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Show HILL TOP TIMES January Air Force Force Begins Building AFIT School of Engineering Plans Increase Jet Pilot Training To The Washington (AFNS) week it Air Force announced this increase its jet pilot plans to " "V" one-thitraining program by nearly beginning this year. increase will be gradual. Each class will be enlarged until the program can turn out approximately 2,000 pilots annually, rather than the present 1,400. AUtinnal iet aircraft enter lnr the Air Force inventory and rd " & the increase in retirements ex npcted as many pilots reach 20 ofotiia were two reasons to acceler- given for the decision ate tne pnui umuiua TViri now traininff rates will re X l'v " .... " quire continued use of the eight undergraduate pilot training bases presently engaged in the program. These are Webb AFB, T.drt AFB. Laughlin AFB and Reese AFB in Texas; Moody apt? Vance AFB, Ohio was broken Ground (AFNS) here Dec. 18 for the new $4 million educational facility that will become a part of the Air Force Institute of Technology complex. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen eral Curtis E. LeMay turned the first spadeful of dirt to official- y start construction of the build ing, which will house the AFIT School of Engineering. High ranking Air Force and civilian education officials, including Lt. Gen. Troup Miller Jr., commandant of Air Univer sity, and Maj. Gen. Cecil Combs, commandant of AFIT, attended the ceremony. In a statement during tjhe ceremony, General JeMay said that the construction of the new school of engineering at AFIT Wright-Patterso- Oaier AFB. Ala.: AFB, Okla.; and Williams fia.? n is a significant step forward in Air Force plans to develop skilled technologists within its own ranks. When this new school becomes operational in 1964, we will be able to expand our educational programs aimed at- increasing our capabilities in the technological field," he said. Air Force Institute of Technology is under the direction of Air University and provides technical education not only on its own campus for Air Force officers, but also provides for the enrollment of eligible offi cers in colleges and universities throughout the country. The school also conducts the airman education and commis sioning program whereby quali in-hou- AFB, Ariz. - Implications of the increased training on matters such as base strengths, possible construction requirements and aircraft for these bases in future months are now being Force. studied by the Air Congressman Paul F. Schenk of Dayton, Ohio, turns a spadeful of ground as construction of the new School of Engineering at the Air Fore Institute of Technology, AFB, got under way. Witnessing the ceremony on Dec. 18 were Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force Chief of Staff, right, who had broken ground earlier, and Maj. Gen. Cecil E. Combs, AFIT commandant, left. SHORT BURSTS Wright-Patterso- 0 is the new (AFNS) name for the Air Force's boost glide, space vehicle formerly known as Dyna-Soa- r. h cjw 7yl! nag Si Jfcl X-2- g?lJ!8. r-ij- iit I- S , - - I HvJ S 5 4 1 n tz S ? S 1 1J 5 3 I . S. - Training for School commis- sioning in the Air Force serve. Re- When completed, the School of Engineering will accommodate 500 students which will double the present enrollment at the AFIT campus here. ARCTIC'S ELEMENTS Elmendorf -- AFB, Alaska Air Force Globemasters raced against sub zero arctic weather and winter's (AFNS) C-1- 24 perpetual darkness to replenish the low fuel oil supply of an American scientific expedition spending the winter on an ice island (Arlis II) 300 miles south of the North Pole. The airlift, a joint effort by the Air Force, Army and Navy, began in November and continued until 150,-00- 0 pounds of fuel had been successfully airdropped to the expeditionary party (10 civilian scientists and a Navy oceanog-raphe- r) on the chunk of polar ice some 1,800 miles north of Anchorage. The project took about 15 days to complete. A new hypersonic (AFNS) wind tunnel generates such extreme wind velocities that an aircraft flying at such speeds could cover the distance from Los Angeles to New York in 16 minutes, and could fly arownd lf the world in two and hours. one-ha- P . riL o. 1 2 I 9 9J&I 5 o. o. o . se fied airmen may receive their final two years of college work and then go on Jto the Officer g- - . , |