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Show HILL TOP TIMES Will Fly Like a Plane or a 'Copter Jessie W. Lewis, admim.. ."""tn services branch was presented a cash 5 for a suggestion he watt Qnnfo U. ,1 Incentht Awards committee. , Presentation of the made by Colonel RnWf v? l , duii, tummaiiaer of tho USAF Hospital. fift by Inland published The Hill Top Times i en nn..ffirl nwiDer . ITriitAriAl ! U ""T" Printin Company in the IntereeU ol pereonnei ai mi. receive, Timea Hill The nd new. matter U arailable for reneral releaae. not AFPS material. AFPS material appearing hereto will Armed Forces Presa Serrice, 641 Washington written repreaent thoae YoV herein do not A 'P'ind JW nec....rily Opinion, expreaaed Addril. aHAd. to the INLAND PRINTING COMPANY. Kayarille, Utah. York .14. New ment for inflatine s.irn,T TB gloves-fotesting purposes T ? viously, this testing had hv hlowino- tho r . . - mmm ii... r ii mm mum imn loading. The Convertiplane is a joint de velopment of the Wright Air De velopment Center of the U. S. Air Force, Transportation Corps of the U. S. Army and McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. The Converti-plane- 's ' ... FOR SALE Ft. Trlr. House ; $1300.'Lot in Orchard 74x112 Ft. 27 Bsmt. dug, utilities in. Turn No. blk. rd Davis Drive In $1400. N. A. Peterson Layton. TKANSf EKKED over sell 20 ft. Coldspot must seas, Freezer $300.00 or offer. Sparton UWJNJS.K T.V. Combination, 21" Screen, radio, phono., and antenna. $300. Contact Capt. Welch Ext. 240. Ogden, Arsenal. CALL Kaysville 184 W property, i TT. - WW n since is tne second ne nas received, iius iiuaiy xr4. awara gesuon STORK MAKES VISIT inree new additions to km of sheet metal employees were it ported Dy urace r. JNinomiv! that .section. Mr. and Mrs. la 391 Dover St., Bonne Ewing, I rarK, are xne proud parents of new baby daughter who will named Cheryl Lee. Mr. and Mn Frank Nielsen, 348 Frances uguen, aiso welcomed a m daughter who was born July It was a new son for Mr. and Mn Robert Payne, 2683 Jefferson Ave, Ogden, born July 15. All til proud papas work in sheet metal 1 A 1 thr 1 A 19 Safety First Prior to the first actual flight, . KEEP YOUR MIND ;;:-:s4- IlillBllw ON YOUR pre-flig- ht y le ic s - & characteristics. ine uonvertipiane s tail assem bly consists of two vertical fins and rudders attached to the ex tremities of twin tail booms. The norizontai suriace consists a ox single stabilizer with tabs, mount ed between the ends of the tail booms. The crew compartment in the - 2.79-INC- SALE Mr. Lewis lives has worked at the base which will not take place until this Summer, an extensive re search program will be required. This will include ground testing, careful instrumentation for the de velopment of flight test data, and test work. painstaking The full-scamodel will be placed in a wind tunnel to test aerodynam sentially all the lift. This allowsthe rotor to autorotate at its lowest drag configuration. This avoids the speed limitation encountered by H ROCKETS conventional helicopters due to MOUNTED IN THE NEWEST SCORPION'S stalling of blades when they must WING TIP POOS'COVER A CONCENTRATEO carry lift at high speeds. FIELD OF FIRE EQUAL IN AREA Each of the three blades of the TO A STANDARO FOOTBALL rotor is powered by a McDonnell-develope- d GRIOIRqN. pressure jet unit located at the tip of the blade. A continental reciprocating engine is nrovided on the aft fuselage to supply air to tne pressure jet units during vertical flight and power to the propeller during forward flight The efficient and relatively great power available from the pressure .lets anows tne use oi a rotor hav. ing approximately half the drag of a conventional helicoDter rotor. Since the wings do not Drovide the lift during take-of- f or landing, are approximately half the sizethey of the wings for conventional fixed wing aircraft. Therefore, speed performance of the convertiplane DAFFYNITIONS Minor opera- afford a TV set . . ; Home Town: is not greatly penalized by utiliz- tion: One performed on somebody Where people wonder how you ing DotnXV--rotor and wing, The 1 is designed to carry else . . . Optimist: European learn- got as far as you have . . . Touch three . . Pessior two litter pa- . to a What passengers, student system: college speak English ing mist: European learning to speak uses when he types home for "cum ouu uicuicai anenuaiiL m au The absolute money Russian . . . Bachelor: Nobody's uiuun io tne pnot. ine cratt is end . . . Intellectual: Guy who can't fool. FOR 4 section. versatility will permit stu Security Indoctrination . j. approximately 30 feet long, ten feet high and spans 26 feet in width. -- , . j!i.ijlki.i. vertical " (Editor's Note: Hill AFB has been assigned prime responsibility ff the XV-- 1 Convertiplane which is still in the experimental stage. Fol lowing is a story describing the unique craft.) "Roll out" of the XV-- 1 Convertiplane first military aircraft of this type ever developed in the United States was announced recently by the Air Research and Development Command of the U. S. Air Force, and the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. The XV-- 1 is the first convertiplane in the world to utilize the principle of pressure jets and high disc dies on its tactical use for obserReds shoot people for mere loss of interest in the "cause," feigned vation and reconnaissance. Furth- ; worse aooux crimes er studies sickness, unexcused absence irom work, etc. wnat will be made of its de- For a complete count of high Soviet officials shot as "traitors" sign uses as an artillery and tank since 1917, not including Beria, a recent issue of London's SUNDAY spotter. An attendant function will TIMES quotes the following figures from the book, "What Happens be the exploration of the applica . - ... . to Communists.'": ... tion of the convertiplane principle .w Nine of 11 Cabinet ministers who held office in 1936 have been shot. to larger aircraft. The Convertiplane embodies a Five of seven presidents of the last Central Executive Committee of 53 secretaries of the Communists completely new conception of flight. met the same fate. Forty-thre- e who drafted the 1936 Constitution faced a firing squad. Seventy of the This new concept is known as the 80 members of the Soviet War Council have been executed. "unloaded rotor" principle a maSince 1917, three of every five marshals of the Soviet Army have chine equipped with a rotor for been shot a3 spies or traitors. All members of Lenin's lirst post- - vertical flight and wings and pro revolution Politburo, his inner cabinet of 1917, were finally shot peller for forward flight. excepting only Joseph Stalin. In vertical flight or the The future of nearly every Soviet official of today is assured. rotor provides all the hovering, in for lift; They'll be given a "fair trial" then shot. We don't know just when. ward flight the wings nrovide es - n" mm ifrrnr"mi Prime Responsibility is Assigned To 00MA for XV--1 Convertiplane for "Loyalty" Pay-oi- f mil ma and difficult. Mr. Lewis dej machine that does the eiiecuveiy ana saves a erea. j, An experimental plane, equipped with a rotor for flight and wines and a propeller for forward flight, is displayed at the McDonnell Aircraft plant where it was built for the military services. Known as the XV-- 1 convertiplane, the cratt is designed to carry a pilot and three passengers. It is expected to make its first flight this summer. ' which has become (Editor's Note: This poignant safety appealsome years ago in a modern classic first appeared as an editorial the Tribune of Eufaula, Alabama.) The Lewis devised Mr, Look Out for My Little Girl to school Today my daughter, who is seven years old, started She had collar. white a with dress blue dark a wore She as usual. whose cocker Her spaniel, on black shoes and wore blue gloves. his canine beliet name is Coot, sat on the front porch and whined and started oft to in the folly of education as she waved good-by- e . , of the hall learning. me about the girl told She school. about talked we Tonight and the boy who sits in front of her, the girl with yellow curls, me about her told She faces. makes who aisle funny across the the trees and about of her head, teacher, who has eyes in the back believe in doesn't who the and about girl big in the schoolyard, lot of things tremendously vital, Santa Claus. We talked about a studied spelling, reading, arithmeunimportant things; and then we tic and then to bed. with She's back there now back in the nursery sound asleep, arm. in her cuddled a right doll) Elizabeth" "Princess (that's You guys wouldn't hurt her, would you? You see, I'm her or her finger is cut, or her head daddy. When her doll is broken she starts to school, when she when but it fix can I gets bumped, in she's your hands. walks across the street, then a deer and darts about like like run She's a nice kid. She can swim and hike with me and to horses ride likes She a chipmunk. all the time; I haye her be with I on Sunday afternoons. But can't to work to pay for her clothes and her education. So please help me look out for her. Please drive slowly past the schools and intersections and please remember that children run from behind v parked cars. PLEASE DON'T RUN OVER MY LITTLE GIRL. . Jal Hospital Worker Receives Second Suggestion Award fuselage is equipped with large plastic windows which provide ex- ceptionany wide range ot vision. it is separated irom the engine section by a structural firewall. ana sit m mm 1 l tanaem, witn removable dual con trols provided. Exit doors may be jettisoned in the event of a fiight 1 m emergency. i d ? AND n , vniiR MIND ON The above cartoon is the wort of Jack C. Brown, illustrator in Central Graphics, Comptroller's office. A talented artist, illustrator and cartoonist, Jart Hill recently transferred to AFB from the Utah General tDepot. He has aspirations w . iwo skids com prise the landing gear of the XV-The skid gear differs from previowards developing humanity ous skids in that energy is absorb cartoons. ed during hard landing by the yielding of replaceable stainless steel straps. Fuel is fed to the three pressurejet tip burners through a rotor fuel REAL ESTATE governor driven from the rotor hub accessory drive. The pressure jets FOR SALE operate on the principle of ignition ana expansion of the fuel eases. then exhausting rearward through nozzles to provide thrust. The ap SAVE $300 in loan costs oy plication of power directly to the suming present G. I. loan biaae. tips eliminates the torque w AT RA3.rtO ner mo rQVTY.CT.TO wnicn m conventionally driven heli bdrm1 taxes and Ins. on this 3 copters must be eliminated by the use oi a second rotor or propeller. yr. old frame home. NewandW' matic washer and dryer reffl ing room draperies "My neighbor told me he got a Downpfr cute dog for his wife. I sure wish Perimitter gas heat. I could make a good trade like ment $2000.00. that." Jack Herbert. i "Z SEE this 3 bedroom W living of ft. with 1140 sq. . A forced . if Attacnea garage to you ' cxcepW" non-retracti- ng 1. - 1 mt. W Vah.1 - wish sell your we nave Buyers for 2 and 3 Bedroom Homes. Also Buyers for im proved or unimproved building sites. CLARENCE SIMMONS Real Estate 84 North Main Layton, Utah , i r. tirill i. t v r.fl 'will G. I. and flOW oil mats for qu vr hiiver. This won't last Ion.Tt. - call for appointment, Davis County B C. G. "Bud" Tice, BeaK 175 South Main Utah Layton, 208-J Phone 1 0253-J or J |