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Sonic Boom Tryout
Proves A Bust
HAMILTON AFB, Calif., ,(£> —
The Air Force labored Monday
to make a ^onic boom and. pro
duced a bust.
Trying t,o show newsmen how
(faster-than-sound speeds will
cause a shock wave, two F-104
jet fighters crossed over this base
at 36,000 feet. Navy Lt.. Tom
Brown of Port Washington, N. Y.,
and Air Force Capt. Orland W.
Jensen of Los Angeles . insisted
they had exceeded the speed of
sound.
This should have produced a
boom. The silence was deafening.
Must have been a layer of
heavy, cold air below them that
muffled the sound, said Brown
and Jensen.
WESTERN WARMTH
PASSAIC, N. J., (4*1 — Cowboys
were gathered around a campfire
in a western movie that Ted
Sefchick Jr., 5, was watching on
television Monday.
The boy went into his bedroom
and' started his own campfire
under the bed with newspapers.
Ted’s father, a fireman off duty, j
doused the blaze.
The only damage was to the
bed and Ted Jr.s pride.
I "He got a spanking he won’t
forget soon,” said Mrs. Sefchick. j
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Hawaiian Flights To Be
Scheduled from Anchorage
HONOLULU UP> — Alaska ana
Hawaii the nation’s newest
states, may be connected by 10
scheduled flights per month by
early in 1960.
Lynn Mayfield, chief pilot of
‘Westair Transport, said yesterday
the carrier plans to fly all 10 trips
between Anchorage and Honolulu
for which it has won certification, i
Mayfield said his company
plans to start the service, with
stopovers at Kodiak, about mid
January.
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‘Dyna Soar,’ Man in
Sp ace Vehicle,
Started at Boeing
SEATTLE, UP — The Boeing
Airplane Co. has been given a
major role in building the Dyna
Soar rocket vehicle, the “manned
missile” planned to speed a hu
man to the edges of space and
return.
Boeing will build the vehicle
portion, integrate it with the rock
et booster and tafst the final pro
duct. The Martin Co., Baltimore,
will develop the rocket booster,
aimed to generate power to speed
the missile five times the speed
of sound.
The Air Force announced the
awards at Washington, D.C., Mon
day.
10 Million Spent So Far
Value of the contract was not
announced. But Senator Henry
M. Jackson <D-Wash), member of
the Senate Armed Services Com
mittee, said 50 million dollars has
been funded through fiscal I960
for Dyna Soar, of which only 18
millions had been spent.
“Dyna Soar now becomes an all
out American industrial effort to
beat Russia in the space field,”
said Senator Warren Magnuson
(D-Wash).
Boeing President William M.
Allen said a big technological
step into the future is involved.
The Dyna Soar has been de
scribed as in effect a cross be
tween a supersonic airplane and
a rocket vehicle. It will use both
centrifugal force and the lift from
stubby wings to enable the pilot
to take off at near missile speed,
reach the edge of the earth’s at
mosphere and then soar or glide
downward.
Maneuvering Possible
Controls will permit the pilot to
make .some changes in direction
and maneuver for a landing. The
Air Force has planned to use a
Titan Intercontinental Baillistic
Missile rocket in the launching.
Martin is now building the Titan
missile.
First steps will be to build and
test unmanned gliders, to be
launched from Cape Canaveral,
Fla., with instruments aboard, to
obtain needed information for
future manned gliders.
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Chamber of Commerce
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Russell Hermann, president
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