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DIAMOND FORMATION Four diamond formations of
. FIOI-B "Voodoos" flew over Klamath Falls Monday as
aircrews that have been deployed to McChord AFB,'
Wash., for five months returned home to Kingsley Field.
This fine aerial shot was made by an unidentified air
crew member of the 322nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron.
It shows the precision flying that becomes a matter of
routine with jet fighter pilots. The return flight from Mc
Chord to Kingsley took about 30 minutes.
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TAXIING IN One of Kingsley Field's FIOI-B "Voodoos" taxies into the parking
area after landing on a return flight from McChord AFB, Wash. Visible at right is the
door at the rear of the aircraft from which a "drag chute" pops during landing to
help slow the huge aircraft. Crews from the 322nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron flew
the planes home. Ground crews and maintenance specialists from the 408th Consoli
dated Aircraft Maintenance Squadron also returned to Kingsley this week.
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FEMALE PILOTS? Three wives of 322nd Fighterrlnterceptor Squadron pilots give
their impression of how their husbands look in flying clothes. The wives are, from left,
Doris Holman, Estelle Paulson and Bev Peloquin and their husbands are, in the same
order, captains John Holman,' Delbert Paulson and Dale Peloquin. The wives' signs
direct the husbands to follow them to the Officers' Club.
Voodoos Are Top Interceptors
The F-101B "Voodoo" is a feet, Is 67 feet S inches long
fighter-interceplor whose primary
mission is idenlitication ol un
known aircraft and destruction
if they are found to be hostile.
Powered by two Pratt and
Whitney J57 turboiets each with
a 10.000 pound thrust, the "Voo
doo has a wing span of 40
COP LOSES RAINCOAT
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) While
police inspector William Hague
was in a police station Sun
day someone stole his raincoat
which was in his car parked in tional
front of the station house.
and 18 feet high.
Possessed with a speed In ex
cess of 1.200 miles per hour,
the F101-B carries a pilot and
radar Intercept officer and is:
capable of carrying Falcon Mis
siles and MB-1 "Genie" atomic
rockets.
The Voodoos replaced the ob-i
solcte Sabre lets at Kingsley
Field. They completed their first
successful test flights in March,
1957, and have been considered
one of the most perfect opera'
planes in the American
"Welcome Home!" That was the sentiment of the
people of Klamath Falls this week as men and aircraft
streamed back to Kingsley Field from McChord Air Force
Base near Tacoma, Wash.
Air and ground crews returned to the base along
with other support units. Fliers of the 322nd Fighter-
Interceptor Squadron returned Monday in their F101-B
"Voodoos" in formations led by Col. Rupert C. Welch,
base commander, and Lt. Col. Phillip A. Rand, 322nd
commander.
Wives and children were
on .hand at the base to wel
come the men, who had
been gone for five months.
There will be a party Satur
day night at the Officers'
Club. Downtown merchants.
under sponsorship of the
Klamath County Chamber of
Commerce and the Klamath
Merchants' Association,
have posted "welcome
home" signs and several
restaurants are offering free
coffee Friday and Saturday
to Air Force personnel.
Kingsley Field officers and
airmen will be in uniform on
those two days.
Kingsley Field is one of the new
est Air Defense Command bases
in the Air Force,
The fledgling local Air Force
base 1$ just five and one-half
years old, having been reactivat
ed on April 8, 1956. But the site
occupied by the base and some
of its buildings are more than 20
years old. And another military
service, the Navy, owned the
base in its earlier days.
The Navy constructed a few
wooden frame buildings in World
War II, laid a runway and used
the base as a naval air station,
primarily for training purposes.
After the war, the base was de
activated and the buildings were
divided between the city of Klam
ath Falls and the U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation. The city used the
airstrip as a municipal airport
with the tdvent of commercial air
travel and the Bureau of Recla
mation used the buildings for stbr.
age and office space.
Then, in 1954, the Air Force
selected the old Navy base as the
I aerial arsenal' today.
pose of the establishment was to
fill the defense gap between Port
land in the north and San Fran
cisco in the south. Construction
began in May 1955 and the in
stallation, tentatively named
Klamath Falls Air Force Base,
was reactivated in April 1956 with
a nucleus of officers and enlisted
men and no airplanes.
More than $25 million has been
spent to rehabilitate existing facil
ities and construct new ones, and
much of that money, has been
spent locally. The base is one of
the biggest businesses in the
Klamath Basin with a population
of 1,500 and an annual payroll in
excess of six million dollars.
Although 290 families live in the
government housing area near the
base. Falcon Heights, many more
Air Force families are interwoven
into the fabric of the community.
Kingsley Field was named after
2nd Lt. David R. Kingsley ot
Portland, who won the Congres
sional Medal of Honor during
World War II, at a public dedica
tion on July 3. 1957.
First aircraft assigned to the
base were the F86 "Sabre Jets."
Pilots from the 322nd Fighter-Interceptor
Squadron, then assigned
to Larson AFB, Moses Lake,
Wash., were transferred to King
sley. The "Sabres" were replaced
in May 1959 by the 101 s, a two-
seat fighter with greater speed
and performance capabilities as
well as a deadly radar-controlled
armament system. The plane's
second crew member, called the
radar intercept officer, operates
the airborne radar equipment.
A rash of construction at the
base, with contracts totaling more
than $2,440,000 this year, punc
tures the balloon of those who
sav Kincslev Field is not nermn-
nient. As long as missiles and air
craft continuo to share the Job of
air defense, Kingsley Field will
site for a new Air Defense Com- be a vital part of the life of the
mand jet interceptor base. Pur-lKlamath Basin.
Wednesday, October 18, 1861
PAGE I B
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
SMALL BUT LOUD Rere Is one of the smallest bands
seen in Klamath Falls history. Robin Rand, left, son of
Col. Phillip A. Rand, commander of the 322nd Fighter
Interceptor Squadron, blows a bugle fanfare, while Tim
my MciEachen, son of CWO M. A. McEachen, grits his
teeth and bangs a cymbal. The boys turned out Monday
to welcome their daddies back home.
THE BIG "BIRD" The FIOI-B "Voodoo," pictured
above, is the primary aircraft stationed at Kingsley
Field. Flown by pilots and radar intercept officers of tho
322nd Fighter-lnterceptor Squadron, it is a twin-jet, su
personic all-weather interceptor. It is capable of carry,
inq a mixed load of "Genie" atomic rockets and "Fal
con" heat and radar-seeking missiles. The FIOI-B is built
by McDonnell Aircraft Company, St. Louis, Moj
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