Convairiety, Volume 12, Number 21, October 14, 1959 Page: 1 of 8
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Published every
other Wednesday.
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Convair Division of
General Dynamics Corporation.
Vol. 12, No. 21
oiYvairiely
M Wednesday, October 14, 1959
Fort Worth and
Daingerfield
EDITION
Fort Worth news office:
ext. 2961; Daingerfield news
office: ext. 424
SAN DIEGO, POMONA, ANTELOPE VALLEY, VANDENBERG AFB, CALIF.
AFMTC, CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA., FORT WORTH, TEX.
FW Gives All Out
Effort to Deliver
No. 31 on Schedule
SPEAKER — Frank Pace Jr.,
General Dynamics Corporation
board chairman, will head speak-
ers' list Oct. 21 at Management
Club meeting.
Convair Club
To Hear Pace
Frank Pace Jr., chairman of
the board of the General Dynam-
ics Corporation, and Jack Naish,
president of Convair, will partici-
pate on the program at the next
meeting of Convair Fort Worth
Management Club.
Pace will be chief speaker at
the Oct. 21 meeting and Naish
will present the President’s
Award for 1958 to Tom Pani-
szczyn, Dept. 6-1. The President’s
Award is given annually to the
employee submitting the Cost Im-
provement Proposal judged most
outstanding for the year.
Special guests will include the
board of directors of the General
Dynamics Corporation. August C
Esenwein, Convair executive vice
president, also is expected to at-
tend.
Social hour will begin at 5:30
p.m. at Ridglea Country Club,
and dinner will be at 6:15. Tick-
ets are $2.50.
Thousands of repairable toys
were collected Saturday (Oct.
10) in the annual city wide Boy
Scout collection in support of the
Convair Fort Worth Fix-a-Toy
Christmas program.
As Boy Scouts poured truck-
loads of toys into the Fix-a-Toy
repair shop, volunteers began
dressing and packaging repaired
dolls.
About 350 dolls have now been
assigned to Convair “seamstress-
es” for dressing.
Dec. 15 is the delivery deadline,
FW to Convert
And Update 13
B-58 Hustlers
Thirteen “bargain rate” tac-
tical B-58 Hustlers will be de-
livered to the Air Force in a pro-
duction conversion program set to
begin at Convair Fort Worth the
first of next year.
The bombers will be converted
from test to tactical configura-
tion at approximately 30 per cent
of the production cost of the
same number of new airplanes.
Pods also will be updated and
converted for tactical use for de-
livery to Strategic Air Command
bases along with the Hustlers.
The airplanes, which will have
completed their flight test pro-
grams, will go through an eight-
month revamping and upon com-
pletion will be interchangeable
with newer production airplanes.
All systems will be made cur-
rent, but the changes needed on
every airplane will be different,
since each test aircraft was in-
strumented for different phases
of the flight test program.
One of the major changes will
be installation of new and im-
proved model J-79 jet engines.
Equally important will be a new
automatic center of gravity con-
trol in the fuel systems. This
prevents undesirable weight dis-
tribution in fuel tanks.
Updating will be done on es-
cape mechanisms using systems
now being developed and tested.
The program also calls for IRAN
(inspect and repair as necessary).
Because of extensive changes
to be made in the nose, that sec-
tion will be removed from the
airplanes and sent down the nose
line in the assembly building.
The last newly-converted Hus-
tler, No. 30, is scheduled for de-
livery late in 1961.
Modernization department is
handling the big load in the con-
version program under direction
of E. E. Finch, department man-
ager, with support as needed by
other departments.
according to Fix-a-Toy chairman
B. S. DeBusk. About 1,000 toys
have been completed thus far.
An appeal for many, many
more repairable dolls was issued
this week by W. M. Barlow of
the Fix-a-Toy committee.
Women willing to help repair
and dress dolls are also urgently
needed. Further information on
dressing the dolls may be ob-
tained by calling Mrs. Frances
Eastham, ext. 2148. She will ar-
range for dolls to be delivered to
all volunteers.
OBLIGATED
TO DELIVER
IN
Ocro&ee!
NEW BABY — Poster shows
stork carrying B-58 to remind
employees they are due to de-
liver B-58 No. 31 in October.
Novel idea was developed in
graphic reproduction section of
Dept. 17.
Civic Leaders
See SAC, Convair
In Orientation
(For Photos, See Page 8.)
Strategic Air Command and
Convair FW are deep in an ex-
tensive B-58 orientation program
aimed at communities that will
be closely associated with the
supersonic bomber.
First phase of the program
consists of a series of briefings
for leading citizens of communi-
ties in the B-58 flight test corri-
dors in Texas and New Mexico.
Groups of about 40 citizens are
flown from Fort Worth to Omaha
for briefings on the mission and
problems of SAC. They return to
Fort Worth for a talk on the B-58
test force at Carswell AFB.
They then come across the run-
way for a discussion of the B-58
from the manufacturer’s point of
view. Then they receive a brief-
ing on sonic booms—what causes
them, why they are necessary,
and what they can do and what
they cannot do.
The SAC-Convair B-58 pro-
gram is similar to the joint
program conducted by the Air
Defense Command and Convair
in recent years to introduce
F-102 and F-106 interceptors to
communities where the planes
operate.
The B-58 orientation program
got under way Sept. 23 when the
Fort Worth Air Power Council
and Dallas Air Power Council
held a joint dinner meeting at
Convair. They heard Division
Manager Frank W. Davis dis-
cuss the B-58 and the sonic booms
it sometimes causes in the Fort
Worth-Dallas area. (These two
groups had previously been to
SAC for briefings.)
First visit to SAC-Carswell-
Convair by citizens from B-5S
flight test corridors was Sept.
27-29. Taking part in this orien-
tation conference were 44 leading-
citizens from Weatherford, Min-
eral Wells, Breckenridge, East-
land, Ranger, Dublin, Stephen-
ville, Cisco, and Comanche.
A second group, from commu-
nities in the southern portion of
the B-58 flight test corridors, is
scheduled for a B-58 orientation
conference Oct. 18-20. A third
will make the trip Nov. 22-24.
Also in the planning stage is
a briefing for leading citizens of
Pei'u, Ind., home of Bunker Hill
AFB, which is slated to receive
the first operational wing of
B-58s.
In charge of the B-58 orienta-
tion program at Convair FW is
Loyd L. Turner, special assistant
to the division manager.
“The Air Force needs this air-
plane—the best operational air-
craft they’ll have in stock.
“And Convair people know it.
and are going all out to see that
it’s delivered in October if phys-
ically possible.”
It was W. L. Daniel Jr. talking
about Convair B-58 Hustler No.
31. Daniel is general foreman in
Dept. 63, which now has prime
responsibility for nursing the
first production model through to
delivery to the Air Force.
Target was to complete Con-
vair test flights last week and
turn it over for Air Force ac-
ceptance flight.
Third flight was Oct. 6, when
it made a two-hour and 15-minute
simulated mission for a complete
operational checkout. This includ-
ed firing 1,200 shots in a matter
of a few seconds from the Gatling
gun in the Hustler’s tail. This
was over the Gulf of Mexico.
In-flight refueling from a tank-
er was due on the fourth flight,
which Convair ci'ews hoped would
complete the flight test program
on this particular aircraft.
Second, third and fourth flights
were made by George Davis, pilot,
with W. E. Denton and R. O. Gar-
lington in second and third sta-
tions. First flight crew was Ray
Fitzgerald, pilot, and Denton and
Garlington.
“Unless something unforeseen
happens,” said Daniel, “I believe
we stand a good chance to meet
the schedule.”
To do so, work around the clock
continues, with some putting in
'ACTING' REMOVED
FROM MGR. TITLE
J. E. Harwell, veteran Convair
man, is now factory manager at
Convair Fort Worth. He has been
serving in the position in acting
capacity while V. Dolson was on
special assignment.
Dolson, meanwhile, has been
appointed manager of product
support (Convairiety, Sept. 30).
Harwell, who had been assist-
ant factory manager since 1956,
has progressed through the or-
ganization from assembler with
Consairways (a flying service op-
erated on the West Coast by the
then Consolidated Aircraft Co.).
He rose through foreman, as-
sistant general foreman, general
foreman, assistant superintendent
and superintendent.
SITUATION OK — Congress-
man Jim Wright of Fort Worth
signals from center compartment
of B-58 just before flight which
made him member of Convair's
Mach 2 Club.
as much as a 17-hour day when
necessary.
After AF flight test, the air-
craft will be given a minute in-
spection. When it passes this, it
will go to Carswell.
Dual Controls
To Be Installed
In Four B-58s
Conversion gets under way this
week on B-58 Hustler No. 11,
which has come home to Convair
Fort Worth to be converted into
a trainer bomber.
The trainers will enable the
Air Force to better indoctrinate
pilots with delta-wing jet expe-
rience, and to do so faster and
with added margins of safety.
Airplane No. 11, one of four
scheduled to become TB-58As, is
being stripped of bomb-nav equip-
ment to make room for a pilot
instructor station behind the stu-
dent pilot.
The standard second crew mem-
ber’s station will be elevated eight
inches and moved slightly forward
and to the right. This will enable
the instructor to “look over the
shoulder” of the trainee.
A second set of controls for the
pilot instructor will be used to
monitor the student pilot in front
and also permit the instructor to
override the student and fly the
airplane should it be necessary
Outside vision for the second
station will result from eliminat-
ing part of the bulkhead between
the first and second crew stations
and installing side windows and a
new canopy with windows.
While this conversion takes
place, the planes also will be up-
dated to configurations closely
approaching newer production air-
craft, except that the bomb-nav
system and certain other tactical
equipment will be deleted.
The conversion also calls for
new and improved engines, as in
the production conversion pro-
gram, the improved fuel system,
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FW Responds
To Con-Trib
Off with a figurative bang
you could almost hear was the
Convair employee Con-Trib-Club
drive at Convair Fort Worth last
week.
First report showing pledges
up to 3 p.m. on the drive’s first
day showed this: 56 per cent in
participation and 74 per cent, or
$192,245, in dollars.
Con-Trib board members ex-
pressed confidence that employee
pledges, when they’re all turned
in, will meet and exceed the dol-
lar quota of $258,750.
Employees not in the plant last
week, but who have now returned,
were being contacted by their
supervisors in the annual “clean
up” effort.
Eighteen departments topped
their dollar quotas on the first
report. Departments with 100 per
cent or more were: 2, 5, 8, 9, 11,
12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21, 29, 31, 33.
34, 35, 63 and 73.
Three departments had 100
per cent participation on the first
day: Depts. 5, 16 and 18.
Scoring 95 per cent participa-
tion on the first report were
Depts. 8 and 9.
MATCH MAKER—Wondering which head will fit the body is Mrs.
Vickie Powell, helping with Convair Fort Worth doll repair shop for
annual Fix-a-Toy campaign.
Many More Dolls Needed For Fix-a-Toy,
As Well as Volunteers to Dress Them
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