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[[image]][[/image]] CVG-2 STAFF PILOTS POSE BESIDE A4D-2 Day and Night Qualified CVG-2 Staff Pilots Show the Way Every staff aviator in Air Group Two aboard USS Midway is qualified for day and night landings in at least one operational carrier aircraft. In the accompanying picture, from left to right, Lt. J.V. Walters, LSO, is qualified in the A4D-2,as are Cdr. F.D. Barton, Operations Officer, Cdr. R.J. Selmer, Air Group Commander, and LCdr. E.E. Riley, Special Weapons Officer. Lt. W.A. Lott, at right, senior LSO, is qualified in the AD-7. In addition, Cdr. Selmer and Lt. Lott are day qualified in the F8U-2. HU-1 Looks at the Record In 13 Years Service, 859 Rescues When Helicopter Utility Squadron One paused to celebrate its 13th birthday in April, somebody took time to tally up the HU-1 achievements. Hu-1 has rescued 859 airmen from the sea and from behind enemy lines in Korea, with many of the rescues performed under fire. Men of the squadron have earned one Congressional Medal of Honor, three Navy Crosses, five Silver Stars, two Legions of Merit, 38 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 160 Air Medals, and 38 Navy Commendation ribbons. The Squadron also earned the Presidential Unit Citation. HU-1 is the Navy's oldest and largest helicopter squadron. Commissioned at Lakehurst in April 1948, the unit now is stationed at Ream Field, Imperial Beach, Calif. The squadron deploys men and helicopters aboard major Pacific ships. Additional units have been deployed aboard LST's, icebreakers, and British aircraft carriers. The squadron's general operating area includes nearly a million square miles, from pole to pole and from California to Thailand. 20,000 Get Air Check-out Recruits Get Basic Preparation In its first two years of existence, the Aviation Familiarization School at NATTC MEMPHIS has graduated more than 20,000 students. AFAM(P) School is not a technical school. Its mission is to teach civilian-thinking recruits what Naval Aviation is about before they are enrolled in one of the technical schools. The two-week course covers Naval Aviation history, flight theory, organization, aircraft equipment such as interphones and sound powered telephones, and other handling and line paraphanalia [[paraphernalia]]. Students also learn aircraft designations, hand tools, taxi signals, seaplane handling, line operations and the duties of a lookout. Part of the course is devoted to survival practices. Students learn first aid procedures, survival swimming, and basic parachute techniques. Whiting's Lt. Beck Cited Made 'Instructor of the Month' Lt. William Beck, flight instructor at VT-3, Whiting field, has been selected a second time as Instructor of the Month. Cdr. Ray Stacy, Commanding Officer of VT-3, made the presentation. Earlier, Lt. Beck had been given an award for flying 1200 accident-free hours of instruction. His present total is now 1700. He was also VT-3's outstanding Instructor of the Year in 1960 for which achievement he won a Lion's Award. [[image]][[/image]] NAVCAD Joe G. Cooke, VT-1, NAS Pensacola, became the 9000th student to complete primary flight training since the T34B aircraft went into the basic training command. First Lt. t. F. Kanaly (right) congratulates Cooke. [[image]][[/image]] STUDENTS 'FOLLOW' HAZARDS ON SCREEN Corpus Airman in Car Crash Survives Head-On Without Scratch The NAS CORPUS CHRISTI airman crashed head-on into the oncoming convertible and came out of it without a scratch, bent fender, or even cancelled insurance. How? The same way student pilots "spin in: and walk away from it while practicing instrument flight procedures. NAS CORPUS CHRISTI recently started an experimental driver training course which uses "Drivotrainers," the automotive synthetic training device equivalent of the Link trainer. Sitting at the controls of a stationary simulator car, the driver is given a highway and every conceivable type of traffic condition on a motion picture screen. His every reaction is recorded electronically so there is a perfect record of each trip——including possible accidents or "near misses." Over the next two or three years, safety records of the graduates of the course will be compared with those of non-graduates to measure its effectiveness. If the records prove its worth, the course may become the model for similar courses throughout the Navy. Radar Purchase Increased Track Many Targets at One Time Additional money has been authorized for the purchase of radar which can simultaneously determine direction, range and height of several airborne targets at once. The shipboard radars are for use on carriers and missile cruisers. In May last year a $14-million contract was awarded to General Electric for production of the pencil-beam AN/SPS long range radar. The contract has been extended to $36-million. Now in quantity production, the first operational unit is scheduled to be delivered in May of next year. 24 NAVAL AVIATION NEWS
