European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes saturday november 7, 1987 improved chinooks arrive in Europe by Connie Dickey staff writer Mainz Germany the 205th aviation co assumed ownership Friday or the first of ill upgraded ch-47 Chinook helicopters with improved lifting capabilities. The company part of the 4ih trans come is the tint unit in  to get the new chinooks. The unit received two this week at Fin than army Airfield and will receive two More monday. By february the unit will have replaced all16 of its helicopters with the newer ver Sion. Boeing helicopter co. Is upgrading older a b and c models of the chinooks into the newer d models As part of an army program to modernize the cargo helicopter. 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It is just an All around belter air Craft. There arc a lot of design changes tothe older models. Essentially it is a new aircraft but most of the changes Are in Side he said. Wittstrom said that during annual air Frame condition evaluations chinooks with an excessive number off tight hours years in service and surface and internal damage Are sent to the Boeing factory near Philadelphia for the upgrade. Models in Good enough condition go to National guard and Reserve units Loruse and Active duty army units receive the modernized helicopters first he said. Eventually All the older models will be revamped into the new models Wixtrom said. A Boeing spokesman said the chinooks Are at the factory for about 12 months where they go through a com plete overhaul. The helicopter is stripped to its air Frame and some of thai is replaced on the oldest a models Wixtrom  of the changes Are two Turbo Shaft engines improved transmissions new Rotor Blades new automatic flight control systems an improved auxiliary Power unil and a triple Hook lifting sys tem. Boeing has reported a savings of $5 in Quinn per Airframe compared to build ing new chinooks. Wilts rom said the triple Hooks move More weight faster and offer greater stability for the pilots. The Hooks arc used in moving cargo and equipment to the Battlefield. Staff sgt. Sammy Burns a flight Engi Neer instructor said the new equipment inside the helicopter enables the maintenance personnel to test and repair the equipment faster. We used to have a 200-hour phase program in which we did maintenance now every 10 hours we can do Check and Start repair work. The turn around Lime then is greatly improved he hid. New equipment training teams from fort Eustis vs., and fort Rucker Ala have been sent to the unit to train pilots flight engineers and Crew chiefs on the d  said unit pilots must 0 through 40 hours of ground school instruction and 10 hours of flying time one of which is night flying to be Quali fied on the new models. He said the first ground school ended  tight engineers and Crew chiefs have finished half of heir 80 hours of maintenance instruction school Burn said. I have Down All the Chinook models and i think even thing that could be done to the helicopter to make it Bette has been done. It will be around a Good Many years win Szrom said. Nato component reclaims building closing cafes sales facility s doors by Mark Walsh Tilburg Bureau Geilenkirche Germany the army and air Force Exchange service closed its doors this week at the nato Bane leaving 1,500 americans without an cafes retail store. We closed our retail sales facility atthe request of nato base officials it. Col. Charlie while cafes Europe spokesman said. In fiscal year 1986, sates at the Geilen Kirchen store were 11.58 million White said. The Issue concerns the continued use of building 71, which belongs to nato no whether cafes facilities could be located Here said a statement from maj. David  of he nato airborne Early warning Force e-3a component. The nato component has taken the facility Back to be used by the Latex nato Exchange. However cafes is still Welcome to open a facility Here Schmidt said. There is no restriction against  plans Are for the facility to be re mod eled and opened in february Schmidt said it will expand the nato Exchange on inc base. The nato Exchange Sells Merchan Dise to nato service members including americans stationed at Geilen Kir Chen. The nato store will begin carrying limited supplies of . Products in the near future Schmidt said. Milk and bread from the . System Are already planned for and should appear within the next several weeks Schmidt said. Officials indicated that i there is a demand for a particular item Latex would try to carry the  by customers for new items can be made through customer comment cards he said. The cafes store closest to Oei Lenfair Clien is about 10 Miles away in Schin Nen  also operates a laundry tailor shop and clothing sales store at Geilen Kirchen. There Are no plans to close those operations. Cafes will continue to sell Gas coupons at the  . Gas coupons Are already on Sale at the Latex Gas station although the Price is higher than in cafes because it includes a handling charge Schmidt said Munich Burciu re Portar Chart Bowdan dont bum bid report arms dealer contempt ruling rejected Washington a a Federal appeals court Friday set aside a con tempt citation against an arms Deane who refused to give Independent counsel to wrench Walsh financial records of eight foreign companies involved in the Iran Centra affair. A three judge panel of the . Circuit court of appeals Here unanimously held that a lower court judge had erred by hold ing Albert Hakim in contempt of court be fore first determining whether the court had jurisdiction to enforce the subpoena. The court further held that Hakim a subject of the investigation being con ducted by Walsh could refuse to produce the documents if he could show their production might tend to incriminate  Hakim together with his business partner Retiree air Force maj.  v. Second ran a series of Swiss based companies thai were involved in the Sale of . Arms to Iran and diver Sion of profits to the nicaraguan rebels. It was not immediately Clear How serious a Legal blow Walsh s investigation suffered by the decision. Earlier this week. Walsh s office obtained More than 2,000 pages of Swiss Bank records that Trace the arms deals. The re cords sought from Hakim were from the corporations that he and Secord ran under the direction of it col Oliver North for Mer National Security Council aide who is also under investigation by Walsh the records sought by the april 30subpoena ordered Hakim to produce corporate registration papers financial re cords Bank account records kept by the companies Telephone records As Well a payroll and personnel records. Hakim refused to comply with the subpoena on number of grounds including the argument that Hii fifth amendment right against self incrimination would be violated by producing the documents. On july 30, . District judge Aubrey Robinsonjr. Ordered Hakim jailed for contempt of court but the judge ruling was appealed by Hakim. Military court sentences British haters Verden Germany three of four Berlin based British soldiers found guilty of hazing a Comrade during initiation rites face dismissal from the army and All four were sentenced to prison or de Tention by a military court Friday. A British military spokeswoman said the sentences Are subject to review by the British command in Berlin. An Appeal impossible Bui As of Friday none had been made she said. The four 19-year-old privates were tried in connection with an initiation rile for i 20-year-old private in Colchester England in Early february. The victim was forced to crawl through the Snow and Bathe in a tub filled with excrement and his scrotum was burned with a sol Dering device according to testimony. The soldiers Are members of the 1stbn of the King s own scottish Borderers. Pvt. Barry Ferguson pvt William Reilly and pvt David Gardner were sentenced to dismissal. Ferguson was sentenced to dismissal with disgrace the spokeswoman said. Ferguson received a two year prison term and Gardner received six months. They will serve their prison terms in civilian facility for youth offenders be cause of their Ages. Reilly received six months in a Mili tary detention faculty and pvt Philip Smith received 56 Days of military detention. The two wit serve their sentences in a military detention facility in col Chesler. The soldiers were found guilty Tiu in Day of varying degrees of assault. The trial a held in Verden 1st British army div he because the me of the Berlin Garrison made it More difficult to locate officers to sit on the court who bad no knowledge of the Case the spokeswoman said