Checkpoints Magazine

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Selected stories from recent issues of Checkpoints:

• When Slide Rules Ruled The Rockies
  By Frederick V. Malmstrom, '64

  It's no joke. Today's cadets fortunate enough to have seen a slide rule even bother to ask, "Whazzat?" If anyone asks you this unlikely question, then you might reply it was the gizmo which allowed us to build the Empire State Building, the Hoover Dam, the R100 rigid airship, the V-2 rocket, the Boeing 707 (mostly), the atomic bomb, and, of course, the U.S. Air Force Academy

• Air Age Gothic
  By David Hill

  The U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado features an unparalleled collection of modernist buildings. But the challenges of preserving them can seem daunting.

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Checkpoints staff:

Bob McAllister, Director of Communications
Lewis Carlyle, Editor & Photographer
Sarah Larrabee, Senior Designer
Tom Kroboth, Class News Editor
Matt Kleve, Assistant Director of Media