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O 1962 10 .D- TftUSHfBAY. MAY 31 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE", MEDFORD. OREGON trans Get Praise FronrSuccwses o Br ROBERTA ULRICH United Praia International Spokane, Wash. - (lift - Most Air Force pilots are strictly forbidden to use their fast fly' Ins jet planes to create sonic booms, largely because oPad verse reaction trcfi civilians who tend to become Irate over broken windows ana frightened livestock. But lfLt. William D. Spil lane, a former Purdue univer sity football player from Chi cago, is assigned at Geiger Air Force Base near here to planning and creating sonic booms - and the affected ci vilians are enthusiastic about his successes. Spillane, 26, is project of ficer for "operation safeslide," an Air Force program aimed at creating avalanches in Gla cier National park in the northwest corner of Montana Pot Seal Danger In the high rugged Rocky Mountains where the park is located, snow slides pose a real dantcr to park road crews and early seasen tour ists in the sfrii awl early summar. The Air Feces in "sssl" Is using the pressure from its F1K jets breeJie taough Vm smtmi barrier to sane alietoe afainajiag totrn the MMWtaine tVhcre no one is aroumd instead at Ifsving the anew Mised 'to roar down vithettt vara!. Mew la its third year, "safe attefe" is coatiatareal a suc eas by both the Air Force a m that Rational Park serv es. The prot-ess sounds simple: ?ae one airplane designed to fly faster than the speed of sound and fly it at top speed, creating the sonic boom which bounces off the mountain and dislodges snow. Vaa Twe Itetaeaa But it's more than that. Air Force pilots usu two meth ads of sliding the snow. In one, they drop about half way down the mountainside at sub sonic speed,, then pull up at supersonic speed to create the boom. In the other, they use high altitude angle bombing methods at about iO.000 feet. The first method is the most effective - and the most a-Math-takini. The peaks involved rAige earn) to 10,090 feet. To make aeattewj ., they are close taoHtlwr. This tneans flying arte a narree canyon ,0("D Wt haloef the mountajp tops, then pulling up and out be tire running Into another Mountain at nearly 1,000 iles an hour. The only exit as just about straifhteip. XH Te PcW Adding to the problem, ac- eordiag to Spillane, is the fact that "there's quite a bit of turbulence in those canyons. In fact, it giakca; a pretty rough ride. It's not a job for amateurs." The big blond flyer con siders his Job a pleasure, how ever. But then, he like things a little rough. He was a line backer on the Purdue fool ball team before graduating with a degree in economics in 1958 and played for the Philadelphia Eagles the next fall for a short time before being Injured. Stationed at Geiger with the 498th fighter interceptor squadron (Geiger Tigers! for the past two years, he is in his second year of law school. attending n in lift at Gonzaga university. He was graduated first in his class from at least two of his flight schools and at one attained the highest grades on record. One of Two Pilots Spillane got into "safeslide" because "I like all kinds of flying and this was one'more tiling to do." He has been one of the two pilots making the "safeslide" flights on three of this year's five runs. The real search for a means to prevent the dreaded snow slides began In the mid-1950 s after two men were filled and a third was burried alive in snow seven hours when an avalanche swept a road elearifc? cOew off GoingTo-The-Sun Highway In 1953. 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