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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Support. The high-flying trip was no flight of pilot's fancy. Last month Air Force headquarters in Europe proposed to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the U.S. challenge Soviet claims to the right to limit flight altitudes in the corridors. The Chiefs weighed the idea, agreed that the U.S. ought to establish its right to fly the corridors at any altitude it deems necessary; in the event of another Berlin blockade, the Air Force will certainly use the huge C-130s for long-distance hauls, which would require higher altitudes than the short prop hauls made...
...third star and be named chief of the Air Research and Development Command, B.M.D.'s parent group. German-born Ben Schriever (TIME, cover. April 1, 1957) grew up in Texas, took an engineering degree at Texas A. & M., got his wings in 1933. He worked as a test pilot, studied at Wright Field's Air Corps Engineering School, took time out to get a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford University, was a B-17 pilot in the Pacific in World War II. Always immersed in research and development problems, he was assigned...
Stepping into Schriever's shoes at B.M.D. will be his deputy, Brigadier General Osmond J. Ritland, 49, an old Air Corps test pilot who handled a long line of research and development assignments until 1950, when he was made commander of the Air Force Special Weapons Center's Test Group (Atomic) at Kirtland Air Force Base, N. Mex. Until 1953, when he went off to Washington to study at the Armed Forces Industrial College, Ritland was responsible for the air phase of continental nuclear testing, got his assignment under Schriever...
...vice admiral and put in the newly created post of Deputy C.N.O. for Development. "Chick" Hayward ran away from home (Great Neck, L.I.) at 15 to join the Navy, got an Annapolis appointment from President Coolidge, graduated in 1930, learned to fly at Pensacola, Fla., became a test pilot. Deeply interested in atomic physics long before the birth of the atomic bomb, he did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s ("I wanted to relax at night in some uplifting endeavor which had absolutely nothing to do with the Navy"). After combat duty in World...
Grey -haired, cigar -chewing Bobby Burns, bemedaled 31-year Air Force veteran, heard Bell out, called the terminal to verify his story, then rang up Tachikawa tower. To the Pacific Express, already a hundred miles out, sparked a cryptic radio message: return to base. At first the pilot protested, but Tachikawa transmitted an unmilitary postscript: "You'd better do it, sir, or the general says he will have your plane brought back under air escort...