Convairiety, Volume 13, Number 26, December 21, 1960 Page: 4 of 8

                                
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CONVAIRIETY
Wednesday, December 21, 1960
Careful Squeeze
Key Is Trigger Finger,
Says Top Marksman
GREETINGS—Manager Frank W. Davis welcomes conferees to
quarterly General Dynamics Reliability Panel Conference.
Korea and German Orphans Find
Homes With Convair FW Families
Accuracy with a hand gun,
whether standing up or on your
head, is a cinch—IF you know
how to squeeze the trigger.
“That’s 90 per cent of it,” says
I. B. Hale, marksman extraordi-
nary and FW’s chief of industrial
security, who has been an inter-
national pistol shooting champion
and an FBI instructor.
Prior to joining Convair FW in
1951 as supervisor of investiga-
tions (he was named chief the
following year) Hale served the
FBI for 11 years at various posts.
Hale’s marksmanship demon-
stration, which he has made
many times in the interests of
weapon safety, includes a highly
spectacular shot. He turns his
back on an ax blade 45 feet
away. Burning on each side of
the blade are two tiny candles.
Sighting backwards with the help
of reflection from a finger ring,
Hale fires. The bullet, cut in
two by the ax blade, extin-
guishes both candles at once.
“It’s all a problem in holding
Convair’s Dynapak facility, lo-
cated at Pomona, Calif., since its
formation four years ago, is be-
ing moved to San Diego this
month.
By the middle of January all
Dynapak personnel and equip-
ment will be located in newly-
renovated quarters of Convair in
the San Diego area, announced
Ralph G. Monsees, assistant to
the vice president and general
counsel of Convair. Monsees heads
Dynapak as manager of Convair
special projects, which also in-
cludes Convair Instruments and
Project X, both located in San
Diego.
Production of Dynapak’s metal
working machines and advanced
mechanical systems will be con-
centrated in the large (18,000
sq. ft.) hangar structure, known
as Bldg. 37, at the seaplane
ramp. Engineering, sales, and ad-
ministrative offices will occupy
the Convair building at Midway
and Fordham Sts., recently va-
cated by SD service parts people.
According to Monsees, Con-
vair’s special projects will take
over the east ramp area
stretching north from the main
entrance 800 feet along Har-
bor Drive. Only exception will
be the office area of SD
thermodynamics lab which will
be maintained on the west side
of the hangar building.
“The move is being made to
give Dynapak the added advan-
tage of existing facilities at Con-
vair San Diego,” explained Mon-
sees. “Convair SD’s up-to-date
test equipment and refined data
computing systems will expedite
Dynapak’s research and develop-
ment on new high-rate energy
metal forming devices as well as
its work in shock simulation and
dynamic loading fields to keep
pace with the advanced require-
ments of our customers.”
steady and squeezing carefully so
the gun is on tai’get when it
fires.”
Hale’s three key safety rules:
1.    Know for sure that your
gun is in operating condition,
and above all, whether or not
it’s loaded. No gun is com-
pletely checked in determining
whether it’s unloaded or not
unless the magazine has been
thoroughly examined.
2.    Keep the muzzle pointed
in such a direction at all times
that if the gun accidentally
fired, nobody would be hit.
3.    Keep your finger off the
trigger till the gun is extended
toward the target and the
sights are lined up. Then, and
only then, put your finger on
the trigger. Says Hale:
“This is a frequent violation
even among' experts who handle
guns. Their first act is to wrap
their finger around the trigger.
That’s when accidents happen.
“Guns kill more people than
game every year.”
Dynapak’s revolutionary metal
working machines are in use by
25 large companies and research
organizations in this country, in-
cluding United States Steel Co.,
General Electric Co., Westing-
house Electric Corp., Atomic En-
ergy Commission, and National
Aeronautics and Space Adminis-
tration. Inquiries have been re-
ceived from every country in the
world, said Monsees, who prophe-
sies that standard Dynapak met-
al forming equipment will be
produced for sale abroad within
the next year.
Dynapak’s advanced mechani-
cal system activities include the
design, manufacture, and sale of
shock testing, dynamic loading
equipment, and mechanical simu-
lators. Each system is essentially
custom-designed to meet specific
requirements of the individual
customer. Dynapak test equip-
ment is now in service with such
organizations as ordnance labora-
tories, aerophysics development
groups, missile plants, and radia-
tion laboratories. Dynapak’s Hyge
actuating mechanism was the
first accurate and safe instru-
ment developed for aircraft and
missile shock testing.
The project was formed in De-
cember, 1956, with a staff of two
engineers following several years
of research by Convair metallur-
gists and engineers in high-veloc-
ity forming. It first was located
in a Claremont office building,
moving in 1957 to a South Po-
mona building. Entire staff, in-
cluding production personnel, en-
gineers, and administrators, now
numbers 60.
“The growth and expansion of
Dynapak activities is our pri-
mary purpose,” stressed Monsees.
“We have every confidence that
the facility will become a signifi-
cant part of Convair.”
B-58 Reliability
Under Scrutiny
At Conference
Reliability of the B-58 Hus-
tler was among subjects often
mentioned at the quarterly Gen-
eral Dynamics Reliability Panel
Conference at Fort Worth.
Some 32 representatives from
various General Dynamics or-
ganizations attended.
“Reliability is uppermost in
our minds at Convair FW,” FW
Manager Frank W. Davis said in
greeting conferees, “since we’re
now delivering inventory air-
planes.”
Davis reminded the panel that
a B-58 Hustler failed to win the
1960 SAC competition because of
two isolated, minor failures.
“Still,” he said, “the Hustler
managed to score the best radar
bomb scoring competition its
first year out.”
G. H. Craig, reliability proj-
ects administrator, presented
“Monitoring of B-58 Reliability
Program.”
“Development and Utilization
of the B-58 Reliability Program”
was the topic of R. D. Chase,
senior aerophysics group engi-
neer. He outlined the high goals
of reliability set for production
Hustlers.
W. F. Caffrey, reliability proj-
ect coordinator, spoke on “Ef-
fects of Maintenance on Relia-
bility.”
Coordinating the meeting were J. Y.
McClure, manager of quality control, and
N. H. Simpson, manager of reliability.
Guest speaker Dec. 8 was Navy Capt.
W. J. Corcoran, stationed at Lockheed
Missile Division, who spoke on “How to
Get Reliability in Missile Programs.”
Others attending were: A. L. Lam-
bert, R. F. Jacque, K. Pelham, J. G.
Hansen, Clayton Holden, William Karas,
E. I. Roberts, E. S. Winlund, Strom-
berg-Carlson ; Harry McKeown, Allan
Oxley, Canadair.
R. A. Lennon, A. C. McMaster, T. A.
Vogel, Convair Pomona; G. Covington,
P. Benner, R. Cary, Convair SD ; W. K.
Ebel, General Dynamics, New York.
Douglas Larsen, General Dynamics,
Washington ; J. R. Z. Reynolds, J. W.
Best Jr., Electric Boat; L. S. Franklin,
James L. Minas, Convair Astronautics:
G. E. Owen, Convair FW ; K. E. Has-
sler, K. E. Cochran, Battelle Memorial
Institute.
Convair Redeye
Demonstrated
Convair Pomona’s Redeye mis-
sile system was demonstrated to
the press Dec. 5 by Brig. Gen.
Charles S. D’Orsa, commanding
general of the Army’s Combat
Development Experimentation
Center, Ft. Ord, Calif.
The press conference was con-
ducted at the Statler Hilton hotel
in Hollywood. Convair Pomona’s
Lowell Hinderaker, an engineer
assigned to the Redeye project,
participated.
While Lt. Col. Ray Harvey, a
member of Gen. D’Orsa’s staff,
held a lighted cigarette 30 feet
away, Hinderaker swung the
weapon about. Every time the
“eye” of the weapon passed the
pinpoint location of the cigarette,
the weapon let out a loud “beep.”
Gen. D’Orsa explained that all
the soldier in the field had to do
is aim on an attacking plane
until the Redeye beeps, then pull
the trigger. He explained that in
combat a soldier can swing the
20-lb. bazooka-like tube to his
shoulder and send off an infra-
red “homing” rocket to blast up
the tailpipe of any low-flying
enemy jet, or to “lock on” to the
engine heat of tactical prop-
driven aircraft. Redeye can also
be used against short-range tac-
tical missiles as well as aircraft,
the general said.
The Redeye, which was design-
ed to give the front-line soldier
better protection, is in the final
stages of production at Convair
Pomona, Gen. D’Orsa added.
Industry Engineers
Tour Convair FW
Convair FW industrial engi-
neers played host Dec. 7 to 78
members of the Dallas-Fort
Worth Chapter, American In-
stitute of Industrial Engineering.
Following a dinner in the exec-
utive dining room, guests toured
the plant with W. E. Emish,
manager of industrial engineer-
ing, and other members of the
department.
Leslie Hardin is almost 2, with
black hair and eyes and a sweet,
shy smile.
Caroline and Gary Robert Rice
are 10 months old, blond-haired
and blue-eyed.
Because of the three, Christ-
mas 1960 will be a special one
for two Convair FW families.
Leslie was a Korean war or-
phan until she arrived to the
welcoming arms of her new
parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C.
Hardin, 4725 Dilworth, last April.
Caroline and Gary Robert,
twins, were German orphans in
an Austrian orphanage until ear-
ly this month, when they took
over the Monroe C. Rice home
at 621 Grainger.
Rice is a metal fitter assembler
in Dept. 32. Hardin works in
Dept. 64, nuclear area.
The Hardins waited months for
Leslie, who was being cared for
in a Church of Christ orphanage
in Seoul. The Rice twins found
their American home through
efforts of Catholic Charities,
working with the national refugee
committee of the National Cath-
olic Welfare Conference.
Leslie arrived in the U. S. at
Portland, Ore., and Mrs. Hardin
flew there to bring her home.
The Hardins have been a Con-
vair family 10 years. They have
two sons, Shelby, 8, and Lane, 3.
The Rice babies arrived in
Dallas via American Airlines, in
the care of stewardesses who had
looked after them since their
arrival in New York.
Mrs. Rice met her husband in
her native Orleans, France, when
Rice was serving with the 847th
Airborne Engineers during World
War II. He returned to France
in 1947 as a civilian to marry
her. The couple moved to Fort
Worth from their home near
Clarksville in 1950.
Society Honors
Rosenbaum For
Rocket Work
Mortimer Rosenbaum, Astro-
nautics chief engineer, this month
was named a fellow in the Amer-
ican Rocket Society at that
group’s annual meeting in Wash-
ington, D. C.
This honor, bestowed by elec-
tion of the ARS board of direc-
tors, is given to worthy persons
engaged in or associated with
rocket and jet propulsion in rec-
ognition for broad services ren-
dered in the field.
Rosenbaum’s citation read “in
recognition of his outstanding
contributions to the rocket and
astronautics field.”
K. J. Bossart, Astro’s technical
director, is the only other Astro-
nautics employee to receive this
recognition.
NEW ARRIVALS—Mr. and Mrs. Monroe C. Rice are happy par-
ents of twins born in Germany, while Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hardin
greet new daughter just arrived from Korea.
TOP MARKSMAN—This is I. B. Hale, FW’s chief of industrial
security. He sights through ring before splitting bullet on ax blade
45 feet away.
Dynapak Facility Moving From Pomona
To New Quarters at San Diego Ramp