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Show PUBLISHED FOR HILL AIR FORCE BASE. MAY 25 1951 rv ll i. .1. rLeaaiine ivibbts uate k I Number 11 Model Airplane BRIG. Contest Set NAMED TO COMMAND GENERAL A. II. GIMESOH HILL AFB Air Force World-wid- e model airAn overseas bombing commander received orders this, week as plane championships for 1951 will signing him as Commanding General of Hill Air Force Base and the be held at Sheppard Air Force 25th Air Depot Wing. He is Brigadier General Adlai H. Gilkeson, now 19th Bomb Wing stationed at Anderson Air Force the Base, Texas, according to Captain commanding on Base Guam. Pelham R. Burnett. Immediate Colonel C. B. Root, temporary commander of the giant Utah Air hosts of this meet, which will be held July 16 to 20, will be the Air base since the transfer of Brigadier General N. B. Harbold, today announced that General Gilkeson Training Command. is expected to arrive to take, over of 1915. He is a command pilot This contest is de. specifically signed to further the development of model airplane building and to encourage participation in the recreational model airplane phase of the Air Force Hobby shop program, Captain Burnett reported. Prior to the final competition to be held July 16 to 20th, preliminary contests will be held at all command of the base about the middle of June. Holder of the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, and the Air Medal with an Oak Leaf Clus ter, General Gilkeson is a gradu- ate of the United States Military Academy at West Point in the class Air-For- ce bomber has been completed. The above picture was taken ago when this plane was only half-wa- y line. up the 6 Today, true to schedule, this "Marauder" stands at the head of the toe, fully equipped and ready to go. Barbara Gilbert, aircraft repair office, points at the deadline date stenciled on the nose of the Another t week B-2- ... plane. a Days Is Rolling Off Modification Line at Field Plane J-- 26 a day reconditioned and equipped for combat is now the 6 modification line in the hangars at Hill Air Force bomber A off 'wiling B-2- to Colonel William H. Monay, director of maintenance. project to turn out a ship a day is one of the most rigid schedules ever set for this airplane repair base, Colonel Monay said. "But the jchedule is being met and each new day sees another ship completed ud ready to go," he continued. A 6 priority call for approximately one hundred bombers was to Hill AFB by the Air Force a few weeks ago. assigned The deadline date on the project called for the organization of a line powerful enough to ship every 24 hours. get out a combat-read- y ""Kck una man auucuuic, x plane comes around, that ship duction line of 13 stations has been the must be at the head of the line' t up in the hangars, according and they are." Bwnest Schuldt, project foreman As soon as the planes reach the f the line. Each station in the head of the 26 line they are inine has a certain job to complete. a and flight test, given to the spected plane moves past each sta- - Colonel said. Flight crews Monay fo it receives certain modificatio- arrive at Hill to ferry the ships ns. to the staging area, where they are Carry Latest Equipment flown immediately to the combat When the roll off the line zone. Planes released from Hill planes y carry the most modern bomb- AFB usually reach their destina's and gunnery 'equipment avail-fW- tion within 10 days, Colonel Monay Schuldt said. The very latest said. "radar and radio is also installed. "Reports coming back from the .zone are very complimencombat Although most of these 26's are r six about planes modified at Hill," tary 5 "Maraud-0year old, these stated. Colonel Monay imcarry all the Base, according This B-2- twin-engi- ne bases and major Air Command levels. A maximum of ten Air Force personnel may represent each major air command at the contest. The Air Force model airplane contest will determine the major air command winner, winners in each of three catagories and individuals to represent the Air Force in the national model airplane contest sponsored by the Academy of Model Aeronautics. Planes from the following categories may compete: U control gas rubber powered free powered, flight, and gas powered free flight. ' Base level contests will be conducted by the third week in June and contests should be. conducted at major air command levels by July 8th. Anyone desiring to make application for competition in this model airplane contest or desiring fur ther information should contact Captain Burnett on ext. 8421 by the first part of next week. up-to-da- te Thanks Workers "I would personally like to thank job all workers for the bang-u- p Withthey are doing on this project. out their full support, it couldnt have been done. It is very gratifywe are asing to know that when hottest projects the of one don't just guess about the signed commateriel air entire the in when the plane has to be with come through can we we know! As you walk down mand colors," Colonel Monay said. hne you see 13 different flying Zav Mline dates printed on the es. You could almost use them WAF Contingent Is ctlendar. because the plane it ft we head of the line bears the Expected June 1stat Hill rrent date." The glamour department shot in Seven Days a Week Air Force Base will get a WA1 b, shifts are working seven ,u fhia month when 40 da Force Air Women's enrta eek t0 complete the twinthe of v, off ge bombers. The project is so that some of the "hot Zrk force at Hill June 1st Work are even part of is now underway to renovate quarnoon hours. workingtime The ters for the lipstick brigade. 1 Alivia S. Boles, to complete modifi-ilmJ- 3 .,..fant 0f this at Tinker Air cut stationed tyPe has been previously as Schuldt said. Force Base, has been ofassigned con-- i. the officer Complete Cooperation commanding arrived at Hill oH Mond7y. Plans f or the future -em k J ""fciauun 01 an wum an i.Moot in the size oi tW T, we nave been able to gti call ior pianes out in record time, th!.u.niL mer at the Worn. . . oaia. "Aii i cnn,. me worKers imvc Co os were stationed on this project with a? new Hill during the last war the rree Wned tSp,r,t' Everyone is outq arrivals will De me i &et these ships thiii 1 due date- orki They seem to be MosVof the WAFs are skilled in in Just one thought "ind. When the date stenciled on clercial trades. developed in the last years, he- said. ' . The repair schedule is so rigid the date each plane is due out "stenciled in red letters on large r? nose of the ship as soon as it plements - . ners j- -,- SS ore-third- I ," . S de-O- lth As Staggered Shifts Go Into Effect a. - . Next Mondoy The civilian-militar- work team y at Hill Air Force Base won another battle in the war against traffic bottlenecks when a plan for the staggering of shifts was approved by top officials. The new working hours go into effect Brig. Gen. A. H. Gilkeson Tribute to Memorial Day B-- e, New Commander nnd aerial observer. The new Hill commanding gen eral is a graduate of many service schools, among them, Command and General Staff School, Aircraft En- gineer School, and Aircraft Tac- tical scnooi. Born in Pennsylvania in 1894, General Kilkeson received his rank as Brigadier General in February 1942. Commissioned a Second Lieu tenant of Infantry in 1915 he transferred to the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps in 1917 as a Captain and has remained in the air branch of service since that time. Maintenance workers and base Supply Service Section will now re port for work at seven, Supply (minus base Supply Services Sec and head tion) at seven-twentquarters and all others at seven-fortPreviously, nearly all of Hill's more than ten thousand workers . y, y. started at seven-thirtThe change in working hours was brought about because of thousands bf complaints from employees who said it was taking too much time to get to work in the mornings and too long to get home at night. According to Lt. Col. Ro bert H. Hincktey, chief of civilian personnel, the staggering of shifts will spread out the flow of traf fic and result in an average sav ings of twenty minutes per em ployee per day. "With the work force clamoring for a solution to the traffic prob lem, officials of the field picked civilian and military personnel to act as advisors and work out an answer," Col. Hinckley stated. "Our surveys showed that during the early morning rush, cars were en tering the parking lot at a rate of a car per second." "By staggering the shifts and time lag allowing a twenty-minubetween the shifts, the peak traffic loads are expected to not exceed 30 cars per minute a reduc tion of fifty per cent. "The rush at night will also be lighter," the Colonel explained. "All together, we anticipate that each worker will have to spend twenty minutes less on the roads and he will not be exposed to the traffic hazards he was before." ( j The success of the staggered shift plan depends upon how well the individual worker getes behind the plan, how much effort he puts into finding new rides or riders, and how much he tries to fit into the new schedule, Col. Hinckley said. day solemnly set apart for vvindav. Memorial Day, isof atheir A Once the change is made nearly dead. memorial the honor memory day Americans to airmen Pfc. three Gleason, everyone on the field will benefit the above, Mervyn by is staged tribute from the plan, he said. WIU rreucum xyi. PfC. Don UiesS, y. -- te hJ ' J r rc it |