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Show THE HILL TOP TIMES No It sends out electrical impulses over Guess vyui eat a marvelous mechanical brain that took electronic engineers wiuUu.3 on guess worK in aerial full eight years iu "k gunnery. second this electric wizard can accurately compute a oititnrlft of the olane in- whir.fi i - io tu uouuwuij uie speeu "u f Ld of approaching enemy aircraft, barometric pressure exist-LVthat altitude, allow for such things as "drift," and then Mnint & gun ngnt wnerc n uccw iu uc pumtea to score direct hits In one a at tne on w&v. Then too," Doug Bloomquist Electric .scientists en- - aded, "the rifling in the barrel of a machine gun makes the the compuiora Korce for use on the Boeing spin at a terrific rate of projectile in electronic sets order that it won't turn speed of cost a at SSSSSctured and lose its velocity and accuracy. This spinning, coupled with J4,000 each. altitude and barometric pressure, me AmocK-uphas a decided affect on the course system nas bullet." at ofAthe L. , engine repair building .50 in projectile is only about Rune for the use of xk inch cal. in diameter. "And believe it the or ".tLr workers engaged infirenot," Doug said, "as the projecIn rand overhaul of these tile spins, there is greater air prescontrol systems. Five stands nave sure under it than on top of it. ,15,t!j1,o1 made iu uuiu Just inch makes an infinitesimal S assemblies andsetfive tosighting difference in pressure and air check up nations have been turrets. the operations of the That difference is enough to ' TYinnk-n- n . . i-j J are cause the bullet to "drift" or roll on the heavier air the air underive mechanical brains, or computm neath the bullet making it swerve i eirofatvt ...ill eta, vw.rJt to in the right At low altitudes the "nerves" ana "muscies. pressure is usually greater, causing The test equipment was salvaged more drift than in the ratified ay iour atmosphere of the higher elevafrom a condemned armament workers at Hill: Jerry tions. The trick is to know how much .., o U, JCI13CI1, IViv...-erter, Robert Miller, and Douglas drift there will be at any given altitude and barometric pressure. BlOOmgUlSl. XOese iour btnuiuiuuuiB alSO ueSIgneu ttliu uuui, tunic The brain figures this out accurately automatically. But the work of the brain doesn't urArk test in qih.l. nu m apttinfiT e III) jr at merely figuring equations. stop system of this type has already paid for itself. Before the system Now You was devised, all of the delicate mechanisms had to De careiuuy j neneral end-over-e- nd ---- -- oi ... - 1 mock-u- p. A- - to Tinker AFB Oklahoma for the checking and repbe done right at Hill crated and shipped at Oklahoma City, repair. Now airing can AFB. Comnutors turned out bv Armament technicians 100 ivnt accurate nnH ran nepform dim-mensio- ns 6-- -- Totals he said, the gun must "lead" the it must actually be aimed t a point in front of the enemy plane in order to hit it. But the trick of aerial gunnery J to know just how much to "lead" an-geles- Hirget. Retarget nutn- - David he see Speed Chart .i f Clumb up a tree What he could see And Club lnrl Sim up Presently Beside of him And squatted down by he. YES-poetry and our bartenders may be corny Our WE HAVE THE BEST TRY FOOD TO GIVE QUICK, FRIENDLY SERVICE SERVE YOUR FAVORITE BEER CASH GOVERNMENT LIKE HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED AT I Sahara Drug Store? 5 OUTSIDE MAIN GATS CHECKS TO TRY TO PLEASE 8 TAP ROOM I 1 P-1- 6's Sunset, , Utah 1 II Your Quickest Stop V for 8 air u u I LUNCHES BEER mm mm I 11 FIELD DRUGS ar Phone TTTT.T. J ? P-1- CIRCLE INN CAFE t (Continued irom age l, uoiumn oi suit in disastrous structural fail ure. During the last two years, the Flying Center en gaged in 2,000 flights in thunderstorms with no major accidents or fatalities, all as a part of the "Thunderstorm Project." These experiments yielded detailed information of conditions in which aircraft might be expected to fly during tnunaerstorm weatner. rsuMvwm iiftra AnrrripH the effects of tiuutua turbulence, icing, gusts, hail and lightning. The Air Force's Northrop 6 :Y3ii.r xxTtArvao" was the exneri- mental aircraft used during the course or tne two-yesiuuy. "Black Widow" satisfied rigid requirements established for stability and high altitude performance and carried complete rauoi ciiuiiiivi.-T- o five insure effective research, conwere maintained in a fleW Rnf readiness nf j. -- iota i w w BUUlb directly to the scene of thunder storms detected Dy raaar nwyw lookout stations. All-Weat- I BUT f P. S. How did you like the fight? KEN SAYS: Uncle -a A.1 i To .325 91 I've been writing about the softball team for several Issues now without telling you very much about them, so here are some thumbnail sketches on the lads: sketch we run into SSgt. Don Leading off this week's thumb-na- il Buterbaugh. Don is one of three squad members who played basketball this rjast winter. He also is a veteran of last year's softball squad. He hails from Lincoln, Nebraska, where he graduated from Central High. Twenty- - five years old, he stands 5 feet 11 and weighs in at 175 nounds. He has been in the Air Force for five years and spent two of those five in the Pacific area. Don ismarried and has two sons, Gary, 5, and Roger, born last winter. Number two on our personality parade is the hot corner guardian of the Bombers, SSgt. Edward Miles. Ed calls San Diego, California, home although he graduated from high school in San Berdoo, California. Inci juos dentally, Miles is a native of California, having Deen Dorn in members-onative son, a rarity indeed! Miles is one of the taller the team. toDDing six feet by two inches and he weighs in at 150 theater Buterbaugh, spent pounds. Ed, like . . two years.. in fthe Pacific . J and has been in the Air Force lor two nitcnes six years io ibb uninitiated. Miles is 24 years old. ! nut 81 Vignettes . aircraft can mnvp n. oirnsidpr- able distance in the instant it takes for the .50 cal. projectile to pan the few hundred yards from mtlZZle to terror.. Wni-thin mnann "16 br&in ficnirpa rViin tally," Neslin said. ..280 j! Bangerter, fast to 9-- 8. . valuable. According 5-- B-2- with speed. That's what super-huma-n 5, 5-- 1, lin kable feat It can "think" it so By SSgt. Harold E. Bamford The Softball team continues to havn their t rati hies and rierht now' the greatest of them seems to" be a series of injuries which is plaguing the whole squad. Swanson's badly spiked foot and SDrained ankle has kent him out of the past four games. McPeak, Shaw and Bamford are nursing vari ous wounds which have kept them more or less inactive for the past the craft is. two weeks. Manager Buterbausrh is beeinnine to lose sleen over the "By merely following the target for one second, the brain can com- whole situation. The net result is that the Quad has been loslnar ball eames that pute everything evaluate all the variables' and send a correction they would normally have won. To date their record reads five wins to the remote controlled gun tur- against six defeats. Had the nine been at full strength over the past two weeks, it would now be something like eight wins in their eleven rets. "After merely tracking the tar- starts. Their last four league games have been heartbreakers. They have get for one second the gunner can, 3 Last Thursday they beat f.ire his guns and know that most dropped games by counts of and of his shots will be hits if he has the Naval Supply Depot only to loose the game on forfeit because done his part right." tney had only eight men playing. And the Navy squad is one of the Aboard each 9 there are five league leaders. of these mechanical brains. Each The full import of the loss of the men mentioned can be even better one is a little different because it understood by a look at the batting race: controls one turret that is spaced AB R II a considerable distance from the 14 8 Bamford ....... .32 sighting station. Each sighting sta13 30 14 Buterbaugh tion can control one or two tur11 Miles 10 rets. 11 80 7 Carter When two turrets are controlled e 8 Shaw ...... 22 from one point, there are three 10 6 2& .. Thompson to shoot down the brains working 8 9 McPeak 26 enemy plane: one human brain 5 5 -- 19 Barben and two mechanical brains. If the 6 24 7 Slaydon gunner misses his target it is be4 5 Swanson cause he wasn't thinking as ac1 .12 3 Montongese curately as his fellow worker with 0 1 5 Gainer the mechanical brain. 0 0 4 Mason 0 0 2 Moss See the per are makes system" to activate "muscles." Bob Miller explains in this man-- actually happens aboard tW9 when gunners are gunning tor an enemy plane. "The gunner picks up the approaching plane in his optical sights, ringing the plane with a circle of red dots that is superimposed on a piece of glass. By turning a knob on his he can increase or decreasesights the size of the circle until it exactly frames the plane. "Recognition courses have already taught the gunner the. of all enemy aircraft and as soon as he detects the plane, he turns another dial on his that will tell the brain howsights big on1rV?,i? Aerial Gunnery Mechanical Page 5 ' Opposite Hill Field Main Gate |