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The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 52

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VETERANS CHANGE OF '1 Aerojet Will SKYWAYS ADDRESS EXPLAINED Ryan Pushing time, however, they thould not fail to make a change of addresa with the Veterana Administration office in possesion of their records. Information regarding veterans' benefits may be ob. talned free at the VSC, 308 3rd St fargei Prone BY MABVIN MILES, Timet Space-AvUtlen Editor field, Riverside Flight Academy, Riverside, Trl-Clty Air- port, San Bernardino (no mileage figure), end Wade, Air Service, Santa Monica, 41,894. We didn't knew until recently that the trunk carrlert will arrange for air taxi service to meet your plane and sell you a ticket to cover the whole trip, Including taxi. This It a real "grsss root" service to meet the needs of 70 of the air traveling public with destinations other than points along the regular air routes.

The 1959 National open tomorrow at Los Al-amltos Naval Air Station, with some 2,000 model fliers from all sections of the nation expected to compete. Among the entrants will be 50 air youth champions representing all the states of the Union. Each Is under 21 and high scorer In a state competition. The state Champa are sponsored at the week -long meet by the Hobby Industry Assn. of America.

"GehefarB5finsorohthe 28th championship event Is the Academy of Model Aeronautics, Washington, and official host, of course, Is the U.S. Navy. Competitors In Junior, senior and open classes for a total of 150 awards will Include boys and girls, men and women and entire families. Veterans or veterans' wid ows receiving compensation, pensions or ouier veterans Administration benefits may have their checks forwarded to them at another address in the tame town or another community, they are advised by the Community Chest-sponsored Veterans Service Center. The procedure for the for warding of checks, explains vsc director Arthur H.

Try- on, is for the payee to file a change of address on Postal Form 3575, which they may obtain from 4helr postman or1 local post othce. At the same Indo Planes Ordered JAKARTA, Indoneaia, July 25 (Reuters) The Indonesian air force hat or dered 41 aircraft and 22 heli copters irom the U.S. and Canada. tall-kMflit 1 0 f5a v3U-- M-? 8 CONCRETE, STEEL GIANT This is artist's conception of giant 6 million lb. thrust rocket test stand to be built by Aerojet-General Azusa, Build Giant Rocket Stand Aerojet-General Corp.

of Azusa has received a contract to build the largest and strongest rocket test atand in the free world, company officials disclosed yesterday. The stand will be built at Edwards Air Force Base to test rocket engines of 6 mlw lion lb. thrust, more pow terfui anything now available. By contrast, the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile which will be used to send a man into orbit in Project Mercury develops oniy id, ot tnrust. First Task At first, Aerojet and asso ciated contractors will de sign and build a two-position test stand to handle two 1- usfliquid rock et engines.

Later the stand will be ex panded to a single-position test-bay-where-fouiMf the giant rockets will be put together in a 6-million-lb. cluster for firing simultaneously. The concrete and steel stand will be eight stories high. Under it, a rocket exhaust deflection apron will be cooled by a flow of 75,000 gallons of water a minute. Peter H.

Luiten and Charles H. Crosby are proj- ect managers. pability. Ed Maloney, curator of the Air Museum at Claremont, advises he has added an F-4U Corsair to his exhibit and in about two weeks will put a Japanese Kl-84 Hayate (Hurrl-cane) on display. The Hayate, he reports, was the fastest, most advanced Nip fighter used in World War II.

FAA is proposing a new rule that will i require all passenger car- rying transports to be equipped with air-borne weather radar. i of 94,390 ft. for a T-431 jet fighter flown by a Maj. V. Ilyushin.

Moscow reports did not say whether the mark was set under FAI (official) conditions. USAF's (Lockheed) F-104 Starfighter set the last official mark when Maj. Howard Johnson hit ft. Just when the International Airport approaches was calming down under serious efforts to solve the problem, three night-time eastern take-offs shattered the situation and the telephones are ringing again. The Lacrosse surface-to-surface guided missile has been delivered to a tactical Army unit at Ft.

Sill, and is now a combat-ready weapon for close and general support. Lacrosse is mounted launched from a 2H-ton truck and guided by a mobile ground station, it has nuclear ca- .1 Mock H-Bombs Fall on Britain LONDON, July 25 UR A make-believe nuclear bomb raid was concentrated ort IheT southern half of Britain today. Bombers pretending they were the enemy struck at this country from Norway and North Germany, The exercises were organized by the RAF'a fighter command. Folding OJGGl Tubular Stool Only FEATURES: wKmIi Poll ll-nitk tint ftlt-raIHij rim Wik tlr 40 Mm. Flftstnth tit strfn COMPANY dyne one-man helicopters are scheduled for tactical evaluation by the Marines at Quantlco, Va.

Weighing 450 lb. empty, the little craft is powered with a 62 h.p. Porsche engine, cruises at 50 m.p.h, (top is 72 m.p.h.) has a range of 60 miles and a service ceiling of 6,500 ft. Slick Airways has ordered six fcoekhecd Super air freighters that will carry 77,000 lb. of cargo over long-haul ranges.

They'll go Into operation in 1902 Douglas Aircraft DC-7 Speedfreighters will be the world's fastest civil cargo planes when they go into service this fall with American Airlines. Convair's F-106 Delta Dart has been successfully tested at Edwards AFB with a safety hookr that engaged a runway cable and an anchor chain barrier at 110 knots. The Russians claim a new world altitude mark I-- TO mm Mtttrt HtlO 4M A4iMaklo ht ml lf fnmgt Dlhn A I WHttiln py. 4.a Fi.il.A. i.fiTl l'j'Ji'i I bnii K.

WhfniK oi.J.jnoi I tit I 4 I SoMirwoit HO. f-tM lillflww TO, 1-1714 1 'J 1 mnyHllto PLJ-I'M Cant Lull Ml, J-WI 1 I I ianitAni Kl.l-IHI i I 3 I I 8 pj, j-m) Mrfiljf Mi; yVvvTrr I HiilMNl PO.i.MM hMnll CS.M744 UfVJlMJi 1 Into the air by ATO unita. Clyde Darnell, atate director of aeronautics, Is deeply troubled about Southern Califotnla's-natu- Iwhing alrporu and points out that the closing of Grand Central Air Terminal, Olendnle, reducea the number of public-use fields In the Greater Loa Angeles area (Including Orange County) to 12 as compared with 64 In 1040. Barney feels that the Los Angles County Board of Supervisors, in particular; "will have to. recognize responsibility in this area." "We've Jowt.

four nlr-pot I ST1 Itm 1 a tr twer years," he says, "and we're about to Iom- four more. If the trend doesn't stop there will be only three or four public-use fields In the Los Angelas area International, which can do little for ttye private filer; Van Nuys, and Long Heach are the msln ones." Taxation, Rarnett ex-plulns, big prnhlem that Is forcing operators out of business, together with various needless restrictions. "And this In an area," be adds, "where there has been a 61 Increase in tales of aircraft for corporation use within one year." The California Aeronautics Commission last week awarded certificates to a dozen members of the Na- for three years of flying pasnengera without an accident. California was represented by the following air taxi operatori (with passenger miles flown In the three years ending last Sept. 30); Air Oasis, ling Heach, Clover Leaf Aviation, Santa Monica, FiMher Aircraft, San Diego, the Norman Larson Van Nuvs, 3 f); Pemherton Flying Service, Maker Service, Ryan Aeronautical is working on the development of aupersonlc target drone as an advancement In Ita famed Flrebee Engine power has been the drag in such a development ao far, but there re sign that there will aoon be enough thruat to power a drone to Mach J.

5 or faster. Ryan'a Q-2C Flrebee holds the current (aircraft) drone apeed mark Mach .05 as well a the altitude record of fiO.WX) and the longest time above 60,000 a total of 77 'i min. The -San with the phli-ORophy that supersonic drones should be Inexpen-alve one-ahot craft, pointing out that a fully recoverable drone that can fly a aeriei of target missions la Inevitably more eco-nomlcal than losing a less-costly drone on each mis-alon. Proud of Record Furthermore, high performance drones, such a new weapons systems will demand, cannot be achieved cheaply, Jlyan engineers say. They add that new weapons will always reaulre training targets and studies are now considering the pos-albllltics of providing missile targets, Ryan Is proud of the Flrebee record at last year's USAF weapons meet drones.

launched, with a reliability of 87- and proud, too, that the drone has i' been selected for both the Air Force and Navy meets this year. i The company also Is der veloplng' ground launch- Ing systems for the drona for Army use. An 80-ft. i rail launcher will be used Initially and a zero-length launcher will be developed during the second phase of the project. The Flre-- bees will be catapulted JmtwIfA L.

fortmoil $ptlalUt in 81 Bt w-x4tit fwov1 I f-, I i THE THOMPSON RAMO WOOLDRIDGE PRODUCTS a division of THOMPSON RAMO WOOLDRIDGE INC. 9 6.. a I announces Q5 i.y the relocation of its Los Angeles headquarters, to Frstt St Whitney has tested its new turbofan engine In a flying test bed. Designated JT 3D, the power plant Is designed for both military and commercial use, It was developed from the company's J-57, but includes a fan that enables It to move larger volumes of air to Increase take-off thrusts by one-third, reduce fuel consumption and decrease sound levels. NEWS NOTES Three Air National Guard squadrons (in Tucson, Albuquerque and Windsor Locks, Conn.) are being equipped with Sidewinder missiles as armament for their F-100 Super Sabers One hundred and ten surplus C-46 aircraft will be offered fofsale at Davls-Monthan AFB, Tucson, within the next 60 days.

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