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Show TIIE DESERET SAMPLER, Fri., Aug. 16, 1968 Cheyenne Armys Battle Copier Quickest on the Electronic Draw The most advanced electronic system ever developed for U.S. Army FORT MONMOUTH, N.J. aircraft has been designed into a new armed helicopter called the Cheyenne. The Lockheed --developed Chey- - 'ter which is highly maneuverable fire control, the crew memlieys d aerial and extremely stable at lxth will be able to bring their weaenne, the agile, d vehicle built to ride shotgun for high and low speeds and while pons into instant play for use hits. The airborne the promain addition to may In troops, helicopter giutner hovering. d as a rotor blades, the special design periscopic or direct sighting, and lilises to lie as cow pony and as quick on the features incorporate an anti- will have a swiveling seat to endurdraw as an Old West marshal. torque rotor, a pusher propeller, able him to fire at targets fur a without fly-b- y With a top speed of more and stub wings. asking ing The electronics system is change in course. A third sight, than 250 miles an hour (over 200 knots), it will be far faster than designed to aid rather than sup- which also feeds, through the mountarmed helicopters now in use. plant the crew, which consists automatic fire controls, is Wherhelmet. the ed on THE CHEYENNE is under- of the pilot and pilot's gunner. THE DATA processed by the ever he looks, a gun points. going flight tests conducted for test equipment, The built-i- n the brain of the systhe Army at several Southern computer and California sites by the Lockheed tem will give the Army a providing for both a major is with checkout, California Company, prime con- - weapons-equippe- d helicopter make tractor. capabilities of precise navigation. design feature which lielps The electronic system of the automatic terrain following, close the Cheyenne easy to maintain n and highly reliable. A helicopter was designed and de- - formation flight and flight recorded under the technical di- - trol, fire control, and built-i- n system employs rection of the Army Electronics line checkout and messages to give flight safety Avionics Laboratory, ure warning Also included is the warnings. Back-u- p equipment is Fort Monmouth, N.J. latest civil and tactical communi- - provided in case of primary sysConsisting of a group of sen- - cations equipment developed for tem malfunctions. The communications equiptransfer and the light observation helicopter son, information ment includes two very high display equipment and a com- - (LOH). The advanced navigation frequency FM radio sets for short puter central, the highly refined package forms a sys- - tern (dopplar radar and gyro com-te- and medium ranges and homing to integrate the aircraft, pass heading-attitud- e reference) signals through use of a special high its weapons and the electronic will enable the pilot to fly un- antenna. A e equipment into an aerial vehicle erringly from takeoff to landing frequency set provides frewith new levels of performance point without referring to the service, and an ultra-hig- h . and effectiveness. darkness and quency radio will Ire used for rotary-win- g high-spee- first-roun- sure-foote- LTC P1RKL RETIRES and is awarded first oak leaf cluster to the Army Commendation Medal by BG John G. Appel, commanding general of Deseret Test Center, on July 29. Here LTC Joseph R. Piikl receives retirement papers from 'the general. co-pil- ot pre-flig- ht ht d U.S. Armys armed helicopter through Cheyenne, designed to guide the new-tvp- e d darkness and bad weather, will give its two-ma-n crew hits with various kinds of weapons. Shown being flight-testeby a Lockheed team over a mosaic of southern California farms, Cheyenne has a speed capability of more titan 250 miles an hour. Electronics were developed under the technical direction of the Army Electronit's Command, Fort Monmouth, N.J. Prime contractor for Cheyenne development is the Lockheed g Company, Burbank. Built to escort helicopters and to provide direct fire support in combat landing zones, the agile battle bird has a pusher propeller and stub r wings in addition to its Lockheed system. high-spee- fault-locatio- first-roun- con-velop- d ht --Cali-ifomia troop-carryin- rigid-rolo- m imNumB single-sideba- n long-rang- during ground bad weather as well as in clear daylight. The changing position of the aircraft is shown by ordinate readouts and a bug which moves across roller-ma- p plotters, of Automatic computation data, for example, provides sensi-- ! tive corrections which enable the Cheyenne to skim close to the ground with a high degree erf missiles. safety even through winding Use of Lockheed's advanced canyons to avoid detection and rigid-rotsystem has contribut- - to attack difficult enemy strong ed greatly in making possible a points. THROUGH USE of automatic helicop- practical compound-typ- e THE FIRST helicopter con- ceived and designed exclusively . as a weapons system, the Chey- will escort ' in air mobile opera- helicopters ' tions and provide direct fire support in landing zones. Operat- ed by a two-macrew, it can employ a variety of weapons, ' including machine guns, grenade launchers, rockets, and anti-tan- k . co-en- troop-carryi- . n or (IFF) equipment is common to the U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force. MADE feasible by advanced microminiature electronic components and dense packaging techniques, the highly refined and reliable avionics system, and the capabilities it provides, would not have Ireen possible through the technology available a few years ago. Close adherance to functional modular principles of design will make it simple to remove units not required on particular missions without degrading the performance of the rest of the system. An important facility used in establishing and proving out the design of the electronic system was the Avionics Lalroratory's Tactical Avionics Systems Simulator (TASS), which employs its own computer system, maneuver-abl- e cockpits and closed-circui- t television to obtain real world situations such as those a Cheywould exenne pilot and in combat. encounter to pect - U.S. leuetor O.l.topa. M. topreueoteXlT Q. - Oomaor L.O. - IX. Owner Saa B. - Baarstaiy ef State S.JuX. State Sadi tor A.O. Attorney Omani O.I.S. Treat. UCO - OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE AWARD - And Step Increase were awarded to William G. Yadcskie monies held recently. BG John G. Appel, made the ation to Mr. Yadcskie is employed in the Logistics Division. Quality in cerepresent- Support havs FPCA witnessed by a coonliulonad, warrant or non ro la atoned officer. May Tretaarer State 8. nator - - State l.lqaC. - County Iqraseatatlvee S. - State Ct. - Oeart J. - net ar JUetloa Mfi Federal met Cart AppUcetioe (SF If) co-pil- ARCOM TO A CORPORAL Corporal John P. Bandulan, CBR Weapons Orientation Course, receives the Army Com? mendalion Medal from Colonel Ralph J. Rashid, CBRWOC Commandant, im July 31. Medal was presented for Bandulun's while in Vietnam. exceptionally meritorious sen-ic- - I CIOKIEV DH TOOELE 215 North Main Tooola DRUG CZECH THIS Olinks Berova fa one of the few actresses permitted to emerge regularly from behind the Iron Curtain. The beauty appears in 20th Century-Fox- 's new production, The Vengeance of She." change in the regulations governing differential pay fur Ceneral Schedule employees who perform hazardous duties has been approved by the Civil Service Commission, and several additional duties have Ireen added to the schedule for which hazard pay is authorized. THE CHANGE provides that yond those regularly scheduled. when an employee performs a If he performed the hazardous hazardous duty for which a dif- duty during the additional tour, ferential is authorized he will he he received the differential only paid the hazard pay for all hours for those hours hut not for his served ill a pay status on that regular tour. New duties recently added day. Previously, payment of the dif- to the hazard pay schedule, and ferential depended oil when dur- for which the Commission approving the day the employee perform- ed a 25 per cent differential, are ed the hazardous duty. If lie per- as follows: 1. PARTICIPATION in flights formed it during his regulailv scheduled tour he received hazard involving launch and recovery helipay for all hours in that tour hut aboard an aircraft, tactical not for any additional hours lw- - copter flights, A y--. Stoker Motor Company has in stock over seventy new cars. 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