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Show tatoos FlteEA 7 Fiiirstt Kurort te Okinawa ADipg)iii)u(ul by. Tan The first of several flighty of supersonic aircraft being prepared for overseas dejet n ployment by maintenance engineering facilities of the Air Materiel Area is enroute for assignment to combat units of the Pacific Air Forces on Okinawa. Each flight of aircraft is being accompanied by a team of technicians from Hill aboard a transport to provide and maintenance for the servicing 'Voodoos" at stops enroute to their RF-101- C photo-reconnaissan- ce Og-de- ,.,... ji 's . serviewl i ROTIND Three of the pilots flying facilities T maintenance are shown Area's OOAM with A Materiel Air key officers Left to right are Lt. Col. FrankjustJ OcchipfnU for Pacific Air Forces' units on Okinawa cucai "econnaissance Squad- VAA OOAMAaepuiy u OOAKA Liet. C.L. M. commander; Capt. -Director lor depot maintenance. Capt. V ,weet,i7th 1K RF-10- 1 last November established a new Los Angeles to New York to Los An-i- s Piloting an round trip speed record of 6 hours, 46 seconds, averaging more than 721 miles per one of the "Voodoos" now enroute to Okinawa. our. In the background is RF-lOlC- f. liJJ' u """'a non-sto- p, C-1- 30 thir Workers Draw "" $15,685 for Good Ideas new station. Also being airlifted are kits of spare parts for use by the It is the first time that OOAMA's maintenance facilities and technicians have been used for preparing jet aircraft assignment and After leaving Hill, the aircraft Civilian personnel of Ogden Air at Mcoieuan Avis, Materiel Area drew suggestion are stopping Hickam Calif.; AFB, Hawaii; Midbonuses totaling $15,085 for disand finally Island, way Japan covering 44G ways of making Air Okinawa. The lorce jobs easier and less costly are capable of speeds in "Voodoos" excess of in fiscal year 1958 just ended. miles hour. 1,000 per Actually submitted were 1,521 The Pacific Air Forces' head Total savings realsuggestions. quarters in Hawaii announced toized from those approved was that the transfer of the RF- Forty-fiv- e per cent of the day 101 C s to that command is a part workable ideas were tangible sav of a continuing program to keep ings, the other 55 per cent, PACAF's aircraft inventory up to date and was not influenced by in Published by Inland Printing Company, a private firm. Opinions expressed herein by the publishers and writers are theii According to Ray Odd, executive ternational developments. mi ire not to be considered an official expression by the Department of the Air Force. The appearance of advertisements secretary of the suggestion awards The manufactured does not constitute an endorsement of tne Department of the Air Force of the products or services advertised. thii tublkation committee at mil Attn, the av- the McDonnell Aircraft Corpora-by it Hill Top Times is an unofficial Hill in other Air the interest Force at of Base, newspaper published every Friday personnel erage was one suggestion adopted tion at St. Louis, is a long range for every four submitted. Also. supersonic aircraft capable of inCO per cent of the suggestors sub a 30.7 foot has It flight refueling. AUGUST 8, 1953 mitted one idea only. PUBLISHED AT KAYSVILLE, UTAH JtU 11 NO. 15 07.4 feet in length, is span, wing Five suggestions 18 feet high. Its two turbojet In the ideas adopted, four base and develop approximately engines workers tied when each had five 20,000 pounds of thrust. suggestions approved. W. Camper, Clearfield, Top suggestor for the 12 is Harry liaison officer and captain of (Continued on Page 14.) 1 the OOAMA technical team accompanying the flight. Other members include Ronald A. Archibald, Jack F. LaFleur and Stephen A. Vlahovic, Ogden; David L. Degraw and Thomas Duke, Salt Lake City; Max A. Wixom, Clear1 field; Arthur A. Gunnell, Lay ton; Paul C. Glissmeyer, Bountiful, and R. D. a McDonnell field The American Red Cross Blood service McGraw, at Hill. representative mobile will be at the Hill AFB of ficore1 P.lnK fnr trio pnllption of OOAMA will be playing whoie blood on Wednesday, Au- t AIawam U onnvnv mate V 1 4 n gUSl t atcuiuuis LO nil. aicaoii IN THIS ISSUE: nuai- U. S. AIR FORCE GUARDIAN OF FREEDOM for overseas servicing them along the way. KF-101- C .$1,-301,2- Li RF-101- C, . Oil i (SSBIIitoK Bloodmobile Due At Club Aug. 3 lliiillMIiiiliiv a I F4,wv 4- u Hi-Va- ,llSLig i I- A. 1 Z A. der FontaS, Red Cross representa- kev military ana civilian rep- - tive at Hill Organizations scheduled to give nf TT S5. Air . v, MaAy.f9itrQ i UlJ J.naflr.na V.oi Kaon nr.f if ioH Force combat and logistics. i Gf thej number i needed from their ' ne saiu. j Unnnr.inn' o c Tiovt acuviw, wxnt H tiointed out that it is no Tuesday when they open a longer necessary to go without . j ,:a tj: .Vain food nnor to donating Diooa. ne also advised that donors must wait Conference at the Hotel New eight weeks after each donation before again giving blood. The last house in Salt Lake City. (Continued on Page 14.) tenth be the will if inference since the Air .Force esin m taMietiori o a snare studies group Ti,r ir.-- Mai. Gen. F. J. Dau, Air Materiel Command's director of the of supply, is the be will keynote and (ttoud speaker of the conference. Overseas Recruiting Denver Air Procurement . 3 Office . 4 Editorials OOAMA Prime in Tires . 6 and Tubes .10 Devices Training .11 On the Hill 12, 13 Sports 16 OSI 10th Birthday lu vice-chairm- an fien. Charle3 J. Bondley,of SuDDly and Sert, Dpnartment of the Air Maj. Gen. Frank A. Bogart, :J Force; Director of Flans ana amp. onH Britr. Gen. E. B. Cas- sadv, Director of Transportation, Mni. niT-optn- r 8' H KLDWIDE-Fi- DfeS worldwide plans for the three-da- y begins next Tuesday are made by Horace Program control officer; Aries Sterner, Control Officer; and Col. Raymond D. Swett, Supply and Services. Hi-Va- nal Hi-Va- of rrugiu, lu lu AMC; will also attend. who 4 m A rpnresentatives will speak include Maj. Gen. P. H. v. Robey, commander; Col.andk.servof supply director Swett, Jack Adams, H. ices; K. R. Young, Lew E. Isaac, Lee Chambers and rr I t Aid Society Drive Nears End rSocietv J116.1058 Air Force embership campaign P u 'in Sectin Wes.t' Personal 'Af- drive.' project officer Tie ""now . , closes CS?.It Will ofcially ovl suff Mr to We6t said.report fa ' aPProximatelv n . . '"iiinn . m, Ahl3 includes a kfont"-T donated by the Of fgo ficers' Wives' club derived from shop. profits of their thrift to Personnel were encouraged the is which support the AFAS for. the Air official relief agency Force. Membership cards are is-a sued to everyone contributing dollar or more to the campaign. Life membership is contributions from $50 life mem wof said that handled on an berships may beand invited those installment basis interested to contact ma vj.-- &ntffot i, rr:' officer, technicians, xx. o. control nriAMA is the conference chairman. .itriUnn Hi-Va- lu STUDY PROBLEMS lets and carToday's Air Forcemore than one go.11:aircraftot4require ranffine from en- 'tor.fr .Pring. to keep them The conference inoperational. probSalt Lake City will study main hnvin?. stocking, delivering these spare iirtrld-wide- . Tighter controls, more and better tacludins r.TQO-TTient-. have resulted rpnuests for spare parts from 43 to 23.5 per reduced being .; (Continued on rage S Gon. Hudnoll Inspects OOAMA Maj. Gen. William T. Hudnell, (center) future Director of Maintenance Engineering for Air Materiel Command, inspected maintenance and air munitions at Hill; AFB during a visit this week. Shown above, conducting him on a' tour of base facilities are Colonel Victor L. Anderson, OOAMA Deputy Commander, (right) and Colonel E B- - Gentry, Director of Maintenance Engineering. In addition to the tour, Gen. Hudnell was given special briefings on OOAMA mission assignments. The two-stgeneral was formerly commander of the Air Materiel Force, Pacific area, with headquarters in Hawaii and will take over his new assignment in ar |