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Unique Aircraft
Being Developed
A Houston firm is conducting re
search at the A&M Research and
it’s Development Annex for an Astro-
Kinetic Lift, an aircraft which
resembles a flying saucer.
The Astro-Kinetic Corps, of
Houston in conducting the tests,
which may lead to future develop
ments of the unique craft. Models
of the ship are already in opera
tion, with the phase of local work
concerning producing a vehicle
for manned flights.
Charles E. Hunter, vice presi
dent of Astro-Kinetics, says the
United States Naval Research and
1 Development Bureau has provided
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Jh light-weight engine which is be
ing installed in the test vehicle.
Keese Named TTI
Executive Officer
Appointment of Charles J.
(Jack) Keese as executive officer
of the Texas Transportation Insti
tute has been announced by Fred
J. Benson, Dean of Engineering
at A&M.
As executive director of the
institute, Keese will be in charge
of an organization devoted to re
search in traffic engineering,
transportation economics, highway
design, soils and improved paving
n ^ materials.
Dean Benson, who has been
T.T.I. executive officer since July
1955, said Keese will also continue
his duties as professor of civil
engineering.
“We are looking forward to Mr.
Keese continuing to make the same
fine contributions that he has been
making in his research program
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intelligence and attained the rank
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After field engineer work with the
Texas Highway Department he
joined the A&M civil engineering
faculty in 1948.
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Game, Fish
Group Plans
Fair Exhibit
The Agriculture Show at the
1962 State Fair of Texas will fea
ture an extensive exhibit prepar
ed by A&M in cooperation with
the Texas Game and Fish Com
mission.
Animals and plants of forest,
plains, desert and seashore will
take the spotlight in the show at
the fair, Oct. 6 through 21 in
Dallas.
The show will tell the complete
story of Texas wildlife and game,
with the benefits of recreation
and the responsiblities of conser
vation.
Live specimens along with col
or photographs and moving pic
tures will illustrate the story.
Hunter, speaking on some of the
principles of the aircraft, stated
that the lift has a capability which
is a totally new concept of aero-
dymanics. “This new concept de
vice, because of simplicity of de
sign and low production cost com
pared with the rotary blade con
cept, will conceivably bring a third
dimension to commuter and per
sonal transportation,” he added.
Simple Operation
He said the simple operation of
the lift will permit anyone to oper
ate it with the same ease as driv
ing an automobile. “It has the same
maneuverability and load capacity
as the helicopter,” he said.
Corporation President W. Fre
mont Burger labeled the exisiting
facilities available at the research
annex and the reservoir of highly
trained personnel and equipment
available at A&M as the main
reasons for the decision to locate
in Bryan.
Burger referred to construction
of the fiberglass lift as very simple
in comparison to the helicopter. “It
has no complex moving parts such
as rotor heads,” he reported, “and
it is estimated that the initial con
struction cost of the lift will be
less than half that of a compar
able helicopter.”
Media Fund
Established
In Journalism
The receipt of a $100 check for
the Department of Journalism’s
Media Scholarship Plan and the
names of three new members of
the Journalism Advisory Council
were announced today;
The check was received from
Staley McBrayer, publisher of the
Daily News-Texan of Arlington.
The first check in the Media Schol
arship Plan was received earlier
this summer from S. B. Whitten-
burg, publisher of the Amarillo
Globe-Times.
The new members of the Jour
nalism Advisory Council are James
A. Byron of Fort Worth; James F.
Chambers of Dallas and George
Shannon, of Shreveport.
The Media Scholarship Plan will
be used to encourage journalism
students from high schools and
junior colleges to continue and
complete their education in jour
nalism, according to Delbert Mc
Guire, department head.
A publisher, firm or organiza
tion that wishes to participate
sends $100 and is enrolled in the
program.
When a student is selected to
receive this scholarship, he is list
ed as carrying a scholarship from
the contributor, who is sent prog
ress reports. McGuire said that
the donor is encouraged to nomi
nate a local student as recipient,
and the student receiving the as
sistance will be encouraged to in
tern during one summer with the
contributing firm, if possible.
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THE BATTALION
Thursday, September 13, i'&62 College Station, Tewas Page 3
W5AC Calls CQ, CQ...
It’s Radio Aggieland
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STATION W5AC
Frank Stewart checks out transmitter
Study Discovers
New Small Plants
Discovery of several new species
of very small diatoms—one-cell
plants of microscopic size—has
been announced by a A&M re
search oceanographer.
Albert Collier, director of A&M’s
Marine Laboratory, said that sev
eral species and genera of the mi
nute diatoms have been isolated
from Gulf of Mexico waters at
Galveston.
Discover Unknown Types
He and his research associates
discovered the heretofore unknown
diatom types during experimental
studies on filterable organisms
isolated from surface waters of
the Gulf.
The biological research scientist
named the diatom species “Chaeto-
ceros galvestonensis” to designate
the location where they were
found.
“Diatoms are one-cell plants
that take on many different
forms,” Collier said. “The Chaeto-
ceros galvestonensis are mierd-
scopic in size—1.5 microns on the
apical axis and three microns on
the preyalvar axis.”
Diatoms Dimensions
In layman’s terms, the overall
dimension of a diatom is about
half the size of a human red blood
cell, or about the size of the ty
phoid bacillus, he explained.
Oceanographic biologists and
other scientists see many possible
areas of study evolving from the
discovery of the minute diatoms.
The small size and consequent
high surfaee-to-volume ratio of
these cells, plus their ability to
multiply rapidly, have several im
plications for the oceanographer.
These factors might enable the
diatoms to reproduce rapidly even
under mineral nutrient concentra
tions, while their power of intense
utilization of nutrients might cause
depletion of food for other sea life,
he said.
The diatoms also may interest
chemical and physical oceanog
raphers.
“These cells might have effect
on light scattering, sound scatter
ing and heat absorption,” said
Collier.
By TOM HARROYER
Battalion Staff Writer
“CQ, CQ, CQ. This is W5AC
calling CQ 20. CQ 20, CQ 20. This
is W5 Alpha Charlie calling CQ
20. . .”
Amateur radio station W5AC is
owned and operated by Aggies.
Sometimes referred to as “Radio
Free Aggieland,” the station and
its services are well known to
some—unknown to many.
The station is operated by the
members of the Memorial Student
Center Radio Committee, one of
the many special activities pro
grams of the MSC Council and
Directorate. The radio committee
holds its meetings in the MSC and
its “shack” is located over the
bowling alley in the southeast
wing of the Center.
“The main service our club gives
to the college is that of trans
mitting messages for Aggies to
distant cities,” said club president
Frank Stewart, a graduate student
from Dallas.
The club maintains a table with
radiogram blanks and instructions
for filling out these blanks in the
connecting causeAvay just outside
the bowling alley. Also, a box for
the completed forms is located
there.
Sent Through Networks
The box is checked periodically
for messages by club members.
Messages are sorted according to
destination and urgency, and are
sent through various amateur ra
dio traffic networks.
“Suppose an Aggie decides at
the last minute to go home for a
weekend and wishes to notify his
girl but can’t 'afford a long dis
tance telephone call,” said Stewart.
“If he lives in Dallas, for instance,
his message would be transmitted
through the North Texas Traffic
Network to a Dallas ham, who
would relay the message to the
girl by telephone.”
“If he lived in California, his
message would be sent through
one of the national traffic net
works.”
Stewart explained that these
networks are the result of various
amateur radio clubs and associa
tions. The North Texas traffic
network, for example, is handled
by a specified operator each day.
The control duty passes from op
erator to operator, changing once
a day.
Stations Check In
It operates this way:
The controlling frequency signs
on the air at a given time and fre
quency, identifies himself, and asks
listening operators to “check in.”
Each operator who is listening to
the network checks in by identify
ing himself by call number and
location of his station.
The network control operator
then announces the destination of
that day’s messages and asks lis
tening operators with stations at
those destinations to stand by. He
then contacts the ham who signed
in for Dallas and gives him the
messages for that city. He does
the same for each city or area for
which he has a message and a lis
tening operator.
Frequently, the network oper
ator has a message to be trans
mitted to a point for which no op
erator signed in. In such a case,
he asks the aid of those who have
contacted him who are nearer the
destination than the control sta
tion.
In this way, a message may pos
sibly be relayed through three,
four, or even five radio operators
before finally reaching its destina
tion.
‘Telephone Patch Service’
“Another service we offer, like
the radiogram, is the “telephone
patch,” said Stewart. “What we
do in this case is contact a ham in
the desired city and ask him to
make a “patch” between his rig
’hfid telephone, and to dial the per
son to be contacted.”
“There is some misunderstand
ing about patches, however,” he
said. “Sometimes we have some
one walk in and ask to talk to his
girl in El Paso. He just doesn’t
understand that we can’t flip a
few dials and switches, and locate
an El Paso operator immediately.”
Stewart said the odds were very
poor on simply sitting down and
contacting a ham in a desired city.
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