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Show HILL TOP TIMES A4 s 1965 PHANTOM. VOODOO Tu orM's Fastest Aircraft Repaired off in Hangars The Ogden Air Materiel Area has systems support man other Air uommanas ana are specuons ana repairs as neces for periodic (about sary or for special modification0 agement ' responsibilities for two of the Air Force's fastest sent here every two or three years) in-- to update the aircraft. aircraft. Voodoo and C PhanIn fact, repair for both the at tom comprises major workloads Ogden AMA. There are four main hangars at Hill AFB, each measuring 250, ing from aircraft mechanic, to feet long, 300 feet wide and about stock chasers, to clerk typists. Some 40 aircraft per month 10 stories high at their peak. The hangars are connected by are processed through the three annexes, each measuring hangars. Not known to many people is 250 feet long and 150 feet wide. the work fact that these sleek Voodoos Nearly 1,700 personnel twoand Phantoms do not belong to some on a in this complex in skills shift operation rang- Ogden AMA. They belong to control tenance Direitorate?. shops. They are broLl?Kin the aircraft 0j various markings. fainting The aircraft tested over an I struments Wright-Patterso- tested again. Once the test pilot. Major Hill was the chief of the flying branch when he was killed on Oct. 30, 1935 while testing the first 7 Flying Fortress. His son, Major Ployer P. Hill, is carrying on the family tra- Maj. Ployer P. Hill, Sr. aircraft be squeezed into the The hangar 70 3 TEAR DOWN Jryfe A Hill AFB aircraft mechanic works on an Phantom jet in the aircraft repair hangars at the huge Utah air base. Systems support management of the supersonic jet, which includes overhaul and modification, is one of the Ogden Air Materiel Area's newest missions. F-4- C CHILL fighters SON: Pop, it says i hangan, marriage brings man's life. Tell here music FATHER: He learns second fiddle. Officers and Personnel of Hill AFB you are an asset to every Business end Resident of this Area! 67 S t ?G'J SOUTH MAIN PHOUE LAYTOfJ 376-34- 51 249 Vest 17th lAJE ONE-STO- P to wish you Hearty Congratulations! Yith the efforts end success of the ARE YOUR BUILDING - Ogden. Utah - Agent GLOBAL VAN LINES STORE Mgrs; i DOil SLADE end RUSS DAWSOH a me how? ADVERSARY SILVER ANNIVERSARY that into cn Your We h complex can at one time. M F0KCE BASE HILL AIR FORCE BASE OtJ THEIR X. b Most of the aircraft types the Air Force inventory, ALUTE WE in. "bought" by the test pilots, it is turned over to pilots frw the command it belongs to and is returned to its parent B-1- OFFICER: "Hey lady, you can't park by the hydrant." Lady: "Why not? The" sign says 'Fine for Parking. ' and are functioning k perfect order. If not, a special flight-te- st crew corrects the ficiences and the aircraft it In 1932 he was sent to Wright n Field (now dition. Just last June he was assigned at Hill AFB in the Directorate of Production. Major Hill almost is a "carbon copy" in likeness to his father. then is isolated arT to insure all accessories 1918. i ne?Ab There the aircraft fa run a series of rigorous maneuver, Major Ployer P. Hill, the base's namesake, was born Oct. 24, 1894 at Newburyport, Mass. He graduated from Brown University in Rhode Island in 1916. He entered flight training in i nSffc fore the aircraft hangar. Once out of the hangar th Ko to another building f! camouflaging, if reqdrV B-- 17 a iZTm of repair, and they Base Named for Maj. Ployer P. Hill Who Was Killed Testing First AFB), Dayton, Ohio, as systems equipment, aircraft are removed, if F-4- F-1- 01 play |