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Page 2 GENERAL DYNAMICS NEWS Wednesday, June 17, 1964
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HULL"t7PRESIDENTIAL VISIT - In top photo, President Lyndon B. John-
son chalks initials on keel plate of nuclear attack submarine Pargo
during June 3 visit to General Dynamics' Electric Boat division at
Groton, Conn. With him, from left, Roger Lewis, General Dynamics
president, J. William Jones Jr., president of E-B, Senator Abraham
Ribicoff, Herman Doughrity, welder who burned "LBJ" on keel
plate. Lower photo: Doughrity shakes hands with President Johnson
after completing welding job.Mobility
Score Shift
To New Posts
(Following are recent person-
nel transfers among General Dy-
namics division. In parentheses
are dates when individuals joined
the company.)
Arthur W. Bluder (1942) from
GD/Convair to Astro engineering;
Daymon H. Graham (1957) from
Daingerfield to Fort Worth aero-
space technology; Richard W.
Gall (1961) from Convair to Fort
Worth support requirements;
Walter D. Honeycutt (1963) from
Convair to Fort Worth advanced
programs; Heflin T. Parris (1956)
from Daingerfield to Fort Worth
aerospace technology.
James E. Howe (1947) from
Convair to Fort Worth structural
design; Edwin E. Creamer (1949)
from Fort Worth to GD/Electron-
ics-Rochester's AN/GLR-1 site
operations; Daniel E. Bolin (1952)
from Astro (Abilene) to Fort
Worth tool & operations plan-
ning; Victor L. Allwardt (1943)
from Astro (ERS) to Fort Worth
F-ill tests.
Harrison W. Millard (1940)
from Convair to Fort Worth air-
frame design; Francis A. Sisson
(1950) from Convair to Fort
Worth structural design; Joe B.
Waggoner (1964) from Astro
(Abilene) to Fort Worth tool &
operations planning; Charles Ray-
mond (1953) from Astro to meth-
ods engineer at Electric Boat;
James C. Watkins (1956) from
Electronics-Rochester to senior
design planner, Electric Boat;
William N. Taylor (1956) from
Convair to Fort Worth airframe
design; J. B. Braziel (1949) from
Astro to Fort Worth project co-
ordination; Walter T. Green
(1951) from Astro to Fort Worth
machine shop; Jerry B. Hattox
(1963) from Astro to Fort Worth
airframe design.Kunze Appointed
To Corp. Staff
Conrad Kunze, a former as-
sistant manager of GD/Convair
division, has been appointed to
the staff of R. M. Hatcher,
Corporate director, operations
service.
Kunze succeeds H. S. Wiseman
as director, industrial engineer-
ing and operations support. Wise-
man has been transferred to Fort
Worth division as assistant fac-
tory manager.
Kunze, who attended Stanford
University, was with Northrop
Aircraft as superintendent of
-production and manager of ma-
terial before joining Fort Worth
division in 1956 as assistant chief
tool engineer. The following year
he was appointed industrial en-
gineering m a n a g e r and was
transferred to San Diego in 1959.
He left the company in 1961 to
join Otis Elevator as assistant
general manager.Howard Wall Shifts
To Position in NY
SAFETY TIPS - Typical of use at General Dynamics divisions, Howard E. Wall, formerly of
first two issues of "Safety Idea Exchange" issued by Corporate Of- GD/Convair accounting, has been
fice are posted on bulletin board. Publication, introduced last appointed manager of consolida-
month, is designed as assist in Corporation-wide emphasis upon ted accounting in the Corporate
accident prevention. Office, reporting to Robison
Clark, assistant comptroller.
A 1955 graduate of the
-University of Utah, Wall has
been with Convair since 1956.F-1 11 UNVEILED - This model of variable wing F-111 was
placed on display at annual meeting of Aviation and Space Writers
in Miami last week. It attracted major attention among exhibits.Weight Engineers
Headed by GD Men
Installed as officers of San Di-
ego chapter, Society of Aeronau-
tical Weight Engineers (SAWE),
at a meeting earlier this month
were four General Dynamics men.
H. G. Mileur of GD/Astro is
chairman, with GD/Astro's D. 0.
Nevinger, vice chairman, and F.
L. Dohn of GD/Convair, treas-
urer. Other GD/Astro men play
key roles in the society, including
J. E. Muller, retiring chairman,
who presided at the meeting, and
H. L. Jensen Jr., continuing on
SAWE's board of directors, who
served as installing officer.IN THE FIELD - Artist's sketch shows how shoulder-fired Red-
eye will be used by troops in field against enemy aircraft.
Maj. Gen. Zierdt
'It'll Be Love at First Sight
When Redeye Reaches Troops'
Army plans to issue Redeye troop carriers such as might be
"right down to rifle companies" used in hostile parachute drops,
were told by Maj. Gen. John G. helicopters, attack aircraft, evenZierdt, commanding general,
Army Missile
Command, in a
speech last
month at Avia-
tion and Space
Writers Conven-
tion, Cape Ken-
nedy.
Redeye, now
entering initial
production at
General Dynam-
ics/Pomona, was
Maj. Gen. Zierdt described by
General Zierdt
as the one mobile battlefield air
defense weapon that can "get all
the way forward."
"I feel safe in predicting that
this one (Redeye) is going to be
a case of 'love at first sight'
when it gets to the soldier," Gen-
eral Zierdt stated.
Redeye was described as a
shoulder fired guided missile using
an infrared seeker to home on
the heat emitted by an aircraft
engine. It weighs less than 30
pounds, can be carried anywhere
a man can take a rifle, and fires
directly from a disposable fiber-
glass launcher case that also
serves as a carrying case.
General Zierdt pointed out that
the Redeye gunner uses his eyes
and ears to acquire the target.
When it comes within range, and
the missile's heat seeker has ac-
quired the target, the gunner
fires it by pressing a trigger.
From the time it leaves the
launcher, the missile is on its
own. Redeye is effective against
a wide variety of low altitude
targets: light liaison aircraft,jets.
"Redeye was a long time in de-
velopment and as is normal in all
weapon systems, we are still im-
proving it," General Zierdt said.
"But it is a prime example of a
successful attempt to make the
target's characteristics work for
the defense-in this case the air-
craft engine."
New Designations
Assigned to Ranges
New designations for East
and West Coast Air Force mis-
sile test ranges have been es-
tablished. Astronautics conducts
operations at both locations.
The Air Force Missile Test
Center (Patrick AFB) at Cape
Kennedy, Fla., has been redes-
ignated the Air Force Eastern
Test Range (ETR).
Air Force Space Test Center
(Vandenberg AFB) on the Cali-
fornia coast has been redesig-
nated the Air Force Western
Test Range (WTR).
Ordnance Men Hear
Dynamics Speakers
Two General Dynamics employ-
ees appeared on the program of
the American Ordnance Associa-
tion recently at Dallas.
They were C. E. Nevitt of GD/
Fort Worth, who spoke on "Yes-
terday, Today and Tomorrow,"
and Dennis Brending, GD/Elec-
tronics-SD, who appeared on a
panel of "Advanced Technology
in Autographic Presentation."1-
"Oh, there you are, Johnson! The collection we were taking up
was for you."Wednesday, June 17, 1964
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