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Show pen house sev crt airport for wetfeye response fleam . ..-- '-;. ' p -' ' '- V ------ - - ; A s. k jf . . v ', ' - . V -. PILOT ELTON WHITE explains the complexity of the controls for the Chinook Helicopter which is powered by two Lycoming 3,750 horso power engines. : ..... . ... -. r: . v, .... v y ' OPEN REAR of the Army's Chinook Helicopter shows it cargo capacity which will transport up to 33 combat-equipped troops. Four of the helicopters are stationed at the Vernal airport. The Army's Kmorgency Response Team, stationed at the Vernal j Municipal Airport for the transportation tran-sportation of the weteye bombs, will have an open house this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The public is invited to meet (lie team and examine the aircraft and equipment equip-ment that will be used should an inflight in-flight emergency occur during the move of 8H8 weteye nerve bombs from Kooky Mountain Arsenal to Dugvay Proving Ground in Utah. Those attending .Saturday's open house will have an opportunity to explore ex-plore the cockpit and cargo area of tlie Army twin-rotor OH 47C "Chinook" transport helicopter, the emergency team's mission transport. Four "Cbinooks" are stationed at the Vernal airport along with -11 crewmen. The helicopters are on call should an emergency occur and have a response time of 30 minutes reaching speeds of over 150 miles per hour. A jeep and trailer rig that travels in the cargo hold of the helicopter will be on display along with chemical protective masks, garments, and detection and decontamination equipment. This displays w ill be on the w est side of the Vernal airport ,ir the park lot where the new terminal building w ill Ix1 built. The Vernal team is one of six teams at Emergency Response Centers along the route to be flow n by Air Force C-Ml Starlifters which will move the bombs and three containers of nerve gas drained from the lxmbs Transportation of the Iximbs is ex pocted to be aooomplish'ti in approximately ap-proximately one month or slightly longer if weather delays are encountered en-countered The respoiw team consists of nine Technical Escorts, soldiers trained to respond to accidents involving chemical munitions; two medical corpsmen. live m i.l.iry policemen. 1.' aviators incUiv! -iv pilots, and a public affairs rei e All team members have l-. , ally trained for the mission The Vernal response team will bo tin-primary tin-primary response team lor their assigned territory and w ill rcnmd as a back-up unit should an emerftioy occur elsewhere The six Fmei policy Res(H.;i ,' ' Vn . tors are oMiionod so that the lir.i' to r'' fc ' -!; - ' - .73t--f . r t - "TT ARMY CHINOOK Helicopter and emeigency response teams remain ready at the Vernal Municipal airport in the case ot an accident in reach a downed aircraft is no more than :)() minutes. Other response sites along the route are at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Kremmling and Craig. Colo.. I'rovo and Dugway Proving Cround Each C 141 flight will last approximately ap-proximately -It) minutes, covering the route from Denver to the airfield at Dugway Proving C round where the Iximbs will be unloaded and taken about 50 miles in a guarded truck convoy to the Tixiele depot The bomb transport aircraft will not pass over Vernal and the Vernal airport is not an emergency landing site The locally-based Chinook helicopters, however, may pass over Vernal during training flights, an Army spokesman said The Army is moving the Weteye bombs, which the Defense Deurtment considers essential to the National defense, under a Congressional requirement to transfer them Irom Denver by Oct. 10 A factor in the selection of Toi It-Arnn It-Arnn Depot to receie the bombs is the high degree of security the inst.ill.i'.ion oilers The wctees are N.ty munition which are stored in hermetically se.,i' ! shipping storage containers without explosives or fuing materials J were produced or tlx- Navy at link' Mountain Arsenal. Denver, m l''' and tuvo Ix-cn stored there since The C Ml Slarhfter. which w.ll transport the weteye alorg a io'..te which passes within noil's south : Ixtc. is a fixir ongino. 1 toiled ! which can cruise .it more th.m iuucs l-r hour ami o.irrv a n..iMini;n. - .. t ' pa load of 7i.'tl ituvK Delene otlui.ils i.ive vo'v I loot the transport of the weteye bombs from Ro Mountain Arsenal in Denver to the Tooele Arr' Depot. strong precautions are being employed to make sure the move is as safe and si cure as posible |
