Panama City News-Herald from Panama City, Florida • Page 21

NEWS-HERALD, Panama City, Friday, September .30,1977 Page 9B Quick Repair Of Bomb Damaged Runways Aim Of Tyndall Engineers SPECIAL Technical Sergeant Ronald A. Simmons checks the special truck being used to test the bomb damage repair project's pavement patch compounds. Fitted with aircraft tires, when fully loaded with 27,000 pounds of lead weights, this truck will simulate the weight of a jet fighter aircraft and be able to test a compounds ability to withstand repeated aircraft operations. SMOOTHING IT SSgt Tony Holt puts the finishing touches on fresh concrete poured for a bomb damage repair program by the Air Force Civil Engineering Center's Directorate of Field Technology at Tyndall AFB AFCEC and the Civil and Environmental Engineering Development Organization (CEEDO), as part of the Air Force's efforts to increase readiness, are working together to develop the best means of getting an airfield back in operation after an attack. THE CLEARANCE CENTER AT 612 HARRISON AVENUE Now has showroom full of values to meet your home furnishing needs.

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ACROSS FROM 1ST BAPTIST CHURCH PHONE: 763-2847 Launching aircraft from a bomb damaged airfield requires quick repair of damaged runway surfaces. The Air Force Civil Engineering Center (AFCPX) and the Civil and Environmental Engineering Development Office (CEEDO), at Tyndall AFB, as part of the Air Force's efforts to increase readiness, are working together to develop the best means to get an airfield back in operation after an attack. AFCEC has built a concrete test pad for CEEDO that simulates a typical runway. The test pad will be used to evaluate various rapid repair techniques and materials that Air Force Civil Engineers could use to get a combat damaged airfield back In operation. "We're looking for a quick, temporary repair." said Captain Raymond S.

Rollings, who is handling the tests. "What we need is something that will set and cure quickly, yet provide enough strength to last until a more permanent repair can be made The purpose of all this is to allow our aircraft to retaliate immediately after an attack." In addition to determining the repair characteristics of various materials, data will be gathered on the best methods of applying the materials. "CEEDO will be conducting the testing and analysis, while the center will provide the manpower. equipment, and laboratory assistance." explained Rollings. In order to duplicate soil conditions expected in Europe and around the world, large amounts of special clay were placed over the deep Florida sand at the Tyndall test site.

Above this clay, personnel from AFCEC's Directorate of Field Technology, supervised by SMSgt Roy Buschmeyer, laid 12 inches of aggregate and 10 dies of concrete, "The clay we chose tor the project simulates the soil properties we expect to encounter in an area such as Europe," said Rollings. "By carefully controlling the strength ol the clay used in the tests, we can compare how the various products and construction methods compare to one another The program will test everything from asphalt liased compounds to exotic chemical cements, "Some ol the more exotic products are almost cost prohibitive." Rollings explained "Buying and storing large amounts of expensive and temperamental compounds only to have them go bad is one of the considerations we have to look at If one product costs ten tinic more than another, then ue have to determine if the benefits it offers outweigh the costs." To test compounds after they have been applied, a special truck fitted with aircraft tires and loaded with lead weights to simulate the weight of a tighter aircraft, is driven across the patched area. This tests the compounds ability to withslaiul the force of repeated aircraft operations. After testing, laboratory analysis of pavement patch samples furnishes data that is used to estimate the various physical properties of the products, "Because of availability and price, we are using commercial products for all of our tests." said Rollings, "If we can find off-the-shelf compounds tliat meet the desired requirements, we will save the time and money involved in developing theiTi from scratch News Around The World SALISBURY, Rhodesia lAPi Rhodesia announced it had invited the United Nations and Britain to send representatives to Salisbury to discuss key points of the latest Anglo-American peace proposals for the embattled territory. An unexpected statement from the white minority government said one invitation had specifically lieen sent to Lord Carver, named Britain's resident commissioner-designate in a transitional administration leading to black rule in Rhodesia, further invitation had gone to UN Secretary Clener.il Kurt Waldheim to send to Salisbury the special representative to be appointed as head ol a UN, peacekeeping force in the interim A Salisbury government spokesman cautioned thai the invitations "did not imply acceptance of the American proposals," The latest peace plan presented to Rhodesian Prinip Minister Ian Smith by tlie United Slates and Britain the appointment of an interim British administrator during the change from white to black rule It also calls for a jjeacekeeping force wiih a special representative appointed through the Security Council BANGKOK 'AP' Whither wobbling Wally Watts" Round around the world on a unicycle, Walts.

2a. a railroad inspector from Edmonton. Canada, is in Bangkok now. welding his wheel and taking a lirealher before heading south to Singapore, The trip, which began in New York in 1976, has had its breaks not all of them good. bus ran him off the road in Turkey and he broke an arm In Europe, he injured a leg Those and other problems forced him to bus some HI llie journey.

"And of course 1 flew across the oceans, he said Monday, In Turkey cliildren were "aggressive" and threw mcks li: India friendly crowds pressed m. and he came down uilli "Delhi He'll head for Singapore 1.200 miles "at about in hour." then by boat or jet to Australia, "boat to l.o.- Aniieles then across the United States to New His unicycle. a 42-inch model he rebuilt in F.ngland eii rouie, does get its share of stares. And the allenlion has tauphl bim an aggressive brand of defensive iiig important 'ii --'iiin Asian countries where tlie rules of ttie road are open lo detiati' "If they drive like idiots." he said "1 ride like an idmi TOKYO AP; The idow nf i hmcse Premier Chim K'n-lai met Peking with the of Kdgar Snow Odtcd author on the Chinese Reoliition, the official Hsinhu.i agency reported Mrs Lois Wheeler Snow and her aister, Kashiii hcciii, ar rived in Peking last as guests of Ihe People's lion for Friendship wiili Foreign Hsiiiliu.i The meeting with I 'hou's widow, Teog ice cliairman of Ihe standing committee of the national Congress, as described as cordial mm TERMS-FREE DELIVERY WE TAKE TRADES HAPPINESS IS 22-month-old Carla Hunt from Winston Salem, N.C. finds great delight in splashing in a rain puddle.

If happiness could be measured from the amount of water she absorbed in her shoes, then little Miss Carla has to be the happiest girl at Homestead. (AP LASER- PHOTO).