Convairiety, Volume 12, Number 22, October 28, 1959 Page: 1 of 8
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Con-Trib Funds Aid Flood Victims as Drive Goes Over Top
Even as Convair employee
pledges sent campaign funds
soaring past the target, Con-Trib
was on the job providing finan-
cial assistance to families whose
homes were flooded in the latest
overflow of Fossil Creek.
A current report showed pled-
ges totaling $300,406, or 116.1
per cent.
Participation was 92.2 per cent
with present total contributions
surpassing the target of $258,000.
“My sincere thanks go to each
Convair employee who partici-
pated,” said Frank W. Davis,
Convair Fort Worth manager and
Con-Trib president.
“This is another heart-warm-
ing demonstration of the hearts
of Convair employees—and a
demonstration of their faith and
belief in the principles upon
which Con-Trib is based.”
As employees were signing
pledges, the good their dollars
do was being demonstrated in the
assistance available for flood
victims if they needed it.
Employee families in the flood,
among others, were these: J. T.
Hilliard, Dept. 4-1; C. W. Phil-
lips, 89-3; Floyd R. Honeycutt,
25-3; M. M. Cantrell, 6, and Mrs.
Cantrell, 21; Frank E. Hancock,
6-7; Don Deborde, 6-1; and Glen
Hudson, 89.
Dollarwise, reliability depart-
ment (with only nine employees)
made highest percentage in the
plant: 187 per cent.
Another high record was set
by Dept. 2 with its 152 per cent
of dollar quota.
In all, 56 departments of the
total 61 made 100 per cent or
more. Only one department was
less than 90 per cent.
In participation, these depart-
ments scored 100 per cent: 5, 8,
9, 10, 16, 18, and 51. Dozens
scored in the 90 to 99 per cent
bracket.
View from roof of J. T. Hilliard home.
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.
01 ltRE awids
HARD AT WORK—At left, N. E. Renfro, Dept. 64; Marlin Rogers, Dept. 92; John Zimmerman,
Dept. 82, take stations on doll assembly line of Fix-a-Toy operation. At right, Peter Coriddi, 10, and
brother Kenneth, 7, help their daddy, Pete Coriddi of Dept. 64, in “auto shop."
Air Force Flight Tests
Begin on Hustler No. 31
Movie on Fix-a-Toy
Ready to Circulate
“Spirit of Christmas,” color
motion picture history of Op-
eration Fix-a-Toy, is ready for
circulation.
Viewers will include church
and civic organizations as well
as plant groups.
Six copies of the movie, pro-
duced by engineering motion
picture section, are available.
G. N. Nesbitt, Dept. 25-4
foreman, is originator of Fix-
a-Toy. The film follows his
work on the project, which in
a few years has grown to a
citywide undertaking.
The Texas Boys’ Choir pro-
vides background music.
Air Force crew members at
Carswell AFB are now “flying”
B-58 Hustlers, ejecting and land-
ing without ever leaving their
classrooms in the base training
building.
They are using working models
of B-58 equipment built by Con-
vair Fort Worth development de-
partment.
Classes began this month and
will run for several years, an-
FW Thrift Display
Wins at St. Louis
A Convair Fort Worth “Miss
Thrifty” display (Convairiety,
Oct. 14, 1959) was judged one
of four winners at the recent
national annual conference in St.
Louis of National Association of
Suggestion Systems.
It was designed by Dept. 17’s
publications and graphic repro-
duction section artists and M. J.
Scott of employee suggestion sec-
tion and included Convairiety pro-
motional material.
Scott gave conference members
a report on Convair Fort Worth’s
“Ideas to Esenwein” campaign
which resulted in cost savings of
more than $1 million.
Air Force flight tests began
last week on B-58 Hustler No.
31, first production model of the
Convair Fort Worth-built double
sonic bomber.
Convair flight tests were al-
ready virtually complete.
These are next-to-last steps be-
fore delivery of the airplane.
After Air Force acceptance
flights, minute quality inspec-
tions are made both by Convair
and the Air Force. Convair makes
a “Pre-262” inspection, followed
by the Air Force’s “262” inspec-
tion.
other group beginning after each
graduation. •
Separate classes are conducted
for crew members in each of the
three stations. The pilots’ class-
es last about a month longer than
instruction for navigators and de-
fense systems operators.
Every day four hours of class
are followed by four hours of
actual flight line training. In
classrooms the burden of the in-
struction is on the Convair mobile
training units.
Air Force instructors, trained
in Convair classes, begin instruc-
tion with the model panels, which
are cut-away versions of the B-
58. In one room is the hydraulic
landing gear panel, accompanied
by an animated “Mickey Mouse”
panel showing flow of fluids.
Colored lights, blinking one after
another, give the appearance of
liquid in motion.
An ejection seat and canopy
system is in another room. The
seat operates completely, with a
slow trip up a short pair of rails
taking the place of actual ejec-
tion.
Other units explain phases of
the airplane’s operations from
fuel system to air conditioning.
Then the climax — delivery to
the Air Force at Carswell AFB.
“When we deliver the Hustler,
the Air Force will have a com-
plete, acceptable and tactical su-
personic bomber for the first
time,” said W. L. Daniel Jr.,
whose Dept. 63 has primary re-
sponsibility for “hustling the
Hustler.”
Daniel is general foreman on
first shift. M. W. Holley is sec-
ond shift assistant general fore-
man and Glen Nelson is third
shift foreman.
“This is the cleanest B-58 we’ve
had so far,” said Daniel, “but
we nevertheless have our prob-
lems, as we expect in any new
aircraft.
“But we’re working them off
as fast as three hard-working
crews (three shifts) can get to
them.”
Maj. Joe B. Thomson Jr. is
Air Force pilot for the accept-
ance flights. Navigator is Capt.
Andrew Z. Doka. Capt. Robert
S. Ballard is defense systems
operator.
More Texas Leaders
Briefed on Booms
By Convair and SAC
San Saba, Brownwood, Hamil-
ton and Coleman were B-58 flight
test corridor towns represented
at the second briefing session on
sonic booms. The briefings are
sponsored by Strategic Air Com-
mand and Convair Fort Worth.
The visitors were taken to
Omaha for a tour of Offutt Air
Force Base and explanations of
the sonic boom — caused by air-
planes flying faster than the
speed of sound.
The civic leaders representing
these West Texas towns were
then returned to Fort Worth
where they were briefed, then
toured Convair facilities and in-
spected the B-58.
Crew Members at Carswell 'Fly'
Hustlers, Never Leave Ground
Hustler Vital
To U.S. Defense,
Pace Declares
“America can’t afford to do
without the B-58.
“It is our responsibility—not
as General Dynamics or Convair
people, but as American cit-
izens—to provide the nation with
this most potent weapon of de-
fense.”
That definitive spelling out of
the duty of Convair people—for
their own good and that of the
nation—came from Frank Pace
Jr. at the annual “Top Brass
Night” meeting of Convair Fort
Worth Management Club.
Pace, chairman of the board
of General Dynamics, was prin-
cipal speaker. Special guests
were General Dynamics board
members, members of the board
of management, Convair Presi-
dent Jack Naish and Executive
Vice President August C. Esen-
wein.
The dinner meeting, held at
Ridglea Country Club, was at-
tended by a record-breaking
crowd of more than 1,600.
Pace told club members that
he was particularly impressed
with the B-58’s various capabili-
ties, especially after recent test
missions in which the Hustler
flew “on the deck” (that is, un-
der 500 feet) for 1,400 miles in
approximately two hours (Con-
vairiety, Oct. 14).
“What we have accomplished
in General Dynamics and Con-
vair has been done with total in-
tegrity,” said Pace. “I am proud
of what has been done at Fort
Worth.
“We are in a good position to
continue the B-58 program be-
cause what we have promised,
we have delivered or exceeded.
We must continue to keep our-
selves and our actions above re-
proach.
“We’ll continue our efforts in
the B-58 program not because
it’s ours-—but because it’s right.”
Pace said that “when the cards
are dealt at the international
poker table, the winning cards
are strength.”
Pace added that we are in an
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Doyle, Utley
Run for Club
Presidency
C. W. “Smokey” Doyle, Dept.
22-2, and C. C. Utley, Dept. 4-1,
compete for president of the Con-
vair Fort Worth Management
Club as Nov. 2 elections ap-
proach.
Officers elected will take of-
fice in January and their terms
will run until July, 1961, in ac-
cordance with a recent constitu-
tional amendment which changed
the club year from Jan. 1 to July
1. After that, new officers will
serve from July of one year to
July of the next.
The ballot next Monday will
show J. O. Muncy, Dept. 53, and
P. H. Billman, Dept. 6-6, as can-
didates for vice president. M. E.
Miller, Dept. 27-1, and W. M.
Berry, Dept. 7-4, are running for
the same office on nights.
(Continued on Page 8)
TOP BRASS—Tom Paniszczyn of FW Dept. 6, who won Presi-
dent's Award, is shown with Frank Pace, General Dynamics board
chairman, and Convair President Jack Naish.
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General Dynamics Corporation. Convair Division. Convairiety, Volume 12, Number 22, October 28, 1959, periodical, October 28, 1959; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1117954/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: 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.