The White Falcon - 20.01.1962, Blaðsíða 1

Female Voice,
Taped, Warns
Hustler Pilots
The B-58 Hustlers of the
Strategic Air Command are
slated to get the woman’s
touch this spring — and it
may take some getting used
to on the part of Hustler
pilots.
The conventional warning lights
that alert the pilot to snch emer-
gencies as engine fire, hydraulic
system failure and landing gear
malfunction are to be supplement-
ed in the Air Force’s fastest bom-
ber by taped warnings in a
woman’s voice.
Known as VIPS
Initial tests of this oral warn-
ing system—technically known as
the Voice Interruption Priority
System,or VIPS—were made two
years ago at Carswell AFB, Texas.
At that time, the taped warnings
were spoken by a male voice, but
SAC later adopted the suggestion
that a woman’s voice, breaking
into the supersonic cockpit at
60,000 feet to all attention to
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A P2V-5 LOCKHEED NEPTUNE PATROL BOMBER, similar to this one, has been
missing since late Friday night, Jan. 12, after it failed to return from a routine patrol
flight in the area of the Denmark Strait. The Neptune, with a wing span of 100 feet,
is 77 feet in length. It is powered with two Wright R-3350, 18-cylinder, two-row, radial
air-cooled engines and two Westinghouse J34 turbojets in underwing pods. The wings
are designed to give temporary flotation in event of ditching. It has a retractable tri-
cycle-type landing gear.lt is used in many countries, world-wide.
Extensive Search
By Air, Sea Fails
To Locate F2V-5
Whereabouts of a Navy
P2V-5 Neptune patrol bomb-
er, missing since Jan. 12 with
12 men aboard, is still un-
known despite an intensive,
all-out search by a dozen
planes and a sea-going cutter.
The week-long hunt started Fri-
day when the Keflavik-based air-
craft failed to return from an ice
reconnaissance patrol off the
southeast coast of Greenland, in
the Denmark Strait. The Strait,
a 130-mile-wide channel between
southeast Greenland and Iceland,
connects the Arctic Ocean with
the North Atlantic.
Last contact with the twin-
engine turbojet craft was by radar
at 9:15 Friday morning when the
plane was 270 miles northwest of
Keflavik. It had taken off at two
minutes before seven that morning
and was due to return at 4 p.m.
Starting with three aircraft
searching the area that day, the
persistent effort mounted in size
and continued until late Thurs-
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Fund Drive Underway Here
Will Aid 10 Health Agencies
Navy Anniversaries:
Busy Year in 1962
Military Coordination in NATO
Depends on Cooperative Effort
Again, as in past years, the Atlantic Fleet, ashore and
afloat, will be solicited for contributions to the National
Health Agencies and the Joint Crusade Organizations.
LCDR W. D. Powell, (CHC),'
USN, of the Naval Station, here,
has been appointed Chairman of
the drive. It started on Jan. 15
and will officially close on the
20th of next month.
There are 10 National Health
Agencies participating in the cam-
paign. They have been recognized
and approved by the President’s
Committee on Fund-Raising With-
in the Federal Service for on-the-
job solicitation.
These agencies are: The Na-
tional Multiple Sclerosis Society,
National Society for Crippled
Children and Adults, Inc., Na-
tional Society for the Prevention
of Blindness, United Cerebral
Palsy Associations, Inc., Ameri-
can Cancer Society, Inc., and the
American Heart Association, Inc.
Also, Arthritis and Rheuma-
tism Foundation, Muscular Dys-
trophy Associations of America,
Inc., National Association for
Mental Health, Inc., and National
Associations for Retarded Child-
ren, Inc.
One purpose of the campaign
is to transmit information about
major diseases and disabilities and
about the National Health Agen-
cies fighting them. Another pur-
pose is to give all Federal per-
sonnel full opportunity to support
the agencies of their choice.
Since the health campaign is a
combined appeal for several agen-
ies, donors are urged to give more
generously than they would to a
single-agency appeal. The gifts
must support the agencies for a
full-year.
The goal for the campaign is
100 per cent participation. Medi-
cal science’s great advances in
controlling infectious diseases
have been a boon in curbing the
great disease killers of the apst.
Through programs of research,
education and community service,
the Health Agencies seek to al-
leviate suffering of the sick and
prevent illness in the healthy.
Much money is needed to con-
duct these programs. Our com-
mand joins President Kennedy in
urging personnel to give gener-
ously to a most worthwile cause.
In 1961 the Navy celebrated the
50th year of naval aviation. Six
other major Navy birthdays are
coming up during 1962.
This year will see a golden an-
niversary celebration when naval
communications becomes 50 years
old. In 1962 the destroyer force
will be 60, and the Civil Engineer
Corps will attain the ripe old age
of 95.
It will be a busy year for 20th
anniversary observances.
Among the two-decade-old
“youngsters” are the Amphibious
Forces, the Seabees and the Wav-
es. The Amphibs will begin their
20th year on Feb. 20, the Seabees
on March 5 and the Waves on
July 30.
IMCO Wives to Sponsor
Viking Club Bake Sale
The N.C.O. Wives will sponsor
a bake sale at the Viking Service
Club, Saturday, Jan. 20 at 12:30
p.m.
All sorts of goodies including
homemade chockolate cake, cook-
ies, pies and brownies will be sure
to tempt your appetite.
The 14 different armed forces comprising NATO’s
military strength basically serve in units of their own
nationality, often on their own territory, and under the
immediate command of officers and non-commissioned of-
ficers and petty officers of their own nations.
Only 14 nations comprise
NATO’s military strength because
Iceland has no armed force and
makes her contribution through
geographical and other means.
When these basic units are
grouped into large formations,
such as army groups, combined
fleets and multi-national tactical
air forces, then the requirement
for cooperative effort is evident.
This is why NATO forces are
almost continually engaged in ex-
ercises and maneuvers perfecting
the practices and procedures which
make it possible for the men who
man the ships, planes and weapons
in NATO’s defense to do it with
cooperative skill and in mutal sup-
port.
At the Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers, Europe (SHAPE),
there are personnel from all 14
nations living and working to-
gether in daily contact. At every
other NATO headquarters the
same situation exists, some with
fewer nations represented.
Language barriers, differences
in training and background, and
diversity of national staff proce-
dures are overcome by the attitude
of NATO personnel, uniformed
and civil servants, who make work-
ing together really work.
This spirit of Alliance dedica-
tion comes from the contribu-
tion made by the NATO Defense
College, founded in Paris in 1951.
Since then, it has contributed
some 800 graduates to staff and
command posts of NATO, and to
positions in national forces and
government ministries. Students
are drawn from all the member
nations.
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