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Show f, ILL TOP TIMES iq69 Page n ki i? men nepair Aircran uyros four Women, In White World of Maintenance Clean Room 771 HO SStwomenTie who i5 Sent the 100, Bay .D Building men work own skill other's. their immaculate cali-brati- and each white look on they sm0cks glance like laboratory im-: they are as do the work they in U.S. pilots keeping on their bombing a true course runs and .obtaining accuracy Tn and caps ifor its on targets. their may depend work done in this room American lives upon AFB. at Hill Pauline Bradshaw, an platform repairman, of the four women, arrives at her building, she clocks in and dons her white uniform in the women's washroom. She then steps on the automatic shoe cleaners to reWhen inertial and one move any loose particles of other foreign material, walks across a few feet of air vents to remove lint cinders or ng Pauline, who is a widow and mother of three children, came to Hill AFB in June, 1951, and went to work as a service helper on link trainers. A year and a half later she was assigned to the Instrument Shop and has been working there t'Vl!l Mht LITTLE GIANT Pauline Bradshaw, an inertial platform repairman, adjusfs the motor tach generator assembly to get proper gear teeth mesh to the outer roll gimbal assembly. The gyro spin motor has a speed of 22,000 rpm. 834th AD A son recently returned from Vietnam and makes his home with her in Roy. Her hobby is growing plants and she has filled her house with them. She calls herself a Scot, because her grandparents came from Scotland. Recently a relative completed a genealogy search that took her family all the way back to 1035, predating the Norman conquest, and that is a pedigree to boast about. She is the Maintenance representative on the Federal Women's Program Coordinating Committee and is a career counselor for the directorate on Equal Opportunity matters. TEST Having put the disabled gyro through the 31 calibration procedure check-lis- t, the instrument 1 lftrouSh tests that simulate ac . tion or Vl the instrument in an elec Soim Harames. J. flight. Mrs confirms 0v6rhaul foreman BrahIv8PchentkrePair of Us roll-and-pit- free! ch CoojurCesv children- - WASHINGTON (AFNS) reunion of all units under the 834th Air Division in Southeast Asia, including offshore crews, will be held i Instruction Phone 376-20- 2 C,asse$ ?ai,y 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Only!00 Bowling 1 Register Now 8 or 825-778- 2 Davis Lanes 1 0 '0 'J jcrx Program Begins June 24th Thursdays (Formerly North M! mum a ri jireei, luviuh Maturo, Hq. USAF (AFRDQ), Pentagon, Washington, D.C. 20330. C-1- 30 '69 FAIRLANE '500' HARDTOP 2-D- R. $2g7 '69 2-D- GALAX1E '500' HARDTOP R. trans., povcr steering, powcrl 'wAutomatic l brakes, deluxe wheel covers, radio, hetit-- r. $ '69 GALAXIE '500' HARDTOP 4-D- R. Automatic trans., power steering, powm brakes, radio, heater, full wheel covers! whitewalls. at schools in the Kaysville to -- Tuesdays and 7. A 55 Laa Hotel, ResVegas, Nev., July 25-2ervations may be made until July 1 through Maj. Jimmy L. We pick up your Sunset Area. (Summer at the Stardust Reunion Set since. JTNAL fl 26-pou- nd repairmen are gyro of their ers assigned to Maintenance, about 100 of whom are women. Some. of them grew up with Calibrate Gyros the job as Pauline did, but took a nine month's Pauline's job is to overhaul many course at a college to learn bedisand calibrate the fore were assigned to a they placement gyro which is part regular position on the base. of the AJB-- 7 attitude referThe importance of the skill ence bombing system. In and in the age of faster-tha- n this complex sound little electronic aircraft, can only be surmised. beautiful mechanism Pauline starts with The tolerance is only .0015 one synchro at zero and then degree in Pauline's calibration adjusts six others to match it. work. Since the gyro assembly "attitude" (the She spends her day in a provides position from any and w o r k p 1 a ce environment of plane's all angles), the indicating sysdials, wires, torquers, slip tem requires extremely accurings, brush blocks. Her tools rate reference intelligence to are tweezers, jeweler's screw the pilot. drivers, minute soldering In overhauling the small but irons, and eye loops such as a diamond merchant wears. powerful gyro motor with its speed of 22,000 rpm Pauline Pauline has attended numerous schools hair springs, gives it a thorough testing electronics, and many others to with simulated action of the perfect her skill, and for 16 instrument in use. years she has been in the InThe finest copper wire covstrument Shop on different ered with colored teflon must jobs. be placed in the proper positions to connect the various 100 Women Workers components of the platform. Hill AFB has approximately For this she follows a schema850 aircraft instrument work- - tic chart she calls her "road map." Started in 1951 WNf from her clothing, and goes to the "clean room." rttle white world of AStenance "clean room" 11 TOOT V '69 L.T.D. air, power windows, powcrl brakes, power steering, tuny ioaaco. 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