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CD O O 0 0 w u ov ,o o 16 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mdforl, Orajon, Tuwday, July 15,1938 o o First Eta - Qualified Man Found in Ranks Of Test Pilots Editor' note: Thii is tbe second of five articles on plans of the United States to send a man into ou&r space. In Monday's article Martin Caidin wrote that haste is essential if the United States hopes to beat Rnssta as the first nation to send a man into the "unknown." By MARTIN CAIDIN Written for United Press International Copyright 1958 by UPI Jim Randall, our composite "spaceman," is a college grad uate and a captain in the Unit c ed States Air Force. His occu pation: Engineering specialist and test pilot. He is 28 or 29 years old, and at home with his wife and two young chil dren you would never know that he is a skilled veteran of many thousands of hours in the air. Looking at Jim Ran dall, listening to his quiet, confident voice, it is hard to believe that here is the first man who will leave this plan et to venture into outer space. Jim Randall is a true "av erage" of those test pilots who fly our latest military aircraft. He is an Air Force test pilot, although he could have been a flier from the Navy or the Marines, or a test pilot from NACA, the Nation al Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Any one of these men might be Captain James T. Randall, USAF. AnArern Rank What qualifies a man to be selected to lead the way into space? The answer is found in the ranks of those pilots who fly our experimental fighters and bgipbers. Men like Jim Randall. Even to be admitted to the select few who form the flying personnel of the Air Force Flight Test Center in California, Jim Randall had to a perfect physical specimen. He stands just short of 9x feet tall, is well-muscled and weighs 182 pounds. Not an ounce of that weight is fat. Jim Randall ha perfect vi sion, ang an extraordinary see of balance. His reaction Gtime is perhaps twice as fast as tht of the average man. He is completely relaxed, in deed, he enjoys wild aeroba- 1 ticin jets. His heart, respira tion, all his physical charac teristics, are perfect. There is no second-best in test flying. It is a grueling, demanding life, vftth Death always the q second man in the dockpit. Five Years of Flying SQ)ecojge an Air ; Force pilot Jm Randall needed at least five years of jet fly 1 ing; he has flown jets for nine yea, since he was 19 years old. He has thousands of hours flight time, and is a veteran of the Korean air fighting, where he flamed three MIG-15's from his Sa bre. "Average" though he is, in the sense of type, Jim Ran dall is unique.itfot only is he 3 physically perfect, but he is well above average in almost every other respect. A test pilot's job requires even more than flying skill, and Jim Randall has learned how to temper his natural aggressive ness in the air with the exact ing demands of test projects. He his half-pilot, half-slide rule. He can, as an engineer puts it, "make himself part of the machine." Versed in Mathematics To fly an experimental jet or rocket as a test pilot, Ran dair became well versed in mathematics. He is an expert navigator, a meteorologist, a capable astronomer, and is at home with geometry, algebra, or even calculus. He is a fully qualified aeronautical engi neer, and an authority on thermodynamics. He is a vet eran of high supersonic flight. He knows aviation and space medicine, the problems of high stress loading on aircraft structures under supersonic conditions, and knows in de tail the processes of combus tion and operation of the jet and rocket powerplants which send him hurtling through the thin air high above the earth. Add to these qualifica tions competent ability as a mechanic, and we have quite a man. In short, a test pilot, our Jim Randall first Amer ican to get into space. Because he wants to rocket into space, Jim Randall stud ied exhaustively everything Husbands! Wives! 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Dedicated to Work Perhaps more important than all these indispensable qualifications is the fact that Jim Randall is dedicated to his work. He is a career offi cer. He could have quit the Air Force and accepted any one of a dozen civilian engi neering and test piloting jobs that would pay him several times over the money he earns as a captain. He could have eliminated the risks he accepts in the Air Force as part of his daily routine. But the money, and even the risks did not enter into his decisions. Jim Randall is an Air Force test pilot he cause he wanted to do this kind of flying more than he wanted to do anything else in the world. When the opportu nity arose to be a contender for the first man to reach out into space, he wasted no time in asking for the job. Neither did any of the other test pi lots. Randall was selected be cause he was the best quali fied. Why did he want to do this? Why is he willing to risk his life? He is a family man with children, a war vet eran. 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