US Military
May 05, 1958 - Fort Monmouth, N.J.:- Highly trained men operating the new flight control van built at the US Army Signal Research and Development Laboratory, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, keep their fingers on the pulse of the Army;s tactical aircraft. The mobile control van, with a 10-foot communication and flight-charting console, keeps the fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. SP3 Charles Bowen (foreground) (Seattle, Wash.) the assistant flight controller, receives a flight plane, while SP3 Robert W. Parton (Oklahoma City, Okla.) (center) posts the progress of a plane from one beacon to the next. Capt. Clancy Fauoheux (Hahnville, La.) the Flight Operations Center Commander, computes ground speed from data on air speed and wind velocity and direction
