THURSDAY. OCTOBER II, 195B
THE PILOT—Southern Pines, North Carolina
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Air Force Gives Impressive Show Of
Equipment In Demonstration Sunday
It’s a real pity, the lieutenant sky without a sound. Travelling
was saying, that every citizen at an estimated speed of some
can’t have the opportunity to see 900 miles per hour, they pulled
the Air Force stage one of its up, flipped their wings and head-
periodic aerial firepower demon- ed out of sight,
strations. | Then came . the thunderous
If they could, he added, those BOOM! which is the breaking of
growls about paying too much the sound barrier. Not as loud
taxes might be somewhat lessen
ed.
The lieutenant, aide to a brig-
as had been expected, but plenty
loud at that I
The Air Force then started a
adier general at Fort Bragg, was parade of planes that had been
among a group of officers, town used in wartime, beginning with
officials and members of the a World War 1 fighter that ac-
staffs of several Sandhill news- tually evoked roars of laughter
papers that was returning from from the some 6,000 people on
Elgin Air Force Base in Florida hand. Just 40 years old, but so
Sunday night following such a completely outmoded that it was
demonstration earlier in the day. almost as if the Air Force had
“Consider for a minute,” the paraded an ox cart before the
lieutenant said, “that most of the stands.
equipment you saw this after-1 Even the World War 2 plane
noon was obsolete, or fast getting which followed, the famous F-51
that way. Yet, I think that al- (remember the P-40?) was con-
most every person there, inclu- sidered old-fashioned,
ding many of the officers whO| Not until the F-80 next in the
had seen similar demonstrations parade, had roared through at its
before, was amazed at the tre- comparatively slow speed of
mendous potential the Air Force about 250 miles per hour, did the
has developed. Live with it long spectators start realizing the
enough and you’ll see why,we progress that has been made in
think constant development of aircraft in the past 10 years,
air power is essential to defense.” | The commentatoiP introduced
The lieutenant, son of a re- a Korean fighter plane and the
tired Army colonial, wasn’t present day supersonic fighter,
wrong when he talked about po- both flying at less than 100 feet
tential. i from the ground, and held off the
Held at the giant 800 square recently developed supersonic in
mile (500,000 acres) Air Proving terceptor until the very last.
Ground in the northern part of It droned through at less than
Florida, the demonstration went 700 miles per hour and actually
off without a hitch. The Air looked slow!
Force showed off fighter planes. Its capable speed, one Air
long range bombers, air-to-air Force officer a seat or two away
rocket firing techniques, and the j said, was probably more than
very newest technique in bomb- i 1,500 miles per hour,
ing. All in all, it was the most| Following the plane parade the
tremendous showt this reporter
has ever seen.
The demonstration started
with two F-lOO Thunderbirds
diving from an altitude of 43,000
feet in a “vertical supersonic
boom.” This, for the benefit of
the unenlightened, is a dive in
which the planes break through
the sound barrier.
The planes, almost imposible
to locate in the sky until they
let off a thin trail of smoke just
most impressive sight of the day
was exhibited—a formation of
four Thunderbirds flying in per
fect precision,, performing aerial
acrobatics that were nothing
short of amazing.
At one point the four planes
went up to some 10,000 feet and
broke out of their formation in a
beautiful star pattern, each plane
going • in a different direction.
Spectators were amazed until the
commentator said “You haven’t
seconds before they started their seen anything yet.”
23,000 foot dive, came out of the, ' The planes then met (estima-
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ted speeds of 400 mph) in front
of the stands, one stacked on top
of the other, in an almost impos
sible feat. We later learned that
the demonstration was the thirty
first performed by the group, the
twentieth in the Thunderbirds.
Firing demonstrations, using
napalm bombs, followed in
which the planes literally tore to
pieces several targets that had
been set up ,on the field. There
were no misses.
One more thing that was out
standing was the demonstration
of the new “toss-bombing” tech
nique the'Air Force has perfect
ed.
Difficult to describe, the
bombing did not employ the con
ventional method of dropping the
weapons; actually, the plane
seemed to be shooting them
(there were three demonstrations
—60 degree, 90 degree and 110
degrees) at a target more than a
mile away.
There was also a demonstra
tion of a simulated “A” bomb
burst.
Printed on the little program
that was distributed was the last
notation: “B-36, 6,000 feet, dem
onstration of Iximbing capabili
ty, maximum load.”
The B-36, which 'looked like
a stodgy old hen protecting' her
biddies, starting laying the
bombs almost as soon as it came
in view. They fell, two at a time,
for an estimated distance of some
16 miles. An officer sitting near
by said you could walk down
the path the bombs made and
find it straight and even “just
like a canal ditch. ”
On the plane coming back to
Donaldson Air Force Base in
Greenville, S. C., (a C-124 used
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FHA Members
To Hold Distriet
Rally In Hamlet
Future Homemakers of Amer
ica composing 10 eastern and
central North Carolina counties
will hold their District rally in
the Fairview Heights School in
Hamlet, October 13.
Arrangements for the rally are
being made by the Hamlet F. H.
A. Chapter under the direction
of Mrs. Melva Hamilton, advisor.
Miss Mary Hines Leonard, State
Department of Public Instruc
tion, home economics supervisor
of the area, and Miss Mary Eliz
abeth Burns, Pinehurst School,
District advisor.
The meeting will begin at 10
a. m. and will be presided over
j by Helen Lewis, Red j^rings
chapter, and state historian of
the F. H. A.
Some 800 girls representing 66
high schools, including several jin
Moore County, are expected to
attend, with their homemaking
teachers, principals, chapier
mothers and fatiiers. The all ttey.
event will feature as its theme,
“You—In Home, Chapter, School,
and Community.”
HARVEST SALE
There will be a harvest sale
Saturday night at McDonald’s
Chapel for the benefit of the pew
fund. The church, located near
Pinehurst, will serve turkey din
ners from 6 p. m. until the sup
ply is exhausted.
by the commanding general of
the 18th Air Force) one of the
reporters looked out the little
plastic bubble in the plane’s nose
and remarked:
“Look at that sky. . . sure is
a big world, isn’t it?”
The pilot looked over his
shoulder and, in a few well chos
en words, told the whole story
of air power:
“The world, I’m afraid, is get
ting smaller. . . a lot smaller. . .
every day.”
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