European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 3, 1958, Darmstadt, Hesse Oct our 1951 the stars and stripes 9 using heat in Igear tests satellite seen As economical radio relay up the have been Down by Darrell Garwood Washington up space age achievements that have seemed Distant and fantastic in imagination often appear amazingly close to reality when the engineers get temperatures approach treat of a nuclear largest solar fur to work at the there of the army Hunt Ter research and engineering the latest example was provided by calculations made in the Penta Gons advanced research projects Agency on he possibilities of using Hig Altitude Earth satellite As a communications the engineers find where is materials As a powerful radio Range of Only 100 a five Watt transmitter can easily Broad rant to a satellite Miles that is a difference in Power designed for Protection of against the searing heat of other heat have proved inadequate to temperatures near fahrenheit Furnare Ron shirts of a 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requirement is so Small it can be supplied by solar batteries such As those still generating Broad Spong Pohlem c47s pile up flying time fold faithful keep flying avy re Ain at pole fining Washington t i i that he Brg pit in tar history is Between utile and goo mile u i h the waste the Isid the a n my vhf America station u frytag pounds of or More than in Loui traitor the in Liuding Wright More than it Ezirim with Oiler Ike Tram it travelling to r terrain of the Rockefeller pin the Navy wild the tempers at u Mote then 43 de below Zero the train it by 19 and Germany Spe age is no Handicap for two Model c47 aircraft at this air in spite of their 15 years in service and thousands of flying one of the gooney Birds has just a total of 151 hours in a 40day while a second flew 117 in 30 according to the records main tuned in each of the old Faith casts from the navys Vanguard satellite that went up March the Mitter and the Aid of transistors can be built to last Many 4 the distance a a magic figure in satellite because at that Altitude an artificial Moon will Circle the Earth once every 24 because the Earth is turning at the same the satellite will appear to remain stationary Over the same and the problem of its being available for relay Only part of the time it re weight of the satellite need not be possibly a Herbert chief scientist for said hat by some time in 1959 America will have aloft Earth satellites weighing be tween one und two York was speaking of the use of the Atlas and Titan intercontinental missiles As these mis Siles Cost about 92 million so the Cost of the satellite relay should be in the Low compared to billions now invested in Lon distance another advantage of the High Altitude relay is that it can be with equally Small amounts of to spread to broadcasts Over half the and the Arpa they have flown a total of j engineers and scientists do not hours during their air Force the satellite relay would be equivalent to or nearly two this is about 691 Days years in the of the hours c47 num r 6f8 has flown especially vulnerable to up and they Point out that the Satel hates broadcasts Are effectively straight in other number 222 has lodged hours i even though the message is from a c47 periodic maintenance Dork Crew at pan Dahlem air la Germany to Knop gooney Bird in the air and piling up on the engine left to right Are William Fowler and Carl on the ground left to right Are Nathanil and t sgt Force photo Naco slates fir safety events rank fort special a fire will with Pinto mine provided by 12 Post fire depart ments and four City fire according to an arrangement be tween the posts and the City Rov thing for according to 1st John bus flight maintenance the two loonies have set flying longevity for this the c47s at Spain Dahlem serve the 10th tactical reconnaissance Wing by hauling making courier runs and transporting they have flown mis Sions Over most of to Africa and bases m the Middle Stanhagen gives most of the credit for the flight time records to the maintenance procedures of the periodic maintenance Dock he singled out senior m sgt Douglas hangar and five Veteran flight in t sgt Albert s sgt James s sgt Henri s sgt Roger Van Parys and Nathaniel with 10 Pom Dpi a fire Drill at rot Wemm 9 no Kik off j per Sonny of the Schrot Fuit Post or fiem Ara foods Oliverson tin department and tiie 3d of fire prevention in will stage a Nijor starts sunday i of flrefighting1 Ern ments of of be equip mint at Clun u a i t k Frankfurt and the munici1 Ruan for maintenance and construct equip int and a i contest and blur Ninatti fire lit Ion will highlight chateau Roux aide cited France Spe Cial Paul general fore of week activities in the 12 if 0m German 0re departments will join with fire departments in bag Home of the events firemen Rodeo will Stirt at the Glessen pout fire depart it hns distributed a Riddle All answers ran find Only by studying thu pal fire departments respond for Bone installations fire Calls within the City limits was awarded for sustained Superior performance while collecting an additional suggestion front troop and dependents Iuar Urs and facilities of the new York to san the Altitude is so great that the signal can he thought of As having gone straight up and then straight to an enemy must be in the path of the but if the signal is Corning straight he cannot reach this position unless he is in or Over the receiving s Hoot on g Down the satellite would be approximately As difficult As putting one satellite in exactly the same orbit As which no one As yet claims to be Able to the Arpa scientists warn that there Are still technical problems to be but the satellite re Lay could come into use in a few it is certainly not generations or even a generation Telephone and television users May notice Little difference after the Novelty wears Telephone messages will be carried to Cen trial stations in the usual and to after being flashed Over great distances through the probably will be rebroadcast the Arpa scientists How that enormously complicated problems in global communications will be these include a Scarcity of Low level radio channels so acute that even High priority military messages Are often held wow at Cambrai Kritch in Darmstadt contests will putting out Oil fires and rating several of out the to a Given length and Una tag water on the each of 10 poet fire department Leaoma will compete against Karte Ruhe poet has scheduled a fade through the City and Village beginning at 4 personnel and equipment both the Post and municipal will a Duriay of firefighting skill open hours at All fire Sta will be the events of the week in Heidelberg football fans in Aschaffenbur will a demonstration by the port fire department during the of the Kitzinger a Schaffenburg game at Graves Barracks the Kawl Post fire department fire regulations in Wuerzburg illuminated fire prevention will appear night above the fire at Fulda and Hanau posts have planned a variety of events to run through the chief of the Naco prevention urged Alt personnel in the com Mand to attend the Point ing out there were 367 resulting in of property dam age in the geographical limits of Naco last fire Protection for the forces and their dependents in Naco 7ih engr Brig 10 ruin pm Germany spa 7th engr which has its Headquarters at his air observed its Lola anniversary the brigade began its first work with atomic Energy commis Sion projects on end Dejok atoll in the wheelus a speeds Jet engine repairs Libya special line and offer ready within the last year the Jet engine Access to Ull needed before we built said minor repair Section of the 72721 Field maintenance so has boosted its capability of checking out Jet engines from two to five a Here performing an important in the u3afe weapons Center pro Gram the unit supports an average of 90 Jet aircraft Yueh month from Safe tactical units which visit wheelus for weapons proficiency whether the Jet engines Are from b37s or t33s makes no Sulila m sgt Thomas no in we service them helping to increase efficiency has been the installation of Shadow boards cabinets which House maintenance tools needed for engine the boards Are attached to the Wall along the we had to walk several Hundred feet up a flight of stairs and Buck Down to get saving All those Steps has not Only helped our but enables us to take a Quick inventory at the end of each if a tool is missing from its assigned position on the we notice it the Wall cabinets have saved 150 Mun hours per said 1st it George officer in charge of the another improvement boosting the units performance was Addi Tion of a Monorail which runs the full length of the maintenance line and facilitates handling of it can lift loads up to Fly tons and speeds movement of engines on the according to the Sec Tion was the first in Safe to Rig up a cutaway of a j57 in Reginald Pratt Whitney technical represent spent several months making the lockup from an engine slated for the Salvage the cutaway has proved Ivalu according to it pro Vides the old hand with a ready reference when faced with a maintenance problem and it helps in the training of the younger a he safety aide cited North England re tired Royal air officer and chief of the safety inspection Branch for the 3114th ammunition Supply so has received three suggestions awards since netting him
