Convair Supervisory Newsletter, Number 11, October 24, 1951 Page: 1 of 2
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S U P E R V I S O R Y
NEWSLETTER
ISSUED WEEKLY TO ALL SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL
24 October 1951
Leading executives of the British aircraft industry were impressed by the
sire of the B-36 and the neatness and efficiency of our plant during a tour
last week under sponsorship of the Aircraft Industries Association. The
Britishers, members of the Society of British Aircraft Constructors, Ltd, ,
are on an extended inspection tour of American aircraft and related plants
Congress has approved Public Roads Bill No. 5-1956 and the bill now awaits
President Trumanqs signature. The bill authorizes funds for new access roads
to our plant, It is believed that action to design and construct the access
roads will be forthcoming about November 15:,
A few rivets scattered on the floor donst seem important when you see millions
of them throughout the plant- But each day thousands of rivets are swept from
floors and sent to Salvage where they are sold as scrap because it is too
costly to sort them and inspect them for possible re-use. Many of you probably
do not realize that rivets, or rather the lack of them, could have shut down
the plant recently- It became necessary to obtain special permission to send
80,000 pounds of aluminum scrap to a wire mill for reprocessing into rivet
wire in order to keep B-36 production going:, Let's teach our employees to have
a little more respect for rivets, See that rivets aren't wasted by mixing
them or dropping them on the floor-
The B-36 once again proved itself to be one of the safest airplanes built:
You probably saw the story in the papers of a Carswell B-36 making a belly
landing at Kirtland Air Force Base,Albuquerque:New Mexico, The crewmen who
bailed out received only minor scratches and bruises and the men who stayed
with the plane were uninjured The B-36's propellers were bent, slight damage
was done to one jet pod and to the bottom of the rear cabin where it scraped
along the runway~ The two pods acted as ski:, serving to keep the wings from
hitting the ground and possibly preventing a ground loop, The story must give
the men who fly B-36 s a greater feeling of security Certainly it proves the
ruggedness of our ships and their comparative safety in emergency landings;
Production of an undisclosed number of new twin-engine turboprop airplanes
for the Air Force was announced by Convair in San Diego this week,, The new
ships will be patterned after the Convair 340 and the T-29 navigational
trainer. They will be used by the Air Force for bombardier training and
navigation instruction.
Augi t C: Esenwein
Di i on ManagerMEN
NO. 11
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Esenwein, August C. Convair Supervisory Newsletter, Number 11, October 24, 1951, periodical, October 24, 1951; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1149485/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth.