The White Falcon - 06.05.1961, Blaðsíða 4

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WHITE FALCON
Saturday, May 6, 1961
FUND DRIVE ENDS
The recent Red Cross fund drive ended successfully at Keflavik Air-
port with military members and American civilian employes contri-
buting $2,586.60 to the drive. Maj. H. C. Jessup, center, fund drive
project officer, and MSgt. W. L. Whitacre, who assisted him in the
drive, hand a “life size” check over to R. J. Byler, Red Cross re-
presentative here.
Air Traffic Control To Cover
Routes Over Greenland Waters
AACS Redesignated After July 1
For years, the Airways and Air Communications Service
has been the byword in air communications. Now, however,
AACS is destined to pass into history as a member of the
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Negotiations between the Unit-
ed States and Denmark initiated
over six years ago were recently
concluded by the signing of an
agreement between the two coun-
tries, in which the United States
will provide international air traf-
fic control services over the Dan-
ish-owned island of Greenland and
its territorial waters.
Although military aircraft have
been operating in the Polar Reg-
ions since World War I, commerc-
ial aviation has only recently been
able to realize the great savings
in time and money through util-
ization of top-of-the-world air
routes between the Far East,
North America, and Europe. Al-
though the volume of air traffic
through this 1,400 square miles
Greenland area is small in com-
parison with that found in other
areas of the world, it is sufficient-
ly heavy and complex enough to
require the provision of an air
Falcon Football
Prospects 'Iffy'
Head football coach Ben Martin
owns up to a helmet-full of un-
known “X” factors in projecting
current spring training underway
now at the Air Force Academy
with the coming football season
still some six months away.
Quarterback Rich Mayo will be
gone by graduation, and it looks
as if junior quarterback Jerry
Thies, a six-foot 160-pounder, will
get the nod to fill his shoes.
Senior halfback Bob McNaugh-
ton, a chunky 5 foot 9 inch 168-
pounder, is another quarterback
possibility and also a candidate
to replace the Falcon’s hard-run-
ning Mike Quinlan, also graduat-
ing.
Coach Martin says he has a
well-seasoned starting line, but
he won’t estimate his bench
strength. The weak point of the
Falcons is the offensive backfield
and the defensive secondary.
Coach Martin also says he is try-
ing to improve the defense gener-
ally, a weakness last season.
Of the 90 cadets on the squad,
14 will be seniors next fall, 29
juniors and 47 sophomores.
With many new players coming
up, Coach Martin indicates it’s
too early yet to name his starters.
traffic control service.
The United States Air Force
has been given the task of provid-
ing this service through USAF-
operated international Area Con-
trol Centers located at Sondre-
stromfjord Air Base and Thule
Air Base, Greenland. Communica-
tions supporting this effort will
be a mixture of USAF and inter-
national aviation networks.
Action is now underway to pub-
licize the air traffic control ser-
vices that will be provided by
these agencies. Although the
primary purpose of the Thule and
Sondrestromf jord Area Control
Centers will be to provide air
traffic control, they will serve as
coordinating centers for United
States and Danish air rescue ac-
tivities in their respective areas.
Softball Season
To Begin May 29
League organizational meetings
for coaches and managers will be
held at 1 p.m. Monday in the
Field House to get the 1961 soft-
ball program underway at Kefla-
vik.
Interpretation of rules meet-
ings will be held May 9-10-12 at
the Viking Service Club beginning
at 7 p.m. each evening.
The softball play is scheduled
to begin May 29, with teams com-
peting for points toward winning
the Commander’s Trophy.
Options Given
On WW Sports
The 1962 world-wide Sports and
Recreation Championships will be
up to the desires of the major
commands, USAF has announced.
Each command is being asked
to report back on the sports and
recreational activities it wishes to
end with a world-wide Air Force
contest. The report should also
include the order of preference.
No limit is placed on the re-
commendations ; however, indica-
tions point to a USAF limitation
of 10 events leading to Air Force
champion, including the photo-
graphy contest that is held every
18 months.
MATS family.
As of July 1, AACS will be
deactivated and in its place a to-
tally new command—the Air
Force Communications Service—
will be formed. The change is in
keeping with the growth and rap-
id technological advancements
that daily are being made in the
communications field.
Back during the Civil War, a
battle order dispatched from the
War Department to a field com-
mander sometimes took days. To-
day, an order can be sent from
the Department of Defense to a
major command and on down to a
unit in the field half way around
the world in a matter of minutes.
But until the new AFCS is
formed, the responsibility for re-
laying this “hot” order will re-
main under the jurisdiction of
the AACS. Through a series of
relay stations tied into an Air
Communications Network (AIR-
COM), AACS furnishes point-to-
point and air-to-ground communi-
cations support of air operations,
weapons systems and related ac-
tivities.
Use of the latest developments
in equipment and techniques en-
ables AACS, using both radio and
wire service, to handle more than
750,000 messages within a day’s
time.
AACS has two major functions
as the Air Force communications
agency. One is the operation of
AIRCOM complex which is de-
signed to handle the administra-
tive, aircraft movement and
weather information messages
necessary in day-to-day opera-
tions. The other is to provide air
traffic services in support of Air
Force flying, under all weather
conditions.
Support of Air Force flying in-
volves monitoring airways traffic
overseas, relaying weather in-
formation, and operating control
towers and radar centers at air
base terminals and navigation
aids along the airways. In sup-
port of this function, AACS teams
work closely with the Federal
Aviation Agency in the ZI and
with foreign governments in
countries where there are USAF
flying units.
To help carry out its two big
jobs—communications and air
traffic services—AACS operates
approximately 2,000 facilities at
more than 500 bases in 39 coun-
Eglin AFB, Fla., has been se-
lected by Gen. Thomas D. White
as the first winner of the General
Thomas D. White Fish asd Wild-
life Conservation Award.
The Air Foi'ce Chief of Staff
personally presented the trophy
for 1960 to Eglin representatives
in ceremonies at the Pentagon.
The selection committee told
Sit Up King?
Chennault AFB, La., is claim-
ing the residence of the USAF-
wide “sit up” king. A3C William
J. Yeader set what the base thinks
is a record by doing 1,600 conse-
cutive sit-ups.
What’s more, he’s now shooting
for a new mark, trying to make it
an even 2,000.
Just for the record, it took
Veader 1 hour and 25 minutes to
sit up 1,600 times.
tries. And to maintain its services
on a round-the-clock basis, AACS
must keep more than half of its
30,000 people overseas at all times.
Nerve center for this far-reach-
ing organization is Scott AFB,
Ill. where Maj. Gen. Daniel C.
Doubleday, AACS commander, has
his headquarters.
But for the management of its
worldwide activities, AACS is di-
vided into five major areas: The
Continental AACS Area (includ-
ing the Caribbean and Canal
Zone stations), commanded by
Col. Harry A. French; European-
African-Middle Eastern AACS
Area, commanded by Brig. Gen.
J. Francis Taylor; Pacific AACS
Region, commanded by Brig. Gen.
Bernard M. Wootton; the Alaska
F-100F Making
Hot Landings
In Test Hops
An almost but not quite normal
F-100F is undergoing high angle
and high speed landing tests at
Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio,
paving the way for landings of
future aerospace vehicles on con-
ventional runways.
The problem test pilots are at-
tacking is basically this: Advanc-
ed vehicles with fuel limitations
and lacking the lifting power of
present day aircraft will have to
make steeper approaches to land
with no power.
To simulate these conditions the
men of the Air Force Systems
Command have modified a Super-
sabre jet with a thrust reverser,
a speed three sizes over normal,
and variable wing flaps.
In normal flight this makes for
a mighty slow — WW II prop
fighter — speed. But on landing
at approximately 230 miles-an-
hour, the test pilot will tell you
that the future aerospace craft
is here.
Basic test landing procedure
is to reserve thrust at 6,000 feet
to slow down and assume a steep
gliding angle and then to lower
the large speed brake. As the
plane lands, air is blown over the
wing flaps to increase lift. In
totality this produces the lift drag
conditions of aerospace vehicles.
General White that many of the
Air Force installations visited,
ranging from Germany to the Az-
ores and Alaska, had such out-
standing convervation programs
that it was difficult to single out
a winner.
After recommending the selec-
tion of Eglin AFB, the committee
wrote General White that “The
Air Force is the conservation
leader in the military, looking
beyond guns, aircraft and mis-
siles to the very foundation of
our society—the land and water
resources.”
Bases were judged by stiff crit-
eria that range from well known
rod-and-gun club activities to con-
servation efforts more usually as-
sociated with local, state and fed-
eral governments.
Full details of The General
Thomas D. White and Wildlife
Conservation Award can be found
in AFR 125-5A.
AACS Region, commanded by Lt.
Col. Robert E. Larson; and the
North Atlantic AACS Region,
commanded by Col. William F.
Geyser.
The large area organizations
also are divided into geographic
regions which supervise communi-
cations and air traffic service
operations at approximately 140
AACS squadrons and 120 separ-
ate detachments at individual
bases. Other AACS operating un-
its include three mobile squadrons,
six groups and 13 facilities check-
ing flights.
(This is another in a series of
articles prepared by MATS Head-
quarters telling the story about
the MATS Family. Editor.)
$ 73 Million
Found On
‘Money Tree’
Project “Money Tree,” a world-
wide scheme to save Air Force
funds through better management
of material resources, is dangling
a juicy $73 million leaf in a re-
examination of motor vehicle re-
quirements.
The re-examination was a joint
effort of 13 Air Force commands
and included material handling
equipment, war readiness and
common use vehicles. Seventy typ-
es of equipment were considered,
resulting in elimination from fu-
ture Air Force requirements of
14,076 vehicles.
Lt. Gen. Mark Bradley Jr., de-
puty chief of staff, material, Hq.
USAF, said, “This type of man-
agement is exactly what was con-
templated when “Money Tree”
was begun. Through better re-
porting, improved material dis-
cipline, proper allocation of as-
sets and stringent control of re-
quirements computation, we feel
many millions of dollars can be
harvested.”
SAC Bomb Scoring
Train Almost City
The bomb-scoring trains used
now by the Strategic Air Com-
mand for its practice bombing
competitions are virtually rolling
air bases.
Seven cars of the 10-car train
contain facilities for command,
administration, maintenance, sup-
ply and power. Only three flat-
bed cars are needed to haul the
radar bomb scoring equipment, a
flexible method to vary practice
bomb navigational routes.
The train with its 10 Air Force
blue cars has enough electric
power to light a city of 2,500 per-
sons, carries enough fuel and
water (10,000 gallons of each)
for a month’s continuous opera-
tion.
Stamp Collectors Meet
Stamp collectors at Keflavik
Airport will have a chance to get
together twice a month for trad-
ing, conversation—and coffee.
The first meeting of the Stamp
Swap Club will be held Friday,
May 12, at 7 p.m. at the Viking
Service Club.
For more details call the club
director, extension 5273 or 2171.
AEROSPACE EVENT
Feb. 18, 1957—The first nation-
al scientific symposium on prob-
lems associated with space travel
was held Feb. 18-20.
Eglin Wins Conservation Award