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TftUSHfBAY. MAY 31
MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE", MEDFORD. OREGON
trans Get Praise
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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.
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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.
Dynamite was tried and
found impractical. Artillery
proved Ineffective. Then In
1960 the Air Force began
"safeslide." It worked.
A STAMP-EEDI
Fullerton, Calif. -(ITU- An
Orange county housewife
alarmed over the recent price
dip of blue chip slocks on the
nation's exchanges, called the
Fullerton News Tribune Tues
f'ajv to inform: blocks are
down and I'm going to trade
In my trading stamps before
thr fall too."
JAR A YEAR
Chicago -i'0'i- ThfgNational
Pickle Packers Association
semO President Kennedy 4 J
Jars of pickles Tuesday, not
ing tlu!he Chief Executive's !
birthday "Just happened" to i
fall in the middle of national
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