ALFRED C. DRAPER (B.S., Indiana University) is Assistant for Research and Technology in the Flight Mechanics Division, Air Force Flight Dynamics Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. Before beginning his work as an aerodynamicist at Wright-Patterson in 1952, he was employed at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Silver Spring, Maryland, in connection with programs in supersonic aerodynamics. Mr. Draper is cochairman of the aerodynamics panel of the Joint NASA-USAF Committee on Hypersonic Airbreathing Vehicles and has written numerous papers on aerodynamics, configuration design, and flight mechanics.

DR. ROBERT F. FUTRELL (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is Professor of Military
History, USAF Historical Division, Aerospace Studies Institute, Air University.
See Air University Review, XV, 2 (January-February 1964) for more complete
biographical data.

EDITORIAL STAFF

LIEUTENANT COLONEL KENNETH F. GANTZ, USAF, Ph.D., Editor LIEUTENANT COLONEL HARMON H. HARPER, USAF, Executive Officer

JACK H. MOONEY, M.A., Managing Editor, English Edition JOHN A. WESTCOTT, JR., Art Director and Production Manager ANGEL dL. MEDINA, Dr. Fil., Associate Editor, Foreign Language Editions EDMUND O. BARKER, Associate Editor, Plans & Projects WILLIAM J. DEPAOLA, Illustrator

Editorial Project Officers: LIEUTENANT COLONEL GEORGE J. SUDERMANN, USAF, M.A.; MAJOR ROBERT G. SPARKMAN, USAF, M.A.

ADVISERS

COLONEL WILLIAM J. MCGINTY, Hq Air Force Systems Command; COLONEL GEORGE SCHENKEIN, Hq Tactical Air Command; COLONEL RAYMOND L. TOWNE, Hq Military Air Transport Service; LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAMES F. SUNDERMAN, Hq Pacific Air Forces; LIEUTENANT COLONEL JACK ROSE, Hq United States Strike Command; LAVERNE E. WOODS, Hq Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories; HARRY A. HABERER, Hq Air Force Logistics Command.

ATTENTION

Air University Review is published to st mulate professional thought concerning the development and employment of aerospace forces. Its cor tents reflect the opinions of its authors or the investigators and conclusions of its editors and are not to be construed as carrying any offic al sanction of the Department of the Air Force or of Air University. Informed contributions are welcomed.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1964

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