The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 21, 1952, Page 6

Page 6 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN ‘Thursday, August 21, 1952 TRAINING NAVAL PILOTS STORY OF CADET * PILOT TRAINING FOR U, S. NAVY Practicaliy every American boy ean learn te Gy an airplane but not for the Navy or Marine Corps. ‘The high standards, of physical and mental requirements are the stum- bling block te many. However, of those selected for flight training more than 7@ percent win their wings. The Navy and Marine Corps are unyielding on this point; only the best can wear its wings of gold. A naval aviator must be a master of precision flying. He must fly ever endless miles of ocean without a single guide post, where one slight error may prove disastrous. He. must be more than a naval aviator. As an officer he must car- ry out the duties and responsibilit- ies of bis country, Pensacola is the Headquarters of Naval Air Basic Training. It is there that the Naval aviation cadet begins the 18 months of intensive training. NavCad is an abbreviation for Naval Aviation Cadet. In ad- dition a NavCad is also an officer candidate. To qualify for flight training the candidates must be 18 and less than 27 years of age. He must be single and agree to remain so until after graduation. Physically, in the eyes of the Navy Flight Surgeon, he must be just about perfect. To qualify mentally, he must have completed at least two years of college. Applicants are screened and selected at the twenty-eight Naval Air Reserve stations located in various parts of the United States. Once selected they are put on the waiting list —< within 120 days sent to Pensa- Enlisted sailors and marines, both regular and reserve on active duty, may volunteer for NavCad trai ‘ining. If they do not have the | Learning to fly perfect approach minimum of two years of college, physical ability, mental capacity and officer like qualities, in order to qualify for further training. The biggest day for fly but he must “bear down on is a work he : first Phantom Burglar Is Youth Of 13 LAKELAND ® — The “phantom burglar” who at six recent busi- ness house burglaries left a note saying “the phantom strikes again,” has been arrested. Detective Frank Hustin said the burglar was traced through a. bi- cycle seen near the looted places, a finger cut while crawling through a broken window, footprints and fingerprints. : The phantom, police said, is a mild-mannered, 13-year old boy who likes movies and comic books. The boy; whose total loot was only $6, said he got the idea for the notes from a comic book. After his confession, he was turned over to juvenile authorities. at a target and to obtain a better sedre than his buddies. s country . navigation and tactical night flying round out the syllabus, at BTU-3-and the NavCad that moves on to the final squadron in the. basic training command. When the NavCad enters the Naval Air program, he is aware that one day he will be required to make landings aboard an aircraft carrier. This particular feat marks the Naval Aviator. Its an odd fact, but Fare cadets set foot aboard a.car- |rier at sea for the first time on ‘the same day that they take the |landing signal officers “cut” and ; the plane settles on deck with the hook secure in the arresting wires. | Before this event takes place, the | pattern, not too high, or too low, not too fast, or too slow but just HOLLYWOOD | They Start Them NOTES By BOB THOMAS HOLLYWOOD — Some joker tacked on Joel McCrea’s dressing room a sign reading ‘‘Millionaire’s Everyone on the movie set got| — a laugh out of it, especially Mc- Crea. It’s possible that he is a millionaire, since he has been mak- ing good money for 20 years in the movies and is reputed to be foxy with his. dough. But one thing is certain: He/| | doesn’t act like a millionaire. Nor has he brought up his two boys \to act like rich man’s sons. In fact, they have been so shielded from, the limelight that only this week did McCrea allow the first picture of one of them to be published. The reason for the photo- graph was that the oldest boy, Jody 11, is g with his pop in “That's true,” Joel confirmed, “there haven’t been any pictures of the boys published since they were. babies. The only photos we have taken of them were for the family album. My wife (actress Frances Dee) had a theory about | “She objected to children being : used in publicity at an age when they were not able to make their , own decisions about it. That wasn’t ; being fair to them, she reasoned. ‘ She also objected to children being forced to live in the shadow of their parents’ fame. . “And she was absolutely right. I have seen it happen to too many kids of famous people. They wind up with a complex about being sec- , ond best and make messes of their | lives. I wanted my boys to stand | on their ow two feet.” ‘The McCreas seem to have done a good job along those lines on ; Jody and David, who is 16. They | purposely kept the boys out of the Beverly Hills social whirl, where | they would be competing with oth- | er film children. The McCrea sons ‘have spent most of their lives on ithe McCrea ranch, learning the | cattle business from the ground up. “The boys have even said they faith in the LSO, a Naval Avia-| don’t want me to leave any money self, whose carrier landing, of apprehension run along hs beads of sweat may and on the ‘hands‘as he looks engine or a multi-engine pilot, but considera’ judgement and to them,” Joel added. “They tell me I can give it all to an orphan- age I have been helping over the years. At any rate, I haven’t set up any trust funds for them to get at certain ages. I think that would be a bad thing for a kid.” | Now. Jody has been bitten by j the acting bug.. After years of in- difference about his father’s pro- fession, he suddenly has expressed game in “Lone Hand.” “T-gave the kid a part and let him double in some riding scenes,” foel admitted that neither of his Young In Key West pene <i SSR Citizen Staff Photo TWO-YEAR-OLD ARMANDO LOUIS RODRIG UEZ, son of Mr. and Mrs. Armando Rodriguez, of George Allen Apartments, is all enthused at the thrill of seeing a ball game at Wickers’ Stadium. The future Conch baseball player draws smiles from on-lookers. ric CASH MARKET 1028 Truman Ave We Deliver TENDER WESTERN Club Steaks: 69¢ CHOICE CUT ' Tel. 1080 Chuck Roas!: 55: WESTERN FIRST CUT BRISKET OR BEEF Pork CHOPS) RIB STEW Tollpike Said the “immediate answer” to tour- needed to facilitate travel up and down the state. a Business interests along the route of the proposed turnpike, whch will cost approximately 275 mil- lion dollars, have objected that a through tollpike would bypass them and ruin their business. 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At present two thirds of his. a. rice ea a Naval Aviator. Everything done | of all student pilots will graduate/ “They like me better than Ran- | Franco-American 2 Cans must be with concentrated preci- | as single engine pilots and receive sion. He continues basic air work | assignments to carrier squadrons. until he could accomplish it in his | The single-engine lads will spend sleep. He is ready for acrobatics. | the next 120 hours of flying power- The NavCad’s next step is Basic | ful fighter and attack type aircraft Training at Corry Field. Here he | as though it had become part of will concentrate on instrument | themselves. Everything they learn- flying. This means he is under the | ed at Pensacola will be reviewed, hood, learning to fly and perform | but the NavCad will be required difficult maneuvers with reference | to do it all with infinite precision, to only his instruments. He prac- | They will continue to study navi- tices long hours both in the air and | gation, engines and tactics. In brief on the ground in the Link Trainer | this course is designed to smooth to master navigation, using only | them out so they can graduate radio aids. He must make well | and take their place in a carrier executed radio transmissions and | squadron with ease. be readily familiar with radio | From Corpus Christi single-en- procedure. Communications are of | gine pilots make one last move. great importance to the Naval/| They return to Pensacola where Aviator. Success or failure of an {once again they make qualifying important mission can result from | landings aboard the deck of a car- faulty radio procedure. That is why | rier. Now they must take 12 land- BTU-2 stresses communications in | ings and be launched off the bow its outline of training. of the cafrier by catapult. But Up to now the NavCad has flown | there is one big difference, they enly during the day. Before he | use the same heavier more power- finishes at BTU-2 he completes four | ful service type aircraft as used night flights that are purely of an | in the fleet. introductory nature. Looking at the | The multi-engine lads finish off world below seems much different | their training at Corpus Christi. at night and waiting for the wheels | Some will qualify in the four-en- to touch down on the dimly lit mat | gined Privateers and others are has its thrilling moments. Strange- | introduced to the characteristics of ly enough, this is when pilots will | seaplane or “big boat” operations make some of their best landings. | in the Marines. The multi-engine In five weeks, NavCads complete | phase requires approximately 137 the syllabus at BTU-2 and move on | flight hours, which qualifies to Saufley Field for the next phase | NavCads as proficient co-pilot ma- of training. terial. This completed they are de- When they reach BTU-3 NavCads | signated Naval Aviators and com- are well trained in acrobatics and | missioned Ensigns in the Naval instrument flying but their flight | Reserve or Second Lieutenants training has been dolph Scott but not as well as Gary Cooper,” he shrugged. Librarian Urges Return Of Books By Borrowers Key West library books have a way of disappearing just as fast as Navy and civilian families move away from Key West, Mrs. Shuck, librarian deplored yesterday. “If book borrowers would just | call me up at the Woman's Club, 5%, I'll gladly come for books, so | families don’t have to bother to | should,” she said. Mrs. Shuck remarked that she had lost five new library books in taking out of town borrowed books along with their furniture, child- ren and pets. “We have to pay for these books, and we cannot afford cénstantly to replace them. 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