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Show Page HILL TOP TIMES 6 Can Tio Wood Into Knots Novembei r 1954 Repair Process Develop Money-savin- g Armistice Day Is Veterans Day 5, Re-Nam- ed t:;'--v;;- The holiday next Thursday No vember 11th is no longer called Armistice Day. Last spring an act f . it Veterans' of Congress Day and made it a legal holiday to give special honors to American veterans of all previous wars, in- luding the Korean conflict. This will be the first American holiday ever set aside for all vet erans, ine old Armistice uay was first named to commemorate vet erans of World War I only. Although the type of celebrations scheduled for Veterans' Day will be similar to previous Armistice days, tne tneme win oe amerent. Emphasis this year will be on ed peace. One minute of silence at 1- - Why pay High Rent? I will ar range immediate occupancy on my private z oearoom wash. Terr, home. No down-rvmelow Nie monthly paymesr nt, 95 f Qllli&lZBiri Y -- 1 STORM WINDOW SUES CO. 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One of the biggest projects they several layers of fibre glass cloth are working on now is the repair and honeycomb material which it of radomes, plastic domes used to soaked together with a special cover radar equipment on aircraft, liquid resin. This is placed on the Powell, fore mold and the whole piece is put into according to Keith D. man of the Plastic Sub-uni- t, Sheet a vacuum bag and cured at a tem Metal Branch. perature of 270 degrees for two Just a few short months ago, it hours. When taken out, the patch was thought it wasn't feasible to is hardened and fits perfectly into area in the radomt repair the radomes but workers in the trimmed-ou- t Approximately 30 or 40 .smaller the plastic shop have proved that it's not only feasible but it also radomes have recently beenBar-rresults in huge savings to the Air epaired by this process, Mr. kdull said. They are 9 radomes, Force. "Scothe of on nose fit which the For instance, plastic workers are would radomes These now repairing three giant radomes rpion" plane. if Force cost puthe Air $850 which are used to cover vital radar rrchased are new but being B-on equipment planes. These epaired by the plastic shop for less huge radomes measure approxi$50. mately 14 feet by 12 feet and are than Want Process Known about 5 feet high.- "We want to get the word out The original cost of the radomes that we can and are these runs between $12,000 and $18,000, radomes," Mr. Powellrepairing said. "Some estimated George Barkdull, super- organizations don't know we are visor of fibre glass manufacture able to do it." and repair section. His workers Officials of the plastic shop are can patch them up "good as new" a sharp eye on the future for around $u00 each which adds keeping because of the rapid progress up to a substantial savings! made in plastics for use m being Repair Process Explained aircraft The process for repairing the "In order to keep abreast of this huge radomes is quite technical. rapid progress, extensive researaf Barkdull explained that his work- experimentation and training ers first take a pattern off the advancement is being carried outin place that needs the repairing and the shop," Powell said. make a plaster mold to fit it. Then is under the direThe a patch is made by putting together ction of training Mrs. Alice Taylor. ALUMATIC AN IT- F-8- 17 Offering additional evidence of the Air Force's new approach to engineering, a new Industrial Engineering Division has been created at OOAMA. 'And as the last stanza of music Headed by Mr. T. Blair Evans, this new organization has as its begins, the flag should be down immediate responsibility the impleabout Higgins! Where the Heck mentation of the Work Measure- GIVE 100 PER CENT are ya!" ment Program in the Maintenance Directorate. Setting standards and Grace Quinn's Corrosion Control gathering information for the pub- Section, Packaging and Corrosion lication of earned hour reports is Control Branch, Materiel Facilities now the primary concern. As this Division, has done it again. This phase of the program nears com- section reached 100 per cent in AWNINGS AND pletion early next year, the major contributions for the current Comeffort will be directed toward fur- munity Chest Fund Drive. This STORM WINDOW SALES CO. nishing and applying accepted in- section, consisting ot ss person dustrial concepts and services to nel, also reached 100 per cent last this base. year. This organization used to be the Methods and Standards Branch PRECISION MADE AND under an old division formerly CUSTOM FIT FOR know as the Industrial EngineerBEAUTY 1 PROTECTION ing Division. In compliance with a recently revised AMC regulation, this branch was raised to division .4 level and renamed the Industrial Engineering Division. The old di vision has been redesignated as the EXAMPLE Plant Engineering Division. You Owe You Pay It is intended that these re PHAN 500 $ $10 per wk vamped organizations will permaTERMS manor industrial nently separate $1,000 $15 I agement engineering techniques $2,000 $25 I 36 MONTHS from the more traditional plant en $3,000 V TO PAY gineering activities. TIME-WA- ... 1 A F-8- Industrial Engineering Division Created, Headed By T. B. Evans FOR SALE V.j -- C AWNINGS - Plastic Shop Taking on Important Role With Repair of Radomes, Etc.! Woodmill Workers Can Bend Wood, They Also Soak it and Bake it 77 fx Keith D. Powell (left) and officials of the nlastic George Barkdull, . . 1 sud-uiu- i, examine a paicn woriters nave just completed on an radome wnich makes tne radome as good as new and saves the Air Force $800. Larger radomes, measuring 14 feet long, are also oeing repaired by tne unit. - Phone . 11 a.m. formerly associated with Armis tice Day will continue to be ob served in honor of departed veterans. The prevailing tone of former November 11th ceremonies al ways has been memorial. The idea for the change was suggested by prominent veterans' organizations because they believed celebrated that Armistice Day George F. Fairbourn, Foreman of the Woodmill Section at Hill Air World on date the of War I Woodof closing the C. Aircraft Base and Force Hansen, Supervisor Royal had lost its original importance. work Unit, inspect a piece of plywood which has been tied in sevSince 1938, when Armistice Day eral knots made possible by a new process developed for bending was established, the United States wood. lias fought in two more conflicts for the advancement of world peace with each one ending on a different date. These added mil lions of veterans to those of the first World War. It seemed reasonable, therefore, to select Armistice Day to pay to veterans of all wars. The Woodmill Shop at Hill Air Force Base is now equipped to bend tribute Such action, it was thought, would to have Force need Air to for it, according the wood fit any may the meaning of Armistice Mr. George Fairbourn, Foreman of the Woodmui bection in the Main expand and make declaring another le Day tenance Engineering Directorate. unnecessary. gal holiday The installation of a new steam tour. Then the jig and wood pieces tank and a huge oven has made it are put into an oven to bake. NEW ARRIVAL possible to bend wood to fit any of After approximately four to five the many and varied curves or hours baking, it is removed from Mr. and Mrs. Robert I. Kafka contours of an airplane or any the oven a solid piece of wood announce tne arrival of a new other unusual shape necessary, he shaped to fit whatever it was in daughter born November 1. Mr. said. tended for. Kafka is employed at the motor , The second method is used for pool. The wood is processed by two different methods depending on the solid pieces of hickory, oak or ma use for it, he pointed out. hogany. It is first cut to the de sired size, steamed, bent into shap acconv The laminated process is and placed in a jig and baked, Mr. several plished by putting together Fairbourn said. desired to a thin strips of plywood At the present time the Wood thickness. First the strips are cut to proper lengths and widths and mill is building approximately 200 steamed in water in the steam tank benches, the front of which part of for four to five hours at 275 de- the wood is curved to a half circle. grees. When, the strips are re- These benches are needed, he said, moved from the tank they are very to meet the needs of the new Class flexible and bend easily. The strips 03-- Aircraft Electrical Accessories are "then glued together, placed in workload recently assigned this a jig and bent to the desired con depot. ' ' - I Sond Information en Auto Imuranc. or Hint |