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... increase its program costs 16%. Grumman Aircraft Corp. had said it was paying 25% more for titanium and aluminum than one year ago. Grumman manufactured six models of aircraft, including the Navy's F-14, which used more titanium than any other aircraft. Rockwell International Corp. had raised the ...

... 's delivery on schedule) , while potential enemy's development of better aircraft called for competitive U.S. development. An aircraft that would keep weight down to 52,000 lbs and exploit the swept-wing and engine features of F-111B had been proposed by McDonnell Douglas Corp. and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Grumman Aircraft Engineering ...

... -IV): Bell Aircraft Corporation ; The Boeing Airplane Company ; Chrysler Corporation ; General Dynamics Corporation , Convair Astronautics Division ; Douglas Aircraft Company , Inc.; Grumman Aircraft Corporation Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation; Lockheed Aircraft Corporation ; The Martin Company ; McDonnell Aircraft Corporation ; North American Aviation North American Aviation , Inc.; and United Aircraft Corporation. ''Akens et al., History ...

... ? '''Cour-Palais:''' Yes. I originally worked in England for ten years on an aircraft project. I’m an aircraft design engineer, aeronautical engineer. When the chance came to go to Canada in ... of work relevant. It was highly relevant because both of them are what we call aircraft structural type of design systems, and the portion that they gave me specifically to work ... you were talking. Earlier you mentioned that you worked with North American, you worked with Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation , you did some work with Texas A&M, you did some work with ...

... LM cabin during ground tests. Changes were being made at Bethpage, N.Y., plant of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., LM prime contractor. ''(NASA Release 67-159)'' Special tests to determine best ... . . . . It would seem more effective to attack the problem of requiring manufacturers to incorporate better aircraft stability and controllability characteristics. . . ." Other methods suggested to improve air safety included: (1) raising airport ...

... full-scale boilerplate mockup of LM cabin interior fabricated specifically for the test program by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., fires were deliberately set in 41 tests to investigate the flammability and ... with US. to purchase 50 F-111 variable sweep-wing aircraft because devaluation of the pound would increase cost of the aircraft. Devaluation of the pound from $2.80 to $2 4 ...

... , Chris Kraft, Max Maxime A. Faget, didn't want to hire a bunch of old aircraft workers, aerospace engineers, experienced people. They wanted us stupid college guys, like me, who didn ... , and then when I left NASA I went out into the aerospace industry with the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, outstanding company, and I could talk all day about what a good company ... that at headquarters. I didn't find that in industry, either. It wasn't just Grumman; I spent a couple of years with United Space Alliance in my last job. Smart ...

... about the communications system? How were you involved there? Were you working with the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation plans? '''Carpenter:''' Yes. We worked with Collins Radio Company . They made our radios. We ... :''' Well, yes, and I worked with the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation folks on LEM design. '''Kelly:''' Can I ask, what did you do? '''Carpenter:''' Went to Grumman, talked about cockpit layout, cockpit indicators ...

... for management of the LM program including design, development, and fabrication of the vehicle by Grumman Aircraft Engineering Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., LM prime contractor; (3) Col. Maynard E. White (USAF, Ret.), former Deputy ... Germany. ''(NYT, 7/26/67,61M)'' France and U.K. did not believe Concorde supersonic aircraft, scheduled to enter commercial service in 1971, would be forced out of the world market ...

... comfortably before the end of the decade.” C. R. Able, group vice president of Douglas Aircraft Co.’s Missile and Space Systems Div., outlined to the group plan for converting empty ... function of USAF’s Manned Orbiting Laboratory ( Manned Orbiting Laboratory MOL ). Douglas Aircraft Co., McDonnell Aircraft Corp., and Grumman Aircraft Engineering Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. each had $50,000 NASA contracts to study use of booster ...

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