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Show 2D Lakeside Review South, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 1983 Open House Events Varied HILL AIR FORCE BASE -Mankind's first manned flight in 1783 and continued progress 200 years later will be commemorated at the Hill Air Force Base Open House on Sept. 17 from 9 a.ni. to 4 p.m. The event will be open to the public at no charge and include a day of aerial flyovers. music and informational exhibits. The theme of the open house event is Air and Space Bicentcnnicl, 200 Years of Manned Flight. On Nov. 21, 1783 near Paris, France, the first manned flight' took place aboard a hot air balloon. The Treaty of Paris was also signed that year ending the Revolutionary War. These two events arc commemorated with the launching of the Trean of Paris balloon at 10 a.m. The feature attraction of the day is the Utah debut of the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds in their Fighting Falcon aircraft. The Thunderbirds will F-- their precision aerial ents together for the last 22 demonstration with their red, ycars Members of the group are present Roger Arnold, Ronald Schultz, Roland Hadley, Richard Penrod and Murna Hadley. The Air Force Academy band Wild Blue Country will conclude the musical performances at 1:30 p.m. Wild Blue Country is a group that combines many years of experience in the country and western musical field. Hill Field demonstrations will include flyovers with the 388th Tactical Fighter Wing and 4 flyovers, dnd a CH-5- 3 helicopter demonstration by the 6514th Test heSquadron. A special UH-1licopter takoff will also be performed. .Informational exhibit displays Force personnel, base civilian musiwill be held inside Building 1. workers and a few e Area cities and Chambers of cians. At 12:15 p.m., the Four Rs Commerce are scheduled to quartet will perform a variety of have displays as well as compasongs for the audience. The Four nies such as Texas Instruments, Rs are a group of local individ- Boeing, Hughes Aircraft and uals who have pooled their tal- - Civil Air Patrol. white and blue beginning at 2 p.m. Spectators are invited to bring lawn chairs or blankets for comfort as they view the 6 planes flying overhead. The U.S. Air Force Academy's Wings of Blue parachuting team will hold a demonstration at 1:10 p.m. Weather permitting, three musical groups will be performing at a bandstand located on the northeast corner of Building 1. The Hill Field Silver and Blue Band will start the day off at 9:30 a.m. Ranging in age from 18 to 80, the 43 member all volunteer band is made up of Air F-1- F-1- - F-1- KC-13- 5, F-- F-1- N off-bas- m TREATY OF PARIS balloon will be on Air Force Base open house Saturday. Thunderbirds Perform Saturday With their beautiful red, white foreign audiences , giving the and blue flying at speeds Thunderbirds the unofficial title up to Mach 3, the U.S; Air of Americas Ambassadors in . F-1- 6s Force Thunderbirds will present a spectacular airshow of loops, rolls and dives to the Hill Air Force Base open house audience Saturday. Since their first aerial demonstration in 1953, the Thunderbirds have travelled throughout the U.S. and to 45 countries logging over 2450 performances before more than 155 million people. Stationed out of Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas, the Thunderbirds are the official Air Demonstration squadron of the Air Force. They have performed before prime ministers, presidents, foreign dignitaries and : . THUNDERBIRDS will appear Saturday in bright red, white and blue FI 6 aircraft, a favorite event of 1983 Hill Air Force Base open house. : hand during Blue. Commanded by Maj. Jim Latham, the team flies the supersonic General Dynamics 6 Fighting Falcon multirole combat fighter. Performing with Latham who flies the lead aircraft are Capt. Steve Chealander, Capt. Howard, Attarian, Maj. Larry Stellmon, Maj.Hoss Jones and Capt. John Bostick. Two additional pilots who fly the number seven and eight aircraft. are Maj. Jim Bailey and Capt. Alan R.D. Minkel; F-1- Stellmon of Hot Springs, Montana is the only Thunder-birpilot who- has been stationed at Hill Field. Most of the teams basic rolls and loops are done out of the famous diamond formation. Six planed are used by the Thunderbirds to do the aerial stunts with Minkel serving as the narrator and Bailey as the logistics offid - Thun-derbir- d cer. The most visible part of the Thunderbirds is the aircraft. The 6 Fighting Falcon is the teams eighth different aircraft. After starting out in the F-1- G Continued on Page 10D |