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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
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principles of flight and move
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velocity, meteor dust swarms,
apogee, and weightlessness
although he has yet to experi
ence these conditions of space
flight.
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. He has done his job,
more than most men ever will
do: He could have a prosper
ous and a great career ahead
of him. Why, then, is he risk-
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Editor's note: How serious is
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of the Kremlin's boast that it will
overtake this country in industrial
production and tells what this
would mean to the average Rus-
By ROBERT G. SHORTAL
United Press International
New York (UPI) Russia
is making an all-out bid to
replace the United States as
the world's most powerful in
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But Ivan, the counterpart
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Russia is concentrating' on
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