by nsing low pow~ all Ulke·off. They gl'l e

(1) You-'I'e .aU wet en the !ow power ra e.ojf idea. The engine manuia tuJ'ers rind th!! Bnr.eJlIJ of Aeronaluics h3"~ hectl 'l",cl ~te waging " campaim 1.0 eliminate me some tong description!!" of {h~ test ~o which "IlW filode.l ung~nes and production model" aw subjected. For e:.;ample, mOSt
engines are run 'I[ Hlke'QfF p()wer for 30 minutWl (in SIX fivl1t'.mioure pe-rcic:d) on me livHlollr r;.ioJyy acceptanCE> tel'£. ow llIodel engines "'-"I' rested For bouts <It take-oil power !;Ie.fore heing IOr-h doWn f()~ ID~peC1rion. The}' sa dlM yuu simply aren't hUJ'tjng the engine ir ou UIII' ta.kt>-o!f power for less th-an INe minutes, and ~'QU have the advantage of J',eoc:hing sn.fe singleIlngine ~~ed more quickl and of getting

with nary a

bOU1'C'll.

When I asked him

brake. Th y

bjm:

(;)

Don't

yoW' [u I1Jing,

I ~a1. (3) It has Dever OCCI,rreu to rot 1-0 blame .1 IOI.l1\Y hH1ding on the-

how h" managed to make .lull"h consismntly ACood landing~, ilJ 3pire of b.is poor deprh perception. be So'1id, "That'· eali)'. You re'.llJy don't have to be ,Me l"O know ex· ncr! how (u down the rlJJ]w3y is. 1 ClI:lI see the i.n.suumenu nU dg.hr and J stplv,· for precise .airwpeed cofltrol all the w<ly caround tbe. land1n.g patterf\-II'}' !o stay within I or 2 kn!>u f the desired :;p<:ed during Mi:h pllrt of the approach and land· rug. T h eD wtth :I "" ry $10"" fa teof del>(lelll l1na correct .sp eq, It (ollches n gemly,"

Res~ricted

NAVY HONORS SHAH OF IRAN

NAS SAN Dmoo-Wh~n, Hi:; [rnperin.i _Milresry Moham~~ Reza Shuh Pahl,av~, ruler of Iran, visited the W('st Coast recently, the N~vy played an act! ve P (lI't iIi see in g that he wen t pl 1I0':!S and saw things. While i1t S:j.n Diego he",j_~ited the CV Valley fla,.t e and attended a mil itary luncheon. He was met by V Adm, G F. B0gan, VAclm. T. L Sptague. RAdm. Wilder Baker and Capt. L. K. "Ricl.'. Sba.ll wore the heavily·bmitlcd uni· form of a full admiraL since his respensibil.i.tics include beimg head of l:Jie Iranian Navy, "The 30.yeur.oLJ monarch was. pipeJ a.boo.rd and given a 2L-gun salute by the 0l~it.J:, FIe 1nspected the Marine honer gunrd and rnet fln~ and genef'.J.i officers of S!ifI Diego t4f'4 commands. AI.. a IUll~e01l1 in tht! wardroom be was presented with n model of the V;t}/ey ~(Irg(f by Capr, H. B. Temple, CO of the carrier, (Sr;1f pbOIi!, iTuide btlr1ii rtmu.) her touring I-hcr cstri~r. he ma,de the-nexfr leg of hi. journey itl the giant

Re,se'rve Weathermen
Up-To-Date

Meet
louts

Course Held at5t.

n.e

CilPl_tEMPlEESC!!UITS

SHAH

ON

CARRIER

rou~

plane. the COI1.I'!lfllti(m. An accompl ished rnulti-engi Me pi lot hi rn.self, lhe Shal, had the wheel by J~im~ self (or 20 minutes of the half-hour fl ighil from San Diego to Burbank. !lye iag without rhe assistance of aso Skipper, Cdr. \W. M. Lo.IJins_ "bollrd the C{)ilJtif.{lti(j,!~ bes:ides 11 It i own r!lUnue. WIl.Il a group of U.S. state' depa.rt:rnerH ofTrcia.ls and staff ad vi ~O1'$,. The plane made a jt,TO take·oE and when it landed at Burbank t.he Shah roured Ltickheed Aircraft . orp., which built it.
transpurt

Everything from atemic, bJologkaJ Il.rlucbemicru warfare to upper atmosphere phenomena were d ished (Jut ro 125 Reserve AerolQgy office;-s dun ng 11 two·weeks active duty pedod Ihey srt:nl (11 St. Leuis io January. Also attending tile course from 3 to l6 ]llJlUMY were l_'j regula.r oflkers and instructors- from the aerograpilers mates sehecl at NAS LA.K..EHlIltSJ·, Prine.ipa] !;re!.lk.er.s were RAden. A. K. Doyle. Chief of Naval Air Reserve Training, Mdm .. 1.M. M'Quiston. special advisor to eNO For the Na\tal Air Reserve, and Capt. H. T. Orville" head of the Navlll Aere Iogical Service. Other subjectsxlisoissed were; fleet upplications of weather, hurricane and typhoon aircraft recnnnnissance, guided miss iles and weather, surf and swell foretasting, radar development in relation to weather forcGJsting, ·and lise of skyhook balloons in u ppcr ai r soundings, balloon was released during t.lle con, wenticn. All aHUH Ot811nized hyCNUesTn provided rcanspertarion to St. LOllis. From 4 to £) January the Reservists attended tile thirtieth anniversary (00vention of the American MeteoroiogkaJ
Seciety,

In the latter connection a SI:.Y/)i;rok

Canadians
Cold Weather

See J,ATO Usage

C::ru1ise, Visits Halifax

VP-3>J, NORFOLK-During five- days of 0perMing out of Halifax, Nova S,cotia, during the winter cold weather exercises, this squadron made headlines by beln,g the first te m"kc:: a pl:ro take{\Iff [rQID Llle hllrbor of Halifas. 111e exercise ';as par,t of the inspectiOIlOJ" tli~ seaplane ;cendr.'t D)fXvury Bay by Lt. Gov. McCurdj' of Nova Scotia, Admir.al Mc!lirtguy. commander of Canadian Naval Force's, A:rlahlic, and U.S. Consul General Benlliu,!;hotT. tCdr. J. F. Schref~, VJ>-3;t skipper, and hi~ (opilot Lt. Charles J. Kesner, made a J .... "[O later with the above notables aboilId. in comp:my with Capt. E. M, Block, CO oi tIle DIIJliqm'y Bit), The JA1"Oex.erti5e was especi.r.lly interesting to Li, Gov. M.cCurdy. rn addition to beil"tg one of two Canadi{lu engineers whCll deSigned an aircreft for Glenn 1. Curtiss in 1907. the Honorable Me. McCurdy holds a number of " firsts' in a viarion,

the annual (QO\l~m10n of the Americ.1n "Rocket Soctety in COtljundion with the American Society or Mechanical Engineers. He was cited tor ··(")\'cep6Qllat visio1"1 ilnd lea.. t.rsh ip ill su pporl 0 [ red scarrh and developrnenr throughout the l'iehl of cod-:.d propulslen, 'J i)1cluuing the develeprnear of JA1'D. JiC[lJ'ld rocket engine development and hi~h speed research aircraft progrsms.

coe

Keeps Track of Hops

VC-Il 5ystem Useful in Searllh VC-l J, 'SJIN DrEGo-This squadron's cemrnand cperarjoas center, in t'l.ddit1on to providing airborne early waming seevi res, also provides an excellent sn.fely rneasure tu keep trnd:: of its plane s, The ~OC IS cAuipped With mclin, PO o::qtllpment and a complete kardex Ble or all traio,il'S Bights I'lOWTl by squadron aircraft. The coe operators maintain an accurate plot of tilth aIr.craft's fI ight on pl.exiglJ:<i. Over a I lUge S,,'9le lccal W..art OP which the gJ:o_grapJlic track al] Righ13 is plotted, port to CDC when airborne, give his position each }O minutes af.terward and report when changing to rewer Ire'Jut.n~y_ cae operators are l\jded by Bight reports fiH«Iout on Sx:7 rards, The $DO reports to cae the number of p.L::l.llcs ine,leb Ai.ghe with MIJ.dex nurnber of each and type of flight by kardex number prior to, lake- ofT. By referring to. the 1rn.rdex rUe and g!;'ographic plot. the COC.operator has the proposed route or area of operations of eadl aircraft, TI-iis system of posiHon plots in conj.u;nctiOJ1 witb known roule to be flown bX each Aircraft will g:rl'latlyincrease the etfecHvene.&s of res.cu€ in case of furl:ed landings.

Each p£!ot

or

01.1

a local flight has to re-

Adm. ,B,olster Wins AWard

Jet Work W'ins BuAer Man Honolrs RAdm. C M. Bolster, aSSistant d,i(:!.f [or research and development of the BU'~em?: of A.erol1ll.lI~kshas been awarded the GOd&lLFd Memorial Lecture award (or outstanding work in the field of jet propulsion. "be il:wa~d was made 2, December at

,R'e,co<.lni:re tbes» 111m

Au

old P"!.1.} ih", illP 'Old la}}lmul !J."/>fl!

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F"H~

btJIl)fl'• Ltke

(llii/)

h [or higb Bdou,' W~ bare tbe. ull/1/.)WPWII F,l/4 ThUNderi~ whh chtek 'C04j'l mid <1 radar ill tun •. PitmYBJ af ;he .JM1Id:mJ versionr "'/ IhN" WIt> "'f'tT"ir .ill}Pfl'l~ i'l .-1[.' jZ'fjidu 0" 12.

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Navy Buys New Link Device

FaD, SNJ Trainers Will Assist Pilots

Navy pilot who are familiar with the huge Alan/li'1' opersnonal flight trainers used to check out "Pl3M crews on the ground during the WaL' will be interested in ewo new trainers bei[lg procured by Special De i es Center of the OffiCe of Naval Research. Contracts have been signed with Link Av~LtiOIl Inc., to produce 27 "SNJ operationa] flight trainers and foU! FolD trainers, the latter the first jet trainers pro· cured by the Navy. Deliveries are scheduled in the spting and imrner
1950.

or

The FJO trainers will mack the first lime the Na.vy has procured trainers colncident with delivery nf the produr.tion model of the plane, In ontrast to wartime Links powered by pneumatic .lnd mechanical systems, the new ones will be largely electronic. As with the big MariflftT' OFT's, the new ones will permit the instructor to introduce fire, engine failure, combat d uniLgeor any operatin,g emergen y into the fl1Sht SI) that pilots will get a chance to practice emergency procedures without oEing in acttml danger.

designed to consolidate the air transport retained, by the Navy and to effect economies within budgetary allocations. The whole plan is based 00 t11C principle that the Navy is entitled by law to maintain air tr:msPQ1:t necessary for naval operations. To. time of war it rnu -t be capable of expended activity. To that end the .Me\\! orgMi2at-ion is aimed. All VR squadron and utility squadrons 22, 13 nnd 14 have been grouped under om: Fleet Logistic Air Wing operaling under the Chief of Naval 01 erations. The new command IS under Capt. WHIi:lffi H, Ashford who flies his Aag .It NA P,'\T XEN1' R.J:vER. quadrous will operate where there is no MATS service. Rather than follow [he movements and breakups of squadrons. here is the new Iineup, The Wing Staff wiH be at Patuxent. Lo ated there also is AirTransllon One, whi 'h is a consolidation of V~-I and Vn-2J. Its sphere of activity will be the eastern U.S. and Atlantic A detachment wia be at Norfolk. AirTraosRoll Two will operare Qut nel will be reduced -Wld surplus airc.ro.ft will be placed In interim storage, of Alameda, It will norrnally provide

AIR TRANSPORT reorgll~izati(:m the A air transport taking ofplace.Navy:s It

~JOR
IS

RE'ORGANIZED
seaplane logistic support to the naval establ] shment in any area where such SUppOLt is required and pC.1ctlcable. A detachment will be maintained at Patnxenr, Permanently established at San Diego wiU be AiiTr:.msRol1 Five whose bailiwick will be western U.S. and Alaska. Detachment wiJI be at MQffett and eaule. At Barber' Point. Oahu. AirTtans· Ron Twenty-One will take care of the Paclfic with detachments aJ: Kwajillein, Guam and Manila. Air'Tran: Ron Twenty-Four will be at Lendon, England permanently and will operate in Eastern AtlanHc lind Mcdittrtllnetlft areas, with 'a detachmen t at Port Lyautey. Acceptance, Transfer and Tra.ining nit, composed of former VR'~4, is lH Corpus C11risti. It will provide for acceptance, test and transfer of all aircraft 1I,>eU Fleet Logistic Air Wing in and all four-engined airGriJ.ft used by tilt: naval component of MATS. It will operate a school for pilots -and copilot under ComFlAitW1Qg. Ferry CunctioniS will be taken care of by VIt-l and VR·S. Overall numbers of squad rcn pel's!)n'

IS

AD pilot Gets Some Sleep

Fellow Bomber Hits Rear of Fuselage V A_-')5_-A pilot of this squadron had an unusual a.:l""rien!':1."n pull-out from o a dive bombing run. He pulled aheul ix G's snd blacked out. When he regained consciousness he was at 1,500 fee~ on hili back oyer an adjacent target with the dive brakes open_ He had a dreaming sensation tbat be WllS in II plane and as this became a {('a'lity he saw nothing but sk-y Over the nose. So, believing be wali in a steep climb,

TBM Pilot
V ,15.
J Ta,,'ij:

Turns

F,ighter

almost vertically, He rolled out of this and leveled off tf) be surprised by ':I. little insult added to injury as a plane diving on this target dropped a miniature on the: after part of the fuselage. The pilot returned to base not the least brt relaxcdafte.r his short sleep and 11. J ittle _perturbed that the AD is. not [igged for using G-suits. . (Edito.l'fJ Tlyte: A B!,Aer Ch4N{ti? nou: mtll Witt 'flak I! II p(t!fibte to'!' AD ill?d AM pi/(ln to IU¢ G-J'IIitr,)
111 t/Je

he attempted to nose over. When he realized thts mistake he was climbing

Downs 'Enemy' Bomber Over Fleet

PACll1l(-lt is not often thnt A~lfIlgdf pilot gets. it chance to turn Jight~r .wd "splash' a bomber. but Ens. Harold Nemer of this quadran h~d the chance dur.ulg Oper41;oli Miki and took it. The ta.:;k. of Nem~r and his crewman, R. L Swain, ATAN, was to protect the task- gnaup from attack by agg~essor submarines during the exercises. After Initial coctact with the target 15y radar, wain guided hi pilot through the darkness to tl quarter.rnile range from the large patr.ol plane. Employing the best night Jj.gbtec tactiC's, Turkey Pilot Nemer made three attacks, after which the bomber r'J.dioed he had been .. hot down." Ordioarily, !he job of fending off fitt;u:killg planes IS left- to fighters, but Ens. Nemer turned fighter pilot for the moment.

Who says [et P14~1f'.j mtt'l .:carf'l tfll of 1Iffl1.41fU'IJi? 0/ course it ,-pllldlt'l fly frtrll.'(O!IIi1,e1lla/ IJ~PJ ~'iJb fbi! IOdd, bllj the P-84- fl/(.(wwi ab1)t'1l it .. prelly rei}},;l close ,ut' ,fupport U't!ap~ I With IIJ 3~ flfAR ff;ltIlBIJ. 'Bpfh 10Cj,U wdigh.1 134 POlbidl • so Ibe fJt.me bu to goel off ,·hft grO'U~d. wilh 4.288 extra. pOIHldJ, ,fUJI /0 mentio» Ih" wl1!ght of the !<r;mohe," Of) Ihe IlIi#g. 7'1>~T-tllillide.-jill is i:h~ l1i, F't1mh fim ;i/ (ighJer.bombn and hllJ six ,30 cal gims.

Radar

Planes

'Pound'

Fleet

''Night
Searchlight
VP-1:S,

.Eye'
Flying
lb. R Il Ell'

Planes
Takes
~

Active
Precision
T-

An~Weather Unit Fools D·efenders FAW1'U. P<\£1PTc-AU-we,Ltl,er Bymg. one of the "hottest" terhniques III navul "vLltion toJ.;iy, pard dlviut'nus Juring 0pt>r,ltlwl Mlkl when this unit was the fir t ":tgs,ressof" air un it to
launch
;l

~1.ICr.:CSSrLil

:Iil' strike

.t.gairbt

the' la,\.. force. Seven If 11]' and six

('atrjO!f task group's

At> cOl1si~tjng of wert drawn off by two Jl'('o), ....11\ \J:iing ll'itidiJl/I. l'hl.' remaining 111· tackers completed wave-hopping low level :ttl!tck.~. Arh:'f rendezvousing with the:' dl'~'Or nd wh-ile retJrmg tIn: air attuckers ware interu'Pted by the CAPnre in range of ne.et All We,rt.iJer 'rrat[ilit); UuiL aircraf], tUc tnsk force was under rnntinuous attack. R ..ids varied rom two-plane hecklt'r JnI.sSICWl.~ to an itl-plane assaulr. The forces from the west were under air mid wit-hout respite until the nmrire declared "asfour
FIU'~

Prank Turner,

Ail'S lcrd by Capt. made the I1tHl..:k. The

has been r1m .. ':J n antisub1 marine warl.m:. pr,imllf}' missiot1 f lhis 'guaJron, since H received two searchIlgh[.e"luil'pe(l PI\"!Y-i's. Use of sea rch Iight" according to the eensensus of opinion, grt'utly Improves hanres oJ iurressful ;ltt;u;:k lI.g;tinsl II 'ubmat.ine .u .nig-ht. However, it reemphasis
quires gtea~ exactness on [art ,of the pi lot, the m,da.r operato r an Ihe ~e:LITh· light milll. The pilot in parfirulxr must be higb-

Pouc

.reak.r

Jy competent
hese

in instrum III tllghl

arc ccnducted

,Ui

npcrarions

(I( low

......
TIi~ NavY'$ XI:.IjV·1 DOliliell Ai"c~>llf Co.
,.-,tllo'

/;~lIj'/)I't.'t ~Iri(l 1» Mr· <I a» /l;I'iW ./ f,',1 i!l '"

II'!>tf ""~lJd~ I>I!}or« /)/.''''/;'''' v! Ih, Ilrr/r( 8,,1(1'. b~lw411~r biHlrd, '1'h 5-foU

bd/fo/Jh:r

&ill 50·1!)!')1 ftJ.ltdL

r'lJll"llu:d hJ

ill-

gressor This

and reconna issance, the Hawaii

fons of Prirateers [or Long nnge search AH Na-

out of sction. opposition included air'

rwo squad-

(/illjd",,/ Pi,t/J & 1F'/"ilr.''',\ R-9R5 UIJ;.IIIt'j I,,· ,wt!J hi ti,. ")'/011 r; .Ilt{:('k.r NIP ,',orO' d~nl1l.

evolved. This squadron is of the opinion that the p~e${fnt all-weather ffi,sht I'ro-

a.lttfude:s at night. A small error On his l~att could mean an unsuccessful attack, or worse, a tragedy, It is apparent that insrrumcnt Ai~ht t'IJmreteIlcy is bcceming more anti more a prerequisite 10 many Qr the new tl.:t:hnique. beiog_

Helicopter
Hawaijcln

Saves
Par,v

10 lives
in HU-l Epic

year.

t-!ram of naval ~1I!.alion is the smartest move that 11:l,'l been made ill recent A ret:.c.nt. tntgeuy i11 this rea ,d· 0 brought tp the (ore a possible alternate USe fO,f :L se:l. rdUight-equippe<.l plan .....An £fiEl night lishte.r crashed two miles lIt sen in the dark, ODe of vr-ss' . earchl.ight planes wen I out to ait! in search

tional Guard f· r day cornba; air patrel. and FA W1'U for n ighl CA.P anel JltluCking th~ in d<i(:;rS. Plam:1i declared out of adiol1 b)' the umpire immediately returned to base Without attacking or making further .intelligence reports. TIley were censidercd back in ,wt1on after landing, All planes were d ispersed to prevenr "destrurtien" by one ,-'arTier-based attack,

Fishing

mass rescues in I:hwa] heliccprer bi:Hory WI\S made on I ~ November when It detachment of HU-I, srationed lit B tber' Point, hauled 1Q civillans off a

IIU·l.

I !'"WA1J-One of the largeSl

and re cue work and was cred.ited with

wind and sea-swept island. A .Ro"lcrcd tis]]ing vessel bad taken them.wilh rood 'and water for one night of f bing, to the island of Kaohikaipu, one mile offshore from .Makapuu Point, Oahu. Th party consl ted of one woman. three children and six men, The tleXi morn i ng til e fishing: vessel was unable to get to them. Because of high seas and winds u-p toO mpn, the east Guard ves el could not teach the mal! island, so II. reloJue- t was made fOi! a .Navy helicopter to save ~bom, A Higbt of 3-5 minutes was requi Ted by LCJr. E. A, Arnoltl, Jr., to reach the marooned patty. Due to turbulent air on the leeward side of Makspnu Pein], iL was ne eSs,'l.I'Yto fly out to sea and ,1ppJ'oaCh Kaohlkaipu from the windwluu ide of Oahu. BeG'au:!t' of salt wlLtf'r ,t>ray OJ1 the windwnrd sjJe oC Kaohikaipu ehe leewa-rd was chosen for
LJ1e first b.nWu
AlI

on other altern ate uses foun d by av iation units with sti?archlight planes,
• AR. - MuMI'1-lIb-VP-M.1.-5g climaxed it>.

being .a creat aid In the search. The s-qUlldron would like to get. information

two-weeks cruise with II !'Iighl to Gunmanamn Bill'. Cuba. Pilllu Jveraged (,().~ lioum;
and

n',*

rcquilWie.d

tn

water

landings,

Turbulent
Adm.

made llw. area. dangerII level an'll

ous to opemto:- [rOIl1 and

Forrul p, S.11~'WI.U1.C/;iIlJ of N.1I'I/

'f

0IJ",.uilmJ,

,";awn
.It

~Jimb-i"Jl

FJD·l
All
NI

SlcyklilJJht

,1I';"/lIr

fl1nilirln2;IIJ1)f/

routrols, ThO! 11I1il/'/o'/ 1,1.111" #~i' IWoi/i 11/10 tbe • i, on lb" 1.1()/I,{ul)/ elsmrapull l,,£,aed JI the Him,) Ai, 1 ~,t Cel1lf", ,hi!

IIIII/uli, /14m he /1<.;1" m".i<: .i fll/tAI wilh D. C, Ii, ,"!II;

NAS

Ilho<1r/J l~,IIII.xr:JIr /U~'<'"

,"l

"va.s fQtllJd for luHclin:B1> en tht windward SIde, Fb,u £l.lgkts were made to evacuate the party, They ware landed neur the hiSh"'liy OD Mukapuu point, where ambulances were st:mding by. They were not needed, however, the padyappeared IligoroUJiind well fed on rhe Hawaiian hsh ·they had ought_

as

S,'r~ir~ 'T, "f. l:\A7"C, Pit!lI,".-eil/, Md, hOI'€I'et! directl'Y '&'fJlf)' th, rl'i'la-b!()'ullf I'ho/lJ,gJ';/l'bec,

Whotiuif? ':[,Im II1IfNIMI ,fhOJ VI Ihe II JI/ ,hiS 11(1.11411.1 r, J II/lid It'h I' LCd,. 8..1<'" of

ur-:

10

ReSUictm!

Navy To Lease Constitutions

Big Planes
cdl t. Will

Too ExperiS~\I"e f.or Se,i'vic:e

Marine
VMR·2~2.

Transport
of

Men.

FOR RENT-Two R~O Com~imdQil air.my lip tu ISO persons. .APl'ly U.. N1fV)'. Some such ,ld :IS that could be run

CHERRY POINT-TiIed

in the newspaper" as a result the Na\;y' derls·joo to lease its two huge Lockheed C01wiJIllI01U to anyone- who can afford to operate them. The Navy can't, in its pm bed tinanci 1I . ituatjon, lf they Cl1UJ1otbe leased, the two giants will De stored il\: Litchfield Park, Adz. BuAER has asked for bids to lease the pi!l'ne's foJ; five-year periods. everal airtines have expressed interest irr the planes. In i1.ny lease deal, the lessee would have to get CA A to certify them for civiJi:!l1 passenger use. The planes were built toCAA spcrillcatiorrs for l'os:;tble lise il.t a lnter date,

or

rcutine? This 911adron never seems to be troubled with dOj'lg the same thin.~ every day. Look at a typical month's activi!y: Carried Reserve Marinos to and from Cherry Point and their horne . hLfions for annual maneuvers, AirHfted MAG-II to QUOnset Polnt til go aboard the LI!J,ff' en route to tJ1C .Me d iter ranean, Flew some oflicers and men ttl Fairchild Aircraft plant at Hagerstown, Md .• to check over the new R.tQ P;;di:e/J which thiS squadron gets io 195.0. Flew in the aerial parade over the Cleveland Air Rsces at R)1,g' dsing cerer

comb r team to do mock Eghting. Took the Quantico b,lnd to Chicago to Fl. y at a benefit pro football game. Three I\S 's, 1.'Wo(rom \lMR-l:;3, picked up Hrs Majesty's Royal Marine Band Canada, and flew them to Quantico to be guests f the base, returning them to Montreal T ransported men, parts <and a jeep witb nn <tuxiJinry powe( Uriit fen VMF· 122 to Bristol, Terin., where lite jet exhihition team put on an air show. Flew Parris .lsland Iootball team to Memphis and the Cherry Point band and team lo Eglill FieJd, Fla. Made a survey trip to Ar~ntia, NewFoundland and Goose Bay .. Labrador in connection with winter mid weather maneuvers. Flew mall runs to Edenton. Norfolk, Quannco, Washington and Philadelphia. Aside from the above. the squa,dron didn't have a thing to do dU:r'i-l'1g Sep· ternber. visual or radio, the distance- covered is immediately apparent. Now here is where the trick 0 f the device comes ln, Stretched along the rule is an elasdc band which is marked oJi: in a time scale of minutes, When a check -point hal> been passed. the da~tic i tretcbed so thai the right number Q[ minutes shows f.or the two points passed, Automlltiodly the time to the next check point j scaled by the clastic. In this way .it enable the pUot to determine ground speed in a hurry between landing marks r radio fi.~es.

Jrem Portsmouth, England, at Toronto.

amoy.

Glider Target
Q~'"

Will Hit 450

IiUri::lLl 01 .J\ero)Il;llltia announced thnt its w1nsed ailcmfl 'ul'llwgd has been ~1I,~~fu.ll)' flight Ir$ll«j ill ,m ,dti hld" nf'
more
tllIliI

35.000

feet and <It speeds

In

('X.

Llfted Cleveland Reserve infantry balta:! ion of 290 men hom to Cleve· land a.f~er their training at Camp Lejeune, landing in 30·sec:ond mtcrvrus before the Air Races spectator stands to discharge the men as an airborne

€es);

Cl .15(}

.miles au huur.

;(1 designs and tests, the winged target is oMttuct~d of metal to aid radar .r~BL..;r;"n. with aluminum bein!; I1xlen,jvtlly used to meet the w{'illbt requirements, Its dl' ign has

The t~fgt:t glider. designed with tho: (011' figuration of a G011Vent!omlJ airplane, will he used f.lr tlUge! prsctice by bUlh d~y and oiSJlI Ilglucr planes and {or anti",; r(raft i'~(tl(;e. It has ,I wlng ~plm of 24 re~1 Developed '1J~~ three years ()f elC'p-eriinl(;!m.

Cross Countries
Ellasllc Provides

Made

Easy
Scale

Proportional

A "two way stretch" principle is inn:l.yigational tracker being made by the Naval Aircraft Fll.ctory. It provides an easy way or figuring the next check _point on a cross COU);lti'y

otporated in

Bight.

It consists of a Short scale. I 2~i5 inches long marked ill nautical miles to the same scale 3 sertioaal charts. This rule Is laid along the track to' be Hown and when check points are pa ed. either

I1:t:en nrnlngeJ'

~() f;,cilil.Me

rn'lotlf<lCtlJ.ring.

ELASTIC.

st~ETCflfD

OVER

RULE.

M,INUns.

VEUUS

MILES,

GIVES

liME

TOo NEXT

CHECK

P01N'

rnnintennnce and assembly. Sufficiel1! rtrurturnl strength is hllih into the 1ftr~c~ til allo)\' for lOwing speeds ttl' to <I~O rnjlct\ p.er hour, and .lltilud(. I~ acruatly limited W 1f1t> (~jLing <if tilt' lowillg plane The tur8CI l11:iy btl launched by nornml dras tllJ«:·<,jf,," by ,r;H:r.:h pickup, Pm"'i);ion
j~

made

r"r

I !l·G

Illti 'I:lllt.-

,l!"(:o;olt_r~ I j(m

ill "

snatch pllkltp. 10 landrng, " i:lra& pD rschute was designed to ~iup rh.: t' ~gel within a lOll ret' I ;.rt<:T release by 110" ICJ\"[ng plone, Ti,t' para h",t<.· J. carried in rill" mil ·cdlun. ,,f the I"W IM.!let and b released hi' a Lrfp in the nose se((iu~ j 'f Ill<' t!lrg~t I] pun cornnct Willi the nm\ ~y. The Dallas r,l.wt of Q1"n,1' V"u,8ht flivisi(o", United AircraFt Corpora frJI> "'~I;; Ge-ttrng till f/MF·21S', 90 d.tl'huiwr ('JlM"11 If) turn 1m! for pir:tlloreImh tbe].. awarded IllI' experimental ,ntf~ct in ISl46 mOlrt.llMI Im,,·ed If! he too hi? " j,uk. bill 50':I!! 0/ Ib" MU, ·U iihild'~/J (/nd' 2; mf1thluJ. F(Jt <4 s models f~ot flIght resting n nd evaluatiun, which WU$ C'iW'Tled' (111 It 1110' Nal'n( "." ill/hiJ I,hrill) [rem GI1:t1r11. 1'1:r~.lljlu,duJ/I rh"llIi'IIli~; atber« 111 !;tlil Jb"l Sf"" q",h,:; 1II.lr~, lt. b~,2M ·"ffifuN d//d m"lt fUJ 1~llc'ii, i1tr!/lgh fit tbem 1/11l:r'ritl1i Nt {mldu~(1" mete ill} .hildI'81/. Fllw't T"'~IV'f]l'\=r, t>~liJKt:~t, M~rfli1na.

11

You ran'r learn recoglllJioil of planes in a couple of days-i't"s much easier to keep abreast as you go along, so NAV",,!. AV1ATIU NEWS presents herewith a ampliation of current U .. Air Force :fighter aircraft. Take a gOQU dose look at all of them. All but one are jets. You don't ,get long to decide whether a jet tighter ,01· ing at you is IJ1iend Or foe, so recognition has te be faster and more accurate than ever before. A uniquecclncidenec was noted in compiling this list of fighters-those

type.

a war is: not simply a of sh 00 nos do wn t'h e enemy's aircraft; it's a guesliol1 of riot shooiing down your own, aswell. During the Sici1j' campaign, our wouod forces' AA batteries blasted a large number of om transport planes leaded wi h troops. In the 'pacific many a Navy fighter er bomber was hot !'lut of the skie because our s~ip gunneI did I'Hilt recognise his plane as a friendly
AGING ntstter

which hll"d received odd numbers for some time failed to make the grade while the even, numbered pl;mes appeared to stick. n goes back as far as. the Xf-7S 01' the Be]! """77, a small blunt-Dosed propeH.ered. lighter, or the Northrop Xl'-7g, u.Ayin:g-wing fighter. The next' odd numbered ti.ghter was the XN,ll, a propellered plane by Vultee with turbojet and turboprop engines. like the Navy's ra-r, it never '1uite madethe grade. ext in the odd-number line was the XF-S3, a BeD twin-jet, then tilt. XF~E5. McOoJ,1neU' s little flying beetle that hooked Qnto the 8-",)9 bomb b",y. followed by Curtis' fout-jet xr-sr. In the rueantirne; the £-&0, E--s~ £-84. r-M, and p-·ss all got out of the 'X" stage and are firinS today. 'There are some 1i'-l<9'!; Bying,. the Nortbrep Sf(l.~pion. so the "hoodoo" oJ the odd-number apparently was broken with it. An outstanding feature of the new Air Force planes in the air tod';ry is the wide vllrja;tion in sha,p~ and sizr;s, £tom the true delta, wing of the Consolidated

to the XF-qj wuh a swept wing widt:t at the tip than at the root. Aim10' at the soak barrier, the jets are leaning toward swept-back wing. even as steep as 60" in the delta-wing Job. Also, the new fighters are getting bigger and b.igger, Wher,ell$ the 1'-51 and F-47 of W0t1tl War n \'ileighed
XE-lj2

Force today has threehage fighters that weigh 30,OOr:> to 40,{)OO pound. The F.gg Voodno and XF-90 by Lockheed both weigh 3D,rmo- They are IOllg-ral'i_ge penetration fighters with twin jets~ which accounts for sorae of the avoirdupoi . Biggest of the lot, althou 1h its exterior belles the weight, is the Sro-r/liQ1J, which grosses .:jO,OOO pounds, J'arf!lore than the 27,OO()-p.ounu
R4C lTaElsport. It

from

U,OOD

to

1.4,000

pounds, the Air

ni,ght fig_hter and gets much of its weight from the radar: gear included. Most of the Iasr jet lighters have an announced combat range of 500 miles, wl:)ilethe big boys have moretanks and claim better than 1,000 miles range.

is

II

two-man

twin-jet

12

F- 8 6

Swept wi.n~, and tail, hu/t.nvw airsceop feature Subre; holds world ollirbl speed record of 670 nl11c~ an hOIJr

tluuner at X.~91 \Vin;g~ (see photo roct rin lower

tail

than

at tip and Icur rocket

left)

make t.hL~ one unique

Jets

F~80. Shooting

Sla,

F-84,

Thunc;ler;et

F-86, Sabre The Air Force's fi[st·wept·wing prodlJction fighter- and holder of the of£icial world's spee-d recor-d at $70 mph, the 700 mph. Its hog-nose airscocp, swept wings and stabilizers make it fairly easy to recognize in the air. A singh: J'-47A leneraJ Electric jet- delivers 5,200 pounds- thrust at sea level. A small plane, the Y'86 weighs 16,000 pounds loaded. It ha~ the same range as the F-80 and F-B" with their wingtip tanks, being in the neigbborhood of 500 miles- comb!lt radius, At Ihe Cleveland Air Races the past fall, the Sab,'@ did TIO mph and :>7,000 feet altitude- in fljght tests. Another version 0£ the Sahreis also in the mill, the Xf'-93. This plane is esserrtially au f·SQ with Bush air intakes

America's' best known and mosr IhIlTI' erous jet ligl,ter. firsr .S. Jet t-o b operational in war. More than 140-0 have been built for the- Air Force, .some of thembeln-g turned Over to the 'Navy anti the Marines for use as a jet trainer until F£H's and F9F',s became available. It long drOQping sacut, thumb-like Lockheed tall am] low wjn_g are good ct'cogn rtion fe1!tu res. The 1'-80 has an Allison )-33-;\·23 jet engitle. Jt can deliver 5,20'0 Ibs, thrust

11.7'5 (:) rpm. Gross weigb~ load ed i~ pounds, The [I-g() has Howo over soc mph ami crui at 450. Com-

at

15,300

bl1t radius is over 500 mph

F.82, Twin Musrang Anyofle who can not recQgnjz~ tbi plane ill the air should start at the beginning again. 1wo P-51'S joined with J wing and elevator surface make this rwo-tnan fighter. No other plane in the
·air today resembles

Next to the SbtJfllit18 tar, Ihis is the Air Force's most popular jet in point of numbers, In the bc:Uef.Lbac·60Q mph class, the-l'hlmdl!liet has the same speed HS the 1"-1;0. Irs cigar- haped' fuselage and rnid-wiag, with no e air scqoP make It f<tidy essy te recognize. Minus its wing· tip tanks, the F -84 has been loaded with 32 HVAR rockets on underwing launchers. Power is fumi.~hed by Alli~on J.J5turbo jet. One version of the ThlmJl!fjel being test liO'wo has the nose scoop filled in with radar and, cheek scoops- on (he side of the fuselage. Another version Jesig. natedf-84B is powered by [he )-35-17, giviqg it more lower and speed for fa:ster climb, Republic started out to put a jet cllg~e in the f-47 1'hU'fult:rbo/t but wound up clc'igning an entirely new airplane in (he F-84, (t sleek, fast figbter_

SlIbi'e has been flown by Leal Marion Carl of ~he Marine COIl'S at better than

pounds, has two ALlison 2_o0-hp eng~ ines and C(Ul do well over 400 mph. Wing span is s 1 feet. Now practically obsolere, as are all propellered .6ghtli::Ts i_D the Air Force, there- are still a few.

It

It weighs 26,nO()

XF 91 ~no(her ps and
tl

f 0. ur

vie~: 0.1 .R~public [er shows side ,,:inS

let 0 n fi ces

un QVe and

~l
I!lill

bel ow rurbo] er

F-88

Cousin to Navy's Bansbe« is lh[$ McDOfI-Dcllpenil_tmtion iigjJter with its ~wept winss and upswept t.ail structure

Restricted

13

nation
iderable

fighterrange.

bomber with eonIt weighs 30,000 poun-ds loaded. Its rh a rp I y tapered wI rig and wingfeatures, plus the

Xf-90 Another penetration fighter. this OOl: by Lockheed, also i~ an easy one for recogn ition students. Its long, pointed 001le, airscoops on both sides of the cockpit ahead of the wing's Jeading ed.ge, -snd tip tanks make it distinctive lookll,lg in the air. The XF-9(j is powered by two '«'estingboltst' ]-,l-l- engines 3.000 pounds thrust each. [ is Me of the bigg¢5t jet the Air Force has, weigbing :;0.000 rounds, roughly I'be weight of the familiar ,R4LJ transport. TIll: ;)(F'90 is designed to fly behind enemy lines, at· taddng trategic points, Par that reason, the plane carries considerable- armor plate. As with other new AJr Force jet fighters, it has .s\vep.t back wings With

geed recogniti0 n high taiL It has long range. F-89, S(otpiOl1 Au all weather []ight Egh.ter. the

root intakes are

or

is easy to rcrog. nile with its two 35~ angle. engines meuated It has a thumb-like tuil simila,r to the below the fuse- 1"-8(1, the NQ\'Y P2V and R60 C()flItitmioll, lage. The XF-S<} which seems to be one-of the best recqgcarries rwo men nition features about Lockheed rlane~. Its size and weight can be appreriand weighs mo-re thumb-Like tail, cheek scoops and long. drooping- nose than 4D. o 0 0 ated when it fS remembered the f-50, pounds, the heavi- (l-&j and T-Il!) weigh between 14,OO()and 16,000 pounds. The added poundage ~n either ifie of the fuselage and a est fighter the Air For e has. pointed aose instead of the nose inlet Both men ia the plane have ejection can mean maioly more miles of mnge. on the (1-$6. (See photograph on pa~e 8. ) seats, as compared to the Navy's nisht Main ranks are mounted around and above the engine, with additional ones fighter, the FaJJ, whkb has an escape in the wings and tWOl20-gallor. tip chute downward through which the tanks, The latter are located well ahead The Air Force's fir-SL twin-jet figl1ter. pilot and radar rrran dive. The location of the wing lea... iing edge to push the the McDonnell VorN/OQ, i a cousin to of the two engines in separate nacelles CG forward. the Navy's F2FI BaflIbt'e--with wept below tilt: fuselage i somewhat like The plane is 56 feel long and ha a back win s. It has the long blunt nose the XB-5l. newly completed three-jet 40-foot wingspan. It hat; Fowler t1.p of the B41! hee which gives good pilot bomber by Martin. It Is in rhe GOO-mileand fuselage dive; Saps for better night visibility, Ail intakes for tile two )-J4 an-hour clasi and has ,;00 mile combat control. Its speed is expected to better lur:.bojei engines are in the wing roots. .radius. 650 mph., llcc.arding to the COOtraCtO!. nJike the Banshee'» ensines in the An unusual control feature is incorpowj~s. thef-1!3 b<1S its two side by side XF-91 rated in the. St'(/I'pillll-"deceJerons"in [he fuselage. .E:thal.lst gases are ex'Outer B~p~ designed to operate as ailerThis expetlrnental Republlc frghter is pelled from a single hole beneath the fuselage instead of ,at the trailing edge ons. hlOding Hap$ and dive brakes, The the 6rst to Feature wings that were wididea is a step farther than the full, pan er at the tips than at the roots next to of the wing as on the F2H. lhe fuselage, It· has sWJ::pt wing and 1'0,( this reason, the: ifter part of tbe Bap seen in the Northrop T-lil Black l)Vidall' night .68hte~. Ailerons have a Lilll surfaces. fusehr,ge sweeps upward to a bigh, rakAnother outstanding recognition fellish tail, The F-8I! is de'igned as it pene· power-boost system.

Northrop

tWIn-Jet

HeaVIest fIg.ht...r plane in the U.S, loday this Northrop SMflf;lm with it, t;Yl) !et l:l1grne- nacelles uod<l!roea UI

14

F-94 .

Take

the "'cll,kn<;J\\'n

S/)Q(l.lillg

StJf,

put n long nose

hi'nd

the

on It with radar scanner dome, stick an afterburner

be-

in it and

regular jet exhaust prpe ou ha e the Air Force's

ill til", (ail and PUI cwo men 1'·94 all-weather lighter :titcraf.t

ture apparent in the photograph on pg. 13 is the four rocker engine- exhaust ports in tile tall above and below the jet engine orifice, Like the F'8A, the F-91 has a nose airs oop, It is designed as an interceptor fighter to be used against enemy bombers and missiles. It has unique landing gear. with five wheels=-one nose, and two in each wing. mounted in tandem instead of side by side, to give maximum thinness, The wing is given its reverse taper, wi~h the diord increasing from root to tir' ia an-attempt to solve the problem e tip stalling at high speeds. Sueh a thin wing required some ingenious way of so.lvro15 the problem of wheel retra LiDO, hence the tandem wheel' with .srnall, high-pressure tires. The F'91 1. powered by a General Electric J-47 in a

t:ooverrti0mtl straigbt-throughfusdage, Rocket engines are for speed boosts at inrerceptlon or for fa.sr climb to reach al riru de. Recognition of this plane frorn almost any-angle should be easy. The four rocket tubes in the end of the fuselage give_ it: aliso·tail side view, with a small stabilizer and rudder perched atop. Xf-92
TNe true delta-wing airplane, built by Consclidated-Vulree, Formerly called the 7002, this research plane should be about the easiest in the air today to recognize. The triangle shaped wlng

stabilizer. It has the .Allison J-J~·A-2iI with 5,200 pounds rared thrust, which is

expected to give it high subsonic-speeds and By it above 4{),OOOfeet.

F-94, Shooting
F-go,

StQr

of the AiL Force. It bas "elevens" for aileron and elev.llEor copirol, plus a triangular rudder-

has 60° sweepback, in (ontr!l;st with toe maximum of 35° In other lighters

A night-lighte-r ersion of the famed an outgrowth and refinemenr of tbe TF-SO (now called the "-33) twinseater: jet trainee. The elongated Dose, a g06..1 recognition feature, houses the radar for snoopilJ.g out eo,en;y planes it is ent to intercept, A radar operator sits intbe rear cockp.lt to sperate the radar. The all-weather fightet has an afterb!J.fner to boost its Allison J-3'3 engine, which accounts foJ' the Large tail section. Other F-8Q features are retained such as the check air scoops and underslung wing taaks to give extra range.

Ggsr-Likc (he

flU", makes

liolJy, ""UP tail, low wings uirscoop. In ThlHu/er;(!1 as eas)' airplune to f"Cll!toll!.e

F-82 '"Jig with

01111' pI'6peJlt;re~ fig!lfcr in lI1~'Air-Force ~ Ihis tWlfl Mu.rbuge rudurne 5lIJflg under center of .he wing

15

Restricted

'fRiS IS Uw tweJll.j'-four.f,h .sor;.". I'f ..h01rl- ~"teb"" ')[ ~<illll'lJ1)ns rn World War 11. It le b... ed 011 '''1101't., filed with Av'iAlinn 1I1M.~ry «rid ne..,,,reh. DCNO (Alri.

<I, ~

PATROL
SQUADRON

LEVEN

PhTlW Squadron Eleven under the Command of U. Cdr. CLiffo.t:d M. Campbell, U N. re-fonned at an Dicg 16 .Mareh 194" it bad behind it a tradi ion of airborne warriors who had from Pearl Harbor through U:le Guadalcanal operations teadl1y taken part in patrol coverage and fought back in til ear]y grim months the wax. On it scceud tout. YP'l1 eogJ'lged in Blark Cat opetUions whl h co t the e~e~y aprro:dmately ~OO.000 .tons of HE.'N

SKIPPER CAMPBELL [ARROW)

AND AU "15

M6"

MADE Ii. GREAT RECORD IN ·THE SOUTH PACifiC

or

Shortly after the stJ:a5n,g runs were completed~a lire broke out in the tunnel gull compartment. With the whole aft end of th hull ablaze, Lt. Cruze coolly landed the plane in the 1H"3\7 sea within several miles of enemy insl"lliations. The crew led byp1ane captain, Thomas Fore, ACM:M, formed a bucket brigade and succeeded in extinguislting the fire after it had. burned hi.t,ge holes in the hull aft of the step and abo e the water line. Then as skillfully as he bad landed the PBV-S, if. Cruze to(;)k ·o·ffand returned to base. Death took a hollday, but not Dan-

efletny dock and warehouse in~rnll,uj<Jn,; ~I" GR'.oyc;: I:./...1J, l~a.-,'ns them aflame.

. In crober, the squadron WM based aboard the USS San Pa.blo and the USS R,d! Moon. anchored in Jenks Bay near Sarnaeai, Britis.h New GUinea. It worked under the ·l!.dmin.istrative COin' rnand oE FAW-17 and CQmAir Seventh Fleet and under Ibecperarional control of ComTask Group 1'1.1 and the Fiftb Air Force. The story of vs-u is staned wit! ex iting episodes. On the night of ·1 October, L. J. D. Cruze and h is crew

patroUng the 'Western and norehwe tern coasts of Australia,

vp· Ll WCI]{ to Hawaii, and from there engaged in corttinued training and war patrols wIth ections operating out of Canton. Johnston, and Mid\\IBY islands, From june to epternber the q'uadron operated from its new base, Perth.

cnbcal

Shlppillg. DL).r.tng April 194'1,

ger when on Oetob t 11 at 'BOO, Lt. (ig) T. 1. Hine at~acked and probablJ damaged an enemy submarine. In a glide bombing attack, the 1,Uot dropped two bombs, one of whidl landed just ahead of the swid a the submarine crash-dived, The other unfortunately exploded prematurely on water contll;ct and damaged the plane extensively, EnOllgh control was maintained to make a safe J3Jlding in the open sea about four miles l\olll.'h of tlie enemy base ar asmata, New Britain, The plane sank in a matter of minutes, but fhc crew managed to launch and equip both rubber life rafts. Lt. Hine decided to attempr to reach Ki riwina Island 150 miles to he south, and, llOder hlsskillfL11 leadership, the boats were rowed 90 miles in 65 hOLUS. Whrn they wen; within 60 mile of Kiriwina Island, they were spotted by an RAM plane and
;J.

uceess
uon,

III

thi:; highly hazardous

opera-

they found that their planes were being painted black, they knew that night patrols by ahead, and their easetr}e.'iS to be [let the enem} was only exceeded by dr. GIliJ1ery'~ desire LO unleash the forces aboand his ship 0 well equipped

While at Perth, Australia, when first

PBV-SA N

was sent to the rescue.

ness any disguise that would s:IV(! him. n was in November that the character of ol:crations was changed from a routine defensive search and barge hunt to an offensive reeonnaissancc with enemy shipping in the lanes between Ka'Vieng and Rabaul, OJ' wherever found, as the pdmary objective. As Commander Gallery pointed .out at that time, "The number of cm.'lJ1y''Ships sighted and attacked with a fair propcrticn oJ bits (during the Last two weeks) indicares that this is the most On the night of 14 November, LL W1l1ter E. Ilinn made a run worthy of this fanner AU-American football star From th£> U1'l!;versily f Pennsylvania, when he si hred a convoy. He attacked and damaged a: tanker, Then he !laW a cruiiicr ahead and went on to score two direct bomb hits on the stern of the warship. Wben asked if he saw the cruiser ~[nk, It. hinn replied. "Due 10 heavy an tiaircraft fire, retrca] was hueriedly acoomplished," It was wlser t-o leave the japs to do the cheCking. '111C very same night Lt. J. R. PenCold. bit a large me rchaa tman amidships. In the face of intense AA lire On tfiree runs and in (he. forbidding presence of enemy night .fighters. Lt. Penfold and crew acc~tcd the hea\!)' Hash and
lucrative employment of

that the enemy would. not find ill dark-

bombed

started 1'0 zigzag. As the ship turned away, the pilot io a gl.ide bombing attack wenc after the leading DD. Lt. ! elson's crew withdrew as the second DD to be attacked lay dead in lhe w ter ablAze from amidships to stern. .lt WR$ during this month that the SS Half MO!}II relieved the San P!!lblo. the squadron contlnulng its heavy rounds of patrol. Skipper of the HtJlf /I10()11, Commander W. O. Gallery, W;).S an ardent 5upPQrter of nig.ht bombing. and pilots of vr-u have always been Sure that his enthusiasm fer Black CalIhtg was a derisive element ill their

DD whkh immediately

Ila=5,

24 OCTOBER, Lt. jg) L M. Nelson made a radar contact on two enemy destroyers. Aitf'.J UI'OPPlOg
the C.n.eJJ;,m_ ,.tl:a.ekeJ the after

BIalik Cau."

!:he Bying dCbns of the ship as evidence

Relrlil'.iqted

16

A G~~AT

CATALINA

NEGOTIATES

A NARROW

RIVER

TO

....AKE A RESCUE

of success. credit go. o devastating

That Was the cash; let the

00 November 20rh. was U. Penfold's attack

crew of

A few days later,

end, On a single run, Lt. Penfold scored two direct hits, one forward and one llil., with a possible third hit amidships. The fires observed were visible 30 miles Away. Toward the last of November, VP-]l was transferred to Port .Moresby from
where the squadron

on a 10,oOO-ton freighter-transport that be established beyond question its fiery

,first pa.rt of July, VP-Il a_g'lil1l operated out of Perth, making operational, test, training and utiljty flights which, while they were not a" exciting {IS actual cornhat, were just
ItS

to proceed to Palm. Island where for the month of January, 1944, they participated ill trainin_g and administrative Aight. From February through the

1 0, evacuated the IllSl 01 the personnel as the japs dosed In. On 28 December, VP'I [ was directed

essential.

duty day and ojght, rendered assistance 10 the Army In the Cape Gloucester stOke performed rescue and food upmissions, and evacuated the AustraHans' Sepik River post near Wewak in New Guinea. Of all the odd job Ii the squadron was called upon tQ perform the epik River evacuation was the. most

engaged

in convoy

ply

In the middle of JL1ly the .squadren Wi'IS transferred to S. rnacai, New Gu.i. nea, to begin an intensive round of onvoy- duty, night and antisubmarine strikes. and rescue missions. Accurate and- timely Information was always available from Lt. W. F. Fox who ferreted di palciles with the .same candor with which he served tlwse Philsdelphia clients.

spectacular. On 16 December, the project was begun te take out :n <) Au tralian officers and mea and 25,000 pounds equipment. miles away. tJ1C first C,tllllilla landed on the winding dver~0l11y two win ~ span -wille-wifh a strong current fUllning. - ince fog uSllaUy clos-ed the river opwn to 50 feet. onLy Btack Cal magic-the art of han,illin.g a lreavy patrol plane 011 water just enough to AOa.t it~made no.vigi'l:tion and 4nding possible. It required seventeen trip in five-days to complete the. job. Not ooly did the C latinaJ have to 1 nd deep in encmy territory, but tiler had to fly across high mQunt~~n .ra,nge5-without oxygen equipment er supcrchargers-eand deep jl.loglcs. That vs-n completed tJle mission without mish-ap is a lribule to human skill, daring ii.tJU the fine performance of Lt. W. S. Van Bensch oren , maintenanee g~n,g, Lt. T. H. ~da1e, later lost in action witll u R 68 tffil ted

ITH

THE-

Japanese

only

a few

8:y August, the squadron had movt:!d to Maols Wocndi. near the island of Biak in Lhe Schouten Islands, to renew Blade Gil activities and continue -antisubmarine patrols. Outing tillS month, ¥P-II fie\v -Il Btark Cat mission, 20 AS parrols and made two air-sea rescues. .Ad eance

neal 1 ew Am terdam
tip of New

base was established Island on the Guinea. 'This enabled the

Csts to prowl in the Philippines. Go the [lighe of 3" September,

Lt.

and Lt. T. L. Hine struck the Japanese hard. H. Cdr. ~b[tc found 12 ships, SO to 13_0 fee In length, north of Tanarnon ~n the Celebes. By strafing and b0fllbing, he destroyed two others, Lt. Hine patrols Ling Davao Gulf, attacked. several batwith unoQ ·etved results and sank a 6,000 ton Fox Tare Baker on the east side of Malalag Bay, A the: campaign gathered momentum in the Pacific, advance bases were estflblished in Morari -and later in Levte. It was here that VP-Il was relieved- by FHM'S in Octcber 1944. Patrol quadron Bleven, veteran of battles from Guadalcanal to byte was going home, and so was the old Pll¥, handy work-horse and gallant 1ightltc in nearlyevery major campaign rn the southwest Pacific. Displaced by the faster, heavier bombers, the PBY was now retiring to the corrals of training commaa ds and -ai r-sea rescue un its. The airplane that had slugged it out was assigned to rra.ining and spread its sturdy w1nss over .fledglings. VP-ll was one of the first patrol squadrons in naval histQry to receive the Presidential Unit Citation. awarded [or their search missions and anti-shipping attacks in the Japanese controlled tHea of the Bismark Sea {10m September L 5, 1943 to February 1. 1944. The ritabon poiotcd out that the Squadron had rendered "pioneer service in dlaltgmg the Iassive defensive .sea.rch into a bold and powerful ol1ensiv~,,. and had "utilized the. full potenrlalities of the pay plane and its equipment, tocating enemy task force units and striking dangerously by night In devastating, rrusthead, glide bombing attacks to insure vital hits en the target." Slx years have psssed, but the Navy has not forgotten its stil'fing battle record.
L

Cdr. Thernas officer of VP-I

. White,

cornmundieg

s=

17

Yorktown
Shlpmo'tes

Reunion April 14
10 Meet

Planes
{11',mklln

Catch Up With (VB

J_),
ROOJIiIJ(!ti

.AgClin in N, Y.

The
Nl1 vy' 5

l"orJ;1otru Fig/JIll//!. '-Mil)'.

(
will

V-H!) ,

hold

rbe iI~

Winds of 68 Knots Sweep Decks VI,.6)-OlleL':ilipt1~ aboard the eVE

were hampered

reunion In N~\\' York ('ity on friday, April I-I,

~hi.rd annual

by (o IJ weather during the ,old wCillher

northern cruise of[ Greenland, JlI(;[uJlI1g one .gl1JUp laJ\din,g with 68 knnts
SUCCESSOR TO MARINER liAS CHANGES IN HULl

TIle reunion mny be extended to ., two.day tffai:r in ~he event there I~

far a second day. Former member - of the 'York/fIU/N who are

enougla interest

Ftnll6~ P. l:;rllVVa-ll,. .• ·iO Wall treet, Jr ew York 5, N ,Y. so they mil)' he put on the m:liling list F9f' till: corning re-

f rmed YO'l'ktrJl(lU IJ II or;n/WII should send their name and address and 'I dues to the s~(rctar'y or fht- aS~GicinJlon,

not ;llrciu3y member,

of the

newly-

Navy Lets Contract for P5M

Bulbous- Radar SI;Qnn,er On Irs- Snout Th:t: N;l\l-Y has awarded ~ production

union.

Pilots See
Students Visit

(o[nhol

contract for R new rotl.!:-lh·o;yater seaplane to replace the tithe-tried MI11'iIl~ PBM. Des.igJH!d primarily for antisubmarine warfare, the I'SM-l features II long afterbody fot improved water landing and
take-off performance.

Center

CAA Setup for TrQffk NAS CO-RP l1usn-Since few aviators have even seen the- in ide of a COfl trcl tower the training departmcn ( of ~Ii weather flight sehcol took its ~tudcnts in roups of SIX to San Antonio 10 see how CAA air ttaffi (00-

trol center works. These centers have the direct responsibilIty For movement of all alrcraft, tary a.nd civllian, tha,t arc filing IFR in their zone, The students were shown ho San Antonio control works and how adjacent control centers coordinate on inbound arid outbound 'Aigbts. Procedl,lrcs for keeping departure reports, arrivals, pOsition reports and the intricate com munl ca tl on network is tho roughJ y explained. The pilo~ is shown how important the flight. pllln is, ami the necessity for its contaifling act'Utale clara. It is believed the information gath· ered from their familiarity with contLo[ centers will make them better instrument p_ilots.

rum-

The new plane ha the latest electroni(; equipment for A W work. including II prominent bow radar scanner, Largely efiminated is the conventional seaplane srt'p, since the JongaIterbody 8iv!:S rhe plane an extended planing surface. The PSM has gull wings like the Ma-I'hwl'; but a single tall vertical stabilizer in place of the twin rudders .. fr carries 11- crew of seven and will be powere-d by two WLlght 7?)0 eugines, the new plane includes- stronger hull. tail, power plant and v.'iqg tip floats.

reId],,\, win:.! "(cross the l,b:k. Despite this lI.DU lid event, only 'i:l"1h> ,lCcldt;nt~ were one propeller Lip ni k:e-d am! QOe barrier crash "'hidl ~'<I" repaired ovt'rnight, Lowest t«_ff1[,craturc record ,J w I~rli.l, 16" F but lli,gh winJs made henvy (ligbt and ~ouJ weather gear vC'ry welcome even though U[1 com fortable, When the- ship crossed rite Arc ic (if Ie, naturully the Big Wheel. of the/l.J)Y"{ Ortl#'r ()J lhe BIlle ,I\.hmt took ever, Most of the squad ron oAi"ers received Ul)oJ:fici\l.] iniliauoo in their sleep. and the remainder of Ute officer and men received theirs at a party next day.

of

Whjdbey Men Combat Flood

30,000
Sandbog.$
\Vl-lIDBEY

NAS
ington.

Used on River lSLAND-When .a

storm swept the Pa66c: Northwest

tlooded many

GCA Saves Midwest

Radar Saves Af Amphibian

Planes
Plane
on

Navy slogan; "Don't Give Up The Ship." the GCA crew here recently helped save an Ai[ Forte ~NJwhich was lo~t a.rid low on fuel. COQ_tact- was established at 173(l when the pilot WIlS preparing to baiJ out In the- dark. GCA gave him -a "steer" on
Lambert field and at 1745 first radar contact was e tablisbed at il range of 27

N:AS S'r. LOUJs----ClllTing

the old

miles.
made

the: plane "las only at 3,5()O feet anl! 60 miles "way, II .gOOd bearin8 'Was obrained at that r.U1t;e.
1 AS GR()' 1· It I·-A Grumman M.11l,/'I'd private plane with six pas&mgt.'r~ and l7r~ Jboard -w<t~-ItVt·-d 1;l;ocenti)' by rbe CCA l'lnij_ here ,lHer beiJlg unable LO land at due other nf:'lus. Because the CA'~ low Irequencj radic wu - out because of heav}' snow and ire, tbc pbne, heavy with ice, had to gel the GCA i11.I-rud ions rc:l~yd through. the Detroit tty airport towr;f, Approaches !tau been made on three ther llirp@rt,~IVJ-li h were do ed dcwn LO a quarter of a. mile er less, When Il landed ~t Grosse Ile., the arnphlbiarr I1ml five minutes of f uel frunain.iJ:Ij.{.

and

A straight in ppr appronch

he- landed ':It 7800,

was.

About 180 men based here or aboard helped in the emergency in Skagit river valley. Communications were established between the threatened area and the NA-S by using a pickup trucke!=)uip,pecl with mobile high frequency .radto. Naval personnel over 11 20-bour period. handled 30,000 and bag. • In praise of their work. the mayor La Conner stared tbttt only by tile aid of these- men was it major t!j sast er II. verte d . During this same period, two hunters :stranded on II. maJl island in Paget Sound near Poet Townsend were re «ued by a hcllcopter from (l Whidbey-btlSed !t~t unit.
fleet units

tip defenses against the flood waters,

areas of western. Washstation personnel helped build

and

or

Although

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1I,/i"1i

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'Kigmy' Insigne for VMF-l22

Jet 'Boil-Oul' Grads Gef Apt Mascot MAW-z, MAS, 1-lImRY PO!Nl' -AI Capp' latest rFC'1l. ti on, the little fellow who gets booted around by the!' characters in ale Li'l tUmet comic strip, is now a boot in Marine Fighter 9uad.

ron

122.

peat on the membership card" to be issued to VMF'I;t2 pilots. who n. ve cornpleted the sear-ejecticn lndoctcinaricn course, (See NANEWS for September, Technical pain. of the seat-ejection mechsal m are eXplained during the course and the fin~l examination involves fUlng the pilots nigIl into the air by

let

The

familiar
craslr

Kiglll

pilot's

helmet and will

has donned

a
a[)-

VP-22 Scores 100% in Test

Low. Glide Bombing Score Good

vP·n, PAOFIC-This li9uadrofl, being naturally reticent, doesn't claim to he the hottest bombing ourfit in. the fleet, but at least it is ure that there are none better. During fleet competitive exercises 2 and 3' November, VIi-.:!.:! scored 100%. Each crew made four low level and four
glide l50mbirtg runs
(0;

score.

Nine

'KIGMY' AND VMF'-122 .1l0lS

BOTH GEl BOOTE!)

crews participated for a total of 72 ruoli.Tbe final sco[c-72 hits! The run were made in trict cornpi lance -with exibting directive: govero· ing uch exercises, utside observers

scored from the plane in conjunction with spotters aboard the target shrp. The triple check lind final word WItS moving pictures taken on each run, The vital st-atistics. not being available at Guam, die Squadron deesn'r daim 11 Reet record but it insists it at: least tiit:d ope. In the accompanying photo are the plane commanders- who made the spect,acular record: Lt. (jg J. C. Hearn, U. (is) A_ J. Vanek, Lt. W. L. Ada;rns, LeUr. W. R. McDowell, Cdr. A. F. Farwell CO; LCdr. P. F. Speltz, Jr., exec; Ldr. Robert ). Monahan, Lt. (jg) J. N, l.indsley, Lt. H. M. Wal· dron, .

th- explosive rh rge. of a 37mm cartridge. Besides t:eadti.l18 the pilots the proper technique to use when "bailing out" of jet aircraft, the COUIS!!' also givc$ them 'onl1,Jeoc{' in the equipment by ac.ulilily allow ins them to make-a praetlre run, To date only a. few Marine Aicrs have completed the seat-ejection course, hence theofs,anizatiorJ of the exclusive "Kigmy K1llJ1" by members of V~-I32. Marine Captain John lingedand,olle of the charter members, explains that a KlgtnJI was selected fot the ma~CQ( because "Marine pilots going through the s~at·ejeCtion '"hoQ! and Ki(!,foieJ have plenty in cornmon. Nothing to really klCk .J:.OLlt, you understand, but we do <ret booted." 'Original Kig/ll,J' insigne for the dub's membership card Was drawn by Al Capp's promotion departrnenr, The promorion editor, Philip Brady. authoriz d the use 0 { the K igll~Ji beeaese he "thought- the pilots or VJo,ll'-l:!2 had the best (ugll) reaso» he'tI heard to want • Klgmj'." • NA F.l. Ctm'f,!lo-Tl,e targe! au:crn rt

* * *GCA
NPVi!flll>", In,;tmm,,.n(

BOX SCORE

***
11.334 :'129

Crickets Rampage on Ramp

In5ecf

ID~t.lIJ1t~nt L"ndll1(;'

At>pr<)Aoh~~._... ..•.....•• ". _ . _. •

Influx

Inundate-$EI

Centro

·...'1,,1 Irt.tnulIlG"l Al'Wf"lcb~~ ••..••• _.• ~~4.r.§'l 1'01111 lns""",NI{ Landin" ..... __. _.• 11 J~64

VMF-3:2,3. Et TORo-This recently spent two weeks-at

AD's Try Cameras on 8-36

Plrop

***

Wash

Makes

Stern

Run

Poor

VA-Sj-This squadron took some AO-~'S our and made camera gunnery

squadroll NAS L (Ii TRO. conducting FCLP and rocket traming while the Marine Reserves took over its home quarters at E.1 Tom for annual maneuvers, .Hordes of crickets mov~d in on £1 Centro at the same time and almost forced VMI'-J2,J out of it
temporary

feet. The runs were to be controlled by the USS Nor/on Sosnd. (AVa), but Jut' tQ endition affec~jng radar reception this could not be a(,.0 mpIished, The plaues controHed their OWl' runs, 'ta.rHng abeam and on the quarter 'i,OOO feet above the target plinr, with firing air raft winging in astern of target- for
25,000 run. Allho~gh to the arcs

runs on a

B'~fI

over San lo1igue:1 at

was to clear the squadron office. ready t90m, hangar and ramp area. Bu kers-full of the pe ts had 19 be remo .... before flight operations ed
could star],

quadron

The nrst task every morning

member

fa ilities,

for

planes were expo number or turrets ~vhile making thi typl: of .rUR, the rurbulenre encountered made it unschool here has b'ld lInly two t1(lO.ElyioS JII.Y~ desirable. Limiting nme actor and fuel and o}CY!len supply prevented experiIn I hree til(!nl ht, despire rhe fa;ct Qli1t'r ;!n-u, rnent;.tion w'th other ~pe,) of run .• () Imp",rilTl VaHey h~d and seorms and fog,

of

firin

0. minimum

eo

deaLing off th I uking ramp was to stral1O.\>>ictlly direct the p-rop wash of the warrnieg-np Corsairs so as to blow the crickets out of the area,
The clesning lip process had to be repeaced several t"imt:s during the day to keep th area llll.bitahle. Allhough SOme. troub!t: was encountered with insects coil ctirtg around the bin,ges of the aircraft control surfaces, V!l:rf·j2.~ WI) ableto maintain a heavy ·Aying ·chcdufe.

Olle of ~he most effective me.thods of

19

and pulp magazmes C stories arerps~training to interplanetary withthetheironl}'Fanta nc up times. can't be content with mere trave], dream
OJ,U STR

MAN-MAD
kCl:p with

MOON? MAYBE!
They

stuff. nH!Y hit ve good reason , too. T he sc ieh. t isets. ha ve been giving them a chase, Recent research has uncovered II wealth of information about our atmospheric 'umbrella and what Lies beyond it. It would take full time!' reading- and wide technical knowledge to keep up with .it all, however. Moloy recent discoveries were put up HI one package to inform us who can't do all that reading, It was 3 report on The Bartl)·s Atmosphere by Howard ..E. Roberts, an aero-therrnodynamies engineer of the Douglas Corporation. released in Octcber. He revealed i! world of Jli~h nuclear radiation, vertioil velocities of hurrirune FOlce and bombardrnent of quintillions of s!:ray particles from outer region every second, He tells a .stCII:Y of the formida,ble harrier ex:isting between us earthbound mortals and other worlds and whar Wt have accomplished in penetrating that barrier. H(. speaks csndldly of satellite vehicles and rockets to the moon. The old idea that here is a sharp di,,iiding line between interstellar space and ocr atmo:.pbete 11<15 been dis· proved-so fat it has been ldenrified as such to 10,000 miles. One man s-ays 43.00(.) mile. Meteorologists. a" trophysi\;.i. ts, <ll6fodyp.l.lO!licist. and rhy icists have aU contributed to this knowledge, Pilot arc familiar with the flow of air over an airfoil a.nd the laws' a;ppiyit1;g La its behavior. This is; tile re-alm of gas dYll.amics. tt extends up to about 100 miles. Between 100 and 375 mileli lies a transition or "slip flow" region, behavior of the air depending on speed. Above that is found what is called "free molecular flow." Up to SO miles molecular nitrogen Dud molecular oxygen exisr in the 80-20 ratio found at the surface. Above 80 miles

oxygen breaks down tom ()~ to OI-the a ornic form. Above 300 miles nitrogen also changes into the atomic form. Jltotn300 to 7,000 miles oxygen decreases ill proportion to .nitroget1lln.d complettl_y disappears, Pro;n 7,000 to LO,OOO miles byruogen and helium are present 111 a tougb BO·:1O ratio. Roberts states that it IS theoretically. possible to build an earth-escape rocket with presently available fuels, but the expcndhuee would be exorbitant. A return :flight must .11ways be borne in mind. To escape the earth's gravitational Force would require an e eape velocity of 2~,OOO mph: from d1C moon 5,300 mph. A elocity of 17,400 mph would establish a little rnan-rnade moon in an orbit of its own, rise then, would happen to a vehicle? The answer is th~lt particles are so widely scatrercd that whatever heat lhcy transmit to it vehicle- would be lost In radiation. Corniag down wouJd be dlln~erous.. however, because of beating from air 'riction. A greater hazard is meteors. One of these bits of material, averaging the ize of n pe,t and traveling up to ]70,000 mph. could abruptly terminate a f1lgbt. Ab VI.' 35-50 miles, their vlIporiz:m' altitude, they are bigh speed bullets Weather JisturbancIl origlo11'te primarily in the trope-ph ere. but ~eCiJnda[y causes are found in the outer armosphere.With t1i~hts going ever 11igher0o an .",crage. mete 0 rologist5 ll.re$howingiDcreasillg interest .in the IJ ppc r regions. One thing rher are ure {If-the stratesphere is far from the calm region once thought. Noctilucenr clouds, first observed by the on egian at altitudes from 50 to 60 the (:bart reveals A I;LAt)'cE" a.t F. atbig400 miles and lhal ternperature to 4,OOOQ above. What,

MARliN

VIKING

II ROCKET

SHOWS ON~ WAY fO

nOBE

UPPfl! AIR

HIGH AUITUOIi'BAUOolil.5

lIKE

THIS 'LA5TICONE

AJ:~ UUD

TOO

20

RCSt1',ictcd

Reafricted

PII.ENOM'EN.e. Q.F THE TROPOSPHERE, STRATOSPHEIIE,IONOSPHER'E

ANI) .EXOSPHERE ARE SHOWN IN THIS cHART

PRE.PAR~O g,y DO.llGlAS

AIRCRAFT

CORP.

mile', sometimes have lterl/1'111 velocities of 250 mph, wllJ,h is as bad. as the: most violent thundersrorrn. Garnering in fOl'mAti0D about the atmosphere utilizes every type of observation from actual analysis to theoretical studies. tudies are made by means of radiosondes (ba.l1oons). rocket'omil'S and aircraft. Reflection of abnormal. sound and spectroscopic studies of auroras and night sky light have revealed the temperature distribution and composition of the tippet a~ospherc. HEN ~dcors -appear, leave a .p~th and dis,nppe.1~, they estabhsl1 tempera tv res, denSities aud winds 10 the upper r.e;gions. Radio 'Wave reflections have uacevered the various levels at which ionization occurs. The ear h's tcrrtsrrial magnetism has been found to vary with the time of du)' lind season. JL lnfluenees conductivity of the ieuesphere and probably has something to do with upper winds. l1H~sun and moen have <J.Ll e1tect no; only on the 0 eans and the earth's crust but on the -rr= atmosphere, too, Anal)' is of b irernetric f1uctu~tions revealed tides [ising and ftlliing in our arn'lospberic- blanket. rudies of the escape of helium and other ga,sf:s Jtom the atmosphere indita.(e that their atoms b~ave gre<1.t speeds, whic:h means extremely high temperatures. TIle most imporranr role our IIi r blanket plays is shieldlng US from intense burning by ultru-violet nlyS. If the lll}'5 weren't absorbed between 20 and 50 miles altitude, life as we know rt on the earth would be impossible, ., mi 1':l;l.J's0nRtlll'1W}' bombard the earth to the tune of ( t~ 0 qnrnttllion (two million million miUion}per second. Their source is uncertain. real bhst$, such as the Bikini explesion, are reflected by .a hot region 20 to .10 miles up. Zones of silence between the immedfat.e- scenes: of the sounds and hundreds of milc;s awayexplail'l why some blasts are hell.rd distantly but 11Qt. ncar tbe isource. Pecul1arly, Queen Victona's funeral

furnished the nrslexample oJ thIs phenomenon. Guns fired were audible and inaudible it:I concentric zones around the source. The destruction of the old Nlu:i stronghold. Helgoland. in One tremendous blast in L947 was ob. erved for ound;wd seismic phenomeJ1a, as 45 Bikini. The world's _greatest cxplosions-c-the eruption of the East Indian volcano Krakatoa in 1883 and the Siberian meteor of 1905set U1e entire atmosphere ill oscillanon and sent dust higb in the air' which affected. the rays. of the SUn for two years. Reduction in pressure has definite effects on the human bo~y. What happens where t1iete i~a Lack of o>-cygen pressure is well known. .At Ii pres~u,e altitude or 55,000 feet the dissolved gases in tJ1C body and water vapcr vexpand and cause the bo~y to swell up Iike.a balloon. Di&teg'<Irciing that expansion, there i an addirional hazard at 63,000 feel becaus e the blood boils at its normal temperature there. WitJJ high <flyinG ~ircraft the loss of cabin pres urization would be tragic. With high Bying craft consideration will have 10 be giwn Other effects, too. such as the influence of ultra-violet solar radiation cosmic ray" and meteors. LIght you See on a clear moonless ni,ght isu't what you think ir is. Ni:gb~ sky li,ght has live constituents: direct I1nd smUtted st!lr!ight, }.O%; zodiaQLI light, L;; o/n (nobody' knows where. tilt" comes hom); galactic light, 5(70; luminiscence oJ lilt' night sky, 4.0%; and a combination of scatrered iighc Irom ~odJacal> .galaccic and luminescent lights, Auroras, seen only jn temperate and arctic regions. are spectacular and. Furnish much info rrnation, Mcst occur from 60·70 miles up. but some arc as high as 700 miles. They are electrical phenomena and follow sunspot activity cycles. Little justice can be done this subject in so, little space. Anyone wishing to read the teport in irs .entirety. a fasd· outing 011(,'·b01:).l' job, can ELld it in the October, 194i), issue of the Aetonsutlcal Ellg11leerill'g :RMJiew,

[0%.

21

~_...Flight nal'J.gattlr in bow ,guide.s Vl',6! L,Jber'ltf.!r on n traIning misslon 01'<", lmperial Valley, Calii; treeless terrain sintihtr to Aljl~ka tundra

"hoi"grapher~
gl';lphk plane

msta II X·17 afld (WQ carto8rap~jc: cameras in photopdor I.Il t.rn,i.n~ng sortie: men most know h rstoess

W II
There

NO
ITH ZEROES and AA fife

IN MAPPING
to. avoid,
Accordil1gly, the qlmdron ha continuously carried out an "on the job" jetrive in mind: to place a perfect aerial photograph on the work table of.a photogrammetric mappi.ltlg ellgineer. whether he be in the Hydrographic ffire of the NJ.vy Department or in the U. . Geologi(,lll Survey's 'topogcflpbk brandl of the Department of Interior. CapabiUty to perform this precise task f\lrt!:re:f means the sql,l.adVOn will be pr.oncient to do the sartie Job in a na!ipnal ernergeacy~t() pl,,:te an aCtiIIate pl'loto!,'1'<1pb of a fQreign shore 01"1 the
table of a naval photograpln intelfiltainlng

pilots during WG'dd Wa[ wen] our til) get the best coverage possible of a target on 11 single sortie,
photo was
DO. cruising

syllabus with

one

primary

ob-

or pr(~(iseflying .possibk

up and

down

It i. ;i different matter wiib phete planes in peacetime when accurate coverage is ttl be obtained of an island or a ceastline, ,'{Tben the HydJ@graphk Office or the U,S. GeQlo,gicd SUI\'ey wants pictures for photogtamm~td maps, only the best will do. So photo squadrons found they had the Job of training their pilots and crewmen in the more meticulous work. ntis story tells how one such squadron, "\IF·lit. met the problem. Phetegrammetric maps require per.sonnel expert in getting precise covera.ge of large geographical areas. The pilot, illghl line l1i1v~8ator and aerial photographers the recennai sance plane Me handed ill complex set of instructions prior to a photo-mapp! ng hop. Pllilu re te C'H,rry out the specified pholo· gra,phi Instructions of the flight plan either I!hl'o'Ugh personnel error or material: fafhut' o[ the photographic equipment will tn:ike the flight useless llS far :1$ contribuling to Uncle Sam' poM·war progr rn of mapping hi lands. During three reus of nerin] surveying In Alaska from I 947 to 1 949. the rersonnel oE VP-61 have found that this rni sioa requires constant training in related tecbniques un [he ,grQund and ill the alt.

J;lenc(' -peci.ali.st. "be firs.t essential skill of property flying a photographic flight tine requires intenslve training of Iilots and flight

or

11m: . navigators, Specifications for an aed-al mapplllg survey project- gjve minimum of side lap, forward lap. variation in altitude and tilt of the plane, Pilots and oavigators til trainjn~g study SpecifiM/IOIlS tv',. AerjaJ Pb~I()griltb)' If)}" U.. NIUI H),dT()_g1'.:rPIJIC O/file. [flly 1947 as a guide h~ the principles wh teh they must master to '(over a large area for marring~ In 1947. \'PP~I personne!, later designated YP-Ij.l. learned the difficulties of adhering to a photogJaphic Ili,ght Iine pattE'[n. ·riley silweyed Kodiak Island from 20;000 fed by flying 35 flight lines paralleling each other on a northsouth axis. This operation though successfully completed showed the need Cor experienced photo-grapbic fli~ht J ine pilots and navigators. In eatly 1948, with nearly IOO,OUQ sqva.re rniles ef Alaskan terrain sdteduled, for slJrve}'ing

started to prepare new and inexperienced photographic pilots and aeti,iL1 photographers. The alton Sea and Imperial Valley di.trids of southern California were StIeceed as 11eriaJ survey training objeerives. Thence; };lrrl1lIa,ting the pNcedwes
W9.~

['raining prograro

by

VP'-Ill. a shakedown

and spedficsrion

to

be used

in

Alaska,

Typic IL'II ,L~dal sUf'/ey crew from bd!lre chcir phll!O PIU'>.!·S still

vp·U!

Pw.<1r

With guru.

the area was surveyed from 10,000 I. Pilots unJ navigators concmttiLted 01:1 the follow ing requ i remen ts 0 f photograrnmetric mll.pl'il1g: l . Preparation of flight line charts to insure. proper scale, itnd ovC'tLap of tile aeeial photogp,phic strip ... in the )<;·17, e-inch lind and CA-t'!,

22

D. Crate~. MJ,. (ClI1IIC,ls Ventura tube to camera: malfunction would make flIgbt fan 6·in h cameras, 2. Flying the pboeo8mphk Liberators and Beechcrafts 011

L.ul,for,d

lind

wll of sonne

Hml5!OnprePdF(l a ,W()·iool fiILn (01 dt-yl.ll& in Hig Delta lab

Aeria,1 sLlrvey d~t:lth Mlttl! exarnrnes previous dJy co verage "r a rea t" dK'i:k OJ] ;In lIlaCI'

constant

true

betldjn:f!;5 p-ara,llel to ad-

jacellt Aight lines and witl, a minimum of crllbhjng, tilting and variation in altitude necessary to record undistorted and am isrent ~~hologr:ll'hs. 3. Use of bomb lilg~ltS and drift sights at high altitude to keep the pJ.a.ne ort tI true heading.

4. CoordillatiOfl

of the airborne aerial survey t(;'1IJn to get Oil the proper photograph Ie station and. start aerial Gamer-as
in II minimum of time, 'as well as make necessary adjustments of the cameras ~ light and. weather dictate. Equally as important as the pilot and

reptable final product to the federal governm-ent for mapping. After the Bight operations are r rnpleted during an aerial survey, thou' ands of aerial negatives and print must lie proc~ssed, In VP·C,I. rated photographers and strikers are trained on the job to adhere to methods which will guarantee proper laboratory processing of the voluminous roverage of It large aeri11 survey objective. For example, VP,61 pr.o.

ccssed about _)-so,obo aerial pho~ograph~ in the winter of ! 948-49. covering nearIy 61',000 sqLllite miles of Aluska SlH-

veyed by VP-61 and vn-a during H)~lg. Ground photograph}' in the ve-st
laboratory

navigator, the aerial photographer must be trained to C1IIT}' out a precise job. In
vP'~J'S

skills whi h must be acquired by "on the job" train ing. This includes ac-

bechart and map produced in the Bydrographh:: Office or Topographic Branch 0 f the Geological Survey, This responsibility of Eiaodljng flit photography between the airplane and the Federal mapping agency includes

at the NAAS MmAMAR, is con ide-red vitally portent to the photo produetion photegrarnmetric tnappi~g chain

Diego,

CaJif.,

and

SanJm-

tween Alaska. and the finished

aerial pho8: number of skills before qlJ,aJifyitlg as members of an aerial survey J1 ig11 t team. They are trained to master the maintenance, installation and operation of the Fairhyi1)g lI!oscllic oCCJ.Il'ies 'T. Calhoun, Bns. child C'artogntpbic camera (C.A·s) the D. Laae ~nd R. Brunk at Miramnr laboratory K-11, 6-indi Focal length camera and the ,f.jnlth oal knt;th cameIa. ](:'[8, 2 It I~ essential to know bow and when to make all adju trnents ef the auromati cameras to obtain p-rQl'er forward overlap; to select' and adj LIst rdlers- (or rroper density and contrast 0 negi~rives: and to properly load and unload the IllQje 20Q' iOQ,f( IIJ'Id 9" wid£: rolls to prevent stktcilil),g and marring the emulsions, In gefler·al, rhe aeria] phe. Logtllplu:'r operut'"s the main bat~ery of the photographic reconnarssanoc and aerial survey plane. His failure wlll abort. the ~ I'tic of liB': eetire team. reo (juiring, lit the ase of an aerial mapping project. 1\ reflight, TIle precision work of VP,r.I' six rnulti-engiucd I"ltW-IP'S lwd four Beechcraft ~NB.21":; Jtl1end~ on the -kill of ~roL!nd photogrepluc and phote interc:.ootOIJ.r.drawin9' with~t¢fLN,\l\lr'lra_grn!,h preb:!tion personoel to deljl'et' all acis molt rvr M. '«'i lliams, \ II-<) pJ l(jt~Wr.apher r

tographers must demonstrate

oper-ational

training,

curare control of negative development. careful drying by air whidl will not cause differential shrinkage, printing in perfect COJ;lt'l\(t to prevent 10(111 dIstor. tion, processing the prints will1 gteat care to prevent dimensional changes,

proper

indexing and iciefltifi(al'ion of

year of Alaskan
VP"GI

each print, and final inspection of each print to meet stereo.pllologrnmmettic specifications. . Pre-operational .hakedown tralning and the training on thr; job during three

pIng

mrveying has en-abled to make a vital conuribotlco to the federal program or surveying arid tn'l-PAJa..~kan resources. During (he

SUll1Iner Sea!>OU5 ef 1947-8-'), its aerial SIH\'ey deeachments have pronrfeu

photogrammetric mappiog covenl''!_.\e of more than I Oil,OIlO ~quilrl' mik-~ of northern territory. Some of the objerri\'(!!) have' included 6 ,OCW square miles of the Ar-tic slope Of A lash tor oil exploratwn in aval Petroleum Reserve No.4 . .as wel] It$ llQ!UGtt& ml1rpin~ by the ~eol'Ogicat Survey. .Maririme areas ~1J(h as Kodiak

bland and t, Lawrence: TslanlOl were slJlIv-eyed for accurate t:hartihg by H. O.

23

Be Iricted

Crash Drills
[rom an FeLP hop the pilot of an F'Sf' made a normal lauding slightly letit of the center of the tLl1lWay, As he touched down, his Left tire blew out cau lng the plane to swerve to the left. Full tight brake was applied immediately with sufficient force to skid the righl tire, Qul the plane swerved off the runway iuto toe soft sand, The wheels dug in and the "F'8:F lllpped ever en it~ back. The pilot had his safe~ belt and shoulder harries tight and was not seiliously iAjused. However, he was ill a most uncomfortable position, 11. the canopy had smashed around him :lod he haii bitten his toogue, He was h.1uging on his belt with his head pressed into a mixsure of broken glas~ and sand, wben the tower operator called au the radio to ll£k if he Was to any trouble. Hi reply is one that the tower operator will long remember, "Hell no, J land like th Is all the time I" About this time the crash crew arrived and found that they were not .going to be able to ,get him out without lifting the plane. This neces itnted iI wire rope .!iUng whirll they hadn't brought along. After about 15 minute and a little looprovisjtlg they lifted the plane ..nd extracted the pilot. The accident board reccmrnended that every ~j; $t~ttion from which l"SF-j planes operate be prepared to hft the tail gllickly in the event of overturn and tha.t the crash crews hold more frequent drills. In another overturn accident the pilot run off the runway I1d fliEped over on his back in about four feet of water. The
N Il.I!'l'URNINC

crash crew arrived promptly but did nOl have ,1 sllilkielltly long cable to reach the tail of the plan~ and still allow the truck to remain on rile runway where I_t could ret enough traction to lift the plane, Th(! pilot _drowned before the plane could be righted. These Rnci other qJ.S(:S illustrate the necessity for anticiparins the types of accident that Jllay occur at any given freid, Crash rews should be drilled rehzuJarlyand the- drill' should be varied to encompas 1)."8 many different types of ernergencies as _possible. The operations offiu::r ,LlOI1I'" air smti011 from. which helicopten; were ope~ating devised til. interesting and reaUsli,c method of dril1i~8 his crash crews. He w,?uld send .t !1~~[' copter oul with iastru non to land In Wl'IOuS spot WIt-ill" 11 mile or two of the station and set off a smoke bomb. The helicopter pilot wouJd send a distress call, "MayJay. This is a Test, Mayday, This is II Test" just before- setting off the smoke bornb, The crash crews .sonn learned where they could go and where they rouldn't and the quickest rootes to reach "3t'101l5 areas near the landing pattern. The value of the dr.ill was demonstrated iii :lcouple of early drill When the fire truck bogged down and had to be pulled Old due (,0: atternping to take il route that was i:mpassable. Stlltions which have a $\?ndby earch and Rescue plane should have frequent mspeceions and drill ... to ascertain whethen or not tbe &R p! I1C has all the recommended equipment 00 board and whether or not the persoru:'leJ ~e Iarniliar with its \,ISt" The standby rrew S110uJd be delHg. nated daily by name and should be avai lable to man the plane 01'1 five minute norice. Remember lhtU any emergency is easier to cope with if you have planned for it ahead of time ~J ead1 oft! er and man k~10WSwhat he is expected to do when the siren blows.

24

Res'tricte4

A
T
UNCOL1.. " r
IS t!

aval Air Station Is Born

grun

l",m alRn-~ of a Nava] Air Station

Wben Commander L. S. Mehorn. the CO, ttrl_d three offit'crs arrived in the! raidst 'of a sub-zero Nebraska SI1_OW $torOl. to statr the operation at Lincoln's Municip.al Field, thtty fOLind It bleak scelle, Aside horn diet~ging weather, the NAS buildings. long abandoned by the Army, were in a stale Of maKin:tun~ disJlepllir and the egll ipruent W;1:Sat a minfrnlJm" in fad at 0.0. That was On 26 November 1945storm-the worst winter in 62 years. Now little more !-hIm a ye'Ar later, NAS LINCOLN sta!'l-d.sa;s a proud -:-I,d clition to the Naval Air Reserve rhain of 1. 7 51;Miol\ 3.11J units. Re) u v.etll1leU, s oea'(Jtilieu. medernlzed, it is operating in h1gh ge:u' and still growing. But it took p!cnLy ·of back-breaking labor and the combined efforts 9f Hfficers and men, acthl{" tillty and Organized Reservists ,.Jjbl'e-. to bring tlle swat'll'! to its present state. Back in 1948, -With all signs pointing to a rugged future,Commander Melsom and his ori.ginal handful of officers kept their overcoats on and immediately went to work. First they had to regml h.~11J.St:tting up headquarters in the Navy Recruiting Qffice in downtown Lincoln, ther hired civilians and on S December .act-unlly hegan enlisting
the eve

was

expenence

110

cX'Cept-iotl.

and

NAS

t'-

or Nebrask~'s

four-month

snow

CO M~L50M (TAN COAl)

AND

l}fESE HARDY II~SERVfS

f'IONEERfD

THE BUILDING OF NAS LINCOLN

to

refitting

the

station.

All

hilts ulilee, who bed returned

turned

to With a will. Chiefs

and
10

hands

duty as specialists, served as gmeritl lnborers, Mechaaies and pharmacists mates. swung paint brushes; yeomen and radiomen installed glal'\5 and repnlred plumbing; ordnancemen and aerologists went to work with hammers an~ saw. Snow shovelers got the best

active

white:

the firsr plane attached to NAS lIN L"OLN . A.na, true to the :shorttradit.ionO:f the winter-been station. it landed in a bJinding snowstorm and Was met by plane lUUldkr:s on i(e skates, But it was

workout of all.

statlQnkeep~f.' personnel. . Doring. the fil'st two d\lys the omce was open, they

had 4·00 applicants. Ne){t came the matter o{ emergency, stopwap repairs on the main NAS building. Broken windows were teplS'ced; doors were hung; holes were patched; a eoal stove to keep the temperatu re just a little above freezlfi-S was installed.

and

gressed. the officers and men got down

was formilly commlssioned and the COlQrs were two-blocked atop the adrn] 11 istratioll building for thefi.tst time. Now rhe Reserv-es were ready to gp. to work on (;_ons~ru<::ti0n and n1Jjor mpairs, But 1icst they had to hne up addlrional active uuty persormeL Recruiting teams borrowed ll. tru,ck and -visired !OCQ,'l tll1lverSlties and colleges. Newsparers anJ rad io stiitions were con!:acted, The Naval Air RCSI!.r\le Training program was elIplained to businessmen, dvic grroups 1,1Qdto anyone else who would listen. In short, Nebta~ka's new Air Navy made frjenas-that is with all but the weather. As the procurement of personnel ptOCOLN

On n December

19'48,

NAS

UN,

P-ainting and patc.hing stretched into weeks of h:'!!d l11onotofloll~ werk, Supplies arrived that eouldn t be stored ;t't the station. Narcotics were pl-aced iJl <L downtown bank for :;:nfekeeping. The sLlpply or.. mtdj~1L1 alcohol was cscotte~ to a he tel safe by a group of haltfrozen, self-appoieted guards, who groaned ill unison as the JoCk sIIRpl"ed .. Twice dlJ-ring that early -pC1'ioo, ail hands were mustered in town, huvifl_g found it impossible to ne-goti<Lteeight miles of bighw<lY covered witb snow

two months latex, the station received its fiist service type planErtwo J'tiF He/lC:~lfighterli. l"b-at was on 12 March. The suo "'HIS shining tnilt day. Things were lookin;& brighter.
Organized Reserve air group, CVEG-8S, were hdd on 2, ApdL On 22 April. two squadrons and the air _group staff came aboard for their nrst week-end drill. At that time, the Organized stroogth consisted of 41 officelis, Including 3:2 pilots and Sgenlis:~ed men. Now the O. R. on board count has grown to 7S offitets, including 49 pilots, and 18G enlisted men.

p,0gress anywuy.

Commissioning

ceremonies

for

the

ddfts oE up ~.

10

f·eet.

01') 8 January 1941), a b_~ moment arrfved. U arrived in the form of 'an SNEi, fe'r:ried Ia !rom Spokam.·. 'that was

~AS WASCOMMISSION~D

ON 15 DECEMBER. 1948

25

'OPfllA:TIVN

PAINr~RusH'
JA/I!.ES A,

GOT PRIORITY WITH AU HANDS TURNING

S1'.YtlliRT

TO

lIKfS 111 0

AND WIUiiED

WORKED ON

ICE SKATES' DURING THE BIG FREEZE

and a Presldentia] Un it it.a.ti.on, was appointed 0 of CVllG·&S. it. W, D, MeDowcU, who v as awarded the Navy Cross for sinking a Jap cruiser and who holds three Air Meda1s and a Unit Citation, was named CO of v A·8:.'·Il, while Lt. James R. Roady. who holds eight- Air Medals, two OF 's and a PJ'esicienrial Gnjt Gbtion, Was given

Medals fur downjng six Jap planes,

Lcmt. Iowa, \v
>

who holds

of Ottumthree Air

training. for the

(t)

ceremon iC5. ToqllY,

Lincoln for the station. open Irouse

elm li/tltion, when it was flown NAS

LINCOLN is

Reservists

6ew "cover"

command of Vl~-SS-E. Under the leadership of these men,

the Organized

nery with target sleeves. Pilots flew an ave.ra:ge of 60' hO~5 and some even achieved 77 hours. Enlisted personnel ptcvided outstanding support. Since then, the air group has participated in ei.sht air show over various Nebraska towns as part of regular pilot

runs, Fighter5 I'ractised~ir.to-:Ur

Res.ervists were welded into a tombat- reAdy team. During it's two weeks cnnse in August, the organization and training (If -CVEG-SS reached a new high. orties W-ere 1Iown on bombing and strafing

streamlining Organized Reserve trainins oJ>era.tions und'er: the new et-up, whereby its ;,ir stoup has been converted into 11n air w.iog and component squadroos. The Station is driving to. wards filling the almost 100% increase in OrS-!lni~ed Reserve billets it received in the reotganizaHon. Flymg Leat/JemeckJ shared in the growth of NA L1N ·OlN. On I June 1949,R Marine Air Detachment was E. V. Finn a Detachment Commander. Ina month and a half, the 38·member unit was filled. On 1 July. VMF-j13, famed wartime Marine- fighting squadron. Wll re-eommis iened at Lincoln. Now there are 30 pilot, 1 ground 9fficer and ltO enlisted Organized Marine BI%ervisfs atladled t? The JfYhiJtlin$ Deolls .outfit. Capt;;Ull Taylor N. WithrOW, directer of Nebraska airports with the "bate De-

busy

commissioned at Lincoln with Lt. Col.

parrment of };erol1"<lutlc~, was named skipper 01' VM -]13 and has done much to bring it to fighting strength. Some of the squadron members are seasoned combat veterans, like Captain Emil kocpol, pilot and aulher of a recent story in. CollIer's nlaga:zine entitled "TWns Run OVer by a Carrier." Others, like Private Alois A Slepicka, 17-yenr old regent scholarship student at the Univer ity of Nebraska have had no previous military experience. Coming out on alternate weekends, the Flying Marines use station f'6 's in their training rnis Ions. At present they are gearing their efforts tor the annual Marine Air Reserve combat-training maneuvers to be held next AUgLlst at fnlst when the snow drifted in throagh the broken doors, having produced a modern. well-equipped plant by their own efforts, baving developed efficient operations all along the Jlnl!-<the Naval Air Reservists 10 the great Midwest <He insUl'illg the peate and securing their own future al NAS LINCOLN.

gun-

El ToI.O_ So toJay-havi.llg conquered the grim

26

Regti'ietcd

Lh, Olson. R()gi!r,l, G:r:,j_f 'a.nd I.Cdr. Spurgin were the first Or&ani~~d offi,ers ttl report

O.n 22 April 1'949, til'.. first Or,ganized Reserve m1,1Slerw:lS pi tots: ground Qffi((~rs nl1d aviation specie Iists were Ott hand

held nt 'NhS Lrl'i'CO~N-~hese to gt:t the progrnm undecway

LINCOLNITES LI'CKED SNOW AND ICE TO BUILD NAS

were going in full swing anti Air ~¢*J"\'is~s here wert' working tl)getlier '[S u real team

And pHds Like M(:CllJT~ GIt<lrf)" Hall, D,(WSim, Thorne, Bartek, Haas and Masehka and Ruddy (ftl,"l) were piling Lip new records

MeanWhile

VMF-IlJ

W~~

\Xfi!MrOWwa .. ccngrahllatoo
Re.st:ric;'ted

commissioned-CO' by LL Col. Flnn

At the' ficrst drill. these 33 Marine

Qrgan;z$l

lighting

s_quadlon has

1::4 ,active members,

aU of whom

rue Reservisrs

turned
IIti!

~ea4y

oLLt-today the Marine for, any Ct1l!Ugtl1lc},

27

R6Stricted
pilots comdown. 20 hours u each man standing two hour . The first d~~'t was i po ted, Nov. 14. pl. John J. Ira:nontana s!lw a twin-englncd plane omlng to With wheels up. He fired his Very piiitO.l and the pilot lowered and locked his wheels iff time 1'0 land. Latez, a Nav)' officer flying an F&f' • me in with wheels up. He had no of the runways to ~ ave off ing in without their wheels The watch is stood fm day, Crom 0800 to 0430.

Reserve
Thousand

Build's Vetsmobile
Aid Disabled of mile aero
VefefQns the country

Designed to,

[rom NA OAKLiI u in J. Veterans' Ho&pitnJ at rmmiugharn. Mass., Robert F. Driscoll, 23-year-old Navy veteran, I;; waitrtl,8 [or a dream to reme true, And in Oakland, Call/am in. Edward T. Ad kin , AD , ate hnicran WIth the Org.mized Reserve is ready llO fulfill th3.\ dream, Chief Adkins i leaving soon to drive across the country and present to ~bcrt F. Driscoll a ellr especially d~. signed to male him independenr, 1"bis "vetsmoblle" was planned to the- hlst detAil 0 give a Jj nbled veteran ,like Driscoll self-sufficieacy. '0nstru(t'c-d almost entirely fro.m obsolete llitplunc: pares, the versmobile has two motors one [or locomotive power and the other to operate :l lathe and buffer. 1l has a key~ma.kiI18 machine, equipment to manufacture leather Ilod (opper soods as \Yc11 as i'I best of other acoesseries to supplement u little newstand business, which- the veteran can operate from lhe car. A two-way radio and hydraulic jacks on the wheels, to enable Driscell to raise them without getting Out of the car, complete th~~et·up. Adkins states that the vetsmobile will travel 30 miles per how: on its gasoline tn;otor Or 10 miles per hour On its elecrue .motor. He ,hopes eventually to furnish the machine at rosr 10 other Driscol], who 'en'cd for 3S months in. lilt: Navy, was discharged in 1947 wlbh the rate of electrician's mate, sec!he Cushing Veteran's Administratiol1 Ho~<{pit:d. umerous rractures of the vertebrae ill his back had resulted in p3l'tTnl paralysi from the, aist down.

water and got

done a~ SplOCial Devitd Washington. L.L and spring at Annapolis. Between 21 April and students rode lhe rails
out

Center, installed

POt! this

PORTABLE WHen

WA

STAND o~

RUNWAY

The cat slides clown the rails at II 36(1 angle and just before it hits the water It noses Over into a Goo .dive, Controlling only forward rotation. The student then evacuates the cockpit under water and
the tumble i'$ a bungee cord permitting

trncrion

wluch corrtrols rare of descent and reof the cockpit from the water,

ural of the more enrhusiaseir midshipmen made the dive several times, Conerollmg the SNj ('0 kpit as it scoots down the 30-fool: rails I ,\11 instructor, who occupies the platform at (he rear the strucmre. A motor-drawn

of

lR M:lY. 11'} down to tile

the

cockpie. Sev-

or

radio contact 0 the control tower could not notify him of his plight. The wheel watch, Pfr, Clarenee C. Hitt receiving the information about the lack of radio, promptly waved off the inoming pilet.

Midshipmen

Ride The Rails

Pilbert Dunker Gives Men Fast Bath "ProfeS50I Dilbert Dunker" is C0n~ dtKtihg II p0stgracillMt' ceur .e in air(raft ditchiqg at the. Naval Academy,
tOlltaG't with the newly-revised the course i~ .al l wet 1
In

~I'lUftccordjn;!,!to midshipmen

who came
dei'Ice,

the or i then pulle i up the incline. A ademy authorities have drawn lip a trairtin:g syllabus on ditching, drerkmg the men out: in .gettir:tg out of lhe cockpit, swimming free of the aircraft, LI e of the Mae West and method of eofering the Ii e raft. Activities wishing d-ata on the device carl remrnunicate with Special Devi es Center via CNO (OP·S42D.)

rror~

Panthers

Fly Off The Boxer

nwqttll P [let!

veterans.

Dunker,"

During 1<)48, C 0 approved a request from the Atndemy for an improved version of the -\~orld Wl1f TI dilchlng device known n~ the "Dllbsrt

Desi

I, Md

COQstructiOfl

was-

5e~ond Exercise frons Out the i8ugs' C,AG--"i. PAClF1C-'l'his air group, opera.tmg its F9F PdntlJerJ off tbe' Boxe« for the: SEcond time, established a rerQ,rd for the nnmber of jet rancliD~s on
II

on ~ class.

eon an!;r he wa taken to

VF·'il and VP-j2 completed I T landings and catapult shots, THe only incident~ were tWQ broken nose wheel and five blown tires.Wben (he lack of win~ over th deck prohibited jet op·

single trip.

Wheel Watch Saves Crashes

Wh.eel~Up londings POlN'r-There are lots of ways to save a dollar and the Marines here bave hit upon an idea that saved 260,O()O in nine days, The way !:hey did it was to establish a "wheel watch" signalman at the end M.ari.nes Stop

MCAS

CH£RRY

bQsed .II N.1' S<lI/ Die.gfl. 1/'011 I!J~ In!ety cm"i-r,d jltr !jIMJU>n< alJd ;'1 fhl: sam« u'e<',& II"" Jotjhi{ title of Nrf'flJ/f1} Itl1gtlll!. Led Ir;. E. T. liafford, "fTC, ,he I!!ilflt /Iolhhd all fizle JI,f"/"JU 'Navy teall1J 1() W;'I.

ve·l1,
AHP,

their' /lD'S ilnd finished 112 Landings. The entire air gF(mp consider the Iwo.d,}}' operation one of the most pwfitable exercises held for both the carrier and grOtlp. The parts of UH: exerci c' whirh shone even above the others were the speed of the cll't.lpult crew, the teamwork of the flight deck and pl;tl')c bandJing crews, the excellent pilot technique displayed and tbe good
JlH:lg.Qlent of

erations,

VA-~

and

VA-55

took

over in

the Ian ding signal officers.

28

AIR RESERVE IDEAS PAY OFF

ANOTHER NM OAKLAND IDEA THAT WORKED-FOR

RECiItUITIN.G. THAl IS

Dividend Corner NAS OA KLAND-PrCld-l.Ict ion line method have streamlined the check-in procedure [or Organized Reservists who

are reporting aboard for [heir annual

~tail1jn,g Juty.

Nflw 20 stati nkeepers from the personnet, medical, di~but'-sing. technical. type training. MAA. BOQ and aircraft maintenance office set up departmental table: in one wing of thewNpensary. Squadrons are then srheduled to report tIt 2a·minute intervals for chec:k:tng-Ln through the various departmental tables. A:; a result, each squadron is now processed 1.11.iliout LS"mirHlte • which is ;tgreat morale factor in addition ee being a time-saver. Prior to the u 'C of the. production line method, a. Reservist, reporting aboard For his annual training duty period. consumed an average of four hours, The new system permits oJ. seving of 2,ti2"i man-hours, when an aver-

pl'lan to solve the old centliet wieh the squadrons r,eg!U'dlng the amount of lime their enlisted men should spend In the rlassrocrn. Now it is taking the classroom to the men, via a trailer, on which has been mounted aOJ ins,tructor's platform. mockups, training aids, and a section of bleachers for ~he students to· sit on. During the cold weather the mobile La room can be rolled cighl into the III rrra ft: rna inteaan ce hangar. This type of training is designed to supplement. not supplant. regularly scheduled classroom work. Unification Note NAS BIRMTN HAM-MlLrine
SguadrOl1.
VMV-S41,

As crvilian Marines now. they work shoulder to shoulder .and are shown in the picture reaJying a He/led.1 for Hight. People Who Po Things. NAS MI. NEIlf'OJ.1 '-In order to compile accurate information for thenew aircraft availability report required by CNAResTI'a, W, R. Rasmussen Ave bas devised 11 daily form that is placed 011 the aircraft when it is out of cetnralssion. The form is readily accessible to all hand working on the particlIlu aircraft and saves time in recording pertinent information regardiog the aircnlft. NAS GLENVruW-Thc; Executive officer's Trophy. awarded at the end of each fisoti year to an enlisted man chosen ll;> the outstanding member of the Or,gat'Ji2ed Reserve unitsat this ststien, was uwarded In 1949 to Michael Pisano ADE:a of VF-alh". NAS DALLAS-E. C. Peatson Afil, uvration technics] training instrudnr, bas converted lhe PV-2 electrical system emonstraror panel into a self-powered panel by the use of an: electric mo~ot to drive two 2CMKOB4 geaeraters, With 1I1~ panel new operating under its own power, it i possible to demonstrate he operation uF the generator:;. reverse current relays and volta.ge regulators. It is also possible to give pilots 11 more complete workout with the moterized

Reserve

has COme :up with

!lgc: cruisl:" group of 3:5r1 officQrs and men report nboard, and uses only 120 hOLLr~ of starionkeeper time.

WheR lhe cruise j tomplered, Reservists check out via the same route and are free to leave the station. using: their pay cheek as liberty cards. NARTU MEM1}H1S~A new aviation ~:lfety board has been camplered and placed In the N:ARTU operatiens office. This board j, bordered by a white neon lobe and in the center of the board is "Dilbert" \ ith his bee _flashjng red. Ehret! 00 the- board for all to read are Bight safety orders, GI"tU!lpnw Prnibon« r latest remarks, the lesson for the month und give-away copies Rigllt safety lea'Bets.

aJ typiml Leatherneck slant on unifiration -"Make 'em all Marines." Among UIC members of VMF'-5-11 are: 5/SgL J. It Mcrrison, ex-Navy. who served on the carrier Copabcf! In the Pacific and who is now with the BirmiIl,gham Police Department; PVl. tanley Davey Jr., Birmingham, hIgh school student and the '0[1 "o-year ,brine, s. G. Davey; Sgt. Joe Bosrtfield, exAir Ferre, who W"Il:S a IH7 engineer in the European theatre; and Cpl. ROj' H. BlU1n, ex-Army, who .erved with a t ran port outfit in the- Philippmes.

or

paneL
Af>'ll

or

On the tralnjng front, the aviation technical truinin$ department has come lip witb what It considers tI. feasible
R est« iet. ed

NAS S.,.. LOUls--J. W. Thompsen has fabricated a. device tlrat is proving to be a real time sa cr. Best descrlbed as a bungee dnd stretcher, the rig helps in the manufacture of !iNI:! la(]ditlg gear bnngee cord. NAS GRO' E fU-ll's merethan it wild shot in the dark when the pistol team tllkesa bead on the ta:rget. To date the members have WOIl 123 indi-

29

CO HARRI.S AWARJ)S HIGM 5~HQOL

CER1'lflCATES AT NAS NEW ORLEANs

v id L1llJ awards, four team troph ies and :20 team medals, The-y took top honors for high inuividol'!-l and high team stor-

that the -p6nupals

.have considered

Lh~

c~ivc the Ilr,~Lof Jive r(:'~jod.~ of instruenon on NAS lighters On band aircraft engines, OL(lTHE-Well over- 6() tire' hom nearby cernrnunitles were to watch the dernonstratien put the mobile- Cf:;J.Sh lire nghting

ing in the '4'B.'49 Ninth Naval District cham] ionship meet and second in the all-Navy meet. On the team ,11:£:" O. E, Burnie T/ gt.; G. E. Salhaney BM1: J. C. Forman AO~; and W. D, Root "'~. ARTU SEATrI.E~CaptalJl J. E. Parrott. the new wing 'ratt commander and tlie salesmanager for the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph .ompany in

program ShlifIciently valuable to warrant allowlng students to utilize 'chQo] time (or the visits,
The NARTU also plan to help the schonls by arrangin' to have Reserve per anne! lectur 0 aviation classes. by s(heduling occasional aviation duo meetjags at the field. anJ by holding separate meetings for 5(;ho01 officiais uad teachei:; Itt which the vQGlti:ooa1 aspects. qf the Naval Air Reserve can be highlighted.. In addition. the NARTU "'>vill offer reasonable help III maifl-!lli,ning the seho!;)]" Link trainer and will Jnform school aurhoritie regatding availability of 1lIly surplus truining -aIds. In the picture LCdr. Pomrtey is

on by

training unit assi ted by ten men from the- station. Chief W. 1, Lindsay, chief of the NA lire department. reported

JI~e.';sed with

civilian life, was associated with the old Nava I Reserve A_i_r Base at Seattle
~ the time of its original

mg.

commis

iOI1-

'vER-MeritoriOUS mas! wus held for L. F, Riel AMC. for the ~fficiency, cooperation and assistance he gave the Hathaway Instrument Company in Denver in making installation and modifi arion of a ~pccially Iigged ,.NJ from

A~ D

hown exbibiting d Bafl.rbee model to aviation students at Western Hig.h Schoe] 1n Washington. D. F'rom left to right they. are: Harold Weil't·

N:AS

P),NSACOLA,

which

_;5 used

111

1.'00-

junction

now being conducted.

with

:wiafioo

medical

research

vocatioa III institution;;. this unit is lining up Ii P'O ram d.esignecl for aviation stud mts, Group rom all enior hjgh scbools in th_(' vicinity are being invited to visit the station fIQrone afternoon. In add rtion to thl: con ven tion(ll

aticnslnps

Reserves and the Community NARTU ANACOSl1A---TO cement rel-

with 1'01;11.1 schools snd. high

strauk, .Eligelile ydnor, Fred Ackerman, Joan Mltx<m ~nJ George Swanson. NAS ATUoNTA-Rtpreselllarives q_f Brown High School. which is beginIling its 5rst class in aviurion, made- Mfangemen~ to ~drl~ their first group'!> OUt to Hus -St}ltIOO III December to re-

NAS ST. Lour - Througl1 arrangernents between the commanding officer and officials of the McDonnell Aircrnft 'Corporation, the operations department has organjz.ed a ramp plane handling and crash fire lighLing school for 64 6viJi;rn employees at McD0nne1L The course will rU1-1 for si--x weeks with two
two-hour periods pe;r week. NAS GrwssE lL£-1'o assist ill raisins funds for the United Foundation Drive.

that the local :firechieh were very imthe Navy techniques and with the elliciency of the men w110 pul out the Burnes nod rescued the imaginary occupant in the (o~kpit of the burning plane.

Torch

aboard

this. station

a Navy Carnival was held

irn November,

Ieetu res on such sub jeers J:S survi val, jet en8in(:'~, carrier tyre air~taft are being scheduled, These gh'e U1e students a mare comprehensive picrure- 'of naval a"illt"iotl .and point tIP [he excellent

tour

or

rhe NARTU,

demonstr-ation

total of ·21.200. was raised and. as a result the statlon was awarded the "0', ar", .a rniruature torch, for outstanding contribution to the campaign will h was an all.('omml1n;~y affair. The Detror: Free Pn:JJ' commented editoriaJty in part: "We think the Gi'lJ:ll)lf: lie i'1ir Iation is sbow;n~ an -excellcnt example of ulJification-unification with the: civilian cornrnun it)' [OUO cl sbeu t •. _ The .itvy is deserv in,g of l large share of appreciation for

vQ<.:atiOfillJ opportunities Iu the &\,111 Air Reserve. LCdt. Wayn' Pornfrey, the pllplk ill i ormation 0 ticer, is maietaiuing do-e working relationships with hj~h .sdiool pnncipals, IIvintion teachers Itn'd counselors to make .sure rhm the training IS
slanted

hal,jng,

011 it's own inttiativ".

pi unged
on

~ hole-heartedly Up .he Ladder NEW

in to a ta~k strictly

behalf of a civilian N AS

philaalhtopy."

OR.L. ANs----Sin e the. j.,ro'ram has been 'ttml~rw"y for active duty Reservists at this stat ion, Il'i

USAH

various

to Ihl: group:;.

sped lie needs of the Here, it is Sigtl,ifil"llnt

OAKtAND

RES6RVi5 Q,"K.

l.:j.MINUn:

CHECK-IN

'titicatf's of e"]I.Li v;1!ency in Ileu

stal:ionkccpers

have

been

awsrded

or

high

cer-

30

the Organized Reserve squadLeading ~hief L H. McGuire DC, who recently completed the course nt the- Allison planr at lndianapolis, i:; th~ instructor. A Blfl ~'r:1 GH"'~I- B. . Bibb CI received an .wcrap,:e pernmtage ;:,r:ude of 97 on U1e G,ED col1e};:C' level test \¥hkh he rC('ent1y took and h r~ record h:i b.:cn'red;ttd with one ye,.\r of rellege fot in-servl e purposes.

ron

cla-sses

are being well received.

or

Like Father Like Son

A <OLI1Ml'U~ This 'it;Ilion hal; n father 'amI 1>00 combination in Rov and Charles Winttf. . A forty-tWo yOlt old Navy veteran, Ro \X!intl;:f 'I E,~.enlisted iII the Or8:L!1ized Naval I;\ir Reserve in May 1948. He fourrd it a ,good deal !lod [)erSlJllJ"J his son, Charles. eightt::~.tJ yean old. t-o !KhooJ t!irlomtl~. In the picture: Cupt..ain joln up. l rarns is sbown presentIng .iwards to Cflitrl!:s. it member f VP-ML 51 now S. T. Laruso AU.!: A:_ M. 'M;lhner )10.1; works on the PV patrol bomber. Last A. J. LIKhtley EN~; C. W. !-l~lyW;lr~1 September he rnadea tminfng h011 ",vitIl RM<l: m.h..l L B. Olillio tiTS. Otilllo re- his quadran to GU:U1tan.1l10, Cuba. L'L'iveY it naval training COUfS. diploma, Ro Winler is now employed rtl the while. dt] the I)tJ1(:r~ were gra.nkJ CCIpost a/fie!;", wh ile his son is- II snnlent uficates of equivalency, lit Newark hi.gh school. NA M.lJ\Mr-tntt'rvi~ws of enlisted NA" LINCOLN-Thls s~utjQlf ls h~s per ~tiOd in connecricn with the off- a father and on aboard in the ~it!r~ons duty educational program have been of John ll;l~cooledge enior lind Juo1or. complded and 3~ GED tests .have been The')' are shown in the piclLlre tr.yin,g requested. Clas,scs in rnathematics, on their uniforms LInder the warchful ni h. pboto~rl!phy, typing and shorteye f J0l111 Maul !\K'D2. hand, bookkeeping and ;llCOll11tln,g. and art ate being organized with civilian or Statio." Round-Up' 'service person n d as instru ctors, Officer AS OAKLAND-Wht'n the engineof this station'slirst jet aircratt the participation in tJ1e off-duly cducstional F J-T Fifty, was removed for maintenance pf0,gra.m is apprOl'irnutci)' 990/0. work, Geol'Bt" A. LaVoie EMI saw II NAS COl u/>Hlus----,A tecbniml class has been sl\lrteu (or ~(J men interested good chance to get in some seumanshlp in obtaining ~l CAA Jiceose (A and E). instru Lion for his aman recruit Most of the rnarerial, including the cu r- WAVES (it says here). He supplied riculum and sample examinutinn questhe props rrom ti'ltt "vi a.~fon tech n bll trainlllg department wiHl the results lions, were obtained rrom the CA A represenlative who rnaiIlta:ill~ his oHire on shown in the pk(UJrf: on Plt-ge 1'9. The W,WJ;1S Q{cup), Assodllled Volnnteee this field. billets wit.h the Oakland squadrons. NA ST, Loms.-Jet classes olfercd to the advanced aviation machinist mate NAS GLEN'vrri.w-Thi~~;ltibn now

COtUMBUS'

ROY WINTtR

GIVES· SON THE WORD

ra-

has the first helicopter to be' ;l<;signli!ll Reserve prolp:am. Four men from .linraft malntenanre attl:1Jdeu school 11t l.akehursr to learn bow to serv ice ,ll1d maintai n it, NAB Los ALAMITOs-The fir r ( f the F}-J jet AghtC'rs to he assigl1cd to this stat'ion llrrivtd on I 2 November. The '>]zllb!e number 0]1 al (I?ady <Jlluufie:d Organ'fled Reserve jet pilots, who wer former members of VI-'-6tJ, the original FIt-! P1!'e/;l/1/ squadron. ImmeJi:1t.ely started lining up ror flights. NA:S .AKRON'-:With the addition of a VP and VR squadron, multi-eoglne pilots ..re at last able to fly service typl: .l.il"(;'.raH. f the 479 new billets, f{ts% O were filled by I De ember. NAS SQUAt>,'TUM-SO r3r 26 WAVES without pr.evioJ,.ls milita.ryexrdience have been enlisted in the v-« (inucti\'e) program. The ne... recruits .indude one " ${'t of twins, two .srsrers in one family
Lo the

shown in the rid:l.Jre being sworn in, are; Lout e K. tinton, Nancy L. Nugent, P'ltticia "'-1111 Kokinakis, Alyce Louise White and Rita A. Hughes, They were recruited by J. C:.:-ozzoli [r., PN1,

and three in anomer.

T111:' five WAVES,

31

Carrier
P
lmBABU' the most unusual aircraft

Fires Guns

Treats Patient·
VP-4o, Co

Via

Radio

Rough Sea Fails to Stop the Doctor

0 , Lo.....nla~nosis by aided Lt. (ig) C. . Muehe, VP-4Q'S Hight surgeon, and the pilot and crew of a squadron Marine''' in suecessful completion of a rescne flight. A distress call came from Swan -15-

carrier in the world, and certainly

miniature flattop named after the sire of the Navy's biggest naval air station at S~Ul Diego.
Back in 19tf7, the need for a gooL! float to rc?rcscnt the 1 :w-y at the numerous celebrations, rodeos arrd parades held in outhetn Californiaarea became appaeent, NAS SAN l)1l:.GQ constructed the- carrier on a I-to-20 scale, c~pyil'lg it
_t_ FLOAT'S GUNS FIRE, CATAPulT AlSO OPERATES

the busiest. is the USS

No"~" Wand, the

radio

Coco Solo with pilots Lt. H, D. Gless, Lt. A. T, McKinney and Ens. D. p, Riley and LL Muehe aboard,.
strament. headwinds lind inthe plane proceeded toward the lonely outpost where Kenneth R. Bartlett, eM employee, needed weather,

land

in the

arribbean.

The plane

left

Fighting 3D-mile

after the Er.rex-das, fleet carrier. From the time it fired its tiny guns
in 'llhlte of Gtlifornia' -overnor Earl

diurn, the baby around.

A chief

Warten and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nicnltl: in 1>947 Navy Day ceremonies. before 40,000 persons in Balboa EtaAattop has really goth:n sailors handle the and three

12,OOO-poIJrld float It tanus l3' 9" high, i~ :;(? long ~nd 10' 6" wide. A five-kilowatt genetal'Oris installed to
provide electri power, aJong witl,
nVQ

real ships and _planes into a tion. does everything but float. The N()J·th fJli/nfl,. despite the fact he
has been Here

ail Ute various Galls cornmun icntion system

controls the tiny bullhorns which

panel at the after

control

station

also
SCllJ

medical attention and possible 1:10 pitalIzat'!on.

(wet

the interior that semis our

About j 040, while still one hour eut, radio mmmL1!~itatiQn was estsblishecl ltOd Dr, Muehc diagnosed the SFJe patient'S .condition. 'On arriv: at Swan

Island

in great

., in actioo" two yettfS, is 51 iJl demand around "an Diego, is a typlClll two weeks in her In armun] WQipe Pll.), parade
14

would
Muehe dosages

it. Gless found heavy seas prevent a landing, but Dr. was able to prescribe {1rop'et'
for lhe _patient from the inyilt radio. The plane Island reported the

schedule:
9 Sepr. appeared and J~est:iyaJ 41t ept, !lot h..r first P>tnll;.~~jets- I S S~pt. displayed ./.It I.M Angeles Cillunty Fair iU Pomona and viewed by :1.00,000 persons. 2;- Sept. nt request of Warner Brothers, It participated in I remier

then rerumed to Coco Solo.

formation he got At
2054.

Escondide

ratient recovering ,j_n:d flO further aid was Deeded. • NAR 1I WltU{ll)l,ST-U. A. J. l<u;k ill
of

Swan

of "Task
returned
POIl)QIIQ.
•

Free"
to

movie

at J:lullywMd,

2-4

Sept, jppeared

the Navy-U.S.C.

in l'lelw<,en-b;tJ"e~ activities of fQutball garne, 2S Sept, l.(]~ Angele~ Coumy Fair !It

zp.; I has devised ~ very sa listactu!'}' Inrm t t:n,wle indlvldual Reservists tn k<.'YP their own recnnl nf points for retirement,

'3 pound B ounce salmon III tlw slatjun'~ .fishing d«by. Sernehow the figures got reo
II

NAS

SEATTLli-

Tony

Klns.

ADI, t-Jug!.!

1A MEJ,tpHls-Newcomers tv the station who feel lost are aided bv :t "welcome aboard" pamphlet containing a; map and up-

W,dllfe {ads orrwhat

f9F'S ANUBiiARCATS

is going

on

rhere,

versed lind the- judges gave him ODC of the rna or prizes, i{Qnf'$1 Tony put them ~l1i8bt, handed hack the prize: and won a commendsII>!'}' letter Frllm the Derby committee.

ON

NORTH

IStANO'S

DECK

air (QmfHe~OIS to f urn» h compressed air to (urn the props of the tiny [181'
BIf<1rml.r

on the Hight ned< throiJgh holes directly beneath the planes, if around to its parade. rendezvous. 0"
A war surplus
truck UJ1d chas·'·f~ haul

vi Scrt~tnber [949, the day after ber

big sister, the USS Boser, recei cd her new 1"91' jets, the Nortb J.ddJ/(J also recervcd ber P:1l1therJ.

The Iloat corrtimle5

actnal water

its realism by
past her

having

bow.
giv~

A conrlnuocs-flcw water tank it a ~in:ullatcd bow wave, One

its at the bow to drive the

flowing

operator

carrIer and operate the compressed llfr catapults, from which small balsa- wood aiqj.!:t.nts can be catapulred, Tile operator seated aCt controls therotation of the miniature radar .5 reens and the simulated Ering of the 5" main battery by puffs of talcum pOWder and n synchronized phonograph record of a saluei og battery i0 action, The master

kh Pol', flf/PllrellJly jlo/J!i#ghi8h rm 1$ hI 'he of M..exiro, is Air Reum)~ gl'OTtP op8Mlinf; 'lrorn AS' Pensseol« whu U!I.H jQrGl!d fa direh hi. plane, ,Abrllll! h,im bover« the >i((I.rckami rIlHUe" hl!lirf)f'lfl' [rom NAAS CorfY Fidd <iboJII to pld JJim fiJI hi.! hme/ 1 perch. The- pilal rna.!' seoed wi/hom ill/ftr, OF e1Jl!/1l;Ieliirlf; wet [eet,
Standin9 atop
iNI

pilo) oj

32

GROUND HANDLING EQU1PMENT

HJl ADVE"!T of turbojet airplanes and turboprop attack planes amI eaplane dic~ated the de~·e10rment of an eJilJtrdy thffe.rent tyjDe 0 ground

it is evidenr dial in prcpa.[rng adequate !1l'rpport for the seaplane bull 00 the cradle, means at 0 must be incorporated
that area. The Bureau

?~

handling

equipment,

To keep !'";u;:<:: with

the end of the last war,

the change of configorarions of these ..above·tbe-senclesrrooyers,·· the Bureau of Aeronautics has launched a new series of developments" and research to meet the problems pre ·elated. Heretofore mot of the effort has been directed toward impro ing the equipment available to the field. However. present trends an,' toward development of new equ,ipmerrl necessitated by the rapid change in design of n~val aerial weapons that hHS COUlE about since

buses, The prima!)' requirements; adeproteCtiPIl from both .arctic and tropisal weather and the need for shelters tliat call be erected easily in both climates, are still app1lfcnt. However, because the turbojet engines are instaLled both in the ings and i..o the fuselage.
quate the method. of removal of the e englnes bas dlwged the design of the sbdtl;:r from one which ('(I\'C{ the engine only to one which. of necessity, covers the entire airplane. A tuther problem is presented in that the inside of the shelter must be clear of ob~lructions. BuAnn. has awarded a contract for [he development of a belter of this type, and if is believed able to advanced base activitie·.

for the rernoval of orne of these Sllp· ports in rue H!pair5 are necessary in
of Aeronautics is ap-

for design rudics and dynaruJS mode~s, it IS believed that many question Will be answered without the expense of building a full scale prototype. Til is article on new rrends In developmerit of ground handling eqlllpment has been presented to acquaint all personnel wtth problems which confront B'uAmt

proaching

thie. problem

by c?nlr:u;;.ting

in the maintenance of each new type and in some instances; each new model of 'aircraft. Tbgo;s.i:s toward wllld, rnent of rnaintennnce equipment may he summed lip as follows: 1. a minimum of equipment, i. ease .in the use of equipment, ) less time required for sepair operations, amI,4. equipmeat whic;:h
can be used on rarrrers and thore bases. the Bureau

is

striving

in

the develop.

urbojer aircraft ha e presented problems such as the need for t\ universal type stand which can be used for removing and installing the turbojet errgice. This problem i' . ecmplicated ?-y the different connglJr, trons of turboJet airu,lit, the different IQcMiQll.s of the eng.ines on (he aircraft, and further, by the differenl configurations of the turbo-

thu this e'Iulpment soon will be avnil-

aboard aIrcraft' carriers, Here equjpment

must be kept, r a minirnurn. Therefore, a I ogk:a 1 answer Is equipment that can adequaleJy SUpp~;IJ:t many airplanes and engines.

experleneed by jet-equipped squadrons, The need Lor this universal inst'1tllation equipment Can plainly. be see~ by theproblems presented 111 11l1lIIi lel'lan,{c

je't- engines themselves, An attempt is being ro. de ro include soluricns Ior all problems now being

has been established by the use of constant rurrenl starters-now being installed in the englIles used by F9F aircraft. Jil the pa.~t the turbojet engines hsve been
proouemcnt of mobile power units equipped with a generator which <.".11l meet the power. requirements of both the constant eorrent and constant voltage Sta.rtilll; system . The turbojet aircraft has further t:han~ed the requirements of aircraft rnaintenance shelters usedaL advanced sol ed at present

A similar problem must be met In providing sarufllctory rna in t e on n ce stands fOI jet engines; this probJem is bein.g approached in the Same manner, Another trend in ground equipment

consideration of _BtrAER is clevelbpment of equipment to aid in . 'spotting" large attack aircraft abourd carriers. In many situations, such as the neeesshy :l ['tight spot" during certain operations, it would not be practicable to maneuver <l large airplane by its engine, However. in some cases. where large I1;Lrcuft arc involved, the use of man PQw~r will not be possible; hence the need for equipment which ran maneuver th" aircraff in and out of tight places. 'The development of: lnrge seaplanes not equipped for the COn e.ntiofl:U beaching gear h(1,5 also presented II hllg problem. A seap 111 ne,TegJ! rdless ofs ize, must have {aeil ities for being beached. Heretofore these plane' were proil i~ed with fitting on the fuselage to which beaching ,gear was attached. hereby gwing the seaplane wheels- on wh ieh _ it could be rowed to shore for rep"ms. ince _present seaplane development has
NQ"'HJ!1l

A the

rot

advice contributed by an 'old sase who probably lUIS long been forgotten, "Observe the turtle; he makes PfO ress only
When his neck j out;" meet personnel have probably asked themselves and others (usuaUy in term

ways proceed in accerdorrce

The Bureauof

Aeronautics must al-

WJth the

too colorful

fOf

puint)

"What

is the

Bureau dQing?'This presentation of developments in gtOlIDd ba,mUing equipment, together with the constar;t drort which th Bureau of Acconaurics puts forth to improve present e<J_LJ iprnenr, is submitted it), partial answer.

ornjtred the conventionnl beaching gear fittinss to irnpreve the [~,ge and pay
load, the seaplane
studied crndle The being

~quipped with ~ constant voltat.e t~tt-mg sys~e:m. TIllS new pmblem LS bcmg

or the

nOt II. new a,pHowever, ' nex trend is established. ince the cradle should he Jhle to operate (rom established, well equipped seaplane brulm; as
itself
j

the problem.

beachln_g cradle as -a possible ans wet

IS

to

preach to beaching.

well as

UVWCC

bases which have a

minimum of facilities, Since .maintenance and repair of the hull is one of the rnsin reasons for beaching seaplaues,

Selling (lh{)i¢grap.hy lIre Virgin;.., Halla.! "!Hi iJ!"'1 HIt(k. Tbir time I(!,fte,,~recruiting. bail 111M IIS/1(J by VPP·51, ol reseroe pbolfJ Jfjutlarfl1l /jI1J~ <II NAS OAkland, Calif.

33

PATUXENT

REPAIRS
uf turbojet
e"!.ljn~~.,

JE 5

3. t'nH:.tIeaj iJV;lt\l~Ht"i of ~eh] rnuintenanre procedures. rools, l'ngim: test ~ta"d 5, ·etc:. 4. ['r'lfficai t'wlLIHtinn 111'"h~ -5~keohj!'it) lenge rnesented by Jet engines is mer in til(' um place they ,1PP.ear, Patuxeru, And It is rheL"e that the nrst "dope" is rut out La the eeentualusers.
NFnJ!,.M~'l'(f'}N. isn't the only til tn,j; FfO~ dueed ID this :;bo'j"I, It also serves .. as a supplemcarary souree of ~rilinjng for maintenance personnel from orher illfti vibieE. An e_1('l1mr le of Ul III WitS the tram if!g for {l four-weeks perlod of 2(,

By following these precepts, the chal-

TIKll II baby, ,I jat errgille needs IreLquoot ,change;; of accessories. At the Nava1 Air Test Center at Patuxent many of thc.se, new babies make their Jirsr ap· pearance. That means there must be fadItt'lt"S for putting 'ern through llie wash, Critic!!l parts of Jet engines need rep_1!l1:~cnt because of I:he higb temperatures encQullte.red III operation. It's been found that complete evcrhaul isn't

lyre 0,£ work on the spot, reducing the demand (or overhauled engines. In November of 1.9,49 the maintenance division of BuArm esta.blished a tu rbo.jet en.gi 11(; mi nor repai r I'a;;a ity under tltc superv·i.siQrl €If the director of Serl'ic.C' Test. Its fUfl·ctjon~ were to
be:
jet I. G;H1~I"!,ljdali(,Jl f minnr rtp1l<.j,l's nf tl.lrbi.)o el1£.in"" ff,r a II te$t divUtlons,
lICQpt

-alwaYli necessary, Simple rt!f1air is sur.

1. P~.u:tkd evaluation !\If the turbojet engioe minor Field repair,

of

office!"!; ~nd r'Ul!ti r rom th e M:ui,,~ Second Air Wing at Cherry Point. At prtlSctflt. ShO}1 personnel number L7 plus i1fl tlvto:m,ge- of .fiye TAD men. J1adory trailllng for men from reparr a!:t;yitie.s is I irnited. CutawllYs arc flot avd iLrble, A.s a resu It- requests f rom many commands are bein,g received to t:rllill men at Patuxent where tile number who om adually wo.~ on an engine is relatively large. Instrucdcns are being drawn up for class "C" maintenance facilitie..<; definms the amount of repair permitted in FAS;Il..Ofi:S lind service squadrons. The j-.'lO Turbojet Engine Bulletin No. 'jCl IJf 7 1an, 1949 W:aS the nr::1t set i.%11e<1, while bulletins coveri"'g the )-J1 and h~are being prepared. Cdr. J. M. Peters is the direJ.:(Or of Servi~e Test, while Ll_"'. K. Cf;ncf" baugh is in chaf.ge- of the Service Test jet ttj).'1.i r 'shop,

w hen j~b; first: carne in to tile picture BuA 1'1\' began to set lj-J1 overhaul shops, H the meantime, however, thl" SC[.vift' Test ·clil'l{lfQn of NATe tlSt"blisheQ a turbolet cflBiMShop ftii' repair ~\Ild modification of engines, Since regular overhau! act,j,l1ities 'Weren't in position to handle the nll'w engines yet, the shop of Service Test $UPPO!l'CCQ all artiv(tie5 at NATC iLnd d'l other N,l"Y £Iutfits 1.I3in,g .1-.1(1, and ) 'J~ ill rho jet eogi nes, Sinu' ther!:' Was a b~ckiog of en.gjut!S awaWng o,~crhaul bUl rttibouy ready to: handle them, Patuxent u id the next best thil.tg and replaced parts ill Sl'ctrons :lffettin~ 1.m,~jl1e lih .. The pIl'ljt:d sll,l'ed time .Lrid mO\H.7 ana lCjll 'em flying. A~ QV(frh:lUl $hoJlS ,gOt underway &..<! jel ~hop'~ .;;cOlle dimini s heo uatll now it suppcrts the Test Contel: only. In itstifl1e it pro'.'eci that field repair ~al
could go. As d result service squadrons now

n,dent,

pcssible and

ddefm

in12_d just

how

far

I"M;ltOfl.'

it and

do. the same

Res trre1iert

34

Drill Saver
Ulna

for

Rivet

Work

MS··3,3.El Tmto--'ro overcome the cernp,"Qblem of br~n.k.ing drill, wnll~ JrilJ.

AD's Use New :Sight System

Dmtglas Skyrcude. delivered (or Ilee!

J\1,...,

it

lrcroft now being

equippe(l

~I.s(·

are. being

with the newest

~N:.ilJh

u·f the Aliuaft

Sight

ins uut rivet), M/ 'cgt W. K. MILll_g-rUI1I OJl the metal shop mstallcd ••n the JOllr smallet sir.!t!d driJlii d spr;lI,!: IOllcit'd 8wu-d whi ..), Iw calls ~ "dril! MIWI." Th;~ device h~~ lither ad • .nnt<l~ I'll that it om be used Lei dril] thrnugh one ~hwt llf material in case another piece IS astened 'With space intervening between the drilled piece and U1t: pf 1;'(;1: nnt requiring drHling.

ysrern Mk I Mqd. 3. Tills ind'lde~ the sisht unf. Mit 1 Mud ~. th e eonl rul btl'"' ~'lk L8 Ml:1d 2, nod the rehlj' Mk 4 MQd I.
A~ROWS SHaw FAILEDRIV.nS

To .aeeomplish this. the. drill saver justed by lovsm.in,g it with nIl Alk"l
dri~et ON faD MOUTIl parts breakage, carefully clean the . eed mechani rn and. pre erve with- a thorough Wiling of grease, I~·G·IQ ( rd), rock No. 14·G-"5, ~nd p3(;kllgc by Method 1.1\ in ac(mann"': with rpccificn,tion J.~N-P"llb. Dispose of (he umatis-if,ct<1ry item II.~ Class 2.65 Avilltlt)!) Ord111lIKt Equipment in ,,~.I!(\rqant(> with the ,nstruction ,({lntIlJ.ncd in Aviation [rrular Letter No. 1848~Hureat1 of OLdnance Ci rrula r Letter NQ V 1·49 or latest revisien I·hereof. Muintl"JJ:'Inct' pl-r~\Jilri"J nco:: referred tt' T"dJnk~J M<rnuaJ 9-2.29 and BUrovJU (If Ordnnnce Letter f41,'(Ma'Sa). WHW,fb dated 17 Aug-Q51 1949 for main, \p the. distanre from the tip

is adscrl'wof the

dd II desired and dg1'ltetl in&" the Allen screw

MK 4 MOtl.

UI._A,Y

Mit I MOD ,

SIGHT UNIT

cclllTlI.a_L
M"

18 MOD 2

aoox

DRILL SAVlR

COMPONENTS

(l):

lfUJAllED

(Rj

This si"ght- system is w;t'Ll in arrmng :Buns, rockets, and bombs. 1.t P''''M'[J~ 11 rc:ilid I'attern on lilt iLit<t.;j1 wjrlJ.~lti~Jcl for use in dt'tl!rnliolng
()i

again,

in -solvin_g the _wtkolt nr gunnll'ry problems. The retidt can b,e .;!d· iusted ln elevat ion rnanual ly to provide the Mcess¥u'}' .,if ets fur gmu.nd struJin8 and. div
bombing, The Aircraft Sight System Mk 1 Mild
j

lead required

aaimuth

or az imurh

components

tenance inforrnauon
mechnnisrn.

pert.l.inlng

tn lhe fwd

Altimeters

to Get Snubbers
vihratiun mounts, 0 nnw being h:f"ri.. n and f!'ll' -Spares nubbers as shown

differs From previous modJfieariM in that. tile sigln unit has [10 provisions fllr mount~f1I~h'p~d, and I.h... CO'Ilb',-,1 bux provides iodir""t lighting ,jl t!li;' d;aJ~" To provide an electricnl S,TllfCC for il.l ummation of the dint. the- rurrtrol hulC. .Mk. lS .Mod 2 I'Jii3 a -pin A. cunn 'ctor in Jie... of lhe -pin
a,

To pr .. l <Ide damage ro x 11.11altimeters Mk (, Mod nished tor .. iraan illSialhu ure :bei!l8 "'lui-ppcd with eter

Another advantage is Lhal excess wear on the chu I,: of the drill is elimin...~ted b the lower portion fff the drill .saver, The chuck, insteaci of (1"lIltu;IIJing through under pressure anti Cf)nta.cti!'1g the material being drilled, tN1t~Ctl< the lowl'r portion of the drill saver which is rounded and sm~otJ,. TnI' drill sa~'n was rrllide from scrap
metal rna hined to the duneusions needed for V~,tif.UI;' $iw<1 drill. lind the ~p[:ing Entin "hroken t<:,n metal fastener, An. Allen screw W.lS inserted in the upper part to ,~MC Ih~ ,k\'j~ til the drill itself Tv keep lhl' lm"er portion of I be d ril I saver fit rened 1.1 the spring and prevent 11 from falliog or lipping off 111(;" of Ih rnachined top low!'i' portion. it is machined at slight ogle. The sp.rins II111~t be installed over it with

i[lS

in the .a~,ompRnying photograph, The altirnMk r. Mod \1 is 11 Lim'lp1ment llf tho! bomb director' Mk 3 Mod 3.
"These snubbers prevent damage when
It

C()nm~ ·{('Irpreviously used in the contrul box Mk.. 18 Mnd I. Oll1er Lh~n thL~, the Air(fnf( Sight Sy,(e111 Mk 1 MIld 3 1$ rompl~tel\, i[J!erd1angeabt~ with earlier mods.

Feed Mouth

Rivet Failures

heavy II()ad or a,ccc1enttion force is applied on the vibration mount by pEl· ('"oting .TII.veU1CI).t beyond the normal lUount llrnirv, The snubbers, made of aluminum alloy lxu stock, are placed ton n II Ivy r sides of the use, and tilch i~ equipp~ with ~'hQrl lengtD$('If ru'hber tllbmg fnr- absorbing the loads imposed by the ultimetor unit. diamc:!td
pb~Ir;.) Altimeters equipped with snubbers may he identified by solid yell,1W circle Va inch in

the aid of p,,'e55Ijte~ once put on. however,

It wijl opt sjir> off.

Engine

Changed

In

3 Hours

me Art jvie ies servi ring ~jtcra.foI; n~cd not ref'llnying ph<1tI18r:Lpll p(1in-t to rlvet. blllltes. pl'JCC '1IIi]1ieler~ lh~lt urc- til' mt'ing AArisThe teed mouth rivets are- crlti,~t and failure fHctotH . u.."tt!lJly results ill II. f!'t'd malfunction. Feed ITltchunisl1\!; nqW " eing produced "WIll ;n(0rp"ra\~ strnllg er dve j n the 'of' flange I'If lll~ [eecl mOtl!". 'fh., rivet drurneter I;rrs been increased from j!lf'i II> l/II iB,h. Th~, (h({I1,g~ is. nms;,kr(;J impmdi:11 f"r fidtl .,cL_ivil;~S tv "'«(lmplhh t, ft't:<i In('(h:mi~",~ in scrvjr' use_ Therefore, :to OMl.V for a(;,,,.npll£h.i.ng the. t.hal1se ;~ 'Ynt pl,ulned, During roulilJt> milint~l1linCe (If fhe fted me,~.IIIll:;m. very dos!' inspectiun ol tht: fe>:d ni-outh f", rl'l(>1. filAture' ~h_(lllia b mad!:',
'fhest' fHilwe.1 :trc dijflCUIt tl) d~r",t .<l~ bC(~ak;lge <nay occur at u. SC~ ion (lj the rivet thlll cill11wl Iw <;t.'Cn. The:' Oluritt'r- "unk head r~m,Jr15 hrmly In plj!(!;'. sivinS nn "ISIble

·U'uC'tul'll.I failures 11( the Ti\i(:t.~ provided ftl! ;l.tllu~11illg the frllme (OI1lf'on(Jot& to the fe~d mouth, 20mm feed mechanism, hN-M2, have nccurred, Til", il rruws in nceem-

,lircL1ly bUI,"'" the name I'J....tc. (See-

om: of the squadron p lots, pur his FQF Pan/be,- d1)w!I on all nud~i[lg i'iel.J bb:auMO of engine vibration, i1e ~t:t jo· tv itWlinn ~ ch'~'J" hE events wludr .showed ,... al .. weJJ.t1"a.incd ~ngin(;(.lring department h

VF,')l-When

run dd in an emergenry.
Inspection 110 (he i{'lIJt revealed the .•ircraft had severely damaged 1('<. jet turbille J.hd \VaS incPp!lhfe of dev'doping ltu.fficieM

power [0·( ukc.,,/f nr even nurrnal f11ght. It WII-, d"oded Ih~t "- new engrne must bein~t" IleJ tu 15\'1 the pl_Llll" blIl..k ttl rts fieJd, ,11 w(lrcli WU5 ::;eIU bllCk lu the sqll-acirl)o. IWd
Ihe (ll;l'ginO;'errng del""tlmcnt sWI'n~ mlu

hl~h

gtM,

With 0., fafll,tl{zs aVatlaht~ ...t rht: 'Halting Jield for .ijll tl'l.gm~ I1h1l1$, ;L)l tl)ot~ JnQ tqu il"l'r1cllt hUll III hl' t~t.;cn hy truck 1~ mdes
III the di""hl!;d p13ne. Tilt: p-J~Lle \Venl dllWJ\ JI 14(H); nf')Vs .• llil r.equired change rCllthud t'TISirwcring at 14~Oi the new under Lt. O. f. Gibson left ·~t I'; I" ;Irnv"d at fh~ li.dd ,It 161m, Ml<l ~;I 19UO the cngine-WI~ lnst,oIItrd, Jl:fotr.nd ~be~ked '!lJd ~ct to fI'.. to home bas.e.

IMdiC'Jtiw]
In

"I (a.ilu:u:.
of ~trlJrhiml failu rt:
lJr

the event

POT

IDUJTlflES

ALTIMETERS

WITH

SNU8BERS

35

were

observed

~rQund

bolt

head,

Examine-

tiun ~howed that bolt had been partially hroken some .l ime prev ious t" corn plete
ratlurt,. E'lldosure Se'leeto.r Yah'e. Cockpit enclosure would nnt remain in tully closed Iw5illOll when selector \',d\'(: handle was plueci!.l M "5IOp," hut would ereep open alwLl-t J,t" to \/2 inch, Check tll selector valve (JJ'! -iest bench ff,dlctntd th",! intern~J lellk~ of wive "\I'!L' oC(Utrlng, with great, est amount of fluid being bl'-pam<:i bark tn ~ITW r gea cy !?ll,,-l mJ ItU I'll e. Valve was db~ss;<:mbled 3.nd eJi'i;lrll;m.ldon _howe.d that faa of rotating piston had been ~\;l'l ed hy shaf J? un bro ke'{Io;dge,; of ~I,!,jg r 1"1 loaded port sellrs. R ..M(IMieml tlfnl saris'funol), eaclosute seleerei \'a~\1e be provided "flu that ~el«!toc "'~l"c be Nlurnecl to contrMlor [or ltr\'e~JJgation lind cerrecrive
acr'(1l1.

ThJ:. 'lI:g~od. tl1jv;ioJ'" the 1~ j_1,QuIu"!l>'~ 'ttt"f,.tI "r ~1'·~ '1'~". NA'J'O "II"II'1\I:l'I1. a-"~ d<>o.. n<>t "~.,"'''n r!l~' (otdl O~I B ~IA~" 11all. y.
l!~I>O'it

.'lig)1t-O£!" S rombustitm w~re from

F2H~ 1 1248 Hours)

rnudcquillt braking r~spllr\~e during- tilKiing arul r'lpid of1en. Ing "j bla,;! tub" shu tters a!"wr r:nd ,AJght ,lIdj .....1I.'d uir hlMI1ge- in cmnp u.'~ eJ ai r sysPre-s$ .....e Ten •• , A~5em,bly.

n m\l'!')r ('h<!CK Two minutes (liler n, hot spot Wll~ observed .. Ii No. cllalnh~r, Ellgine wit., irufTIe.,{;· ately shut down. Inspeetioa 5h1:Owcd rhar No. 8 combustion Ci'h,tnller und tail cone.

up nfter

~lightJ y wllfp~d, picres "Were fl1 <ssin,g No. 8 1iner-, ilnd hOI!-$ wf't¢ birtfl{,d

tern, lnvesrigarion showed tha] 411-(;-.J1)() tank il-sst:mbly. located in fuselage under wekpll tkmr .\1 fu.sd!lge 5mJ i'~11 9(i.OD was Te ~ki-",g Ilf 't~flk rnid-seetion.

Di:ill5sembIy of hUlk -shuwed that the: tW,J "0" rlilgS were deeply gn!.(ge.] , Tank j~ deslgo e-d so that ..0" ~J Irs;. cannut be s" leI ded during =(!~b!y or di5nS,sc1nbly. R~r;Jm-

",Nul
Fllel

~at

sij:tjsmctory pressure During

tank assembly

be provided.
opero.till~ of engine l'Ofltro.1 serlel NQ. H)@, numeroes "hrrt starts" W(1re esperienced, ~ml [be engine idled at oNcs~~vely high RPM at altitudes above ;'1l.()ClIl feel, 11l ""-t(l'm-pt to obtai!l §ati sf act".y cflgi \1 e operntion. fO'el control wns replauld with [WII new fud "'nltnJs that m:llf"nEtium:d es rl'lh)w~: Serlal No. Ul62-----1~ud k'ilk<!'d! rom control bbllJI -a~s""llhly tli(lphrll-gm, (hrClltle 1)1'rfil',", bo~,j' S11skel, ~nd P~1ll£l hle~J plug (l 1¢k_o.· tor valve bod)'. er;~1 N", ItJ66-VioJe!1l engine .surgillg (")".urred .\t 90% I'JllP:ltlJ ,lbr.m:. Di$a$Sl.'tnbly uf F.ue]conlwJ dillphri!gm body groUp showed Ih.1i gll~kct betvle-Itn acetler;1!iem valv,1.' site"'!!' nnd c:lp~ule- fUrl ,J~ve wu impmpEdy in· .stu Iled. Engine upet:;.(t1on wa4 ,il.tisfllc:rnry Conil"ol.

tbr1il~h~i::;:_ nczale K<lide vaues (No. )(" t!mJ,u,g)l N'J. 41). T'hese Fatt~ und fuel I'l,wzte~ were replaced. 00 ~~nn:d f1jghl <lft'l.'r engine WDS relJallt'd, voltage regulator raikd ,50 rnroutes after tlIKe-nff -wiLh airplane at an Idtil>wde of ilS.{j(1Q fl. Pi]nJ smelled Ql,lmiflg insulalion and ebserved that vnltrnetee ~lIIw",d maximum "olt:t'ge (30 V>:'Ilts or over) • Postflight iru.pl.>ction revealed tile fo [tow ing: All radio (1[(1-1 it brea kers, ~I-J(C flight instrurn em
Cltcujt

rear

Sumpl!!let. Oil Jeakage occurred rrom Qil ~UU1p jn_I~!~onll<'Kti,)Jl. Inner SUt· fa,r:~ W?s worn in several places, .R.6(VJ1II1/11!!IJ tha.t SlIt; sfact@ry Tear 01 I sump inlet conneCtion he provided', CogllIgReloy.

on

for the
-u{tet

Caging relil::J', piN (l8__S>R.-Jilo. p, t automatic pi lnt sysfelJl faU~d ]:)(,/ b IJ.. rs aire raft opera ti ng tl n1 e.

NQ

Wlilo.AG

\~ith fuel

bfl'"Jl0-r had he€.n actu~ned: gun heMet cit· curt breaker (:~O -amp) had burned out and fuj!.ed to actuate; all radio equiprnen t W:1:; ,~e,?t!I'fl)' dllm~ged: COckpit elm air valve 3nd ternperature controls wec~ inopemtjve; hutItllf'. dive brakoe!;nl~()id vulve, WillS flap selecfor solermid valve, Gi! ccrnpass amrli-

hreaker, and the fuel

t;!lm;r~t

circuit

Since relay i~ 11 sealed unit, no -Ilr(eml't- WlJ' made t(} deterrn ine rouse. fl.ul}mme1lti return of catin_g Iala), to Contractor for in v(:,!;l,. ,511:tiofl :lod tOm:cti¥e action ..

breaker we III d no I remain dosed, Investigatloa showed following discrep-'.!lIci es ~ sh ort cl rrult in t be: 1 00 11 hm r heo srnl ~ 0 ne of th e f 00 t: prongs WJIS b ru ken from acumtor (lJ:t;le 0-0 rheost~1 lQf)it1l1 sh:t-1t.
providing a ~nti$fal't-pr)' interior Iigbt con! ,<) I elleostat and Sti'englh ening 0 i O~!tible ((IUpJillg ~lorl~cl actuator plnles which Cl)lfnect JiI'I)(,'tly tr> rhel!strll ~~~embty ((_mtrnl knob.
UlJrQrIIll1~11J_

I.lght ,Contnl '(lIltrQ I ci rcuit

Rheost"iIt.

Interior

lighl

ii.::r, and G2 compass inverter ha<"i M he 'ep[nced. I nVl'litigatlnn is underwuv to detorm tn(; cause of these hilun:s. Fliel NouleS,et Assembly. T nspertlnn of fuel nozzles !If J~HH engine N{I, P'40Q:i1l
during. nO-hour check showed exce,~ive carbon deposits .on nanles No, 21illd No.4. Engine l1;ld b~en ~peraled 0)1 grade LlQ/L4~ gasolirn: r"c 4L~ hours- .. n,~rh~n '0)111AN·F·5~
{!le,1 fu.r S 1.6 bOllfS.

R'3 SO·'2·6WA En9!;!!e. D u rr IT S invesbgalion of engine malfunctioning, following cii$crepMcies were found which ~rct believed (0 b.~ve aff<;:eted engine pte:rJiHIll.:nce:

below

E&M Md!'llla'i. No intm;m"'1:ttlfl on tbe J~~ afwr !tl'sket was iosta.Jll'ld priJp-er Ly. in the R<'1.'()mflll?rIlJ that snrisf~dory hue-! ~·l.l(1tI'01 ()n!!,ine or access(Idcs h ind\ldcd ~ b~ pf!lyided fur J J4 mrbojet engine and th,o,t El'crti 00 lln,~ M'li Iitel1!lore lY[llh~1L The is infottJl"!i:te ill ofl1J:!r I'ha5ei; ll'Ivrc (I,," it!TJSh bene h _tests '"f fue I ro ntro L~ manuali\lso ~f 1'~F'2 ffiitlntetlll.nl:e_ R<¥tllcm'#1ld GM[,eqt.on bl' wlJdllded.
turbine' :lssembly fro.rn engine- N...,. \V~l!I;!:J~. I osred: Ion of (ombnst Wf'I dJ am ber linet revM)ed n:J.cks in i.OlJer 'und outer bO-rtH;t~ d<lwn~{_ream flf e(l!l1bLf~tkln wil1dov;r,_ n~ i'nJltiw", twit ('r-,tLk5 ;n. nuter cylinder fOr ,II
D!.Ijl:'r

1k.-", eftltmct c r i~tics w c.rp !Ie II: minimum in crl.li_,e rower range. Z. 1'1)e AMClleedle wns ,ticl!/11S at pr~S~1. Carburetor 0'1 appIQximaldy 10,000

u;re altitude

gU1llmy 011 tEsidl1le was f01.Jnd on the AMC n~edle and rl<:eo;lle lJollsiog. The Handbook
Overhmd In!$trll(tiolls ftor the Hemlix Illict-rl_"" c,,_fbu+eto,rs provitks: f{)r h,b,riL-tL. 11011 OJ th~ need.l~. prior to as$<!mbh', WlID
tlf

ft.

Cambustion

l,r

Chlfmber

I.;iner.

After

r<'rtlnv·

(If E#1

NLtnuill.

H:ydrcilllh~ Filter .E,lel!lenh. Mt~1' 2L h,,"r:s I.)f l1p,,~ti'lll, hydrlluliL fiJt~-t el..o\~-Ol~, P!N'S ,IN 6?n'J8 :Kud liN ~W"I, wet!: h'~l"~t:t..d ..nd ft:mncl to h;!~'e fnif~\d. R~('iMlm#ltd til"t satls. fu.ctory bydro ~ tic filter ekJI:H;!fIts De pnw,id.il.

cilh,·t "Gred~g" .gtllphlte ,g-rell~e No. U. nr ml)tor mic;T mLx~d with 51,e.n,}, r,,,draulk oil. sp~c. No. AC,,;l'80. Clel!f!ing (If tho:' lll';~dlt ""d needle Twu$lng with 'l! dry rng(OmpletEIf ft'~ the nt'!"tlle :find <J.lll1wed if to Ill'er·
~Ie satisrllct.o ry ~t nil presslIre
j,

OUJe r

of

bllrnn~ 14 (1'tICks in ifln~r qHnder of bu Iller_: Iline "'tIl ekl; ill inner ('I'li fide r inner :burner,

AD-4 {167 Hours}

rurplal1(" h!l~ been -gn",,.,ded for rno~ of pi!'ril~~ fo, investigation of r.Q_ugt.l ensine [J per!1ti on "t ;Jlti.t>.t dUj; b,·t\y"en 5,(1 DO :rn d J 0.000 feel ';lod !.he int'5'encc (;If ~ee,>~iv(; oil in inthke ~rs-rfi1l,' Engine (CUr lieetr·on hJl~ bl-ol:'O x~m[1v(jd ufI-d sent ttl Wright /\,,_,-o, na ulkn I Corjtlorotion lor- iM5tig.11i(jn

~'Ititudes.

Ga:;qllne If;:lkall~ W~$ Q~,llJ"ling be!",,~en wpefch~rger re:lr housing ;llld imj:lclle.r io.win n'"-r dkcha:rge y(lLve hO,l,T.5Jng be(-<I) The "0" ring seiJl arouod the fuel p;\!j~ag" between the supm'fl1lt_get reM Iwusi,ng Mil h;npe_llcr 'In jectj (I1:1 spinner di.s-d1argl' valve hi«usinS was nOl seated P.fOpeu:Jy in the' "0" l"inggroov:e-. (b) The ~upet· jett:ion rnu~~:

Cradt~

were

hetween

spot welds

that

M-

("ru1nettnc~ to tlie lhlrd ~'eJ> I r-1I1 hW"ner~. TIl is ~n'lf ne hltd ~tttn op(:m ted 50 ~ hours on AN·I'-lS fuel and -7.5' houriS all ,,'·H'C5B (Jp'J)' rud. _f{i'Fomlfltllll in~~ti~ 81101.'111 ;1m1 :co.rrection Qf Qu~e foL.ilUfe- of Illih Ille fourth

c0mbmtiQ[J

rilam.ber

11lll1f.

or

F9F-2 (281~ Hoursl

Only Four Bights were mad~ auxing this J'lerimj, Oil I S Ntl~ember. Eng.ine W!l~ tu.rned

Fuel I.njedlonl. The fllld illJection illseri plugging bult. piN 111$013..00 No, 10 cylin· der pro"ke when Il very smllJj lotqu~ WIlS
applied (he,klCd to bolt h(,<1<l This {pr light~ssaIter bolt fUel
"I>,'tIli

dlll.rgq r€u hOlJSmg !1Jl.d the impcolter in, iectioD spinner ,liscilarge va Ive hOil;sing ,,>ere 4. ImpeUer i... Jectio.1I .s_pinner dl;!Kh:u:-tle was (loc].:.ea in its heusing, whicb

misaligfled. valve

dye

being :Strons

·36

Ee8t.T1:cted

m\lS~ 1'111\'.".

imc11'l'lit(.fl'lt

malflln.ruoning

of

ilie

1 !llpei ler WlIS not properly blilancecl. E ngj ne rear seeti on was remo ved and deli~ercd In the. Wright Aerorumti;ca! Cerpor,LtiOt! tor Investigation and eorrectlee adjo.o. G,tihUIlltur was removed and fi(JW tii;ml.ctllr· ;·.;iks Gila Aged to Jail Vi' j th in limits Iisted in tarbllN!tor flow sl1eet. A new .AMC unu w~~ j!'lsta 11«:<'1. RlicofflJlte/ltl: t . Insure Ihal earburetors In~taUed en engines a~UYete.d to t,h!!' service ~!,ve 11<)0/ characrcrlstlcs within tile sp~ified
Jl.1.l\'.

("<lu.nd Ulll:t rotOr could. not be brotlgnt lip to speed sufficient to operate the indicatcr. El<c<!'liSiye noise in instrument indicated, tli.at rcrer beatings were -fIlQhy. Varuum pU:lJlp and vacuum tiDes trom u.strume.gt to pump were inspected and brO'IlZ~ particles were round- th,('JlIgbolll tbe :s)'SI!lIl1.
Ya.cJuill'n .Pump. After 86 hours of op(Or. 1(tiOn, engine driven Wlnlum pump, PiN R'&6.61 0.-1t, fa.; Ied un d I"a s removed fos .in-

ReM Antenna
VP·23, MrilMr-A

Handles
IW'!

VHF

about leing tr(lub·

les 1111~)' ~m'!'Itl funn}' (oming !\rum Miern], bill rhis sqllaqron It"d irs Ft.oblem~ with the vr H 1\riC-I un nsre J ver an Iollila and ficked

them.

limits. ::. Investigate necessitY fo,r lubncation Q1 the AMe needle dlJ.rirtg l\.~.~'embly I"lf ~he AMC unit. J. Opl!-utlng acti.vities l)'iake lhe fnlili",;ng pte-Bight dwd: for indidlruon <)f illel .le!tk.
io. impeller in)miM fllel disdJar,ge'

vestigation, Pump WIl.S disassembled and ri>lrnd to <,amain a l:lr~" :I!um,oum shaVing <lpprpxirnately %!I x Y,/' lodged b~tw~~1], ,nne of tile rotor wiles and the pump liner. nli.~sll~ vi-rl_g prev~nted rotal (on 0 r the rotor oint! I;tI used, line spl1ne drive fb~It tn shear, Rn:.-all1l11ttld caution durmg IUstlll1aU(1Q
vacuum
5ystem

pass~gt ..n,d :l.t Ute irlje,ti'On ~pinner dis(·h,u.g..., ".at vt': (a) W itll fuel ~elector v,~!ve on and rsixlim: r11,11rieh. l lim 0 nth e auxi I j~r.y fuel PIJ1Tlp. {b) After prr;s5'lite Jta~ built up. turn fuel ~~Ie~t!lr valve [HId 9!:1'.j;ili'llry pu ml? off, (cl If no l~Jtbs:e is tII,king place in fuel ~1.I~Mg~ or ~t dlscharge Vltil'C-, . the: fuel ,Pressun will holJ at appruxill)a:~cly '6 lb;. psi.
(do)

llgtl

tnllwri~!.

f"

provent

enfry

of

,ur

ftlreign

IIAFH£PLAH

PII!:.vtNTS ICE ON ANtENNA

BII,5E

ure C1Ich lw(,l minutes tory.

DQnulged Gaskets.

0.'\0

ullowable

1 lb. drop in fuel press·

is eensidered

~ati5Eac·

RAtK

o~

IIOCK~RAIlIiO~OS

THE :SMOKE TANK

Illyestign.lion of oU ltl:lknge in "idni.ty of rear oil .su.rop and pump showed lel'lWge at both re-tx o'iJ sum p a 11d I'U m I! ()"ii outlet co nnect i.o 11 fb age .!oJ at nil d,Y<lrtet valve. on-in .fllll;Se. becituS,e uJ dambged !funge g'l\s"kets. Gasket:;;
were from re,pThred with thkkerg;lS-ket new ones made locally Lnl!be.cin I. l{(}t()t/ltrienJ

Rocket
V A-74-To

Rail Carries Smoke

~t;t'p ftOm "s!iorl.t:.hanging"

,o~ 111<." IIeav·.!, thi". is ;J short llntenrll.!: installed On t<\1Pof the iuseJage. _Belng short, i( p-it!1U up lee reo.dily aDd shorts out, Old. .~~~' pilot, with lets of A.r.genlia, dut)' Mdt>r Lfll!i.r beards !ell l",ir·."u~£Ilg ta les of r¢;tt.bmg out of tbe e~wpc hatch lind knnekiog ice il!f the antenna with tho: d.ip stick bet()J"e being lIblt: loge( lunJin,g jnMrudlOflS. VP_·?3 fech lhis imf'o5i.\> :tn added risk to the- dip stkks. til say Mthif18 of froSJ,bitien pi Iots . p!,,~ tb e possibility ...f ~oap pir!g tl re VHf antenna, so we h~"e attacked the Jlj oblem &wn a di.lferwt Mglt.
Tests were ren with the ARC·I v fff' trans.

sorne
titis

~~rnbJ y W~5 ret' Iaced with new h.igh lfiIS! on lenil itllpport "';1h (1lshiAned :5Uppo~t damp,.
Tlt&(>JiIMcI1Ii

I1mt satisfaaury fla:nge ga:skets be pzcvided. Spork flu,!:! Insel"t. Front spark plug inSf·rt in Nn. HI C)' iitidtr was found .~abe IQbSe :lfV! IliS hours of engioe cperarinn, Re,.rmt. IIlllmi i nves1igat ion of -m~thod i.asta.lkn.ioo of spa rk pl ug j 1Is'e;rtS in cy Jinder~. High Teulon DistrIbutor .. B.ubller fO;'er· iog of left high ((,MiQ!) distributor lead splil nod cracked. During remoyul of lead it ~<l5 f'Jun ol. to be lDo-~el)' su ppo !'ted with H!JIl-<:ushiQl1ed so.p-po-rt dlUl1p3~ Lc'llcl U·

or

pilots d1Jdn.g bornhing ptutice, Jigurea out " way 'Iomrry a P rlld'ICe b OII)b lu ado I) the roc ker racks, Whm [igse.:! wjth hflJy- Woks, the plnne uses theremniniog bOmb slu.clde to (!Il'r~ II. M'!c- 47 rli/rullturc- bt,lmh m;c;k. To 'f:Jtty " ~tftoke l1ug~h one Of more 1'1"illlflS"n the flight i C'J.noot carr)' a prcactke bomb load.
l'IftJ-t-

squ:fdron

ceiver ,connected to the .. ·sUM IlCId- stub n antenna 'which is I'ndr.1SNI in It WQOd>!Jlet~1
shield

:qble is stIung ;dollg th~ insIde (If the- bomb bu y's and II sh i!'t to ei,tl:ie~ aDlet)na (lUI 6 e made "hal" i~ HIg~Lt \l1'rthio 21} miles, il
appears Past this distance, a few bllld.muts were !1(\led' doe tb blo..:k.iqg by the fuselage. Little difference w~s 'lot!;') in -the rnUltimUID r.Ml,!le between the use of the regular VHF antenna and the RCM :stub antenna, ice team ~OJ'mj ,g around n To help prevent the base ,oF the
tmtl;'nha

with

23

feer

of xoaxlal

cable.

The

the- Joc',IliQn flt the RCM antenna,

there

Me .~[) blind

5p".ts because

or

sol ,,~<l byalterinJl II SCAR [!lil to talce a .!Irk s Mud Q bemb ~hll(kJe ,s.o that th~ smoke LighltQt11cl be
Tbe problem
W.:lS

lttJprIJvlngqWllity nf ¥l.lb!;er cove.ring on highrensibn ig,njliori lell'ds: replacil1g o(ln'UlsbIPned suppGrt clamps llsed 011 high tern;j 00 lead assern b I)' with .;ru..ni{ln
~lIl"port clumpli-: re.vising parts OltaJog for mod'Gls .llJ3'O·,GW :md ·Z!iW A engines, .,A N 0211, )~}G·4,U1 jJ"wvfde part nurnbjlts (0' tbe hi.!:ll rfI\~ll11l dt~trlfm t'Jf Jl:l);rl~,md for the. ~p~rk

The sht1(;kle -v.ons :litted with II Mk i rt'len.se with a t~aktl ig_rljtex plus: cQ!.loe(1ed to Jl:;~ FlJwer Jeud·j II. 'The 8C.AR raU i.3 J11ountt(ci in d.le con",,!;!· tional m:Um)U J:t $t~tiflQ # j ,1[ I.he .l'ock~l 'PyJolls and thC' smD~e light pll!~ed Oil tbe

rail .and strspeosioo bra~kels Gf the- shackJ~.

caeried el(Jer.mllI)'. The ~hllckie is, held in f?Osi ti 0 II by tw 0 ~ " 110 its throug h -th~ SCAR

RCM

~,nt!'rUl;!

and &wuwJin.,g the

wa;; insu.iied hen""lh tbefQrward' edl,'l! (If the- antenna t() the:- hold 116wn pl"t~. Th i, hJj!le defhts olrl!sttlte Of It;e.

phtJ)C'l

the

fH,ehige~

II

lImnll .a lUl11lnum baffle

fI~'~

I,Ci

pl~! leads.

AM~1

n 41 Hours)

shackle aDd -the !tlfic.ha:ni"m coCked. The rQCket IgnJte.r pI ~g rll(,fl is placed in ilie (od .. '1'( plug-in It.WJ'tiKk, Dropping the sffi!lh. Hgbt .i~ clont' by picltling the _ffjcke~ circuit st"tjon # J.

... B.uA r:r C(mm:u1Tl1- The invcruion of lhl! diversity an[enn~s p[us the ice..defleccing sbield wl,ieh ha~ been m()th!!t~d by I.h(>· nece:lSiry in tMB. i05tlln·ce ce.rt<iinlyshould

"r

on

Wheel .A.s:sembjy. Mtn 42 houn, Gul wheel was fuund 10 heave two hmkell tublllar mi.l'et!;. Gl.-no L Marlm Cu.p19posed tb ie. ?j)l.ce Grh'dy tail wh~el witb a wheel, PiN
tc!l;2l\lo.

give mo-re wJiabJ",VJ...IP ""(: ..ptiQlI,, H .... · w ever, til". AT·S3/AP alHetmo, extending "bQl.l( 23'1/ Qut:s:de the ~kin has better VSWR in {be ARC·} frequenty r!JDgiI' :Uld llhould gj,v.e ~9!l;1.,whar better reW!ts than

Ih!~ lllrtmft
I~il

1I1!lnnillrt.urcd
!,Va!; W.tS

dl'liv~red with tl1c Grrz:dy

A5

by

Lbe Aero

Co.. but

the AT-~2/AP which wa.s ~sigDed for the high~rJ~equency r<lDge., It fs cSomewh"t ineD.I''''eu: 'to say tIlat Ihe an I et'";!. "1S endosed in a woad.mel"l.
sbield"

(J.11 whl'l:linSlallcd.

",heel iLLrrri~h{'a b,y conti'll

thai ~i.tli~fu(t:[try
Tut,1I and
[11 iI

wheel

replaced

witlil.,n

reme.:lJnl "cd,)". hewl tail ,'1(l r. R/!'r"'mll~llIj

on the

wheel

be provided.
HOW'S VOUIt JEt fHIiUST, ~.lQW fIGHTER
BOMBER 5Hu~nE, GUPPY OIUI,G?

Bank IndltGtot. Ah~'r 116 hou.rs. l:urn n~e ht'cune inopefli~i\le. lMtfl)me)lt WllS removed :tOO he....:h chroed. hut .it "'a;; :

m~.plc mast .actually. conatil:l,lfe'S' !:be r"a~i<!.tU;.g efeQ1e.nl. Th" AT·145/A VHF sreeve ",,(enna installed ott neW'Cl:' airgrnft is ~oullded 'It dH~ baj;~a,nd hns an ill~uJadng section ill
illlpl'CgJI'lled

smc;e

the

meta. I (copped

plating

the middle.

A.ctual

tC'!IlIS

ha~e

pwven

thar

it: is more 0,' l<l~s i!,.'lensitjv" to icing. On.1! inch <!If i.;-e "t1ellt1'l pedo'rrnll~ce ned,"

37

Rest1'lcte(l

NAS, ~05se

Il£'S

New lOJ<In

,FIRE fIGH.TING
;ll/Im

UNIT

g.

I<)C~\erl on 'llie~!W

1'""",

~:Y.; l{ru. "

,1. '1',,",0 !i:.1l h ('·Jl<l~F.

t"""'wnl eOn1~,t~ "f tin: trOll ..... "''''''', I«"wd "m i>ilhtl "I'd'~, Ln ve u
f",.-wu,r-<J

-""un:IlI'11 ~h!<r.,

r,,~ro

5. 0" .. 1001 b,,~. lrnwto-d ""til\i!'''iSl,~,i,;.

bet"'"''''' the
.on hhe d!<er

~. '1'",1" ~eiL..,d~ 1'If<ht5. m"'\lnl".;l ~n>l "I th t~!l.i lne,

7. Tw,o """)$, moun I Nl ~~4~ i>y 'ide 0.,0 r.;,:rWILl"!i l,,!'> ~""rln1i .,C ~he tr;"ilel·.~Mh ."",. Lil,;nln:", 100 tee"t of ho~o, v·:l'I"~'~nd ntI:izlo.

.b~."

Fix

fot

Fuel Tonk

Patches

'l'h~ e~'ll"tn!mt
I. \VI1<ien. in"l'. wnter rl-Untlje...Jti •. FEELER GAGE MADE OF TWO IDEN11C4LP,AlUS
l'

wat;. rrOJOrllrait "" nders

,,,U"'I'B:

f rom ~"'Ivn god Ch r ~ 1tl~

Feefer Gage Checks Brakes

VM:F·3'j2', FAcmc-The problem of rapid Al<ijU5'tmo:nl of th('! braks Jiso:; of an I'4U js rNdiJ1 sol \led. by use nf 11:1(.'feeler S~gh mown in the 'fIcw.rnp11llyin),! photogrnphs,

~cOl\·'.e"(u,1 1:rob]

2. H,,... ~~.I~, es, "01pc, CO, /l\lJ:tle b.,i,! ~n,

eul
\'.HgIe-t1 fi:i""!;1

t ru

CI . k

r~

An idea for ~eHlil1;g rubber iittings ~n_d putches on ~df.,~n:Jl!lS fu~! tanks has won all lIwHd under the Navy llenefltial S\lgge.~· rion 'Program f.ur S, L Roi'l&h, Sallmaker lie of the O&H c1'rp;trtmeru, NAS P~NS-i\.COL./\.

~', Ll;v.hT.,,· nd f.,.,t"'r<,~ ""Mv~rcd J,,-qm , n.]vAgl>4 a tru~k nnd je",lh 4. ~h'<!<!'1met",1 rM<i!Ved. I'tam .Jiwl ..

The g~ge~ WC,II!o developed hi' the joint dfun> uf several

Toe t~tileT bjtt,h m'uy be used w itlreither lyre row gear and incorporates the incnia r~pe br;;J;" a-ctuat(uJ! ml"chaniSi!iI. fl',>wt:r for the ',l.....rrh lighjs, !>top ,il"ld tail liSh, is supplied from vehicle used til tow tr~ lIer through 11 standard trailer type cable Rnd receptacle,
nIt' gross l"eighl tS~f'lnoxi/Jultdy "2,,-00 lbs . and f~ balanced well when the equill'rnenl is mounted, as shown in the picture.

',hi,11 M/Sgt. of VMF·J12.

or

J.

me,birllC:~ under the: Ie:\tl'o:r· A. [Idling, leading ,hid

R!Jbtr(5' mctbu:d Is II) ose twp metaldiscs, the ~Tze of tile patch Or fitdl"lg, with, threaded IhJlIt and ~ willS nqt, Thl~ clamp lIpl'H~, !ill even pressure on .the patch. Tom". required f(lC the parch to set -snd hold properly i~ ;l pprux irna i" I Y rour h0U 0;. In the rurrently used method cement and Iit6ng are applIed, "ir hubbies are luhb¢d out wilh Ute hands, I1lId u ~and .bag is used to hold pressure Q(ltll~ fittl n,g. This take~ appr(1j';I11Jl;td~ eight nl'}urs to dry. The sand b)!g dt!i!5 110t rover the firting pr,qpetly
.ltnd gi ves an uneven pressure on the patch, l:iecliU}\e nf the ~t<oe of ·the opiminS mt9 tlil'lII:nk it is extremely cliflicult, to get It sa n d bas o r any wei:s1i t iniol) it, b>;It the pblte:; iUl,d llut&.decl ~hl)_fl can v<:ry en,,;jl), beuS!ld ill it, ctl!;ting the time <1ppr,;)1.,rfnatcly 511 per cent.

The gage 'Prni~1:.S of :twQ idt'ntiotl segments IUlI,ic of .04'5 ~bjnless steel, The cutside di<lm",~~[" of the $emf·dr(lll:lr segment is tJ 1n"'1\;:$, The in-side clirimell)r is 11 inches, Handles :,r'e M j nLegrfll p,,'rt of 'the segmt'nts, These 5~gment5 Me inserted in br'th ~!d", <If the b~lI~ iU~nlbll', betw.eecn the (,d lar retaini!l~ nur nnd the first disc.

...

13,I<'1 .. r Comment be of interest

should

This developmerrr to many activities .•

1311., retaining nut thenffl tf8hr"n~ with Lim sa&! .~ll'ilmrl1rS inserted,
menrs are then removed

up snllB The Sl'g"

this

-f.rom the assembly,

repblt{iog

However, ",hile the traHer has many ad" vanrages, 'catboc dioxide e,,,tinguishcrs ocr tim il:ed ca pnci ty '1 re best resteicred to use on -smaU !ires whiib, ,invofve JlumJmIble
liquids against

It w~~ d1~w~,ered I'hllt .afrer

(}p~.tll!_inIJ ~l!Vl'fit! ume~ J:!,!' dMhUlrc

~"dt'<l

between :r)47 lind .Win Inches. These ,:;egments ('lin be surfaced down to any des'rred thickness in order to obt"i:n differMt clear-

a oars ir

$0

4esi red.

some llnduring extinguishing agent, sud) as foam, should be ava:ll",ble, - in larger qll3.l1titiU, 'rna-n a~ provided by die :n~" galton hand uni~ 01) t1:ajler. .

casLlr

gal} provides 1)1'1 protectien reflash. Transfers of gasolin.c may .t~ult- in ;J large' spil] and ther~£l'lre
3:S

rlie

Cover

Protects

VF Engines

me

V}..{F-:2UI. PJool'tc-Bdl)g. stlitloned ill t 1l0!' I.1<J pi (~, thi~ ~q II!! d ):1.11> in oush! it Imd used the "hot locker" for everything possible. but it hJi'1; come .1[1> wil:iJ -artllthtt use fOl them-til jirotect engines during bulJd-l!P (ut sell tch,l'!~d engin e dl anges,.

New Fire Fighting Equipment

All eifettive lire.fighting Quit has bl.'en dL"1iig!1ed and manufuetu red .by J- K Jacks",n
attnched 1<, the 'lj"'<Tll~t maintenanue sh,)p itt NAS VKOSSll ILF.. Mndl': from ,scli.lp :l!'Id sarvagffi material,. the unil con· ,~j51j; Df l tl-ililer und fire lighting equipment. It Is d{",igooo [(I be U5CJ by the sup:ply departlTl1:iO,1 ..5 '5tt!mlby equipm~~, wiled fuel is bdng hllnd leu nf\d trllnsferred from tank c."lI tl,) .tank lrVc<k.
M ~~, mdl,]

B-eicgwJthnlIt

" ,good dry :;t~rjJ;ge space,

the engirw~illl; department WM c.mJrn!lted with the problem of her/ng U1!!1l"! (tee of III p-iSt:lHC W 11ill.: o'f,wl1:itifiE ins! ft [Iat ;on for ;!n. ;l;io", changes, This bl"k was assigned S&'t.

Oe(J)'W' E. lJrtI-eken.

He

d€si,s:<led

"hoi

ltlCiwr" lIf at.n"~s thar '~TJl1lli,Je'td eI\dose~ y fhe engine. Two 2W)'Wllti Light blll.b& were ffil'unted inside thi~ (o'ver.

NA.S

.M.E'MI>H1S-HOrtle

_gaIl.10S0[

the ail

The- tire fighting

llw :Cllt1-1 .1)~i~t<s
,1.,-:)""i=J

"q'uiplllcm
nf,

inst(liled

vn
Alting,.si:-ed ')\',11'> C 1 "",hi">,, ."id!} t' j "b. fII4"iH~ .'" rl'.IrJ,~d fiJ!IIIM'b !/',U t"'IUPINd II> ['r fiJi} K. (,. C1NI~J' 1)1 r'p·8 f~r "rjn,fiilJj!" l'IIJi' mf;"I,(fl!I,~J itl N"",b At}"""fh Wiliru. PI:!1J'or lir thl l/l(;J,G'i; ,mrli"d if R,;Idm. It f, FtirkIJ),. (lIlJIm.md<?r 01 Talk' F{}u~ '17•

L lilll!"h! 75-Il!. "nroa"jty COo l"'\'TI'-'II. ',,'hlel\ h:J!;l!h·jl hl t;wu h<1jllk;:!: C!( .fhlJ i l"Utl1 wIl:,h "nh..,. 'fMillJe t~!;.'l~llr ""1f,Wht~. III rbe~" b(",~!< or. b'~H,lrtl_"· HI"" t~[r~.fb"_l tbl"Olytd~ rrnn!ir~Jltl~ too .1th ~~ (w wr I. 11"'0 ~~"I ,... "'. 2:. ,;;.,,, 15·1 b, 1,0. Il ~Uh,·". 11,"')L...:i 011 tb ~ •• r ft~ ..r lh.. I", iie.,. '.

'0.. '

st'll'tiQI'!. Hdlroltt (\'!Qlball tfal,n 'were te.ii,wised lust fall. Btsidt:ll' tIll' o:'tIpadty crowds at tho::' f([()th~ II field. 50!IIC !0.000 television sec "i!'Wee' we-re "ble to: 'Set' [Il.. gllmes fhh way.

"il"b. ""

• VF·" I-Afie'l wlllrhing NftVl' pilnt~' 1l1,lk" t.JrriOlr landings on Ihe Bm,t'rin liilF-J'~, M~I. Ted Connor. USAF, "ttJltil e'(l !!'I thi~
~qu:loln,m

""1n"'''''

Wll, .tsk,c:d ;hlj opiniun. ''They IrKlk mntmlted ~nJ~h'r.:,. t« lll~." lw said.

un un C'xc1'langc 1':1:\);1"

f"r

~ l'l1!r,

Uke

38

THIS BEATS ALL ICING

V'P-l, ALEt.n'lII.l<l~-l.l_ shouldn't even fuwe l\mpl'eneJ to a l'olar Dear, Lr, K,
D, Helsel and his
p.',,N

STORIES

crew haveone

l''''f

the boob, the idng story loend all rce stories, Scheduled for patrol, Lt. Helsel took his Neptune from Ked ink 21 November, bound for Adak. He WM_ nl'st de~lFed to Port Heiden at 19,080 feet, Ceiling at take-off was 900 ft. iudefinIte, three miles ~'itilb;lity and wind gusts up to 14 knots. Immediately .aFter takt:.of.f wing deicers a nd alternate air were used, lee started accumulating, at qOU On .reaOlja,g I.s 00 ft. I 1h inches of ice bad accumulated on the winEs wil'h 18 inches oJ rlmback :ift of the hmdin;; edge. The in itial mtl" ofwJnb was 7 ~o rpm at 22)0 rpm and 3-'5.1' mp. From 7,000 to f{OOO ft. mte of climb was redueed to 150 rpm because of ice. At 8500 ft, bigh blower was cut in and rated power used. 24Qo rpm and 45" mp, That produced only 120 knots uno altitude fluctuated between -8,20() and 9,000 ft_ Eaby, I, may have be_cn celd curside, b~l! ~he crew was perspiring, Their preditamcfit was csused by water rufF nine.: back from the heated lerrdlqg edge along th~ underside 6f lhe wjll,g. It

the wing., l1pproxlIlw.tdy % It with small te;<.ts protruding from the ;'C(O' layer. The ire on rho" windshield 'Was 3" to 4" thick, and ice OA the leading unJer
thick

ed_g.esof

the

C'QWlifl;gS

beillg JhillNtil oJ/ h)'

rbe

WdS {}mIJt.m4i), ptiJpellfu1. The

rt.

carburetor air intakes were nlrnost closed bot no tllgrne malfunctioning 'W'lIS, experienced, l(;,e formed on the lel~din,g e'dgtl-s of tIle wings dwipg !he off cycLe 0(- the heacers - and on the outer wing panels outboard of the furd tanks ll(t ef the leading edges, .abeu! 5,4"t-hick and 10" long. CJl1tside air temperature was -10" C. Afterrhree minutes of thls severe icing Helsel decided to return to base, (l)n returning to Kodiak, hQWt:V{!_4 he 'Wa~ told the Ii·dd wa~ dosed due to bigh winch. He was then cleared to AndlOm.ge, and (if) miles north of Kodiak in the clear the ice melted of( and all appeared to be well. But that isn't the end of the story, At Anchorage, Helsel hoped to cornpl<m;' his parrol hom 'Nerne, Over Swentna ·at 13,000 ft. he went on Instruments, Tn a matter of 50 seconds

Too/' Handles Cf,ain Linkage

from Pl'monng WabolJ, helieoprer
'J.

HUltS'[ eomes

ovcrhnul new toll I

lit ((if

chains, Submitted Beneficial Suggel>',;un -P'ooglalll br H. Chester (hI.' aI'" ic.. can

inS!<lI.lrog or ulnltr rhe Nuvy

(111

NAs Lu:_I':.

·I."ontml chams, K-typo; e:jrshlp control chalns, or :any slmilan chain linkage, to remove 01 insert master Link.
)':1> rernnve. d:l" In.

he

used

hel icopter

refroze there-and rormed "Wldpw.\ ICe" in the shape of icicles about tfH: size

I)f ::I man's fur ·at lfltervals of J 8" COy"rifl.,g the visible undersurface the wings at the wcket launchers ,mel inhQa+t1. It was assumed that in: (ermed

or

%" of ice. At that point the left wing heater inrlirntcd it wasn't WQrkin,g. A return WIlS made tID Anchorage. In thee dear the heater worhcl agtllll, ind.icating that irs ram air dnct had been f rozen over. Yes, U, Helsel's crew has one for the griu.1dclrildren..
cave-ring tcr!llil1 f rom Labrador to l:J:un America and A'lir;5k:\ f(jr Na ..')' Hydrographic llIld other gO-Vlllnm.-nt nl_'lpping oRE<eoc'e-.s. Most spectacular of its feal, t'fobably were the 52,IJM-ftwl pholu,jJrn.phsof Wns!tLngWll, D.C., taken {rom <Ill U;:H lll;5t falL The camera was produced hy F:lirrhjld when tile NlIvy rtqllestN 'il earner» mort: precise llilln reco n n ~'i n co: QlIl1 ef~ s th"ll in use ssa 'the ,;lmer.t (1l!1$iJl~ "f three !iepll r:rle parrs, "JO outer (oneincJ.,Jint; tile e I""lric meror drrve M.l<1c!Jan_;sI11, !IiI) :inne,. cene which IlfHI.'R'5 Ihe lens and shutl,er <\nd t1efin<JS (hef{)011r p·I!lD!:. in u ri,gill !ls~~nll:!ly. nnd the 111m
m,~g,t2.ine_

the pian'l! was completely c0ver~d wi·!:b

evlter

pins ~ re r<.lillQvtd

Ca.rtogrophic Camera Lauded

'J"Ii!: N.\,·y·:' new CA·!> C:trtogmphil:: cnnlem hn" wrlll spurs in aerial mapping ~(Jrveys,

Frum rntl~tf.'-r [;0'1<. Ends- 01 mol ace inserted .(,me en each ,jed e- <11 master Tink] in t:hain, find pressure 1;&applied ,[0 handle of tool 'IHllil master Link. is loose, The-n oval ring IS slid back OJn handle lind UlDJ is· in lod!:e.d position. Master link ran then be pi.cked out -~th linger~. Pres-SUII' i! [hen ~pplled to handles, eval ring lock is Elin rOfw~.!'d ami pressu re IS refIen sed on b.1U:I(jJ es • TObl is then removed -and ,dlj1i" is dis:meruhled_ The UptJontillO i~ reversed for insmllaticn, 1'),is muster tink t rioI is estirr11n~-d to s~ve
eight Mr, man-hours on a heliccprer has developed overhaul, a

'lS

-s.i,x man-hnurs nn an lIirsh.ip overhaul.

\Wll!'son also

MAGAZlHI

~~'edSiG.!l It'lll¥~ designed to give 11. stam! grip on stninless ~tll'eI ~w:edg" 1itlilJ,!ll!. These tong ... <WW Hlo Ll5"- .11 tJ,( 0&& wirl; shop nl NAcS LA);;.:n··WR.$T, (llln%' [hG operator to rnnnipul.ue tir!ing~ Silkly and {I('IW'twyduIj llS swed.sillg -I1'1:' fl\~i !I s; Q

set of

It unique fl';.rtllre- uf ~he_ Q1.m~'r.t is I hlJl Ie eon b<! dismsenl b I ".I il1r tep_"itl and put t,)get!1er withnut dl<;{llJ'hinE the l<'ns en lihw. HOIl. " fentllI(" "ilu,IIl); the p-hntugm,n_TI1etrist .'I\' h" insist S j IHit ca rnera s f·i'j r mlll'P:m;.: be ~G-CUratelj ca IihruteJ ;U the NnHnoa I Fl.ureJlII "f Standaeds, extremes M temperature 40" 5!,1"w,.
• NAS O~ Hlli-A ... The C'Jrtt\sraphk earn em
frNl1 operates

12fl" ;,hrive .to

form a

under

pn)gnun~!)

GCA ,LEIi~{_'fponi h:1.5 been established at the tethn iaJl tt1l1ning unit here. A ft.er a Ihr~e· months eQIJJ1i~ tJi e dj:lil"C'tS .... ·111 be used tQ Jill V~CaJilde5 in the 33 Navy GtA IlnIts.

• NAS AKRON-l)lIfing tlie three-1m:)' period of [be National Air Ra<:es in Cleveland, :'16 aircraft .u-riyOO ilnd dl!palt~d from thi,- Siil·[tOJi. rillIking a IOHI of 6"2 opera· tj,lns IIIVD[Vmg cross (OUflUJ' !light.

39

LETTERS,
SIllS:
Y nur -;l.rti de i11 fJ1<.:

rhe MI.; IE .Mod ~ flo.at tltll;( used by the US:; CQ~dl SM in Sllnrnll-y exercises brought (1;1, mlrid 3. .numbec IIf S'mllar Uj;J:,$ for that Jio<J.t Jight Ji:movrm:d out we USCG air station. Sail Ditg'?, Cut
o"lDallte departrrrent "t SOil Dit'8.o always I\':i~ iunov:l.fing and I:'x_perlmentillg with Pi'tl:lwthfl'~ tu bo:;ttcr ffia,t'k rescue equiprnent drtl!lped ;at sea, Otle e:(<.:dlenl marker WilS .idemit'n,I to 'ttmt shewn In N~£cws willj the C'xteplioll that th~ 1'.1111 rillg WIIS The

I:November

iss lb: aIw lit

A 111(1)& the lntter group was noted \l }?;en· Crill sprinkliog (If (rUlli-pOwcr [rom our kin,in,..! ~I.'rllkc~. wllll did nM ,Jaw over-expose rhernsclve» tI.> th~ ternptatiun nf nil val .lyil1111>11 while stlU under ,(lhlJ"g;r.ted Nil iStnWJ11 .... rhc Ajr Feme. ,l~h 1.. oN. WuJie, PRe, who proctored lh!l

CONTENTs.

c.o. c...______________
Iran Shah Visits_ __
Air Transport Air

1 8
'9

Sl'l!!n official sanction. the a5;~"Juance (.or II !Jo~pjti!.I corpsman, and the loan 'M :I Grole-,.
he could easily have intetviewed, examined, and sworn io lit least 5()!! futl-blooded Indian

survival

d ispl(l.-Y. ~tead fastly

insists

that

Cha.ng!!-s__ __

cow bands, NAF

"-

--

Force Fi,ghters_ _ __ __ __ 12

Vpa~11
Mt;ln-Made Moon

16
20

CDR. LrTCH·EIKlfl PAR", All17.',

F_ 1'. GJ UL

Photo Squadron Sll'&~

III the D0,ember issue I noticed that the peoj"lte iit ""1"1[-12 are "keeping a sharp .1('(Jk· nut for W"SPI> ill the static ~ir irrlers Oil +he l'1I.Y·2 Pri1/111E.f!;"c/."

_ _ __ __ _ __ 22

NANews

Visits. Lincoln

25

alta e 1100 to the f uze ~ rill i1"18 dev ice fin the I'llik hy means of II. cord, and J lne such as .s ix·thW.ld gtroched by (I thicd screw,cre ill the bTlSe of the JiO<ll light, rI.lrmiag J'iJill this eyt: tv a lite raJ[ Of shipw r~k kit or o~her rescue itemN st 011!)' did this serve 3~ a marker for ho th th e surv tvo rs r n the' '\\'11 let ~f! d lht: resCue- airrl'lI h. but also, DdDg little :!Iff C(t ed -by wind, bdped somewhat in anchcnng the Jrt'flPtd equ iP IIIern, USCG AtR F"CTUl'Y N .... y # 1<1,FPO,. S. E. v SIRS:
The lV!'tOIW ;::,tn~.f:nr \\0(15 !l()"$l (his season for UW fir>ll·ji-rll' ill it.~ long -noJpQIl u 1M career. to u U.s. naval I'Jd,i[:"I. Th~ exhmit, ,1i~iJed int" two Llnir~, cunsisted of u,n f 41 r·~ PiLrkoci em the miclwap "-Ila il !1 igl1ly.diveNi lied collection of survival gear OJ) di!1r.l~y in 01 buoth ill one 1'( rhe main en-

Res~rve Flying

_ _ _ _ __ _ __ _ 29

Tiny Car,rier Fires Guns_ _ _ _ 32

Gro1und Handling Patuxent Gear 33 34 R.ep~jrs Jets

Wh~n that squlld.l'ol) was here i!J F1tJtldi:t Hitty h~d 11111 :>illllelrcruhle IIDd 1 tried to n,neel it then bill I guess the~' didn't set the word. I'Il try It' 't!,1! them hpw we got. vid vf !f:tt' wasps In tj1.(c static fti r veats !l.l WhltllJ~ F"JcJd -and III the squadrnn (VJ'.HL.
?) on Gun!1~, 3" lung, ti~ I,mg r"tl 5~!",nme{bW tHe ·Pill!:. nnd issue rw 11 bn trs h! ""Il:h 'pltUle ca pllri:~ ~a ~.I
l!t the

THE

COVER
111" CybQn .11,.",,,lot
is an

SI.Lhov"IIlh,(I ()9Qln.1
Gllan!O"OMO

Boy

i-lO-a.s·l

Irom

A.

A. ArM,~'iS, ""Oc

Jf the line chief will

draw some

%" bolts

VU-l0. the Nav,y'.onlY "perQ'TiQo"t .~"a(lran bIJI..d h\ ~h" Caribbean today,

du_., 10 the e{~""'-myp!"Og·ram.

em! of endl d"y h:t.v"e tJ1~ plane {ll,.FtH',,, insert \hi! p,,! ts in the :st.Lt.k J1()Je,. I'm "iUC;- tiley win Ii~d thaL tile W.aSp8 wJII aut be. :lobte t~; gel j 11 the ..-(;1 tk Jines,
CFltlKLHl:\

RECOGNITION 'qUIZ

V.

BOW~{flN,

;I

nc

BTU-3.
SI.~S:

SA(lFWll'

Fm!.D

Top-Ai. f,irce F.Q·4·'., one 01 Ihe AF', l.. ",,",,lrr i,el RIIl1,·".. in produ<tion day. A non' seeep, oi<:jar-!1Io. boay and ••.

'0..

IirSIl

!moll oi,~," .. fI.

loi!

i.denijlylhi,

!"i1id,wing

Cllmpmellts. A"l:P;Qo" I1M.l1/""g, I{,ng. !1~~~~t'<lIIled til Ill!' ~il'!lt of Indian silver:-uait tllley J! v!;slU~k, elahorute leauJe'! 1I'1lik:. eowhovs and Indians at their f,1.i r, were sornewhut sturtJe.l b)' fhe invasion (If U.S. naval personnel and equipment to their desert. II owe,,!!r , a hra th" iniulll wnt'k had seb$icl¢d, the rr:Spdn5(; was CO{lSl.l;ft11tiy grutir\lin,g. 1n the lO.day I~eriod, by nctua] mill', 1z.o5 9 per~QI]~ .... iewed the v:hioits and -ex· cb.anl>'e<i ctlfuptitm:.nl.i' will, thi! Cl.lstocl iins,
wh-lle an est:i.mil:tOO 8,llO!l less f flflllU I (Jdl !l'Iinfltion. more (";Ilrend'~d a

hl!fC: were w'n<\derio~ 26,2QO fee! over Saipan (N ....N2ws OctQb~f) hiltl UM~ytag" m '·Ben· 4i"('~flgln~,inc<: lIle item ~aid it was .Il)llk,Ing

501111: of the boy, it the PIJM that hit

loW~I-En!llidl I, la,c'l~crl doy illt

peak,
JC!lI..lS LJlOI'ARD, ·LCoR.

I 5(1· 2{J(J rpm when

the plune read-red its

,el'ml\JI. PORT WASHINGTON, L..l.

SPHO~L Ol!VICJ!$

bombo.. POWQ,Q4 qy !wQ RqU. Roy" ... Avon o~iQ[ flo'w j<>'1 0091".... I'J" ... 01 'Ih.. .leek ... ,lloQ~lng .plon... j'n theo.it. Note loll ~urr<>(e. r.o~ b~n law. er "d ~o Ihey OJ" p.o,'koily in line with the- ie1 ~1<ho",.I,a now t",nd in lc.1 ·air· erof1 de.lgn,

E[_e~tTk Conti ....... B, Mit !iomb...., !~e RAF',. fl••1'

&>.me..gJ'etnlJ.n o;ibRng;0 all" ..teet 1>"r' mInute" to ",.".111"~io"J< per m i,i u be. " WeM lik.e"" see t~ p ~.R~ r tha ~ ~r1l1rtl stlJ,Y in t& a air with mm. like tb,,\.

THE'" STAFF
Lt. Cdr. Arthur l. Scho~ni
Ildltor

I"",

L ...K.1l1·l.!,ms.T,-Lord tcrthur V~l'I' eNJlert;. lind (~harle>. FoJlill'l of li"m.ncc recently visited Ihis.ClII.tfi! Jill] ~llIted. lhru. lh~ 'I\'ljfe mudl Jm·ftte~sed

rry, Bti!i~h -dirig,bJe

NAR'rV

Dorothy E. Ames

"'1)'",

Edll e,

L1.Cdr. lan,..,. L. B'ooda

f.,(J1 V'" ~dl"l>'

wi!'L

the Re'~rve LT A I'n.\gt:lfl'l.

Lt. Rosalie W. Martin,

Re,,,"'-'" E-d[lo'

• GRAMPAW QUll ANSWERS

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