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THE BATTALION
College Station, Texas Thursday, February 22, 1968
May Save Lives
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A&M Student Tests New Parachutei
Smoke spews from a strickeh
jet, which trembles on the brink
of its last plunge to earth.
The pilot bails out. His para
chute blossoms as the doomed
plane follows a downward curve
of destruction.
Enemy forces watch below as
the billow of fabric lowers the
pilot toward certain capture. In
stead, the canopy changes shape
as the airman opens valves on a
seat-tank beneath him.
The umbrella becomes a tear-
drop-shaped balloon and the avi
ator’s descent slows until he is
suspended in midair. A brief radio
transmission is followed shortly
by the appearance of a military
transport.
A FRAMEWORK OF METAL
and rope beneath the craft snares
the chute-balloon shrouds and the
downed pilot is snatched to
safety.
LIFE-SAVING IDEA
Texas A&M aerospace engineering- major John M. Haynes
is working on plans for a parachute that can be inflated—
in the air—into a balloon. The senior from Dallas has
several ideas about how it could be employed to save
pilots of stricken aircraft.
A Texas A&M University aero
space engineering major, John
M. Haynes of Dallas, has begun
developing the device and believes
his aerial-retrieval system has
other uses.
in Southeast Asia often jeopard
ize several U. S. fighting men
other than the pilot who is forced
down.
“A chopper usually goes for
him, placing at least two more
men in practically the same pre
dicament as the pilot,” Haynes
noted.
WITH HIS CHUTE-BALLOON,
pilots who bail out stay above
ground weapons fire.
Haynes’ system was revealed
in a senior problems course in
structed by Prof. Charles A. Ro-
denberger. The aero major com
puted and tested the system’s
aerodynamic stability, size re
quirements of canopy, seat tank
and lines-risers system and struc
tural characteristics.
“It is well within the capability
of our present materials tech
nology,” said the son of Air Force
Lt. Col. and Mrs. Baylor R.
Haynes, 9 Bay Drive, Fort Wal
ton Beach, Fla.
“The system merits develop
ment if only one life can be saved
that would otherwise be lost,”
Haynes declared.
Noted Prof To Join Eco Staff
He pointed out that air rescue
techniques used by armed forces
He has the aerial - retrieval
system in the patenting process.
“I’ve only made a feasibility
study,” Haynes pointed out. “Sev
eral areas need work, especially
the tank. There are two possibili
ties: a tank for lighter-than-air
gas or an air heater.”
HAYNES’ MODEL, which un
derwent several tests, is about six
Dr. Charles E. Ferguson, eco-
Inomics professor at Michigan
State, will join the Texas A&M
faculty Sept. 1, announced Dr.
M. L. Greenhut, head of thte uni
versity’s Economics Department.
Before accepting the Michigan
State appointment last year, Dr.
Ferguson taught 10 years at
Duke. He was elevated to the
rank of full professor in 1962.
He earned his Ph.D. in 1957
at the University of North Caro
lina, where he had previously
studied as a university fellow
and Earhart Foundation fellow.
While at Duke, he was award
ed four annual Ford Faculty
Summer Fellowships, beginning
in 1957.
Dr. Greenhut said Ferguson is
internationally recognized for his
research. He has published more
than 50 articles both in this
country and abroad. He also has
written two textbooks, “Princi
ples of Economjjcs” and “Micro-
economic Theory,” and two pro
fessional level books, “A Macro-
economic Theory of Workable
Competition” and, soon to be
released, “The Neo Classical
Theory of Production and Distri
bution.”
Dr. Ferguson is active in nu
merous economic societies and as
sociations. He was vice president
of the Southern Economic Associ
ation last year and is currently
a member of the organization’s
board of editors. He also is an
editorial reader for The American
Economic Association and The
Econometric Society and an edi
torial collaborator for the Ameri
can Statistical Association.
Ferguson is married and has
two children. Mrs. Ferguson, a
chemist, attended graduate school
at the University of North Caro
lina and Duke after receiving her
undergraduate degree from Hen
drix College in 1952. Several of
her articles have been published
in the Journal of Dynamic Chem
istry.
S. Viets Arrest
Three Politicians
SIAGON <A>> _ The United
States was reported seeking an
explanation from President Ngu
yen Van Thieu’s administration
Wednesday for the arrest of three
prominent anti-government politi
cians, all rounded up at a time
when opposition elements were
talking of unity against the Com
munists.
The official word was that the
U.S. Embassy was in consultation
with the government about the
three, held in what national police
called protective custody. Em
bassy officials were known to be
seriously concerned about the im
pression the arrests might have
on the government’s image
abroad.
Cong list named South Vietna
mese personalities who might fig
ure in a coalition government.
T h i e u’s government has gone
firmly on record against a coali
tion with the Communists. The
implication was that other politi
cal figures might be detained.
NO OFFICIAL reason has been
given for the arrests.
However, Nguyen Ngoc Linh,
director general of information,
without directly saying the Viet
Cong considered the three pros
pects for either assassination or
coalition government jobs, sug
gested: “Maybe they got their
names on some list.”
High Vietnamese sources let it
be known that a captured Viet
“You know the Viet Cong could
jump on those guys and kill them
and blame the government,” Linh
said.
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feet long. The inflated canopy is
about 30 inches in diameter.
The Aggie senior visualizes the
full-scale system as a balloon of
28-foot diameter. About 8,000 cu
bic feet of gas would be required
to provide buoyancy for 350
pounds at 5,000 feet in standard
atmospheric conditions.
Haynes lists numerous commer
cial-military uses of the device.
Outpost observers could inflate
the system, ascend to a vantage
point for reconnaissance and then
deflate for a slow, safe descent,
he noted. Smoke jumpers would
n’t have to worry about being
surrounded by fire.
“If things get too hot, they
simply inflate and rise out of
danger,” the 22-year-old said.
“PERSONS ON a sinking ship
might find it more practical to
wait for help in the air rather
than on a storm-tossed sea. A
modified system could be attached
to the ship to keep
Haynes went on.
The senior has mulled the
sibilities of combining ball
and parachuting for a new
age sport.
He qualifies to test the
working size chute-1
Haynes has taken off in
aircraft 80 times, but never|
ed. He has 80 jumps to his
as a member of the A&M p
chute Club and Sky-diving T,
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