The White Falcon - 29.10.1960, Side 2

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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, October 29, I960'
Diverse Recreation
KA Offers It
There’s more to do than meets the eye in Iceland.
Keflavik Airport has one of the most diverse and consist-
ent recreation programs of any base its size. Of course,
there’s a reason for that. This is a remote duty station—
it is an isolated tour. The best and most is offered.
Let’s not take the word “isolated” too literally. Enter-
tainment activities within the Keflavik Airport Agreed
Area are quite complete.
The Officers, Civilian, 7-8-9, NCO and Airmen’s Open
Messes offer a variety of entertainment for their respect-
ive members. They offer those moments of leisure that
detract from loneliness spells.
Our Personnel Services division offers athletic, avoca-
tional and cultural activities.
Intramurals in bowling, basketball, softball, volleyball,
football and bowling keep squadron athletes busy almost
the year-round.
From the hobby standpoint, craftsmen may choose to
use the wood, electronic, photographic or automotive hobby
shops. The Viking Service Club has the leathercrafts shop.
For those who appreciate sightseeing tours, the Service
Club has tours every weekend of the summer. Some are
for one day; others cover overnight stays at resorts.
Our Education office plays an important role and
offers beneficial services, too. University of Maryland
courses, creditable toward a college degree, are offered
the year-round. Other classes, either to broaden one’s
background or help him in his profession, are scheduled.
In short activities are slated from the athlete to in-
tellect extremes. And the welcome mat is down at all of
the activities.
A good “diet” of entertainment, recreation and educa-
tion will make the year go by fast.
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Everybody Here?
Like Man, Let's Co
Summer’s gone and the morning frosts are setting in.
That means more than the seasons are changing. The
majority of rotations and personnel slots have been filled
FREEDOM FIGHTER—A portrait
of Giuseppe Garibaldi, crusader for
freedom in Europe and Latin Amer-
ica, will decorate the four and
eight-cent Champion of Liberty
stamps. They go on sale in Wash-
ington, D. C., Nov. 7.
New Discovery
To Add Thrust
To Jet Planes
U. S. Aerodynamic researchers
have developed a revolutionary
technique which may enable jet
planes, successors to those flown
by the 57th Fighter Interceptor
Squadron, to get added thrust
from the air layer which impedes
conventional aircraft.
The Air Force’s Air Research
and Development Command (AR-
DC) has contracted with North-
rop Corporation to build two jets
to test the technique, known as
“low-drag boundary-layer con-
trol.” I twas developed to increase
aircraft range and endurance.
In the experimental planes,
the wing surface will be perfor-
ated by minute slots to draw off
air from the “boundry layer”
next to the plane’s surface.
In conventional aircraft this
layer flows over the plane more
slowly than air farther from the
surface, causing friction, or ‘drag,’
which the engines must work
harder to overcome.
for the Fiscal Year.
We have a considerable number of “new blood” super-
visors in the slots now. Trends of the past are not with-
standing; no one need to follow the old ruts because the
road to performing his mission is too rough, nor is it so
good that it can’t be improved.
And we owe something to those who will follow us
next year. Our planning ahead will make their stay here
pleasant, mediocre or miserable. Good planning makes for
a smooth operation in a place where time pleasantly
flies by.
Obstacles will always be present but are always re-
movable if sufficient help and cooperation are available.
No job is too small or too large for us to devote our full
attention.
“Full attention” means attention of all concerned. For
the most part the man doing the actual work encounters
the problems first. What he can’t solve for himself should
then become the business of the supervisor. If the scope
of the problem demands higher attention, it should go
up the channel for solution .
Above all, don’t leave loose ends hanging; or as we
often say, “Don’t leave a can of worms for the next fel-
low.” The only place he can use those is at the fishing hole.
The “new blood” supervisors should make their ini-
tiative and job-aggressiveness felt.
These traits have always been valuable assets come
performance reporting time. They cannot be objectively
overlooked. By taking their natural course, these two traits,
coupled with job knowledge, ultimately assure a well-
performed mission.
Aerospace Power for
The air, sucked into the slots
will be channeled into the jet
engines of the experimental plan-
es providing added thrust and
saving fuel.
The ARDC Commander, Lt.
Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, calls
the' technique “a real break-
through” in the Air Force’s 10-
year search for a method to in-
crease range and endurance of
aircraft without increasing
weight.
It will allow a plane—the size
which normally flies 4,000 miles
nonstop—to go 7,000 miles on an
equal amount of fuel, the Air
Force says.
Flight testing of the planes to
be built by Northrop is scheduled
to begin in two years. The test
program’s objectives, the Air
Force says, will be to provide
data which will permit the new
technique to be applied to all
types of large aircraft.
The low-drag boundary-layer
control system was developed by
a Northrop team headed by a
Swiss-born r. Werner Pfenninger.
Ask for It Now
Space-Available Leaflet
Airmen not authorized travel of dependents or those
serving under conditions where travel of dependents is
not authorized should ask their first sergeants for the-
leaflet entitled “Space-Available Travel.”
It tells what is space-available travel; who may travel;
where to; how to arrange for it; what to have with you
and when to apply. The Who portion is in four categories,,
spelling out explicitly just who qualifies.
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Do You Know?
Minuteman Facts
Recently, just for the fun of it, we asked several of our friends-
what they knew about the Minuteman.
This is the missile that Air Force Vice Chief of Staff Curtis
E. LeMay said will be “the most versatile and effective weapon in
our ballistic missile inventory.”
Is it an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)? Is it an
IRBM? Will SAC or TAC use it? How does it differ from the
Atlas, Titan and Thor?
Do You know?
In a few years there will be a great many more Minuteman
missiles than any other kind of IRBM or IBCM, whether launched
from land sea or air, in the Nation’s strategic aerospace force.
It will be planted underground in great numbers in 1962 and
1963—poised to deter any thinking adversary, and always ready,
if necessary to be launched almost instantly on command to strike
an aggressor’s forces more than 6,325 statute miles away.
Operational control of launchers will be from centralized under-
ground centers linked to many launchers by a communications
network.
A number of Minuteman missiles will also be placed on specially
shock-mounted railway launch cars in trains moving about the
country at random.
Hidden underground in thick concrete silos, protected from
all but a direct hit, or constantly moving by secret plan about
the country on rails—the Minuteman force is designed to survive
a surprise attack in sufficient numbers to effectively strike
against the remaining enemy forces.
With almost four times the range of all U.S. missiles but the
Atlas and Titan, the Minuteman will arc at 15,000 mph across land
and sea to any point nearly a quarter of the globe way.
Minuteman (SM-80) is a three-stage, solid propellant ICBM
being developed by Air Research and Development Command for
Strategic Air Command. Its reaction time, cost and number of
assigned operators are less than liquid-fueled ICBMs, such as
Atlas and Titan.
Like the Polaris missile (range to be 1400 miles) its nuclear
warhead is smaller than that of the Atlas and Titan. However,
it will have a cost-effectiveness factor several times higher than
of any of the Nation’s other ballistic missile systems now under
development or in production.
(Cost-effectiveness is an extremely important planning factor
used by military professionals, but too frequently overlooked in
public discussions of weapon systems. In comparing two strategic
weapon systems, for example, one system may be found to be
somewhat more promising than the other in certain respects, but
may be so much more costly that it would be wiser to invest a
similar sum of money in the other weapon system to achieve much
greater over-all effectiveness. Besides figuring the cost of the
entire weapon system, including its vital servicing and communca-
tions elements, planners must determine the extent to which it can
be relied upon in war to reach a variety of targets at any point
on the globe with the necessary accuracy and weapon yield.)
SAC’s Minuteman ICBM is expected to be in prototype opera-
tional configuration this year. In 1962 it will begin to augment
in significant quantity, but not replace, the Atlas and Titan
forces—along with the other types of strategic weapons in the
Air Forces aircraft-missile-aerospacecraft force.
Not enough Air Force officers and airmen know all these acts
about Minuteman. We hope most of them will read and remember
more information of this kind. And we hope you know more about
the remarkable SM-80 than before.
THE WHITE FALCON
Col. Benjamin G. Willis, USAF
Commander, Air Forces Iceland
The WHITE FALCON is an official Class II Armed Forces newspaper published weekly at
Keflavik Airport, Iceland by Air Forces Iceland of the Military Air Transport Service for
all contingents stationed at Keflavik Airport. The WHITE FALCON receives AFPS and
AFNS materials. 1Views and opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the
Department of Defense.
Information Officer.................Capt. Warren J. Papin, USAF
Editor ............................. SSgt. Clarence J. Bizet, USAF
Associate Editor....................SSgt. John W. Horky, USAF
Isafoldarprentamiaja h.f.
Peace Through Deterrence