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Wednesday, January 1 5, 1 964 GENERAL DYNAMICS NEWS Page 3
DYNAMICS PRODUCTS
TO GO ON DISPLAY
General Dynamics aircraft and
missiles used by the North Amer-
ican Air Defense Command fig-
ure among displays open to the
public this week during San
Diego's "Aerospace Defense
Week."
Convair-built F-102 and F-106
interceptors; Terrier and Tartar
guided missiles built by Pomona
division; aerospace products of
Astronautics; and, probably, a
nuclear-powered submarine, built
by Electric Boat, are scheduled
for exhibit.
Indoor exhibits are housed in
the Aerospace Museum on Balboa
Park's Zoo Drive, with full-size
aircraft and missiles located on
the parking lot next to the Zoo.
Submarines, if open to public
tours, will be in San Diego Har-
bor. Displays may be seen all
week from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
San Diego Junior Chamber of
Commerce is sponsoring the Jan.
12-19 aerospace observance.
Technical Papers
(Following are technical papers re-
cently published, delivered, or submitted
for publication by General Dynamics
scientists and engineers.)
ELECTRONICS - ROCHESTER
FINKELSTEIN-Dr. N. A. "Evaluat-
ing the Product of Technical Programs,"
Industrial Management Council, Roches-
ter, N.Y.
ROSS-Arthur, "The Emphasis is on
Reliability-Why ?" American Society of
Tooling and Mechanical Engineers panel
discussion, Dec. 2.
RUBEGA-R. A. and NELSON, D. E.
"Purpose and Design of a Multistatic
Echo Ranging Experiment at Sea" and
"Analysis and Results of a Multistatic
Echo Ranging Experiment," U.S. Navy
Symposium on Underwater Sound, Wash-
ington, D.C., Dec. 2-5,
ELECTRONICS - SAN DIEGO
COMPTON-Robert H. "Cathode Ray
Tube and Optical Design of the S-CI
3070 ElectronicPrinter," submitted to
Electro-Technology.
TURNAGE-R. E. "Reduction of Dis-,
tortion in Computer Drive Displays,"
to be published in Electronic Design,
FORT WORTH
HEDRICK-H. G. "A Preliminary
Study on Responses of Micro-organisms
to Magnetic Fields," Second Interna-
tional Biomagnetic Symposium, Chicago,
Ill., Nov. 30.
KAARLELA-W. T. "Refractory Metal
Brazing Alloy Development," AIME
Symposium, Los Angeles, Calif., Dec. 9.
GENERAL ATOMIC
PERRY-L. W., manager of project
development, "CurrentaStatus of Thermi-
onic and Thermo-electric Devices," 1964
SAE Automotive Engineering Congress
& Exposition, Detroit, Mich., Jan. 13-17,
POMONA
FIORENTINO-J. S. "A Dynamic
Approach to Trajectory Extrapolations
in a Central Force Field," submitted to
the AIAA Journal.
PARKER-C. B. "Minimizing Ground
Current Feedback Problems in Transis-
tor Amplifiers," published in Electronic
Industries, January.
SHORES-Marvin WV. "Communica-
tion Range Nomograph," submitted to
Electronics Magazine.la
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tGOING UP-Mockup of nose
section is lifted atop tower by
helicopter for testing of F-111
radar homing and warning sys-
tem at Dalmo Victor Co. in Cali-
fornia.r-
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FLAME FINDER - Unique hydrogen flame detector, held at left
above by George Carmichael of GD/Astro's Dept. 592-2, and
aimed, at right, at invisible burning hydrogen gas, registers pres-GD/Astro's Anderson
Shifted to Belgium
B. G. Anderson of GD/Astro-
nautics, selected as deputy man-
aging director of ETCA - newB. G. Anderson
firm established
jointly by Gen-
e r a 1 Dynamics
and ACEC of
Belgium - is a
veteran satellite
and space track-
ing systems en-
gineer.
He has been
with GD/Astro
since 1956, and
is presently
manager of tra-jectory measurement and control,
electronic programs department.
At GD/Astro he has been asso-
ciated with such programs as de-
sign and development of the
Azusa trajectory measuring sys-
tem, and the ARENTS satellite.
Anderson holds a BE degree in
electrical engineering from Yale
University, with graduate work
at Columbia and UCLA.
Plans call for Anderson to
leave San Diego this month to
assume his new duties in Bel-
gium.ence of flame. In center is mockup of planned missile-borne ver-
sion to be carried piggy-back to "watch" for fires during flight.
Principle is based on infrared discrimination techniques.GD/FW Engineers Continue Hunt
For New High Speed MaterialsWhat will the Mach-busting
space ship of tomorrow-operat-
ing at speeds of Mach 10 and
above-be made of?
A handful of engineers in GD/
Fort Worth's structural sciences
group tackle this problem daily.
And they'll admit the answers
are not easy to come by.
"Today's conventional airplane
materials, such as steel and
aluminum, work all right in tem-
peratures up to several hundred
degrees," explained J. E. Bur-
roughs, senior design engineer,
"but they can't begin to with-
stand the high temperatures of
of re-entry or hypersonic speeds
in the atmosphere."
Accordingly, engineers are ex-
ploring the refractory metals-
tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum,
columbium and various compos-
ites-which can take tempera-
tures of 2,500 degrees F. and up.
Some refractory metals, for in-
stance, are used in the nose cone
and wing leading edges of high-
performance planes.
Along with refractory metals,
GD/FW engineers are constantlyganic resin from one-quarter to
one-inch thick, depending on the
temperatures it will be subjected
to."
Burroughs pointed out that
without such a coating, even re-
fractory materials would oxidize
-literally "go up in smoke"-at
temperatures of 5,000 degrees F.
and above.
The Air Force is now testing
various refractory composites and
coatings with a pilotless small-
scale hypersonic orbiting vehicle.
Both industry and government
share their experiences with re-
fractory coatings about every
nine months through a Refrac-
tory Composite Working Group.
Some 90 members of the group
started a three-day meeting at
GD/Fort Worth yesterday. Rep-
resentatives were there from a
host of firms and institutions,
including Air Force Materials
Laboratory, National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, Naval
Ordinance Labs, GD/Fort Worth,
Boeing, Battelle Institute, Doug-
las, GD/Astronautics, GD/Po-
mona, Illinois Institute of Tech-Simple Device
Detects Deadly
Burning Gases
A simple and effective device
which may be one of the first of
its kind to help detect the deadly
and invisible flames of burning
hydrogen gases has been develop-
ed within GD/Astronautics optics
and lasers group.
G. W. Carmichael, Dept. 592-2
design specialist who was re-
sponsible for the flame detector's
design emphasized:
"Gaseous hydrogen is particu-
larly dangerous since its flame.
can not be seen in daylight and a
man could walk right into a con-
suming blaze without realizing it
was there.
"With the increasing use of
liquid hydrogen, which is used
to fuel Astro's Centaur space
vehicle, it becomes imperative
to have an instrument which
will indicate the presence of a
hydrogen flame, just as it is
now accepted safety practice to
use radiation indicators wher-
ever radioactive materials are
in use."exploring means of coating struc- nology, Lockheed, Lawrence Ra- The detector's ability to detect
McNally Transferred tures with ablative materials diation Laboratory, Martin, Mass- a hydrogen flame at practically
which "peel off" as the vehicle achusetts Institute of Technology, any distance is based on infrared
T "*y passes through extremely high Ling-Temco-Vought, Picatinny discrimination techniques, ex-
temperatures. Arsenal, University of Southern plained Carmichael.
Joseph T. McNally, cost an- To do so, they're turning to California, and Watertown Ar- Presence of a hydrogen fire is
alyst in the Corporate controllers ceramics-an art which served senal. indicated on a voltage meter at
office in New York City, has been ancient man's purposes as far the base of the sensitive device,
transferred to the Electro Dy- back as 1,200 B.C., and promises GD/Astro Men Pass which in its demonstration ver-
namic division at Avenel, N. J., to serve him even more advan- California Bar Exam sion closely resembles a "ray
as manager of general account- tageously in the space age. Three GD/Astronautics men gun." The detector has a wide
ing. "One of our special projects," have been notified they success- operating range-even the pro-
He is succeeded in New York Burroughs said, "is a double-re- fully passed the California State totype can easily sense a one-
by John Papachristou, promoted verse-corrugated core of colum- Bar Examinations last August. inch hydrogen flame at 100 feet.
to staff analyst reporting to Rich- bium, which can withstand tem- Olen 0. Woods (Dept. 953-2), And, it can be designed to cover
ard C. O'Sullivan, director of cost peratures up to 2,500 degrees F. Jack P. Kelly (Dept. 032-3) and an entire hemisphere or a needle-
analysis. "Onto this structure we burn Tom M. Heim (Dept. 512-3) grad- fine field of view.
McNally has been with General a ceramic body, or a foam of uated -with law degrees from the S. H. Logue, who heads the
Dynamics since 1960. He received alumina, a substance which can University of San Diego last Astro optics and lasers section,
his BBA degree from Pace Col- take temperatures up to 3,500 June. Each had attended classes points out that other attempts
lege, NYC, and prior to joining degrees F. Then we arc-plasma in the evening while holding day have been made to sense burning
GD was with United Press Inter- spray the material with an abla- shift jobs at Astronautics. hydrogen, but "this device could
national. tive epoxy coating. This is an or- prove invaluable during any phase
Papachristou, a 1959 graduate of missile operations where liquid
of Georgia Tech with a BS in in- hydrogen is used."
dustrial management, served as Specifically, some of these
a Naval officer until joining GD areas would be during testing of
in 1961. engines, fueling at missile launch-
ing sites, or on actual spacecraft
Pilot of 456th FIS flights.
In fact, a miniaturized missile-
Logs 1,000 in F-106 borne version of the device now
is m the works. It is designed for
B. F. Ferguson, F-102/F-106 use within the ciaft to keep by-
project engineer at GD/Convair, drogen handling systems under
was at Castle AFB, Calif., in surveillance or to ride piggy-
mid-November to honor the pilot back on the outer skin to "look"
who first piled up 1,000 hours in for fires. Information registered
an F-106. on the device would be relayed
He presented Capt. E. W. back to ground control centers
Barnes of the 456th Fighter-In- <aver normal telemetering equip-
terceptor Squadron with a "Two- ment aboard.
Grand Trophy," signifying the - Other Astro engineers contri-
pilot's 1,000 hours and the air- outing to the project are D. F.
craft's own 1,000 hours in the Behrendt, test and evaluation;
air. Coincidentally, the plane in E. L. Casco, mechanical design
which Capt. Barnes marked up and fabrication; L. C. Wilson,
his 1,000 hrs. was the first F-106 head of optical design. The op-
to reach 1,000 hrs. of airframe tics and lasers group is a part of
time. Astro's applied research depart-
The trophy was supplied by HEAT TREATMENT-J. E. Burroughs, senior design engineer, is ment under Dr. V. A. Babits,
GD/Convair, builder of F-106s. shown arc-plasma spraying refractory metal on ceramics. manager.Wednesday, January 15, 1964
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