The White Falcon - 18.02.1961, Síða 2

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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, February 18, 1961
An Ounce Of Prevention
To many of us the phrase “fire prevention” is believed to be
a term coined in the local Fire Department to indicate a type of
job assigned to" members of that department, to do just that, i. e.,
prevent fire.
This job of preventing fires so often apparently gives little
concern to the majority of us who may not be directly connected
with the fire service, since we as humans are prone to indifference
at times and to let the other fellow do for us that which we should
be doing for ourselves, even to insure our own fire safety.
This trend of indifference to our personal fire prevention has
resulted in a steady increase in the number of fires and deaths
caused, in the main, by carelessly or without thought discarding
waste smoking material such as hot cigar or cigarette butts into
combustible materials, rather than into non-combustible containers
(butt cans), and the thoughtless act or habit of smoking in bed.
Smoking in bed, which is prohibited by Base Regulation 92-1
and by placards posted in all dormitories and sleeping quarters,
is a hazard to the lives of persons present not only by fire but
the presence of a poison gas (carbon monoxide) which if breathed in
sufficient quantity usually proves fatal.
Therefore, all Keflavikers are requested to bear in mind the
catastrophic results which may occur unintentionally by our heed-
less act of smoking in bed and remember, too, that without your
full cooperation in this effort your Fire Department personnel are
seriously hampered in affording you the fire protection you rightly
deserve.
VICTOR B. ROBINSON
Fire Chief
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It's Project Money Tree
The problem: How to improve management and use of money
and material by every airman, officer and civilian in MATS.
The solution: Dust off an Air Force Regulation that’s been
on the books for years and read and heed—starting now.
The regulation: AFR 67-10, which states that any individual
responsible for government property or assets may be held liable
to pay out of his own salary for loss, destruction and misuse of
that property through negligence or willful misconduct.
The authority: Lt. Gen. Joe W. Kelly, MATS commander, said
this week that is exactly what may be done—among other things—
to help curb a problem which has plagued the military “for time
immemorial”—as so ably pointed out by some who take a keen
interest in where their tax dollar goes.
It’s all part of an Air Force-wide program called “Project
Money Tree,” designed to put some teeth into the possible conse-
quences faced by those who would exaggerate their budget requests,
“mislay” equipment signed out to them, draw excess property, or
just plain use and manage supplies and funds in a careless manner.
The problem and the solution are not limited to any one group
of people. Nearly all of us are responsible for some type of equip-
ment or funds. Some of us do a good job in carrying out that
responsibility. Others do not.
Those of us who do, need not worry. Those of us who don’t
may find ourselves paying for our erring ways out of our own
pockets.
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Along Came A Spider
Mr. Eddie Bender of the San Antonio Material Area might
very well stump any quiz panel with the simple assertion, “I’m a
spider tamer.”
While it’s not in his job description, Bender has periodic
traffic with deadly black widow spiders in line-of-duty. He gathers
black widow webs for use as crosshairs in various optical, scopes
in the section where he works. Bender says black widow webs are
superior to those of other spiders in that they are less subject
to temperature changes, shocks, and vibrations.
AMC WORLD WIDE reports that Bender has learned as by-
product of his spider web gathering activity many traits of the
black widow spider. Among his findings:
0 Black widows have a hard time biting, actually having to
jump up and down rapidly to inject vermon. But black widows
can hop like a jumping bean, and such carrying-on, as a matter
of information, is called “the black widow dance.”
° Black widow bites affect the nervous system and can be
fatal to persons with weak hearts.
° Black widows not only devour their husbands, but also eat
brother and sister during their formative years.
° Black widows are both cowardly and brave: they might run
or they might attack, possibly do both.
° Black widows are so effective in their anti-togetherness
family activity that few survive through the winter. And that,
Bender says, is rather fortunate for the rest of us.
THE WHITE FALCON
Col. Benjamin G. Willis, USAF
Commander, Air Forces Iceland
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Information Officer............Capt. Warren J. Papin, USAF
Editor .......................... TSgt Wylie Mason, USAF
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Aerospace Power for
Lenten Activities
Scheduled at KA
By Chaplain (Lt Col)
Mark W. Gress
Once more we have come to
the Lenten Season with its op-
portunities for contemplation.
Again we will want to look at the
Passion of our Lord. The great
truths of redemption will take on
deeper meanings and we will learn
again that it was a path of love
that led Jesus to the cross and
that His reward for faithfulness
to His Father’s will resulted in
a crown of thorns.
In our contemplation of the
drama we will follow our Lord
as He treads the road of sorrow,
enters into clouds of suffering
and victorious over sin and death.
Out of such meditation will come
a deeper understanding of the
obligations and responsibilities
that fall upon us as His follow-
ers.
The following is the schedule
of special religious services dur-
ing Lent which began with Ash
Wednesday, Feb. 15. Each day
during Lent there will be Mass
at 1200 a.m., and every Friday at
7:30 p.m. The Way of the Cross.
For Protestant personnel, Chap-
lains Gress, Parry, and Nielsen
will alternate in conducting Len-
ten Vespers each Wednesday at
7 p.m.
Let us be still long enough be-
fore Calvary to know the extent
of the love expressed there. The
bleakness of the sight of the Man
upon His cross will bring to us
a new appreciation of the amaz-
ing love of God our Father. The
contemplation of such love will
release new powers within us and
we shall know more of the joy
and triumph of victorious living.
F-105 Transition
Set For Nellis ABF
Nellis AFB, Nev., has laid the
groundwork for F-105 transition
training for units converting to
this all-weather TAC fighter.
USAFE Commander, Gen. Fre-
deric H. Smith Jr., announced
this month that the 36th FTB
Wing, based at Bitsburg, Ger-
many, would be one of his units
converting to the Thunderchief.
The F-105 Thunderchief not
only is an all-weather fighter but
also has ground support capabili-
ties.
It has an internal bomb-bay,
as large as some WW II bombers,
and can carry loads up to 4,000
lbs. in conventional or nuclear ex-
plosives. Its main armament is
a 20 mm Vulcan Gatling gun. It
also can carry Sidewinder air-to-
air rockets. And the F-105 has
been modified to carry Bullpup
(Gam 83) air-to-ground missiles.
AEROSPACE EVENT
Feb. 4, 1948—Navy and Air
Force air transport systems were
consolidated into Military Air
Transport Service under USAF.
They Shot An Arrow
USAF research experts at Arnold Air Force Station, Tenn.,
are the unsung men who stand behind the spectacular missile shots.
Theirs is the job of conducting research into airfoil and engines
on such headline makers as ATLAS, TITAN, MINUTEMAN,
DYNASOAR, X-15 and the century series of fighters.
Arnold AFS is aptly named after General H. H. (Hap) Arnold
who ordered the creation of a center of research into supersonic
airframes and engines. Constructed in 1950, the Arnold Engin-
eering Development Center began operations in 1953. It’s now one
of 12 testing centers of Lt. Gen. Bernard A. Schriever’s Air Re-
search and Development Command.
In mid-January Arnold AFS started tests of a huge wind-
tunnel that weighs more than two million pounds and is powered
by a 216,000 horse power engine. This wind-tunnel is designed to
test missile and other space craft airfoil at speeds of Mach 1.5
to Mach 4.5 and at altitudes of 200,000 ft. Some of the airfoils
slated for upcoming tests include the B-70, DYNASOAR, SKY-
BOLT, and various nose cones.
In addition to airfoil testing, the center also has a rocket
testing facility that checks on rocket engines as well as ramjet,
turbojet and turboprop engines. Rocket engines up to 200,000 lbs.
of thrust can be measured, and these tested in their natural upright
position.
Engine test cells at the center are able, during short test
periods, to conduct speed tests at MACH 20! At this speed tempera-
tures of the test vehicle can range above 20,000° F.
It’s obvious that testing at Arnold AFS has resulted in savings
of time and money in America’s missile and space programs. One
discovery eliminated by exhaustative tests was what rocket experts
call “chuffing.” Chuffing is sporadic continuation of burning bey-
ond the rocket engine’s prescribed burnout. This phenomena was
complicated by the fact that chuffing might not occur at lower
altitudes and turn a higher altitude near the fringe of space. It
can result in one rocket phase bumping into another, and that
in turn could spell the difference between a successful and un-
successful rocket shot. Arnold AFS tests discovered what showed
up at altitude and didn’t near sea-level, thereby solving one problem
for missilemen.
Another rocket engine problem, a heat flow phenomena that
circulated super-heated gases around the rocket base, has been
solved by tests at Arnold Engineering Development Center. Such
missiles as ATLAS, JUPITER and POLARIS, to name only a few,
were checked and corrected for the base heating problem. The
answer Arnold AFS came up with was various designs of exhaust
r jzzles that shunted hot exhaust fumes straight downward, out of
the recirculating air flow pattern.
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Your Aerospace Notebook
Periodically the Falcon will publish detailed information about
various types of space vehicles. May we suggest that you clip them
and keep them handy in order you may remain abreast of develop-
ments in this Aerospace age.
SAMOS (Satellite and Missile Observation System) STATISTICS
FIRST STAGE
Booster: A USAF modified Atlas.
Height: about 77 feet.
Weight: 262,000 lbs.
Propulsion: Rocketdyne liquid propellant engine, 356,000 pounds
thrust.
Guidance and Control: The GE/Burroughs radio command
guidance' system that can detect position and rate, then compare
this information with the pre-determined trajectory data and com-
mand flight correction.
SATELLITE VEHICLE
Vehicle: the entire AGENA Second Stage Booster.
Height: about 22 feet.
Weight: about 11,000 lbs. at launch; about 4,100 lbs. in orbit.
Propulsion: Bell liquid fuel rocket engine rated at 15,000 lbs.
of thrust.
Instruments: Test photographic and related equipment.
TRACKING TELEMETRY AND COMMAND
Primary control: Vandenberg Tracking Station, Vandenberg
AFB, Calif., Hawaiian Tracking Station, Kaena, Oahu, Hawaii,
Kodiak Tracking Station, Kodiak, Alaska. ,
Ascent Guidance: GE MOD II, Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
Ascent tracking and telemetry: Vandenberg AFB, Calif.
Downrange Telemetry and Tracking ship: Richfield.
Ascent Radar and optical tracking: Point Arguello, Calif.,
Point Mugu, Calif. St. Nicholas Island, Calif.
Data receiving: USAF Satellite Test Center, Sunnyvale, Calif.
OTHER SAMOS DATA
The test shot occurred Jan. 30, 1961 at Point Arguello, Calif.,
by ARDC. It was the second SAMOS shot, the first launched Oct.
12, 1960 failed to orbit. Its orbital height ranges from 350 to 300
miles above the earth. It circles the earth every 95 minutes. Its
purpose is basic research to determine the capability for making
observation of space, the atmosphere and the nature of the earth
from satellites. Executive management is under the Secretary of
the Air Force.
Peace Through Deterrence