European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 28, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The staks and Striks Kneel Anil Pairlle. Too Page 7 wheels Mare than rail Kneel wheel the c5 Galaxy s unique 28-whee Landing gear system permits the plane to land and Takeoff from unpaved runways and Kneel like a Camel for loading and unloading. Inset shows part of one of four main gear bogies. Burbank Calif. Special t he Bronze age inventor of the wheel prob ably would t recognize some of the sophisticated uses which space age de signers have found for his creation. The wheel is not Only rolling. It is kneeling and paddling  unique 28-wheel Landing gear sys tem will permit the world largest an heaviest air plane the a if Force c5 Galaxy to land and take off on unpaved runways and to Kneel like a Camel in loading and unloading  army is testing a radically new amphibious vehicle whose wheels serve also As paddles. The vehicle called the Terra Star moves easily Over Muddy and swampy ground paddles through water and cruises smoothly along paved highways. Most present amphibious vehicles can operate efficient Lyon Only two of the three surfaces. Twister another one of a kind Crea Tion is a High Speed rough ground vehicle whose eight wheels and novel sus pension system can take it Over terrain where trucks jeeps and even Tan scan t go. The army recently asked that a military version be designed and developed. The five ton twister has two Mai body sections joined by a Pivotal Yoke. Independently suspended wheels at the front and a walking beam suspension at the rear enable twister to keep All eight wheels on the ground and give the Driver relatively Shock free ride even at High speeds Over rough terrain. It can make sharper a turn than a jeep accelerate from a Stop to 45 Miles an hour in"l$.seconds, and reach top speeds of More than 65 Miles an  s versatility is the result of an advanced locomotion concept a interlocking arrangement of major and minor wheels. Each of its four major wheel assemblies consists of three minor wheels. The minor wheels equipped wit wide Low pressure tires Are mounted on secondary axles located on Large spoke which rotate around the main Axle. The major wheel assemblies propeller Rastar through mud swamps and water. On roads and other hard surfaces the vehicle moves on the two Bottom wheels of each of the triangular shape major wheel assemblies. The 728,000-Pound Galaxy is twice Sheavy As the largest present Jet trans ports and nearly As Long As a football Field. Yet its 24 main wheels and four nose wheels distribute the giant Craft weight so effectively it will be Able to operate from runways no firmer than baseball Field. Wide wheel spacing per mits the aircraft in effect to make it sown runway on unpaved Fields As the wheels pass Over and flatten the dirt on Landing. On Concrete runways the big plane will create less pavement stress than most smaller Jet  at Lockheed Georgia co Birthplace of the c5, say the huge plane standing gear evolved from the longest and most rigorous development Effort ver devoted to an aircraft Landing gear. A computer study of 2,600 design variations preceded the final selection. The 24 main Landing gear wheels rearranged in two triangular shaped bogies of six wheels each under each Sid of the fuselage. The tires can be automatically deflated in flight from the High pressure desired for Takeoff to a lower pressure for smoother  a heavy logistics transport a b 1 e to carry the Many types of equipment required by an infantry division the c5 had to be capable of being loaded an unloaded in a hurry. But the 246-foot Long fuselage dictated a Landing gear height of nine feet to give the big plane the necessary Tail Down Angle at Takeoff and Landing. This would have put the fuselage floor too High above the ground for easy loading. So Lockheed engineers devised the kneeling Landing gear. Built in motor driven jacks contract the Landing gear lowering the fuselage floor to within four and one half feet of the  centuries old wheel is still an important element in space age travel. It refinements though seem to be almost limitless. Army civilians develop Safe Sling tester b e r d e e n proving my. Special three supervisors Here have a device for safely efficiently testing the Capa of Load bearing slings and other lifting equipment. Be device permits Load test we of hundreds of steel rope wire or Chain slings in a Minixe of time and win the rumination of All safety hazards method m ther n the Hydraulic powered Unitas created by Henry s. Sent Jan Claude w. Payne an Mon r0e Bamford of the proving Devil pent and proof i beam feet basically a steel Long and 3 on a Concrete base the duty two Moval be heavy slings m h 1 Hooks it r testing stateside service seeing straight is old hat now Redstone Arsenal Ala special . Army scientists Here Are using laser beams Tosee around Corners. It s part of their research into the possibility of using three dimensional photographs for Dat storage. The pictures Are known As holograms a whole Pic Ture taken without a Lens. Scientists at the army missile command s research and development directorate want Touse holograms to store information on tiny Light sensitive Crys . James Brown a scientist in t h e directorate s physical sciences Laboratory explains Why since the Crystal has third dimension it has a 1 o t More material available for re cording information than a two dimensional film  Sac opens Boom operator career Field Omaha neb. Special strategic air come personnel officials Are seeking volunteers to retrain into the in flight re fueling specialist Aasc a424 x2 career Field. Qualified male airmen presently assigned to Sac stateside units May apply for assignment to Crew duty in kc135s. Individuals who possess shortage fecs listed in attachment 1, afm 39-4, Are ineligible to apply. Sky Raider to pasture Jacksonville Fla. Up the . Navy air combat Arm has gone All Jet with the formal putting to pasture of its last propellor driven fighter the famed a1h sky Raider. Two weeks ago the Skyria Derfler its final Low level Mission in Vietnam the last Squadron in the Navy was officially re placed with the radar-crammeda6 intruder at Jacksonville naval air  in 1945 but used for combat right up into the Jet age the sky Raider was affectionately dubbed Spad a by Navy pilots after the fighter which was the terror of the skies Over France in world War i the first sky raiders were delivered to the Navy in june 1945 replacing the world warn dauntless dive bomber. From then until now it was Rega Dedas the most powerful single engine propellor driven aircraft in the world. During the korean War these Raider was the Navy s right Arm in close ground support for marines engaged in combat. It carried loads of bombs napalm mines torpedoes other explosives and machine gun Sand rockets. Several russian built Migl fighters were downed by the stubby sky raiders in the Korea War and you be been had by a Spad was the Victory Chan which came out of the War. The a6s, with their basketball shaped radar noses will take Over attack so 176 based  Squadron will move to Oceana va., Early next Mont for transitional training for the intruder jets. The Navy says there s on quiet Mission left for the work horse sky Raider. One of them i soon to be installed at the Navy museum of aviation at Peris Arcola Fla. Andrews fab my. Spe Cial capt. Gary a. Fish or has been named the 1967"junior officer of the year of air Force systems come. It. Monroe a. Special the . Continental army come is looking for Volun Teers to attend the eight week criminal investigation course at the military police school it. Gordon a. Active army enlisted personnel e4 and above at least 22 years old who Are Citi Zens and meet the prerequisites of a 195-11 Mayapple. The criminal investigative Field is highly selective and the character investigation is often the determinant Factor. Avionics lab cited right Patterson fab Ohio special air Force avionics Laboratory has received the outstanding unit citation for it High Quality of contract manage ment and the originality and Igor or its in House programs from Jan. 1, 1965, through dec. 31 1966. Insurance clause protects sex gis Washington is the pro vision of the Serviceman s group life insurance a Glt program that automatically covers Mili tary personnel for 120 Days after separation from Active duty is a valuable one the air Force reports. From Jan. 1 to March 31 Theair Force processed 35 insurance claims involving former airmen who died within this time period. The coverage including identification of beneficiaries is the same As that which applies to servicemen in the army Navy. And Marine corps