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Show HILL TOP TIMES Page i Hill's Camera Calibration Facility n in the World One of do you know more about tadial tires than your son? Half-Doze- Camera Calibration Facility built for the Maintenance Directorate for of mapping calibration cameras will make an impressive savings in time and money for the Air Force. The need for the Camera The Can you bridge the generation gap? See how you and vo. Radial Tire user J S" compare with the new breed of Michelin-X Check Yes correct Calibration Facility is tied to YOU'LL assigned TIRE the main pieces of equipment in the facility is the camera calibrator John Rankin, project Materiel engineer Management, and constructed by Boiler and the California Chivens, Division of the Perkin-FJme- r . Corp. The new "state-of-the-ar- BIG CASTING The main casting of the aerial mapping calibrator is mounted on the vibration isolators. The calibrator is a recent facility of Maintenance Electronics and Accessories Repair Branch. "Yi" t A- - I V Comparator provide data which determine the geometric characteristic of each individual mapping camera. This data is required in making maps and is ENGINEERING PROBLEM John Ross. Maintenance project engineer, discusses techniques of leveling the mapping camera on the calibrator with Clarice Norton, photographic technologist who directs the calibration operation. general foreman in Optical Repair who supervises the three technicians, Roy Hanson, Ross Taylor, and Ben Andreason, who are performing the many J SB T T LKJ UU 'f r iiMiiimaiim " -- " : T j r: Clarice Norton, as Maintenance Monitor charged wilh putting the facility in operation, correlates work and training through Mr. Smith and analyzes and approves results. Her rating is that of photographic technologist She has a B.A. degree from New York University and as a result of 20 years experience as director of the . i Fairchild Camera Calibration Laboratory, where all of the present Air Force mapping cameras were manufactured, is well known in this field of work. Ogden AMA can be justly- proud of the new Camera Calibration complex. officials said. This state of the-ar- t facility with its precision calibrator, precision comparator, and its computer programs, semi-automat- careful will repair supply Military Airlift Command wilh accurate, perfectly-operatin- cameras. g mapping The dozen base organizations, as well as the research organizations of the Army, Navy and Air Force who have bten involved in the acquisition of the Camera Calibration Facility are to be complimented on a job officials noted. well-don- - 1 - ; following maintenance : I I 1 1 t-- 1 DAVIS COUNTY'S LARGEST Phone 1591 North Main LIGHT CONTROL Expert in photogrammeiry, Oarice Norton adjusts the illumination controls of the calibrator. This determines the density of the target images photographed by the camera. complex operations involved in camera calibration. 5 J AUTHORIZED INDEPENDENT DEALER 1 ' furnished by Ogden AMA to many government agencies in the form of a camera calibration certificate. The big calibrator is unique. It weighs seven tons and its many collimators provide so many images that the abundance of data far exceeds that available from any other calibrator. Since there are only half a dozen in the world, the Hill AFB calibrator is unique among equipment that is already rare. The calibrator is constructed so that the cameras are positioned vertically as they would during test be in the aircraft. The rotating mount positions the" cameras in azimuth in any one of twelve orientations. Such and accurate expensive equipment ob$560,000 for the total maximum viously requires care. This is provided by the controlled environment that regulates the temperature, humidity, and dust. One of the men most concerned with the new facility is Robert Smith, easf "Mlchcllo cuarentt Conn 40.000 mill Iml life, dfctl In warkmtnihlp and nuterUli and rormit rail hmrli (ncMlns rrpalrib! ptinetum). I llmurd (a fret repair, or cndlt or refund aqua! to original purchase prlct multiplied br prrcniut of fuaranttrd mlleaca not run (at Mlchalln'a option), and It conditioned upon UM rlth "Almop" tubca (whert app'.lnbHI ut uat oo pauanccr car or itatlon aracon." d plates which are then measured on the Mann cofftct far och YT EIADDAIL is glass plates at the focal plane of the camera. The processed l OUT- - 40,000 miles of actual tread wear guaranteed known to an actwo seconds of arc. emulsion-coate- N THE "IN" join the new breed of smart drivers who get at at the center of collimators, this array of lights is photographed on micro-fla- CONSTRUC-TIOX WORLD. THE RADIAL THAT LASTS "THE ORDINARIES!" t" camera MARKET? MICHELIN IS NUMBER ONE IN THE targets at the focus of each collimator define the angles, such that the position of each the ON THE PER MILE THAN ANY OTHER TIRE? calibrator which is used in the first step of calibration consists of 121 collimators in a rigid array. The illuminated angle is curacy of When exposed LESS COST ADVANCED RADIAL MAKES MICHELIN-- photographic One of of GET WITH MICHELIN-- mapping cameras, includes a designed under the direction THE MILEAGE serviceability, which, for calibration. YES MICHELIN RADIALS INCREASE GAS AND TIRE MILEAGE? servicing mission items. In the latter case, Ogden precision, NO BELT T (which is done by the Military is balow MICHELIN RADIALS GIVE STEEL-BELBLOW-OU- T AND PUNCTURE PROTECTION? Command Airlift Command) and for AMA aniwtr MICHELIN WRAPS A STEEL AROUND EACH TIRE UNDER TREAD FOR BETTER TRACTION? dual Force Air the for flying responsibility aerial surveys for Army Topographic or No for each question 1 I , E J LU J TIRE DEALER 376-345- or 6 825-228- 1 in once Only 50 ye gts a sols on Michel in Tires like this w e don't dare even ad vertise --mm PE1CE! m m |