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Show Affust HILL TOP TIMES Page 2 TO CIVIC CLUDS 1966 First Manned Rocket Tested 25 Years Ago by Daring American AF Officer f Utah AFA Forms Speakers' Bureau To Tell Air Force Story in State MARCH AFB, Calif. (AFNS) Twenty-fiv- e years ago Capt. Institute of Technoloev u carHomer A. Boushey oecame uie rying out the flight nrtw. piura". fiVaf American to ride a rocket Describing the 8iflmi.... speakers' bureau to tell the Air Force story to northern Utah civic and business groups has been organized by the Utah Air Force Association. The bureau was formed in at Hill AFB over the (onjuction with the Air Force's quarters 9th anniversary which is being past two decades. Raymond Cassell (Col. USAF b&erved next month. chief of the speakers' Staffed by Hill AFB military, Ret.) said that requests for ivilian and AFA personnel, the bureau, should be made by callspeakers peakers wiir give a on the AFB 5 at Hill ing presentation, with or without Ogden exchange, or lides, on the progress of the Ext. 2455, Salt Lake City ex- . Ur Force since it became a change, Monday through Frieparate branch of the service on days. Speaking engagements will be ept. 17, 1947. .either during the day- Lt. handled Speakers also will tie in the time or in the evening. Requests ccomplishments of the Ogden will be filled for groups in the .ir Materiel Area and its head Brigham City to Murray area. A . 26, propelled aircraft. his flights with rockets, G rai Now a retired Air Force major Boushev -rwoll i "a--no it turnoH general, the young officer was out the test series was one at the controls of an Ercoupe so monoplane especially fitted with much about. It crnf . , "unca naa;anff fJATm, units gums iu 41. me rocKet DUSinpaa jcl ooo! v.""v, 10 UCLCI II11I1C li. 111111.1,0.1 nuunit "You must remember tw " could use rockets to get into the 1011 i. iwKtjis were somi short from runways air faster that went with Buck Rogers in 1 , with heavy payloads. Uie wnilC SiriM. Hon tl series of secret The Arnold highly had great faith Doerr .F. A Lt. tests Aug. 1941, was a Karman, but if the August tf. ' major success. It led to the in 1941 had failed I hate to thinV of more advanced of the time and development A. F. Doerr tech!,, V. :a 6' .i t 1 m- - units UI wouia .nave .been .lost anu mci to hvc America ncipcu jaikj me manneu rockets now w e naan even way ior heard nf mc i carrying men into space and German V-- 2 at that time." eventually to the moon. The test series was an out-(Editor's Note: This is the The late Dr. Theodore von standing success. Using small second in a series of articles Karman, famed aerodynamicist, solid rocket motors fipnprai DRIVE IT concerning junior officers as- directed a team of scientists and Boushey: signed to Ogden AMA de- engineers from the California Made two takeoffs on rocket tachments.) THE HOUSE YOU power alone. 1st Lt. Albert Frank Doerr at Made 11 takeoffs combinine Vandenberg Air Force Base has been the officer in charge of since 1962. rocket and aircraft power. June the Minuteman Flight Evalua Made four flights in which Prior to his assignment at tion Team at OOAMA Test Site the Lt. rockets were fired while the Doerr Vandenberg AFB, Detach ment 42, Vandenberg served as the OOAMA engineer plane was at altitude. AFB, Calif. to first article The program demonstrated representative ing He directed the activities of demonstrations of depot tooling that an aircraft could be oveomHOTi)$ six contractor engineers and two and electronic test equipment rloaded and then gotten off the technicians in the analysis of at AutoneticsNAA, Anaheim, SEE OUR COMPLETE DISPLAY AT . . ground in about half the time raw data (octal dump, oscillo- California. in half the distance if rocket and graphs, magnetic tapes) to proBache a officer The received propulsion were used in conjunduce the engineering analysis ction with the airplane's engines. lor of Electronic Engineering for "Quick Look," "Supplemental o 1961 in the Univer from Degree The early propellant was not Quick Look" and "Exercise RePh. HU 1 II) of in (21st South Florida, Gainsville, as powerful as that used in ports" for the 1st Strategic sity Florida. Upon graduation, he was today's Polaris and Minuteman Aerospace Division. accepted at OTS, Lackland AFB, missiles. But, it was a significant Lt. Doerr will continue to sup- Texas and was commissioned a advance over fuels of that day. port SAC through the Wing VI 2Lt in the Air Force Reserves Fred S. Miller, a propellant sDASO Program under a new on 8 May 1962. specialist who supervised the iconcept utilizing only Air Force He is a native of New York nstallation of the units, recalls, personnel. He has been stationed considers Bonita "Part of the propellant was plain City but Fla. home. It was in old glue and corn starch." his Springs, area mat mis Doerr com Mr. Miller says, "President education Kennedy, who awarded von Kapleted his He graduated from Fort Meyers rman the first National Medal of School in 1957. High Science in 1963, summed it up Lt. Doerr is a hi-- enthusiast when he said that the longest who is continually updating his journey begins with the first expensive equipment. On almost step. The JATO was a first step any evening, you can find him for America. It was a small step We're relaxing to the stereophonic at 28 pounds of thrust. melodies of "The Boston Pops working in the FULLER MYTKON class now and still have Orchestra" at the BOQ, Vanden VINYL LATEX more steps to take." berg AFB, Calif. 20-min- A. A v- i . - i --- ute i.-- 777-245- 521-285- 0, s 6-2- 3, 1 1 1 i Directs Analyses WON'T POOR TO 5199 DoWN $49os Marin 6-2- VOLKSWAGEN INTERMOUN1TAIN - pre-colle- ge fi 99 Gallon S LAJEX ) SPECIAL READY-MIXE- D UO COM LATEX PAINT Gallon ........ 111 WITH In J30 SGMI-GLOS- S it enjoy dining in atmosphere so exotic is perfect for that special occasion, yet SO economical you can dine here often. PAINT w F WALL $J99 m Serving: WALLPAPER SPECIALS! MURALS Regular $29.95 COOL COMFORT! IN FULLER to $39.95. 29c 39c 49c H2 Oil ft lb. CHINESE. 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