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Airline Pilots Get Jet Transport Training On 8th Floor of Converted Furniture Store Editor's note: The rigorous train- pilots undergo learning to fly the giant new commercial jetliners is a little known aspect of the jet ace. In the following dispatch, a vet eran aviation writer tells what he found out about the training pro gram from a visit to the training center of one major airline. By ROBERT J. SERLING UPI Correspondent ' Kansas City) Mo. - (UPD - All was quiet 'and routine in the cockpit of the big Boeing 707 jetliner. - The cruising altitude was 30,000 feet. The ground speed was 487 miles per hour with a 20 mile headwind. . A loud, raucous buzzer squawked suddenly. A red light began flashing on the instrument panel so bright that the roof of the flight deck glowed crimson. "Grab her!" the captain snapped to the co-pilot. The latter took the controls. In one swift motion, the cap tain donned an oxygen mask and pulled a lever that auto matically opened the mask compartment above every seat in the passenger cabin. Plane Nosed Down The co-pilot donned his own mask. At the very second he let go of the wheel, the cap tain took the controls, pushed them forward and the giant plane began nosing down. In back of the two pilots, a third man quietly marked down a grade next to an item reading "Emergency descent after explosive decompression, use of oxygen mask and mike. The grade was "good." "Not bad," he told the per spiring captain. "Get her nose down a little bit faster. This is a race against time." 'I'hio !TiiHftTit AA nrif talrA place at 30,000 feet. It hap pened on the 8th floor of a converted Kansas City furni ture store a ' half - million dollar structure that Trans World Airlines has remodeled into the most modern ' pilot training center in the world. The flight deck was merely an electronic simulator which is so close to the real thing that on a landing, you can hear tires squeal on make-believe pavement. Praises Jets The man in charge of this breeding ground for jetliner pnots is i-api. nay itowe, di rector of TWA Flight Oper ations Training. Under his guidance, TWA is turning out the captains, first officers and flight engineers who are man ning the airline's new 707 jet liners. Rowe, soft-spoken but plunt, is outspoken in praise of the jets. "They are . different, they are demanding, and they do not tolerate carelessness or mistakes," Rowe said. "But in the hands of a thoroughly trained pilot, they are the safest aircraft ever built and it's our job to make sure our crews are so trained." This is how the crews are trained: " -A full year before TWA took delivery of its first 707, all pilots, . engineers, naviga tors and dispatchers received home study material on jet operations - high altitude meteorology, electronics, jet engine principles and the fly ing characteristics of high speed, swept -back wing air craft. -Actual qualification on the jet begins with 60 hours of ground school courses. In these, crews familiarize them selves with - every detail of the plane itself, from its en gines to its airframe; from flight deck instruments to the air-conditioning system. . They must pass a stiff examination before they are allowed to progress to the next phase. Simulators Preferred -Another 24 to 30 hours are spent in the 707 simulator. All airlines prefer to use simula tors for pilot training for two reasons: (1) they are cheaper ($125 an hour compared to $1,200 an hour on a real plane) and (2) they can train and test crews in emergency procedures without risking a five-million-dollar aircraft. In the simulator, a pilot will spend 10 hours observing, 10 hours at the controls them selves and another four to 10 hours "refining" his perform ance and passing tests The entire jet course takes three weeks, in 14 completely- equipped classrooms that con tain everything from animated diagrams of various jet sys tems to color movies of the airports the jets will serve (taken from a cockpit to ac custom crews to all runways, approaches, obstructions and so on). When pilots complete the course, they fly the real thing MEDF0KD aTRIBUNE 2nd SECTION MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1959 Pages 1-8 Steel Negotiations Reflect Management Cost Resistance By ELMER C. WALZER UPI Financial Editor New York -(UPD-Wall Street experts are pointing out that the steel negotiations reflect a tendency on the part of managem e n t to put up stiff resistance t o increasing 1 a -bor costs. Sever a 1 other big labor other. big labor negotia tions are soon li h ff This year's crucial talking point for management is pro ductivity. The labor side stresses worker security - guaranteed annual wage clauses, or company-paid sup plemental unemployment ben efits. Industry is driving against feather - bedding. This is seen XJ Elmer Waller to come - aluminum, rubber, and railroad. Copper negotia tions have been going on for some time and the copper miners are working during the negotiations - without a contract. - Copper companies are be deviled by record high inven tories of the metal which their customers built in anticipation of a strike that would shut down production. Now they aren't buying copper and the price has been gliding. All management is putting up a tough fight against labor and will continue to do so, according to a survey of cor poration presidents by Dun & Bradstreet. Tough Bargaining Year "This year's contract bar gaining may be the toughest since World War II," says Dun and Bradstreet in a report on its survey in the current Dun's review. "Labor is strong, determin ed, and, in some cases, run-, ning scared. Management, strengthened b y , recession economies and improved pro ductivity and profits, is set to meet labor's demands with ag gressive counter - proposals and it has no intention of giv ing something for nothing." .. Encampment Due Oregon Air Reserve Portland -(UPD- Oregon's 304th air rescue squadron (re serve) will leave Portland Sat urday morning for its annual 1 5-day I summer encampment at Hamilton AFB, San Rafael, Calif. The 304th has a comple ment of 64 officers and men from Oregon and southwest Washington. Major John A. Forsythe of Portland, squadron command er, said today the unit will leave Portland International airport in seven airplanes be ginning at 9 a.m. Saturday. The. 3 04th has four SA-16 am phibious aircraft. Three C-119 "flying boxcars" of the 313th troop carried squadron ' at Portland will assist in the air lift to Hamilton. 1 FRONT-PAGE CATCH Looe, England - (UPD - W. E. Melhuish, a newspaper vendor, went fishing for the first time in his life, and land ed in the newspapers. Mel huish pulled in a 10-foot, 372-pound- shark.' It was not only a record but more than doubled the previous record for a shark caught in English waters. . , as the number one theme for the railroad bargaining to come later in the year. Man agement also is expected to drive for modification of rigid seniority rules and obstacles to free subcontracting. Here are two of the other points brought out in the sur vey: Need for union cooperation to train workers for other jobs when automation eleminates their jobs. Check 'Growing Power' ' And a feeling among man agement that the time has come to impose government restrictions and restraints on labor to check the unions' "growing concentration of power." The survey reveals that while management if often outspoken against labor unions, it is far more friendly than might be expected in con fidential replies to' question naires sent to company presi dents on -the Dun & Bradstreet panel. Four out of ten of the presi dents held on balance, "Unions are a - constructive force in the economy, and al most all the others feel union ism historically has served a necessary purpose although union power has now grown to unhealthy dimensions," the survey said. The toughness of industrial leaders and of unions at the bargaining table may bring more walkouts. Wall Street just now isn't as cocky about them as it was a short time ago. They could get out of hand and turn our prosperity into a new recession, some of the experts feel. 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On ignition, a huge puff of smoke erupted from the rocket. Instead of lifting ' from the launching pad, the rocket was enveloped in a huge ball, of fire. It was not known whether the rocket actually left the ground. Several fragments of the 76-foot rocket could be seen around the launch site. Alhambra, Calif. -(UPfi-A 20-year-old bowler delivered a clean strike with his car, po lice reported today. Earl L. August reached around to grab a bowling ball that was rolling loose in the back of his car and as he was groping for it lost control of the car. The auto hit a utility pole square on the nose. August was unhurt, but the car re ceived $1,000 damage. for another 10 hours. Then comes the final exam: a test by a Federal Aviation Agency inspector. - Do any pilots flunk this admittedly tough training? Rowe says TWA has yet to expeuience a complete failure; two captains declined to take the course and two more dropped out voluntarily after starting. This is about par for most airlines flying jetliners and perhaps a little better. Many Nervous "I don't doubt many pilots are nervous when they, start out," Rowe explained. "The jet is more than just another big plane it's a completely different aircraft from any thing they've ever flown, from the power plants to its aero dynamics. But after 90 hours of concentrated instruction, our crews know the 707 as well as they knew their old Constellations and- I'd make the flat statement they like the 707 a whale of a lot bet ter. It's a sweet-flying, sweet- handling ship that asks only one thing: Fly it by the book." That is the one thing Rowe and his nine fellow instructors hammer away on their stu dents: "Fly it by the book." The jet is not temperamental. but it is terribly sensitive. Its great weight, its sensitivity to outside temperature and the flying characteristics of its swept-back wings are all fac tors that leave no margin for error. ..... . Is there any, particular phase of jet operation that has given pilots the most trouble? Rowe says there have been a few cases of undershooting runways (landing too short). "We fixed this by training pilots not to lower their flaps to 50 degrees until the aircraft was actually, over the run way," Rowe explains. "We've had no trouble with under shoots since then." Argument Ends In Death of Man Tacoma-rtlPD-Arthur P. Ma- grini, 66, Seattle, shot and killed Edwin Newell, 55, Ta- coma, Wednesday evening aft er the two had argued on a street corner here Witnesses said the two men argued for spme time, . then Magrini went into his broth er s home, got a .32 caliber automatic, came back outside and shot Newell between the eyes, killing him instantly. Detective Capt. R. J. Drost said Magrini went back into the house after the shooting and waited for police to arrive. Magrini, who is being held on an open charge temporari ly, confessed to the slaying orally. GENTLEMEN IN DISTRESS St. Louis, Mo.-(UPJ)-At- least two gentlemen in the cast of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" at the Municipal Opera Wed nesday night probably would have preferred to have been somewhere else. In the first act, dancer Larry Merritt's pants split down the back when he did a bend-over. In the second act, dancer Robert Pageant's pants came loose while he was dancing with a partner. Airplane experts say the time is near when a plane will leave New York at noon and arrive in Los Angeles at noon of the same day. At the New Marion IN SALEM . . . . Good Food Fun and Relaxation Hotel or Motel Guest Accommodations Heated Swimming Pool 18th Cent. Antique Shop Convention Facilities fiSW MARION MOTOR HOTEL 200 S. Cemmtrcial Solm. Orfe Phone EMpIr 3-4123 PRICE OF POPULARITY Fabian, 16-year-old popular rock-and-roll singer was struck in the eye by a piece of flying glass from broken windshield, when 1500 scream ing fans met him at Los Angeles' airport. 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If 8 hard at it every day for the Utah Fish and Game Commission. Figure about 60,000 miles before this Chevy is traded.-And yet the dis trict officer who drives it would bet his badge the tie rods won't even need replacingl Out in that wild, climbing Utah country, Chevy's suspension and frame and brakes, its Positrac tiou rear axle and Thriftmaster 6 power' are proving themselves under rougher conditions than most test engineers could dream up. They're proving that Chev rolet's advanced engineering and design ideas pay off in spades when the going gets especially mean and dirty. Positraction, of course, is a big plus on this job, providing the sure grip needed to dig through mud, snow, loose sand, whatever comes along. Could be that a Positraction-equipped ton pickup is the answer for your area of operation. Or maybe a 4-wheel-drive Chevy. We've got trucks that specialize in getting in and out of any kind of coun try. Talk to your dealer about your needs. 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