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Show HILL TOP TIMES Page 6 Uital ley To C3igti Flight Uil! .Be Space Medicine New Award Is Set For " 0k Flight Safety The Air Force has announced a new award in the field of flight safety, the Koren Kolligan. Jr. trophy. First award wilj be made in May 1958 and will be given annually to the USAF pilot or air crew member who most successfully copes with an emergency situation in flight. The trophy is a bronze statute oh a white marble base, symbol- izing an Air Force jet pilot. The Koren Kolligan family is donating the trophy in the name and memory of 1st Lt. Koren Kolligan, Jr., assigned to the 964th Aircraft Early Warning and ConAir trol Squadron, McClellan Force Base, Calif. Lt. Kolligan were declared and his missing in a 3 aircraft off the Farallon Island, near San Francisco, in September 1055. The award is established, the Air Force said, to recognize outstanding feats of airmanship by air crew members who have averted aircraft accidents or minimized the seriousness of accidents through exceptional alertness, igenuity, alertness or flying proficiency. The Director of Flight Safety Research, Office of the Inspector General, USAF, will administer the Kolligan trophy program. Final selection of the trophy recipient will be made by the Chief of Staff, USAF. No limitation is placed on . type or medals of aircraft, and eligibility will extend to all manned aircraft in the Air Force inventory. The award is limited to officers and enlisted personnel on active duty with the U. S. Air Force. The emergency situation which has been dealt with successfully must have arisen from one of the following situations; meft chanical difficulty in the or equipment on the ground, personnel errors or acts on the part of others, whether in the air or on the ground, or environmental factors beyond the control of the nominee. Headquarters USAF 'will be the scene of presentation ceremonies. Selection of the most outstanding award nominee for the calendar year 1957 is presently in progress co-pil- . a ot T-3- This is the first of a series of articles on the U. S. Air Force's ten years of pioneering study of the problems of putting man into space in piloted craft. Articles are based on a recent address by Dr. Hubertug Strughold, advisor for Research at the School of Aviation Medicine ' Ai r University, USAF. Ever since the true nature of the Earth's atmosphere was recoe nized, two centuries ago, we have been looking forward to some distant time in the future, when we might escape from it, into the silence and immensity of space. Yet we now know that, for more than 20 years ' men have actually been exploring space. The first flight into what we beyond the atmosphere, or in have come to define as the border what has become known as Noon occurred of space region "astronautics." It can thereascent vember 11, 1935. It was the be fore a branch of considered AnderA. Orvil General by Major the more general field which son, U. S. Air Force (retired), and we call "bioastronautics," the Captain Albert W. Stevens, to an investigation of every aspect, altitude of nearly 14 miles in the life in. the universe, as it of II. balloon, Explorer be encountered by men may Since , then, a number of oth from this planet in the future. ep flyers, including LieutenIt is the task of Space Medicine ant Colonel Charles Yeager and to assure the survival and athave Arthur Murray, Major of the astronaut, and cotained even greater altitudes in rocket powered craft. Most ntribute to his safety and efficiency recently, Doctor David Simons during his exploration of space established a new balloon recand of other celestial bodies. ord .of almost 20 miles, and took Kincheloe Ivan Already Space Medicine has been Captain the 2 up to nearly 24 miles, largely instrumental in making the highest altitude yet reached possible the pioneer flights. by man. well-bein- SUPERVISOR of the Optics Unit, Robert Smith, (right) suggested an unusual lens bank to save glass parts of cameras. The 'bank' is saving $8,000 every three months. Discussing the suggestion are (left) John Ross, foreman of Accessories Unit, and Wayne Eastman, Suggestions Evaluator. X-- Unique 'Glass Bank' Saves AF Thousands Of Dollars The conditions met in all of these flights are more character istic of space than they ' are of conventional flying within the atmosphere. ' This fact has been de Just like a child has a "piggy bank" to save his pennies, the Optical termined by research in a new Unit in Maintenance has a lens bank to save' the glass parts of a camera. field of human physiology called This unusual bank, set-u-p by Robert Smith, Chief of the Unit, is Space Medicine. " Air- For the past nine, years, the of .$8,000 saving approximately Force money every three months problems of Man in Space and has increased his personal ac- been the subject of theo- L i r 7Vj have count through suggestion award fi.w-jretical iOV) and experimental stuI F I OOIt k. in dies this new medical area, wiuo j.ax. "J FliaYVMiYrckl SCbCClEP FROM ronl a - II of iVio jtnet which is a logical extension of W fttvt KKfMfttf inr a Ions svst.pm in a pamerR. Mr. I aviation Medicine. Space Me. ono imt.attim Smith rlpvplnnpd a class-filindicine examines all the mediII method for lens removed during cal factors involved in flight the overhaul of cameras that were still serviceable. With these salvaged lens, he established a bank from which lens of the same type can bs drawn to replace those broken or damaged. There are from four to seven pieces of glass in a lense system, Mr. Smith explained. "If one piece of the set needed replacing, it was the policy to condemn the whole lens system, even though some pieces were as good as new, and replace it with a complete new set. Air Force camera lens" systems SUR3 US HAS A 600D PRO cost from $525. for the regular reDUCTION RECORD-BU- T H2'Q connaissance cameras up to $11,000 GOT TO STOP MAKIN9 THOSE for special mapping cameras," he 6UARANTESP MOUSY BACK' said. OPFERS With the lens' bank on hand extra lens are available, whereby COLONELS: NURSE simply check their "glass file" they Announcement on March 17 for the part they need, test it to of the temporary promotion to guarantee that it meets with Air colonel of two AF chief nurses Force standards, and install it. brings to three the number of Total cost for parts nothing. colonels in the AFte Nurse Mr. Smith's idea is being conCorps. Until now only the head sidered for further OOAMA evaluof the Nurse Corps was a colation and Air Force-wid- e P. f1' 1 r-- f Choice Rose Bushes Two-year-ol- 75c Each d, $8.00 Per Dozen 100 Varieties Now Ready for Planting V Mount Ogdcn Nursery n- e- ROY, UTAH Phone EX 71 . . air-cra- Order of the day: onel. Col. Ida Peschon, Command Nurse for USAFE, was promoted with rank dating to Feb. 24, and Lt. Col. Rosemary TAC's Command Nurse, will don her eagles on April 21. Both have more than 22 years active duty as military nurses. Col. 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