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INDIVIDUAL AIR MOBILITY AND THE SOLIDIER
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BUNKER, C., "INDIVIDUAL AIR MOBILITY AND THE SOLIDIERAlso In
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- C.F. “The Goodyear 400R” Pamphlet by Goodyear Aircraft Division
- C.F. “Design Features of the XH-26 ‘Jet Jeep’ Helicopter” Roberts Howard E. presented at meeting AHS, IAS Los Angeles, California 17 July 1953
- C.F. “Up With the Helicopter” Fortune Magazine May 1951
- C.F. “Rotorcraft” Liptrot R. N. Captain Woods J. D.
- The small pulse-jet of the XH-26 has a noise level about equal to an F-86 while the YH-32 sounds more like a large diesel road truck
- The YH-32 requires about one gallon of fuel per mile; the XH-26 about half this
- The actual aircraft was not used but the design was built
- C.F. “Army Aviation” July 1955
- C.F. “Development of Airborne Personnel Platform” Robertson A. C. Proceedings 2nd Annual Western Forum, AHS 21-22 Sept 1955
- “The Pinwheel Rocket Strap-On-Back Helicopter” Magill Gilbert Proceedings 2nd Annual Western Forum AHS 21-22 Sept 1955
- Presented before the Washington, D. C, Section IAS, 12 Dec. 1955, reported in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch 22 Dec 1955
- C.F. “Some Stability Problems of Vertically Rising Aircraft” Zimmerman C. H. Proceedings, 2nd Annual Western Forum, AHS 21-22 Sept 1955
- “Jet Aircraft Simplified” Chapel Charles E. Aero Publishers Los Angeles 1954
- Fuel for these devices would cost over six dollars per mile using these design principles
- For a doctrined thesis on the Army's mission in modern war see “The Role of the Infantry” Infantry School, Fort Benning Georgia 1 July 1955
- This point was made by Brig. General Carl I. Hutton, USA in “Inbalance Between Firepower and Mobility” Army Aviation Digest, Not to be-labor the semantics of the argument but it was artillery firepower which was increased a thousand fold by the tactical atomic weapon and this firepower does move at sonic speeds in fighter-bomber aircraft. August 1955
- I.E. “Power and Policy” Kinletter Thomas K. Hartcourt, Brace and Company 1954
- Royal United Services Institution LXXXII (1937) “A Gold Medal Army” Captain J. C. Slessor. C.F. Chap 15 “Makers of Modern Strategy” Edward Mead Earle, Princeton U. Press 1952
- Ridgway Matthew B. Chief of Staff U. S. Array to the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Charles E. Wilson, dated 27 June 1955, in Array Combat Forces Journal Sept 1955
- C.F. “The Soldier's Load and Mobility of the Nation” Marshall S. L. A. General Combat Forces Press for an excellent discussion of the effect of overloading the infantryman with equipment he might have to use
- C.F. “Thoughts of the American Airborne Effort in World War II” Huston James A. Dr. Purdue University The Military Review April May 1951
- C.F. “The Bloody Lessons of Indochina” McFadden Prosses Lamar Major Army Combat Forces Journal June 1955
- C.F. “The Copter Cavalry Raids the Eleventh Army C.P. ” Decker Bert Major Army Combat Forces Journal August 1954
- The author wishes to express his appreciation to Mr. Joe Ray and his assistants for the excellent illustrations furnished with this paper