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Page Two CLOUDBUSTER Friday, June 1, 1945 CLOUDBUSTER Vol. 3—No. 37 Friday, June 1, 1945 Published weekly under the supervision of the Public Relations Office at the U. S. Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill, N. C., a unit of the Naval Air Primary Training Command. Contributions are welcome from all hands. The Cloudbuster receives Camp Newspaper Service ma terial. Republication of credited matter prohibited without permission of CNS, War Department, 205 E. 42nd St., N. Y. C. CoMDR, James P. Raugh, USNR Commanding Officer Lieut. Comdr. Norman Loader, USNR Executive Officer Lieut. Leonard Eiserer, USNR Public Relations Officer Lieut, (jg) Edwin W. Polk, USNR Editor R. D. Jackson. PhoMIc Harold Hanson, Sp(P)2c photographers The Lighter Side... Then there was the mountaineer who put a silencer on his shotgun because his daugh ter wanted a quiet wedding. Peroxide blonde—an established bleach- head. Yachtsman: “If this storm continues we’ll have to heave to.” Lady: “What a horrid way of putting it.” GI’s girl friend: “I’ll never go out with that ventriloquist any more.” GI: “Why, honey?” Girl Friend: “Last night he sat me on his knee and you should have heard the things he made me say.” “I’m sorry I slapped you, I thought you were trying to get my sorority pin.” “You say <you were rejected by the Navy?” “Yes, my seeing-eye dog had fiat feet.” “Hi, ’ya Babe, I’m going your way.” “Oh, yeah? Better bring your powder puff then, sailor.” Santa Claus is the only one who can run around with a bag all night long and not get talked about. “Aren’t you getting tired of this bachelor life all the time, Bill?” “Certainly not,” replied Bill. “What was good enough for my father is good enough for me.” ^ ■ They tell the story of the rank-happy air man who one day had to bail out in a hur ry. He unbuckled his parachute, stepped out, counted three—and pulled his rank. . Through use of existing knowledge, re mote-controlled rocket bombs can be de veloped to span a distance of half the globe and hit an objective with pin-point ac curacy, according to Hall L. Hibbard, vice- president and chief engineer of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Pointing out that jet propulsion has ad vanced aircraft speeds “much more than 100 miles per hour,” Hibbard said that rocket propulsion was the best and simplest form of jet power and is the type of trans portation that will “one day carry us out side the earth’s atmosphere.” Hibbard spoke at the University of Cali fornia, Berkeley, where he showed draw ings fo a typical jet-propulsion fighter plane and of a rocket fighter which he said could be built and flown today. While available fuels give too short range for military use of rocket planes, new fuels are being de veloped rapidly, he explained. Once proper fuels are available, the rocket fighter will be capable of flying at altitudes of 100 miles or more, without atmospheric resistance, at speeds “practically without limit.” Hibbard “is certain” that all airplanes, military, transport or privately owned, will use some form of jet propulsion within eight to 10 years. Citing inability to stop the German rocket bombs except by sending infantry forces against their bases, he warned that if another war comes there will not be time i for such a defense. “The aggressor’s aim will be the total destruction of his victim in the first 24 hours of hostilities,” he said. Job of Supply The job of the Air Technical Service Command’s supply division—keeping avia tion supplies and spare parts flowing to all parts of the world where American aircraft are flying—calls for the stocking and ship ping of more than 620,000 different items. For every airplane overseas, the supply division ships an average of six tons of equipment monthly. This includes items ranging from nuts, bolts, and goggles to spare wing panels, giant cranes and portable hangars. The ATSC reports that for every $100 America spends for a new airplane, it sets aside $60 for spare parts and aviation supplies, including special equipment for flight crews and ground maintenance equip ment for use at air bases. Steel Ships Used Sails Launched in 1894, the Dir go was the first all-steel sailing ship. She was designed by the Waddingtons of Liverpool and the frames and plates were fabricated in Scot land, shipped to Bath, Maine, where con struction of the hull was supervised by the designer. She was launched in 1894 by her owners, the Sewalls of Bath Maine, op erators of famous wooden sailing craft. She had two full decks and was 312 feet long, 45 feet beam and 26 feet draft. Her gross tonnage, 3,004. Designed to carry 13,000 square yards of canvas without ballast, the Dirgo proved to be a most use ful craft. The ship attained considerable fame when Jack London and wife shipped on her, London serving as third mate, his wife aS stewardess, to get local color for his story “The Mutiny of the Elsinore.” The world’s first all-steel ship was the victim of a German sub in 1917. A sailor walked into a bar and ordered a beer and a straight whiskey. To the bar tender’s amazement, he drank the beer, but carefully unbuttoned his peacoat and emptied the whiskey slowly into his inside pocket. Curiosity overcame the barkeep- “What are you doing there?” he asked. The sailor snorted. “I’m minding my own business, and I suggest you do the same. I ought to climb across the bar and give you a punch in the nose.” Wjth that, a little mouse lifted his head out *of the sailor’s pocket, eyed the bar tender belligerently through bloodshot eyes and snapped: “And that goes for your cat, too!” ‘Hoppicopter’ One of the newest and perhaps the oddest development in the rotary-wing aircraft field is a device announced by Horace T. Pentecost, a Seattle engineer. A one-man helicopter, the “hoppicopter” is without landing gear or fuselage. Pentecost has obtained an experimental license on his device which, he says, will soon be ready for its first test flight. It is strapped to the back of the pilot with harness resembling a parachute harness. A metal tubing frame work supports the two-cycle two-cylinder, air-cooled 20 hp. engine that rests on the wearer’s shoulder. The engine turns two counter-rotating two-bladed rotors, which have a diameter of approximately 13 feet. The device is op erated by a single control stick suspended, inverted, in front of the wearer. The throt tle is operated by turning the end of the control stick. The device weighs about lOO pounds. Male Call by Milton Caniff, creator of "Terry and the Pirates" Bum Check at a Blood Bank ye 60D^i THOSE PRAFT AREN'T SCRAPIN6 THE BOTTOfA -THEY'RE LOO<IN6 UNPEK THE SAIZRBL ! P0E6 rr$AY ) / WELL-AH-QUITE WHV, POCl 1 A FEW THIN<5$ CANY REAP THEM \ AKE WK0N(3 WITH fOfZEION you... WHAT MAVBE OU6HTA I VO, POC ? WELL, I CAH'TQWE PRIVATE MEPICAL APVI^E -BUT IF I m^E yoi; i WOULDN'T STAlZr J?£ADlW6 ANY MESIAL STO/ZIE^! \ ^VCopyrnhf 1945 by Milton Canitf. distributed by C«mp Ncwtpaptr
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