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Friday, May 4,1973
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This Is the Only Way to Crash
By JOHN PIKE Kansan Staff Writer
University Daily Kansam
How to Crash Without Really Dying . Pike, Kansan reporter, "takes off", crashes, then describes his experience . .
We are flying level at 1,800 feet, beginning an approach for a landing at Boston's Logan Municipal Airport. The clouds are so thick that I can't see the nose of the airplane in front of me or the engines only a few feet away on the wings.
For one thing, a very precise affair demanding control of course, speed, and decretion of dessert.
The co-pilot appears to quite calm, despite the fact that he has every reason not
The instruments tell me that I'm lined up with the runway nicely and that all is well with the approach so far. I continue to fly quietly along, waiting for the small blue light on the instrument panel to indicate that we are ready to take off. I'll be small rails ahead of us that marks the point at which I must begin our descent to the runway.
For one thing, I have never flown an instrument approach, a very precise affair that can be dangerous and rate of descent. For a couple others, I've never flown in weather this bad even as a passenger, and I've never flown anything except a four-seat single-engine airplane.
The light comes on, so it is time to
deepen the view. A back tilt back
trunky, try to keep on course.
Hmmm. The wings are not level. I level them, but now I'm descending too steeply. I pull the nose up—careful, not too much—but nowI'm off course. It's not long before I'm descending too steeply and the wings are again not level. In trying to correct those things, end up hopelessly off course, going too fast, banking too steeply.
What I have in may hand now is an 11,000 pound twin-engined turboprop mini-airliner with 17 seats. Even if the co-pilot is not curious, I certainly am.
I decide to slow the plane down and try to gain some control of a situation that is quickly getting out of hand.
The altimeter indicates that we are now very near the ground, and I am in serious trouble because the airplane is for all purposes out of control. As I try to climb,
The co-pilot chuckles to himself slightly, and asks me if I'd like to try it again. Of course I would, so he throws a red switch on the right side of the instrument panel, and magically we are again at 1,800 feet, level, on course, waiting for the blue light.
the airspace to much and the air-
pressure we are going to crash in about
seven minutes. We are to jump.
I have just received a very good lesson on the degree to which a flight simulator can duplicate the results of flight. It is the first step in learning the simulator, and it is a remarkable experience.
common type of simulator in that it is primarily an engineering simulator rather than a training device. It is programmed to perform only certain tasks at once, rather than to serve as an all-purpose device for training pilots.
This simulator differs from the more
The KU simulator is controlled by a system of computers that can be programmed to allow the simulator to "fly" like any airplane in existence, or, more importantly, to behave like airplanes that don't exist vet.
By proper programming of the computers, the KiU simulator can "fly" like an aircraft and can be controlled by a new type wing installed or its control system modified. By this method engineers can determine the characteristics of a new aircraft without potentially dangerous actual flight.
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Job Discrimination...
"Without employment, there's not a lot one can do."
Most blacks said that racial discrimination on an employment level still exists.
Johnson said that the employment situation for blacks was still as bad in deprince state as in president Nixon's recent budget cuts as "another built-in prejudice in the American system" because, he said, "when the cubs begin, minority groups are the first to be excluded."
"It's still there—it's just covered up," said Hedy Blurton, manager of Penn House, a self-help cooperative for low income families.
Other blacks tended to agree with Miller and said that although whites might be trying superficially to provide equal opportunities, bias prevented genuine fairness.
Oceo Moyer, Penn House secretary, said,
"The nondiscriminatory policies of some
agencies don't necessarily filter down to
people who work in the door, like a
recommissioner, can be a bieot."
John Enick, former mayor of Lawrence and a city commissioner in 1790 and 1793, was a member of the state's
"I just can't buy that," he said. "It balances out. Many people go out and try to employ blacks—and there's enough being hired now to it even it."
Enick mentioned the city's affirmative action program and the Teenage Empowerment Program (STEP) as a series of more job opportunities for blacks. "There have been great strides made in our work."
"There have been great strides made in employment," he said.
City Manager Buford Watson said that a certain amount of bigotry still existed and hampered employment opportunities for him, "we try to eliminate those bottlenecks."
"Being fair to everyone is hard." said
John Shepard, police community relations officer, said the change bigot thought — that always happens
Mickey Dean, president of the Black Student Union, said that there still was as much discrimination against blacks seeking jobs on campus as in the past.
"The situation is the same as it has been. The blacks are getting a pretty bad deal from the administration generally," he said.
Dean would not be specific. He would not answer questions about the BSU and said that it was the policy of the BSU not to talk to the press.
"I ifwe have things to tell the press, we'll call them. The press has not shown itself to us." (A)
Chancellor Raymond Nichols did not completely agree with Dean.
"I wouldn't say everyone is cooperating 100 per cent," he said, "but there is some improvement. We have some blocks now on the roads and some on the administration."
"There has to be a real effort to give them opportunity for employment," Nichols said. "It would be nice to come to the affirmative action principle-if they're qualified. I believe in equal reward for equal performance. I don't believe they should be given equal reward for anything."
Sheepard agreed. "Since the '70s, the community has become relaxed and satisfied," he said. "They think the goal has been completed. It might seem to whites that there have been tremendous changes made. But to people who have worked with
Nichols said that he could not answer to Dean's comment directly, however.
Nichols conceded that, now that the situation is quiet, whites may have forced Nichols to
"There's a tendency to forget, and a lot of conservatives want to sweep it under the rug."
it from the beginning, they know that little has been done. It's two different external objects.
"We have to acknowledge that the pressures are still there," he said. "The kind of thing that happened a few years ago for our again, but hopefully not on that scale."
In other cases, the simulator can be programmed to "fly" like an airplane that exists only on the drawing boards, thereby allowing engineers to determine the accuracy of their projections about a new airplane before actually building and飞ing
Johnson of Human Relations seemed to summarize the feelings of blacks.
Conversely, Nichols seemed to summarize the feelings of whites.
"Tnings will improve," he said, "I'm sure they will. I just hope it won't be too slow."
Will Bolton, Lawrence engineering doctoral candidate, and one of those involved with the KU simulator, said he knew of no other simulator in this part of the country that was at the same level of sophistication as the KU machine.
Ultimately, the KU simulator will also have a visual system, providing the pilot with a simulated "ground" to watch the windshield as he飞 "flys" the simulator.
Bollon said the computer system that controls the simulator is comprised of an analog computer, a digital computer and a third computer which is a hybrid analog-digital machine. The hybrid ties the functions of the other two computers together.
The visual system is composed of a large curved screen in front of the simulator and a projector mounted on top of the simulator fuselage.
At the other end of lab the is "ground", which is molded onto an endless loop belt which moves at speeds proportional to the "speed" of the simulator as determined by the computer from the pilot's control movements in the cockpit.
The "ground" belt contains a properly sized propeller, which the pilot will be able to "land" the simulator. The "ground" image is transmitted to the projector at the simulator
There will also be a sound track embodied in the simulator to give aural clues to the pilot, such as louder engine noise when the throttles are advanced.
The simulator cockpit is the fuselage of a Beechcraft Duke, six-aplane twin-engine airplane donated to KU by Beech Aircraft Corp. in 1969 for the simulator project. The aircraft is mounted on two decks of surfaces and its systems were converted to be compatible with the computer system.
The simulator is currently programmed to "fly" like a Beechcraft Model 99, a large, twin-engine aircraft airliner, and will be used to gather preliminary data about the use of a new stability augmentation system built by Boechler Beech 99 this summer for flight testing.
The simulator has been used for research on several projects, including KU's Aircraft Co., a project involved radical modification of a small single-engine airplane, donated to KU by Cessna Aircraft Co., to test the aircraft technology to small airplane design.
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Mail Ballot
the mail ballots to be distributed and tabulated, he said. The old method of allowing only the 15 student members of the Student Senate to elect a student SenEcx members was used.
Rich McLaughlin, Dallas sophomore and student member of the University Council, said that the council meeting were not enough time for the student members of the council to consult the members of the Student Senate about choices for SenEx
The Senate Code stipulates that the Executive Secretary include a brief summation of the arguments with the ballots. At the April 3 meeting there was no discussion of the issues before sending the vote to a mail ballot.
Bolton and Jan Roskam, chairman of the aerospace engineering department and director of the Flight Research Laboratory, said that the simulator is an ongoing project which is being continuously updated and adapted for more uses. The lab work is done by engineering students, Roskam said, and is managed only by faculty members.
"It deprives those not present at the meetings from hearing both sides of the case."
He said he was firmly opposed to the use of the mail ballot.
To allow a mail ballot, one third of the members present need request it. On the other hand, if no vote is cast,
members voted in favor of sending the vote to a mail ballot.
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James Moeser, associate professor of organ and chairman of the University Council committee that formulated the idea for the new college, said the mail ballot was working well.
He said that the reason for the poor response in the recent mail ballot vote was that the issues involved were not controversial.
As for the problems the University Senate has encountered in attaining a quorum, he said he suspected the senate never again would pass a quorum unless controversial issues were gone.
The mail ballot is necessary because it gives all men the chance to vote, he said.
"If they want to vote, they should at least have enough initiative to come to the meeting."
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