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TEE len FORON igasamirm r TABLE OF CONTENTS Ballooning at the Academy 2 Falcon Team Roster . 24 Falcon Managers 42 Today's Game 5 Starting Lineups 27 Falcon Equipment Managers... 42 Air Force Officials 7 Army Team Roster 29 Future Schedules 43 Air Force Coaches Falcon Statistics 30 Falcons' Best 43 and Athletic Director 9 U.S. Military Academy 31 Falcon Trainers 44 Bill Berry 10 Army Officials 32 Falcon Stadium 45 Meet the Falcons 11 Army Players 34 Falcon Foto Quiz 47 Falcon Team Photo 12 Commander-In-Chief's Songs and Yells 48 Falcon Co-Captains 13 Trophy 38 Composite Schedule 49 Falcon Players 14 Falcon Grid Records 39 Officials Signals When Air Force Has the Ball 22 Air Force Band 40 See This Star in When Army Has the Ball 23 Air Force Falconaires 41 the Next Home Game 51 1 AIR FORCE CADETS DISCOVER sensations you don't normally get in any other kind of aircraft." Piccard continued, "I had seen the Midshipmen of Annapolis sailing in their small boats and I understood that it was giving them valuable, fundamental experience in the skills of seamanship. But, at the Air Force Academy, I didn't see any balloons and I felt it was my responsibility to see what I could do to remedy that situation. I believe that the sailors of the sky need fundamental experience too. Soaring is good experience, but ballooning is even more fundamental." The family started in ballooning in the 1890's. The Swiss balloonist Edward Spelterini put on a demonstration and Piccard's father and uncle (identical twins) were fascinated. Their father helped the boys, Jean and Aguste, build a paper balloon. They attempted to fly it on a windy day and it was destroyed. "They learned one of the very basic rules the hard way," chuckles Don. Jean came to the United States and taught Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Minnesota. Aguste went on to teach physics in Brussels. Aguste continued with ballooning as an aide to his CELEBRATION — Piccard gets ready to pop the cork on a bottle of research into cosmic rays. He found himself going higher champagne as Brig. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Jr., commandant of and higher into the Pyrenees mountains but was not satis- cadets, looks on. The ceremony was conducted at the Academy in honor of Piccard's donation of a balloon to the Cadet Hot Air Bal- fied. King Albert of Belgium financed a balloon for him looning Club. so he could go into the stratosphere. "It was man's first While college students are demanding "relevancy" in entry into space," his ballooning nephew proudly states. their educations, Don Piccard, modern ballooning pioneer, advocates the advantages of ballooning experience for pilots. During his summer visit to the Academy, Piccard said, "You can see, feel and believe the basic fundamentals of flight. You can feel inertia and mass. The basic gas laws of physics become real." Piccard, of the pioneer Swiss ballooning family, felt so strongly about the United States and the values of balloon experience for pilots that he donated a $6,000 balloon to the Academy. The Cadet Hot Air Ballooning Club will use the balloon to replace the balloon loaned to them by Capt. Al Dyer. Dyer, a T-41 instructor with the 3253rd Pilot Train- ing Squadron at Peterson Field, and a 1968 Academy graduate, sparked Academy interest in the Sport and allowed the cadets to use his balloon. Airmanship was instrumental in giving the sport club status. Patriotism on the part of Piccard, who was born in Switzerland and naturalized here in 1931, led to the donation. The ballooning pioneer said, "The principles of flight, as the principles of seamanship, prepare you for a deeper understanding. Ballooning can give you insight beyond the check-list or flight manual as a thinking pilot. You FILLING THE BALLOON — Don Piccard, world•famous balloonist and have to think and feel ahead of your aircraft. You can members of the Cadet Hot Air Ballooning Club inflate a balloon that Piccard donated to the club. The presentation was made at the feel a wind sheer and you can feel a thermal. Those are Academy. 2 by Capt. Bud Rothgeb BALLOONING Photos by SSgt. Chuck Cole Don Piccard served in the Navy during the latter part of WW II in the free balloon loft at Lakehurst, N.J. During that time he acquired some 50 hours in free balloons. After the war he acquired a Japanese paper balloon which he modified for sports use. His innovations in balloon began here with the development of side inflation through what had been the destruct valve in the Japanese incindiary balloon. The 19,000 cubic foot balloon was made of mulberry bark paper that, "was so strong you couldn't tear it with your hand," he said. In the late 1950's, Raven Industries wanted to explore the sports market for hot air balloons in America. Don Piccard was hired to design the balloons. The balloons were designed with wicker baskets for gondolas. "The company didn't like the baskets and the sports balloon was dropped. I quit and moved to California," said Piccard. "Just when I was down as far as I could go, someone sent me a check for $1,000 to build him a balloon and Piccard Balloons were on the way. Until recently we haven't been able to keep up with demand. Now we've incorporated and should be able to keep up with the demand for high quality sports balloons," Piccard con- tinued. "Really, that's why I'm retiring and going to Ireland with my family. We've solved the basic problems of sports balloon design. The natural shape, new materials, lock PEACEFUL FLIGHT — Members of the Cadet Ballooning Club take the F. P. Lahm, a balloon donated to the cadets, on a flight at Indianola, stitching and availability of propane gas have made it all Iowa. The cadets were observers at the National Hot Air Balloon possible. We'll do some experimental work in Ireland," he Championships. added. "In a way the sports balloon is a testiment to the Each of the 288 pieces of material is curved on all American free enterprise system. Nylon was invented four sides to provide a natural shape without wrinkles because American women wanted something better than when the balloon is filled. The load is then carried on the silk stockings and propan came about because housewives seams without stress on the fabric. Don Piccard cut the in rural areas wanted a safe, clean energy source for material and Wilma sewed the 326,700 inches of seams, cooking like the natural gas their city sisters enjoyed," with eight lock stitches to the inch, on a machine whose Piccard mused. maximum speed is 23,000 stitches a minute. That computes His wife, Wilma, who is a world class record holder to about 15 hours of continuous sewing. Total construction in gas balloons, smiled and added, "You see, you owe it took about three weeks. all to we women!" Brig. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Jr., Commandant of Piccard continued, "So with the design problems Cadets, accepted the balloon on behalf of the Academy. solved and the production schedule problems solved, I General Vandenberg was in the gondola with Piccard as decided it would be a good time to retire. This country the traditional christening ceremony of popping a cham- has been very, very good to me and I wanted to make some pagne cork through the mouth and the maiden flight were kind of gesture to express my gratitude. That's why I gave accomplished in Jack's Valley. the balloon to the Academy. The Academy balloon, named the Frank P. Lahm Ballooning Club Cadet-In-Charge C1C Kurt Steeby, after the Army Air Corps ballooning pioneer, is composed and another first classman balloon enthusiast Jim Greeson, of 288 pieces of taffeta-weave, polyurethane-coated nylon. and club officer-in-charge Maj. Jack Walsh took the new More than 1,000 yards of the material is joined by almost craft to the National Hot Air Balloon Championships last two miles of lock stitched seams. The naturally shaped, Summer at Indianola, Iowa. 75,000 cubic foot balloon composed of 24 panels with 12 Piccard instructed the cadets in competitive balloon- gores in dark blue at the top with a wide band of medium ing at the nationals. The trip was made for the experience blue across the middle and light blue at the bottom. rather than for actual competition as the cadets were The name F. P. Lahm, a gold star, and the number ineligible since they did not have the required ten hours N3US are sewn around the balloon's equator. of flight time in the new balloon. 3 Spays you can discover discovery: plan I: plan 2: plan 3: Pay cash and close within 90 If you elect to buy on our 36 With only 5% down, you can days and you'll earn a 20% month installment plan, you'll hold the lot of your choice and discount on the total price! This receive a 10% discount on the delay closing for up to one year is the best and least expensive total price.

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