Convairiety, Volume 10, Number 15, July 24, 1957 Page: 1 of 8
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Published every other Wednesday by Convair, a Division of General Dynamics
Corporation, for the benefit of Convair people everywhere.
Vol. 10, No. 15
oivvairieLy
Wednesday, July 24, 1957
Fort Worth and
Daingerfield
EDITION
Fort Worth news office:
ext. 5290; Daingerfield riews
office: ext. 424
SAN DIEGO, POMONA AND ANTELOPE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
DAINGERFIELD AND FORT WORTH, TEXAS
City Extends
Thanks For Aid
In Flood Crisis
Convair Fort Worth employees
have the thanks of the city of
Fort Worth for their help during
the flood emergency.
Mayor T. A. McCann, in a let-
ter to Division Manager August
C. Esenwein, said:
“On behalf of the City Council,
the city officials and myself, I
wish to extend to you and the
members of your organization our
sincere thanks and appreciation
for the help and assistance to the
city government during the recent
flood emergency.”
Convair sent manpower and
equipment into the flood area to
help in evacuations and in the big
clean-up job after flood waters
receded. Many Convair employees
volunteered to take part in the
operation.
Scores of Convair families were
hit by the flood waters and a
central flood assistance office was
established in the plant.
Convair Employees’ Con-Trib-
Club provided emergency relief
for employees and now cooperates
with the Red Cross in rehabilita-
tion efforts.
* *
Convair employees who donated
days off to work at Fort Worth’s
flood-ravaged YMCA Camp Car-
ter have the sincere thanks of the
Metropolitan Board of Directors
of the YMCA.
In a resolution, the directors
recognized “the tremendous con-
tribution” made by Convair em-
ployees.
“The YMCA was able to save
itself,” the resolution read, “and
was enabled to open its camp-
ing season in time to serve
every boy desiring to attend
Camp Carter.”
The 215-acre camp bore the
brunt of flood waters pouring
over Lake Worth spillway and
was threatened with suspension of
the 1957 camping season unless
“considerable manpower” could be
recruited.
Convair people stepped into the
breach and furnished volunteers
to renovate the flood-ravaged
camp in a project coordinated by
the Convair FW Management
Club.
F. C. Clayton, coordinator, said
both hourly people and supervis-
ors donated free time generously
to the project.
More than 5,000 manhours were
donated. Most employees worked
on weekends, but Clayton said a
round-the-clock operation was set
up by the pattern shop to replace
furniture lost in the flood.
Police Dept, to Star
On FW Management
Club Slate July 27
Fort Worth Police Chief Cato
Hightower and three of his de-
partment heads will appear on the
Convair Fort Worth Management
Club program at Ridglea Country
Club July 27.
The civic program is designed
to present “Your Police Depart-
ment.” Included will be talks
about the work of the traffic,
radio and youth divisions.
Entertainment again will fea-
ture The Commodores, a quartet
which appeared at the June meet-
ing of the Management Club.
Dave Halsey, program chair-
man, said the quartet is returned
“by popular demand.” The pro-
gram is sponsored by develop-
ment. Gus Green will be master
of ceremonies.
Hospitality hour begins at 11:30
a.m. with luncheon at 12:15 p.m.
Tickets are $1.50. Door prizes
will be given.
AERIAL BALLET—Delta-winged B-58 and its two F-I02A chase
planes roared overhead like three darts so newsmen could get a
good underview of the ships during B-58 press show two weeks ago
at Fort Worth. F-l02As flew formation with B-58 throughout flight.
More photos on pag,e 3.
Mach Ten Speed Target
Irvine Says at B-58 Show
Lt. Gen. C. S. Irvine, Air Force
deputy chief of staff, materiel,
said Convair’s B-58 is such an
advance over earlier aircraft that
a special board was once named
to investigate the soundness of
its design.
Irvine recalled, as a member of
the investigating group, that Con-
vair engineers “were so confident
and convincing that we finally
gave them the nod.”
“When I look at the remark-
able system they developed, I am
happy I did have a hand in giving
Convair the green light to develop
the Hustler.
“As of right now, I am con-
vinced the B-58 is the fastest
jet bomber in the world. It
represents one of the most sig-
nificant forward steps in the
history of military aviation.”
Irvine, speaking before the na-
tion’s top aviation writers at
Ridglea Country Club July 9,
said the Hustler “bridges the
knowledge gap between what we
previously thought were limita-
tions and what we now know are
possibilities.”
August C. Esenwein, Convair
Fort Worth Division manager,
was master of ceremonies.
The general was introduced at
the dinner by J. V. Naish, Convair
executive vice president. Naish
noted that Irvine, an Air Force
flyer since 1918, flew to the Fort
Worth dinner from St. Louis in
less than an hour aboard a jet
airplane.
Representatives of about 75 na-
tional publications heard Irvine
at the pre-press day dinner. The
general said the B-58 paves the
way not only for more advanced
aircraft, but also will contribute
to missile development.
But, Irvine cautioned, engineer-
ing must not rest on its laurels.
“Within the next few years,
we are aiming for speeds of
Mach 10 (ten times the speed
of sound) for manned vehicles,
and 15,000 miles per hour for
missiles. Manned aircraft alti-
tudes must reach or exceed 25
miles, and missile altitudes will
range from 200 to 700 miles.”
To reach such goals, Irvine
said quality engineering and pro-
duction, and imaginative research
are necessary.
Irvine said the nation’s young
people must be trained to con-
tinue the advance of technology.
“If we fail in this chore, then
we might as well close up shop,
put the Hustler in the nearest
junk pile and bide our time till
the inevitable day when the Sovi-
ets enshroud us with their godless
ideology.”
Irvine reviewed radical depar-
tures that make the B-58 such a
versatile airplane — area rule
(coke bottle fuselage), delta
wing, systems installation, the
pod appendage, and honeycomb
skin surfaces.
“I can’t help feeling that
(Continued on Page 8)
Hustler Unveiling
Creates Headlines
New York to LA
Complete coverage—newspaper, magazine, television,
radio and newsreel—told the world about Convair’s super-
sonic B-58 Hustler this month.
The ship performed at Fort Worth for about 75 invited
newsmen in the most revealing demonstration tosdate.
Press reaction was highly fav-
orable.
The Los Angeles Times head-
lined “Air Force Takes Wraps
Off Speediest Bomber,” and the
New York Herald-Tribune an-
nounced “First Supersonic Bomb-
er May Do 1,200 M.P.H.”
George Carroll of the New
York Journal-American quoted
Lt. Gen. C. S. Irvine as saying
the B-58 is “a big missile with
three men in it.”
John A. Giles of the Washing-
ton Star was interested in the
Hustler’s detachable pods.
“Into its medium-sized air-
frame,” he wrote, “designers
have packed the ability to carry
a wide variety of external pods
crammed with offensive and de-
fensive weapons at dash speeds
over the target area.”
The San Diego Tribune in an
eight-column banner headline an-
nounced “Convair Shows Off Its
Mighty B-58.” The Wall Street
Journal noted that the nation’s
first supersonic bomber would
cost about $5.5 million each in
production quantities.
Reporters flashed news of the
demonstration to the world di-
rectly from the Fort Worth plant.
Special press room wire facilities
were set up in Hangar Bay 3 for
the visiting writers.
The writers were brought di-
rectly to the Fort Worth plant in
special planes from East and
(Continued on Page 8)
Idea for a 'Little Contraption'
Earns Record-Breaking $2,768
A Convair Fort Worth machin-
ist’s suggestion on a better way
to make stainless steel rivets
earned for him the largest sug-
gestion award ever made out to
a Fort Worth employee— a rec-
ord $2,768!
Joe Rozina, Dept. 30, collected
$1,384.05 of the award from Di-
vision Manager August C. Esen-
wein July 11. He will receive
balance of the award if the idea
still is in use after six months.
It was the machinist’s third
money-winning suggestion. He
received smaller amounts for
ideas in 1955 and 1956.
Rozina, who describes his in-
vention as “a little contraption
to drill rivets,” said the device
consists of a chute and bushing
for feeding an automatic screw
machine and ejecting the finished
rivet.
“It is about four or five times
faster than doing it manually,”
he explained.
Rozina said he got the idea
when he was assigned to work
the rivets on a manual machine.
“Being an automatic screw ma-
chinist,” he said, “I figured an
automatic machine could be
adapted to the operation.”
"A GOOD IDEA"—Division Manager August C. Esenwein pre-
sents award to Joe Rozina, Dept. 30. for a suggestion on a better
way to make stainless steel rivets. Award was $2,768—largest ever
at Convair Fort Worth.
Tons Cleared
To Salvage by
Space Makers
“Operation: Space-Maker”
paused for a second wind this
week after tons of non-account-
able items had cleared the salv-
age warehouse in Convair Fort
Worth’s big project to make space
for production purposes.
O. Magnusson of industrial en-
gineering said he expects many
items for which the Air Force
holds Convair responsible will be
cleared for salvage by the middle
of August.
In the meantime, however, de-
partments were reminded that
there yet are many non-account-
able items which can be salvaged.
Object of the drive is to get
rid of unneeded items which are
taking up space that could be
used for production, but Cecil
McClure of layout said the proj-
ect is not designed to take space
from anyone.
“My job is to find space for
those who need it,” he said. “It
becomes quite a problem when
there is none.”
McClure said any space not
needed by a department should
revert to Dept. 16 for reallocation
to departments with a greater
need.
“But in most cases,” he said,
“space made available by depart-
ments will continue to be used by
the same department.
“Supervisors can improve their
own operations by getting rid of
unneeded items. The project is an
opportunity for department heads
to do themselves some good by
providing a more efficient work
area.”
This statement was seconded
by Dave Jordan, Convair Fort
Worth’s No. 1 good housekeeping
salesman.
F-102As Will Compete
Sunday in Annual
Bendix Trophy Race
Taking off from Chicago’s
O’Hare Field starting at 2 p.m.
CST Sunday, July 28, six Convair-
built F-102As of the Air Defense
Command will streak to Washing-
ton, D.C., at supersonic speed in
the 19th running of the Bendix
Trophy Race.
The speedy interceptors, two
each from the Eastern, Central,
and Western ADC, will attempt
to cover the 615.25-statute-mile
course in something under 48
minutes. They will be shooting
at the 666-mph. mark set in last
year’s Bendix by Maj. Manuel
“Pete” Fernandez, Korean war
ace, in F-100C between George
AFB, Calif., and Oklahoma City.
Convair field service represent-
atives from each of the commands
have been assigned to the race to
give technical assistance as need-
ed, although all tuning and serv-
icing of the planes is being han-
dled by Air Force personnel.
Convair President Joseph T. Mc-
Narney will be at Andrews AFB,
Maryland, near Washington, to
participate in trophy presenta-
tion ceremonies.
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General Dynamics Corporation. Convair Division. Convairiety, Volume 10, Number 15, July 24, 1957, periodical, July 24, 1957; Fort Worth, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1118035/m1/1/?q=war: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth.