The White Falcon - 08.04.1961, Blaðsíða 2

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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, April 8, 1961
Lesson From A Hurricane
Scuddy clouds scurried across a warm Caribbean sky that
day. A look at the sky told those who know the tropics that a
major storm was brewing. Near the Antilles a weather plane had
the eye of the storm in its radar scope. The date was Sept. 1, 1960,
just another day in the time of the hurricanes.
Three storms that season had already boiled up in southern
waters and right-hooked harmlessly out to sea into the north
Atlantic, away from the islands and the North American mainland.
But this fourth storm, hurricane Donna, was different.
She barreled across Puerto Rico, slammed into Florida, and
left-hooked into America’s entire eastern seabord before blowing
herself out 12 days later in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
In those 12 days, Donna had killed 21 persons and injured
1,340 persons. A French airliner with 63 persons aboard plunged
into the sea with no survivors off Dakar, Africa. It was believed
to be another victim of the storm.
In her wide wake, Donna also had destroyed 70,000 homes
and farm buildings. She had smashed or damaged nearly 2,000
boats. And more importantly, over 140,000 persons were left in
misery, a time of disaster.
But this also was the time when the American Red Cross
came to the rescue. The ARC rushed food, clothing, shelter and
medical supplies to the far-flung disaster areas. Almost 15,000
emergency workers were employed. The bill ran to $2,220,000 and
the final audit isn’t in yet. But of greater significance, the Red
Cross was there those sunny days after the storm, helping to re-
habilitate.
Homes needed to be rebuilt and many persons had no money.
Some of the seriously injured faced long hospitalization and lacked
the necessary funds. The Red Cross was there with its check book.
Though dramatic and a good example of the Red Cross in
action, this storm assistance was a special effort and is only a
small part of the day-to-day Red Cross work.
With the annual American Red Cross drive in progress now,
there are many who remember. Among them are America’s leading
citizens.
The President keynoted this year’s Red Cross fund drive by
noting: “The Red Cross provides welfare services to members of
the Armed Forces and their families. It also offers services such
as disaster preparness and relief, first aid, blood, home nursing,
water safety and various youth community training programs.”
Secretary of the Air Force Eugene M. Zuckert stressed, “Good
things happen when you help.”
And Chief-of-Staff, Gen. Thomas D. White said: “Once again
we, in the Air Force, have the opportunity of uniting with all
Americans in carrying on this battle. I urge all of you to support
generously the 1961 Red Cross campaign.”
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Dyna-Soar Titan-Launched
Dyna-Soar probably will be the Nation’s first piloted aero-
spacecraft.
So what is an aerospacecraft? For that matter, what is the
Dyna-Soar?
The latest model of the AF Titan intercontinental ballistic
missile booster will be used to launch the Dyna-Soar manned glider.
Titan II has a simplified propulsion system, storable propellant
and oxidizer, and greater payload boost capability than Titan I.
Built by the Martin Company, the Titan II will be modified for
the Dyna-Soar application.
Dyna-Soar is a program to send a surface-launched, piloted
test vehicle into space and, through controlled re-entry, bring it
back to earth. The Dyna-Soar aerospace vehicle, which is being
developed by the Boeing Airplane Company, is a delta-winged
glider designed to be capable eventually of being boosted into orbit
and then to descend into the atmosphere and be landed by the
pilot on a normal airstrip.
What’s an aerospacecraft? First, what’s aerospace?
It’s the single operational medium once conceived by many
to be two separate mediums, “air” and “space.” It is a refinement
of the term “air/space,” first used by the Air Force in 1957 after
popular reaction to Sputnik I showed that many persons assumed
that astronautics was only remotely related to aeronautics.
What is an aerospacecraft? It aerospace is an operational
medium consisting of the total expanse beyond the Earth’s surface,
is an aerospacecraft any vehicle that operates in aerospace?
An aerospacecraft is a vehicle that will fly both within and
beyond the sensible atmosphere. An aircraft flies within the atmos-
phere; and a true spacecraft will fly principally in the space en-
vironment. So the Air Force Dyna-Soar will be an aerospacecraft,
not a spacecraft and not an aircraft.
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 AFP8 and
AFN8 materials. Views and opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the
Department of Defense.
Information Officer................Capt. Warren J. Papin, USAF
Editor .............................. TSgt Wylie Mason, USAF
Isafoldarp.-entsmiOJa h.f.
Aerospace Power for

THE
L^omman
CALLS
Gen. Thomas D. White appear-
ed before Congress recently to
talk about the new space and
missile research and development
role given to the Air Force by
the Department of Defense.
Testifying extemporaneously
before the House Committee on
Science and Astronautics, the Air
Force Chief-of-staff said he has
been re-emphasizing so as to avoid
misinterpretation “that this new
mission meant enormous responsi-
bilities to the Air Force and that
the Air Force would bend . over
backward to meet the require-
ments of the Army and the Navy
as prescribed by the directive.”
Rep. Bell, a member of the
Committee chaired by Rep. Over-
ton Brooks, said he thought the
reorganization directive was a
good one.
Congressmen asked General
White about other matters such
as Nike Zeus and Polaris. Gene-
ral White replied that the Air
Force regards these as rightfully
belonging to the Army and the
Navy.
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Past experience indicates that
some of the T-38 Talon trained
pilots will operate space craft of
the future, Lt. Gen. James E.
Briggs, commander of the Air
Training Command, advised.
General Briggs draws the par-
allel that if some of the men fly-
ing B-52 all jet bombers today
trained in 70 mph trainers, it is
not hard to imagine that young
students training on newly intro-
duced T-38 Talon supersonic jet
trainers will become the pilots of
Dyna-Soar and other space ve-
hicles.
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•The North American Air De-
fense Command is trying out a
new idea in aerial defense, that
of using a KC-135 all jet tanker
modified into a flying radar and
communications center and of
mounting more than 24 EAGLE
air-to-air rockets on the plane.
The Acedemic Approach
The four-year Air Force Academy academic curriculum is a
link with time-honored education practices and at the same time
a revolutionary departure from the traditional service academy
approach to career development.
Prescribed curriculum consists of a diversified range of courses
to prepare the cadet for a broad scope of activity as an Air Force
officer. Since the same general educational objectives apply to all
students, the framework of the academic portion of the curriculum,
14414 credit hours, is based on required or prescribed courses.
Balanced almost evenly between the basic and applied sciences, and
the humanities and social sciences, it combines engineering and
liberal arts programs.
This balance may surprise those who have always thought of
service academies as primarily technical or engineering schools.
However, if the Air Force officer’s career, dedicated to the pre-
servation and defense of the free way of life, is to be successful,
he must have a knowledge and understanding of world society, to
include history, heritage, values and aims. All of this must be
combined with his grasp of the scientific principles and engineering
technology that underlie weapon systems and aerospace operations
of the future.
Maj. Gen. William S. Stone, Superintendent of the Air Force
Academy, summed up the Academy’s position on the subject when
he said: “Our aim is to produce leaders whose abilities extend
across the full horizon of activities, Air Force officers of solidly
balanced backgrounds whose training includes all fields, the social
and cultural as well as the scientific and technical.”
As a means of challenging cadet students to advance academical-
ly as far and as fast as they are able, the Academy in 1957 pioneered
a step forward from the traditional system of service academy
education by introducing a program known as Curriculum Enrich-
ment.
Although only two classes of young graduates have been pre-
pared for leadership in the Aerospace Age Air Force of the future,
the educational achivements of cadets and graduates already can
be assessed as spectacular.
Instead of being bound by the standard curriculum which
every student must take and no more, the cadet with exceptional
ability or previous college training is permitted, under the Enrich-
ment Program, to broaden his knowledge or specialize in a subject
area. Qualified cadets are permitted to meet prescribed requirements
in any department by transfer of credits, validation examinations
or acceleration of prescribed courses. In the time thus made available,
students may take substitute ’ elective courses or extra electives
beyond the prescribed semester-hour load.
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Welcome Aboard
Recent arrivals at Keflavik Air-
port with previous duty stations
and AFSC are:
Clarence F. Schroeder, 30452,
Eglin AFB, Fla.
Oliver B. Swicegood, 64750, Low-
ry AFB, Colo.
' This system could provide in
one package an early warning
airborne control center and the
firepower to deal with an attack.
Bendix, the manufacture of the
EAGLE rocket, says its air-to-air
missile can detect and track num-
erous aerial objects and achieve
kills at great ranges.
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The new Air Force wide pam-
phlet on “Forecast on Availability
of Family Housing” has been
published and distributed by Per-
sonnel Services.
AFP 34-9-1 outlines the base
and off-base housing outlook for
all USAF bases during the period
Mar. 1-May 31.
This pamphlet gives compre-
hensive information for all ranks
and forecasts the expected delay
in obtaing government or non-
government housing with or with-
out concurrent travel.
AIR FORCE
Capt. Curtis E. Budd, 1045G,
Dover AFB, Del.
Capt. Richard L. Griffin, Lowry
AFB, Colo.
CWO W-3 Emory J. Caukin,
Bergstrom AFB, Tex.
CWO W-2 James A. Reeves, Tink-
er AFB, Okla.
MSgt. Amos B. Mustin, Barks-
dale AFB, La.
MSgt. George E. Wilkie, 64270,
Sioux City AB, Iowa.
TSgt. Billy G. Glasgow, Keesler
AFB, Miss.
STAFF SERGEANTS
Calvin D. Gregory, 62231, Eng-
land AFB, La.
Chauncey M. Green, Maxwell
AFB, Ala.
Mathew J. Mora, 36250, Cannon
AFB, N. Mex.
John Rickhard, 70270, Scott AFB,
Ill.
Nicholas Weiss, 74150, Travis
AFB, Calif.
AIRMEN FIRST CLASS
Charles L. McCarty, 36350B,
Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.
Abelardo G. Rodriguez, Orlando
AFB, Fla.
AIRMEN SECOND CLASS
Edward M. Connors, Frederick C.
Dunn, Robert Gray Jr. and
Donald T. Graham, 30432’s,
Keesler AFB, Miss.
Thomas J. Hall, 77150, Clark AB,
P. I.
Douglas R. Hubbard, 30630C,
Lackland AFB, Tex.
Franklin D. Mullins, Robert E.
Murray and Donald G. Prater,
30432’s, Keesler AFB, Miss.
Frank M. Ritter, 70250, Orlando
AFB, Fla.
George W. Smith, 27230B, and
Joseph C. Takacs, 30432, Kees-
ler AFB, Miss.
Owen Williams, 70250, Vanden-
berg AFB, Calif.
AIRMEN THIRD CLASS
Francisco X. Aimaraz, 62250,
Walker AFB, N. Mex.
William A. Girman, Chanute
AFB, Ill.
Bernard W. Ryan and James C.
Sclimenti, 46130’s, Lowry AFB,
Colo.
Roger J. Zehrung, 43231, Shep-
pard AFB, Tex.
NAVY
ETN SA Daryl E. Barnaby and
Mayford Tenney, U. S. Naval
Training Center, Great Lakes,
Ill.

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