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J- mbia econd light of the Colli I he Commander Engle in love with flight us long to fly fighters, may also regarded as hunters of a sort, which may explaia another of Engte't interest: hunting btghora sheep the mountains from Alaska to the border of Mexico. Though he has killed three sheep, he says the true fascination does not be in the shooting "The thing I enjoy most," be said, "ii getting there and being there, backpacking into areas as remote as yos can find. I really like being back there with some guys, cooking out and camping out, just living outdoors Hunting is just aa added attraction." Aside from flying and hunting, the leal ail-footer enjoys college football, especially the way it is played at Georgia Tech and at his alma mater, the University of Kansas, from which he was graduated with a bachelor degree U) aeronautical engineering in 1955. He received his commission in the Air Force through the Reserve Officer. Training Corps Program at the university and entered flying school ia 1957.

His wife. Mary Catherine, came from Mission Hills, Kan They now live ia Chapman. Kan and have two children, Laurie. 2 years old. and Jon, 19.

Engle. 49. technically was an astronaut long before his assignment to the Johnson Space Center. Three of the II flights he made in the X-15 research aircraft in the 1960s eiceeded an altitude of SO miles, the altitude required for astronaut rating. He was a backup lunar-module pilot for the Apollo 14 mission, and his Air Force career won him two Distinguished Flying Crosses He also holds awards from the Soaring Society of America, the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, and the Air Force Association.

The only setback in his career came in 1972. when he was "bumped" from the Apollo 17 lunar mission. He was replaced by Harrison Schmitt, who had a doctorate in geology and who originally had been scheduled to fly on Apollo II Apollo II was canceled for budgetary reasons Schmitt was assigned to Apollo 17 largely because of pressures from the scientific community to have a scientist aboard one of the flights to the moon. Engle accepted the setback with typical good grace. "When you think about it." he said, "the lunar missions were geology-oriented By TW Sew Vrk Times Rarely, if ever, does Col Jot Henry Engle of Um Air Force show any sip of becoming satiated with flying, any Juad of flying A pilot for more thia two decades, he has fknra IS kinds of aircraft and logged more than I.

ISO hours of flight time, of wfeict lOOt hours was ia jeu. He has flows some of the most sophisticated equipment this country has produced, including the la research roriet plane ia the early 1960s On Thursday, he took off ia the space shuttle Columbia Through it all, he has retained aa affect km for the relatively unsophisticated airplanes used when he was growing op in World War II He is especially fascinated with the Curttss P-40, which he has flown. It was widely used by the command of Brig Gen Claire Chennault ia the war over China and Burma, where the Japanese port 29 planes In seven months. 1 Planes captured his imagination, be once said, "I can't remember when I didn't want to fly airplanes and be a fighter pilot." Jane Smith, one of Engle's sisters, said she recalls her annoyance that "his room was cluttered with airplanes." She said another sister "used to make him airplanes out of tin cans with tin snips." As a teen-ager growing up in Abilene, he was so eager to fly that his father had to talk him out of attending an unreliable flying school by taking him there to show him that such a school might not appear the same ia real life ii in its advertisements So fascinated was Engle with the older generation of aircraft that he joined a group called the Confederate Air Force Its members, most from the South, delight in demonstrating the abilities of yesterday's airplanes Members of the Confederate Air Force are likely to have strong and personal opinions about old airplanes When asked in a recent interview which fighter he thought was most important in maintaining Allied air superiority hi World 11, Engle declined to answer, despite his fondness for the P-40 "I don't know and wouldn't want to answer that one," he said, "because everybody else who flew every other kind of plane would be on my back Fighter pilots, and perhaps pilots who tf 'in-jtl 'X I -1 i L. Grandfather Truly got birthday blast i 17 1 t.v.

j.t 11 T-i-I I 1 fT1- v.r. until now had a fuel cell itself gone suddenly defective Thursday afternoon, automatic sensors aboard the spacecraft told mission controllers here that the chemical reaction in one of Columbia three fuel cells had gone awry Too 'many hydrogen ions were building up. signaling that, in a ASA official's words, a "non-catalytic" reaction could take place What could that lead to' "An Apollo 13." the spokesman said That is. he said, an explosion might take place, although for a different reason than in the case of the ill-fated 1970 moon night This time, he'iatA, the fear was that the' oxygen and hydrogen would come into direct contact with each other and be ignited by the heat generated in the 11 In fact, it is iust such a Droredure though controlled, that causes the expkv sion that powers Columbia's main engines National Aeronautics and Space Administration engineers could not immediately say what caused the problem The solution was quickly determined. The faulty fuel cell was turned on, generating fulll power, so that all of its oxygen and hydrogen would be used up quickly When those were gone, the cell was to be shut down permanently.

I'nder formal rules adoption advance of the flight, it is necessary to (nm it into what is called a "short mission" a smuiimum 54-nour flht. the same duration as Columbia first mission last April i 4 NASA officials said that it would be possible in that length of time to accomplish most of the tasks assigned to Joe Engte sni Richard Truly, the astronauts If the two remaining fuel ells operated well enough to allow it. a spokesman said, the flight could go somewhat beycnd 54 hours Columbia fuel cells are made by I nited Technologies Power Systems of East Hartford. a pioneer in the technology It supplied fuel-cell power plants for the Apollo program, for three Skylab missions (others used solar 111 I. JOUBSzdL -4 Standard equipment betrayed ship By The New Vrk Times Navy apt Hichard Harrison Truly on Thursday became the first grandfather, so far as it is known, to enter space He a young grandfather, though, because of previous delays in the second flight of the space shuttle Columbia, liftoff occurred on Truly 44th birthday Though Truly has won more than his share of medals and citations as a pilot and astronaut, flying has not always been an all-consuming passion, as it has for Col Joe Engle of the Air Force, his Shuttle partner.

He had no particular aspirations to become a pilot when he was a boy," said his father. James Trulv. a retired lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission H.s son agrees I just kind of stumbled from one good opportunity to the other." Truly said recently I had no idea I was remotely qualified'' to be an astronaut. He and Engle. he said, were "certainly different in that respect But there is no question that Truly loves to fly.

And perhaps because he was not given to it as Engle was. he has also loved the process that made him a pilot. "You get trained to learn the machine until you and the airplane are one." he said, "because unless you can flap your wings, you can't fly without it "But again, the plane needs the pilot to make it get in the air and do its thing You end up getting to know the plane and love the thrill of flying When he is not flying. Truly likes to work on the stamp collection his grandmother encouraged him to start as a child "It is a quiet bobby." be said. "It is not that I don't enjoy getting out and having active and loud hobbies.

I just like to relax at borne with my stamps." Truly as bora in Fayette. where be received his early education. He also attentat school in Meridian, and in 1959 received a bachelor degree in aeronautical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Truly wife. Colleen, comes from Milledgeville.

Ga. They hive a daughter, Lee Margaret, 12. and two sons, Daniel, II. and Ricterd. 21.

who is the father of the captain's two granddaughters. He received his commission through Georgia Tech's Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program and completed his initial training as a naval aviator in 19SC. He was assigned to a fighter squadron and from I960 to 1963 served aboard the aircraft carriers Intrepid and Enterprise, making more than 300 landings on the two ships. He later became a flight instructorand has logged nearly 1.000 hours in jet aircraft, including the 4. F-9, F-101, 104 and 106 In 1965.

he was assigned to the Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, but the program was canceled Truly has been a full-time astronaut since September 1969, when he became a member of the astronaut support crew and handled some of the capsule communications for Skylab and for Apollo-Soyuz He has known Engle for many years. Together they flew a landing-test flight in the shuttle, in 1977 they flew the second and fourth "free which the shuttle was Virne aloft by a Boeing 747, then glided through various maneuvers to a landing. Truly holds two NASA exceptional-service medals, the Johnson Space Center Superior Achievement Award and awards from the Air Force Association and the Soaring Society of America. He also holds the Americas Astronautiral Society's Flight Achievement Award for 1977 and the Navy Distinguished Hying Cross. With all of this, he still tries to find time for athletics.

He likes running and general exercising and follows sports "-j a st like any other red-blooded He declined to say what his favorite teams were, for fear of offending of an opposing team He hasn't had quite the time be would like for recreation. "Frankly." be said, "I fight to get a day and a lf at home and when I do. I usually end up fixing things, just like everybody else." He is a good eater and was asked recently if the thought of five days on astronaut food was at all bothersome. He replied that the shuttle pantry consisted of "a gourmet series of meals." but that it really didn't tnake any difference. He said be could put up with almost any kind of food for the chance to be on this mtsroa.

"We could treat it like we were camping out." he said. "We could put up with any food as long as it would keep us going, but we are fortunate to have good meals planned every day." --r i 4 Plug honaycomb cellsi, and the joint Soviet-American Apollo-Snyuz flight According to the company, the cells aboard Columbia Thursday represent a technical advance over those used in earlier programs They are pounds lighter and deliver six to eight times as much power as the Apollo cells. Compared to the shuttle's fuel cells, the company said, the best available batteries would have to weigh about 10 times as much to produce the same amount of electricity. A by-product of the cells' chemical reaction is water, which the crew drinks. Accessory action Powr plat OUt)t 1 LJ W- I Uppar mount By William K.

Strvm Of Th New York Time HOl'STON The spact shuttle Columbia was betrayed Thursday by a piece of equipment that ha? been standard on almost every manned space' flight made by Americans during the past 18 years. It is the fuel cell, which through the chemical reaction of oxygen and hydrogen, produces all electrical power for the jpacecraf It as familiar and mundane a fixture to an astronaut as an automobile battery is to a motorist. And until Thursday, none had ever failed with severe consequences. This time, it forced mission controllers to cut the duration of Columbia's second flight, perhaps in hi 'J Twice before, during Project Gemini of the mid-1960s and during Project Apollo in the early 1970s, there were serious failures indirectly related to fuel tell operation. During the flight of Gemini i in August 1965.

tanks holding oxygen and hydrogen for the cells lost pressure The problem was dealt with then by virtually shutting down the spacecraft most of the time, and the eight-day mission went its planned distance Aid i what some engineers sometimes blandly describe as another "loss of prwsure," a fuel -cell oxygea tank exploded and blew a bole ia the side of the Apollo 11 spacecraft as it carried three astronauts- to the moon in April 1T9 The craft nonetheless circled the mooo and returned its three crewmen safely to Earth Lifting guldt hontycomt) nd plat Powor atction and Insulation blankat prassur plat Ptaf mount (Gulda) XV: TlfCKJ FC A A Insulation blank at stack A fuel cell like those aboard Columbia..