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Page 6 GENERAL DYNAMICS NEWS Wednesday, January 1.5, 1964
J. L. Roberts, 162; C. D. Lines, 24,
E. E. Guthrie,12, A. G. Eiland, 4.
Water Bottle: H. L. West, 268; J. A.
Bourgeois, 164 ; G. Andrews, 187 ; W. L.
Frye, 107; J , Gibson, AF; and B. W.
Browning, 186,
AGE Item: J. Stuart, 161 ; N. A.
Presswood, 164; J. R. Stovall, 23; J.aE.
Davis, 180; C. B. Blumberg, 27; and
J. W. Ward, AF.
Shop Made Fitting: Prevo, 162 ; V. E.
Koreki, 164; R, G. Bryden, 7; T. F.
Ryan, 111; R. Schaper, 180; H. John-
son, AF.
Coupler: E. B. Thompson, and W. J.
Either, 164 ; D. L. Dingmore, 24 ; A. G.
Truett Jr., 187 ; D. R. Clawson, 28,
L. W. Pennock, 11; and R. L. Bucka-
lew, 280.
Shear Pin: P. J. Mais, 65; B. J.
Pendley, 263 ; R. M. Ellis, 83; A. E.
Grable, 4; Capt. R. J. Wilson, AF; and
C. E. Rohmer, 307.
Project leaders were Roy Cuff, Bob
Ellis and Jess Livesay., ._
STEP BY STEP - Value engineering approach involves distinct
steps, among them the analytical stage of "brainstorming." Shown
are, left to right: R. Schaper, H. Johnson, V. E. Korski, R. G. Bryden,
T. F. Ryan, J. C. Prevo.
Four-Inch Carpet of Soapy Foam Laid
In Dramatic Safety DemonstrationGD/Fort Worth demonstrated
its jet age gear to safety-minded
representatives of Air Force and
industry last week.
Displayed were. "Mad Dog,"
the converted 0-11-A crash truck
which uses chemical foam; and
a foam-spreading service truck
capable of laying a swath up to
24-feet wide.
A brief orientation was given
by I. B. Hale, manager of indus-
trial security, and Phil Cummins,
Dept. 15, who was instrumental
in developing both vehicles.
In a demonstration north of the
plant, firemen laid a four-inch
cushion of foam. They used the
same service truck that was
ushered into service during therecent emergency landing of a
commercial plane at Carswell
AFB.
Then the group was taken to
the Carswell AFB practice pit to
watch "Mad Dog" douse a blaz-
ing 5,000-gallon JP-4 fuel fire in
less than three minutes.
Among those who witnessed
the event were: Col. Max Boyer,
Air Force Plant Representative;
Gen. Albert Boyd (retired) of
GD/Fort Worth; Maj. Charles
W. Boyd, Air Force acceptance;
F. E. Chambers, director of in-
dustrial relations and security;
Bill Funk and Bill Easley, GD/
Fort Worth, involved in F-111
flight safety; and Fred Temple,
chief of safety.f..
FABULOUS FOAM - GD/FW "Nursing Truck" lays down
carpet of chemical foam during recent demonstration.thick
Four Stations Accepting Wires;
Use Them and Cut Phone Expense(Continued from Page 1)
5:45 p.m.; Warehouse No. 4 and
Service Engineering stations re-
main open from 8 a.m. to 4:45
p.m.
A dictaphone service is also
available at Communications
Headquarters for personnel who
wish to dictate mesages up to 30
lines (300 words) from any tele-
phone in the plant.
"We can reduce communica-
tions expense by using the tele-
phone for only those urgent com-
munications requiring a series of
questions and answers pyramided
upon each other," Gross said.
"When telephone usage is neces-
s a r y, employees should use
WATS lines in preference to
more expensive commercial toll
facilities.
"If each long distance call was
reduced an average of one minute,it would result in an annual sav-
ings of over $29,000. This is the
approximate cost of one month's
long-distance service."
Record Tokyo-London
Flight Certified
Maj. Sidney J. Kubesch re-
ceived certification from National
Aeronautic Association for his
record flight from Tokyo to Lon-
don at a Wright Brothers Me-
morial Banquet recently in Los
Angeles.
Maj. John 0. Barrett and Capt.
Gerard R. Williamson, crewmen
on the 8,028-mile Arctic flight
which was completed in 8 hours,
35 minutes, were also present.
Attending from GD/Fort
Worth were J. D. McEachern,
Dick Johnson, Val Prahl and
Fred Voorhees.$2.40 to 35c
'Brainstorming' Marks Typical
Value Engineering Session-
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.. .,BACK TO BUSINESS-Involved in sell-off of last B-58 in current
mod program, left to right: B. G. Reed, vice president-operations;
Col. Paul Krause, DCM 43rd Bomb Wing; H. W. Hinckley, B-58
program director; and Lt. Col. Ray Roberts of the AFPR office.
Hustler Business to Continue
With Spares, Fatigue TestingConsiderable "B-58 business"
remains on the books at GD/Fort
Worth, despite completion of vir-
tually all Hustle-Up modification
work.
Firm future business in spares,
cyclic-fatigue testing, and engi-
neering support extend at least
into 1966, according to H. W.
Hinckley, B-58 program director.
"In addition," Hinckley said,
"the subsystem vendor is now
working on Phase I of this pro-
gram for San Antonio Air Ma-
teriel Area.
TCU REGISTRATION
SET FOR TOMORROW
Registration for spring semes-
ter in-plant TCU courses will be
held from 1 to 5 p.m. tomorrow
in room 113-C (mezzanine 11).
Tentatively, 34 courses in gen-
eral areas of mathematics, man-
agement, history, English and
psychology are being offered.
The number of undergraduate
courses to finally be offered will
depend on interest shown.
TCU officials will be present
to offer counsel on various cours-
es and degree plans and will also
be available for counsel on gradu-
ate work, although registration
must be made at the school, and
will be available to counsel em-
ployees interested in the SMU-
TCU graduate engineering pro-
gram.
Payroll-deduction blanks will
be made available for employees
who wish to have tuition and fees
deducted periodically from their
paychecks.
As usual, approved job-related
courses will be eligible for tuition
refund.
HINCKLEY AND KIRK
ASSIGNED TO F-111
H. W. Hinckley, B-58 program
director, and D. R. Kirk, chief
engineer of the B-58 engineering
department, have been tempor-
arily assigned to assist W. D.
Dietz, chief engineer of the F-111
engineering department.
"Your cooperation with these
men during their newtassign-
ments will be appreciated,"
President Frank W. Davis said in
making the announcement.
During the approximate 90-
day assignment, R. S. Reade,
manager of logistic support B-58,
will act as B-58 program director,
reporting directly to Davis.
W. C. Malloy, manager aircraft
systems B-58 engineering, will
act as chief engineer of the B-58
engineering department, report-
ing to Reade.
Save Materials-Don't
Throw Your Job Away"There's a good possibility of
our doing a major modification on
the control system on the B-58
fleet-called Phase II modifica-
tion. It appears almost certain
that we will be authorized to do
engineering and flight-test work
to develop and test the prototype
design.
"There is also other classified
modification work which could
conceivably offer a substantial
amount of B-58 business during
the next few years."
Current B-58 work includes:
Spares: money for certain B-
58 spares has been funded
through 1964. Likely, this busi-
ness will continue for the forsee-
able future.
Cyclic-fatigue: Air Force has
scheduled a second complete
cycle of fatigue testing for the
B-58-running into 1965-to as-
certain life expectancy of the air-
plane. GD/Fort Worth test engi-
neers have just finished the first
cycle of testing.
Support: under a relatively
new type setup, GD/Fort Worth
has been authorized by SAAMA
to keep available a hard core of
some 100 engineers and other
technical support people to as-
sist in possible future B-58 modi-
fication assighments.
"It is perhaps significant to
note that we. are keeping certain
test equipment available for their
use," Hinckley said.
Regular B-58 production came
to a halt at GD/Fort Worth over
a year ago.
Last year, a number of Strate-
gic Air Command Hustlers were
cycled through a two-phase modi-
fication program at GD/Fort
Worth.
Phase I consisted mainly of
adding multiple weapon and es-
cape capsule capabilities; Phase
II involved upgrading maintain-
ability and reliability of com-
munications systems, flight con-
trol systems, and electronic
countermeasure systems.
Only one B-58 remains "in
work." It is a former test B-
58 now being modified into a
trainer bomber.ii
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SUGGESTERS - B. G. Reed, center, vice president-operations,
honors top suggesters, Vada Rogers, Dept. 280-2, and N. T. Bailey,
Dept. 287-1, for month of November.(Continued from Page 1)
per cent saving.)
Bob Ellis, tooling value co-
ordinator, is implementing usage
of the new tube in factory de-
partments.
Creasy emphasized that prin-
ciples of value engineering are
being applied in designing the
F-111 and in virtually every other
area of manufacturing and opera-
tions at GD/Fort Worth.
Team members and projects for the
26th seminar were:
Adapter Kit: W. T. Peitrzak, 164;
M. J. Chiesson, 165; G. L. Magee, 266;
W. M. Hickerson, 107 ; W. Lester, 187;
and S. Z. Hall, 21.
Navy Ladder: W. B. McLaughlin, 166;r ,
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,Four in Running
For Cost Award
Four candidates with savings
totaling $321,491 are in the run-
ning for the 1963 President's
Award at GD/FW.
Finalists, with total savings
from Cost Improvement Propos-
als, are:
E. L. Robertson, Dept. 25,
$156,347; J. H. Herbert, Dept.
268, $50,147; N. T. Bailey, Dept.
287, $70,313; and A. Ocone, Dept.
65, $44,684.
The winner will be selected in
January and named at the March
Management Club meeting. Judg-
ing will be based on the ingenu-
ity, originality, completeness and
practicability of the suggestions.
As usual, the winner will re-
ceive a plaque and certificate and
a gift not to exceed $250.
Meanwhile, M. J. Scott, sugges-
tions supervisor, announced that
over $1 million dollars in savings
from Employee Suggestions and
CIPs had been recorded through
November. Total ES savings was
$566,325, compared to $538,719
in CIPs.
C. C. Kirk A. Ocone
Kirk and Ocone
Top Suggesters
C. C. Kirk, Dept. 36, and A.
Ocone, Dept. 65-4, were named
Suggesters of the Month for De-
cember.
Kirk earned a $40 "bonus" for
the month's outstanding Em-
ployee Suggestion, while Ocone's
winning Cost Improvement Pro-
posal netted first-year savings
totaling $44,684.
Kirk's ES-installed at cost of
only $4-called for hanging B-57
skin panels on hooks until wired
in the etching frame. Two men
can now do the job.
Ocone became a candidate for
the 1963 President's Award by
virtue of his CIP. He suggested
using a numerical control draft-
ing machine to make certain lines
and layout drawings that were
previously made manually from
a tab run manuscript.
First-year savings were figured
after deducting an installation
cost of $132,782.
Dr. Secrest to Speak
At Summer Institute
Dr. E. Leigh Secrest, chief
scientist at GD/Fort Worth, will
be a special guest lecturer at a
summer institute in science and
mathematics for secondary school
teachers at TCU June 8-July 17.
About 100 applicants will be
accepted for the institute, 20 in
each of five areas of study: bi-
ology, chemistry, earth science,
physics, and mathematics..
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