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Aviation History
1955
1955 - 1744.PDF
..m&§. VAST and prolific, North American AviationInc. ranks in the very forefront of the air-craft, missile and powerplant manufacturing organizations of the U.S.A. Epitomized in thesephotographs are several aspects of the company's work. Of the three arranged in echelon on theopposite page, the first shows the tower at Downey, California, where simulated flight loadsare imposed on guided-missile airframes. At Downey the Missile Development Division ofNorth American is working on the SM-64 Navaho intercontinental guided missile for the U.S. AirForce. The second picture shows FJ-4 Fury deck-landing fighters for the U.S. Navy on die final assembly line at Columbus, Ohio, and the thirddepicts rocket projectiles, designed and developed by the Rocketdyne Division, being prepared fortest-firing in a steel tunnel at Santa Susana, Cali- fornia. The Rocketdyne Division has developedseveral types of small liquid-propellant and solid- propellant R.P.s. Suggestive of a scene by Gustave Dore is thespectacle on the left, wherein a rocket motor of very high thrust is on test—again at Santa Susana.North American supply the power units not only for the Nayaho but for the Army OrdnanceRedstone missile. Immediately above is an F-100C Super Sabrewith a bomb load totalling 7,000 lb. The Super Sabre is the only U.S.A.F. fighter for which thereare two sources of production, at Los Angeles and Columbus. The men in white are assembling precisionequipment in the air-conditioned, dust-free assembly area of N.A.'s Autonetics Division atDowney. Here automatic and semi-automatic flight control and guidance systems are developedand manufactured for missiles and aircraft. Finally there is the modification and moderniza-tion line for F-86 Sabres at Fresno, California.
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