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Show HILL TOP TIMES 12 Page July 15, 1977 Averts accident 6514th earns 'well I if 7 one ior oaring 'A MnwiAIIA vcuiwa mia-ai- i By Capt. Richard Mole The Air Force Well Done Award for outstanding feats of airmanship being used to monitor the chopper's retrieval. an averting aircraft accident, has gone to seven-ma- n crew of the 6514th Test Squadron at Hill a In a retrieval r retrieval the mid-ai- r crew is directly concerned with two parachutes as the The descends. RPV fiiii AFB. About a year ago, an Mid-ai- HH-5- 3 helicopter, call sign "Soaky 47," executed a normal mid- vehicle d (RPV). V, wing. WELL DONE, INDEED - Seven crewmembers of an HH-5- 3 assigned to the 6514th Test Squadron have received the Air Force Well Done Award for averting an accident last year in a mid-ai- r vehicle (RPV). They saved themselves, retrieval of an $850,000 test remotely-pilote- d failed to release and the intercom system RPV the when the helicopter, and the parachute malfunctioned. The award was recently presented by Col. J.S. "Stan" Burklund, Air Force Flight Test Center Vice Commander. Recipients were (1 to r); SSgt. Thomas Beltz, mid-ai- r retrieval winch operator; MSgt. Gerald Johnson, pole operator; Mr. John Raccasi, Sikorsky helicopter flight test engineer; TSgt. William Scrivani, instructor pole operator; Capt. Richard (U.S. Air Mole, additional pilot; Capt. George Stokes, pilot, and Capt. Robert Stroup, Force Photo) was a version, helicopter specially-modifie- d equipped with a mid-ai- r retrieval system, one of two in the Air Force. such HH-53- s It was also equipped with special test equipment to record helicopter stresses and vibrations. On that summer day, this test equipment was VSICOME co-pil- ot. TO . 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