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Aviation History
1961
1961 - 1624.PDF
728 FLIGHT, 9 November 1961 Left, model of possible three-man Apollo lunar spacecraft shown by NASA. Right, a contribution by the Defense Department— Dyna-Soar model mounted on Titan booster. To the left in this picture is a NASA Mercury capsule, one of several on display fc- OSCILLATING ELECTRON ION ENGINE FOR PROPUtSION IN SPACE Laboratory working model of oscillating electron ion engine (United Aircraft Corp). Below, Nimbus/Aeros operational weather satellite model (NASA) Missiles and Space flight . . . "Grumman," a paragraph on a give-away package told us, "isproud to have been chosen to develop and construct the orbiting astronomical observatory for the Goddard Space Flight Centerof the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. With this model [a cardboard cut-out OAO], we share our pride with thepeople of the United States." Another shareworthy offering was an Astroguide Navigator for Earth Orbiters, described as a geo-stellar projection matching system adapted as a slide rule. "Exhibiting in depth" was a new technique introduced at thisyear's show. This meant that the aisles ran through the centre of many of the company stands, creating a "Come into my parlour"atmosphere in which escape for the visiting journalist from the spiderous PRO's web was made more difficult. Not content with the* impact of the Saturn boat-tail mock-up inthe main display, Rocketdyne impressed with sheer size again in the parent North American Aviation stand on the ground floor of thethree-floor exhibition. Here was shown a mock-up of a single- chamber 1,500,0001b thrust F-l engine. For those interested in anoverall view of aviation development, there was the Flicker Flash Theatre, showing "Progress" or "Where from have we come?"This was described in the programme as a "light-hearted approach to the history of flight, from balloonists to rocket pilots in a nickel-odeon flicker movie presentation, complete with sound effects and ricky tick music." Other exhibitors nearby included the Boy Scouts of America andthe State of Florida. Meanwhile, on the second (British) or third (US) floor, a young lady in an abbreviated skirt was dispensingcigarettes by courtesy of Northrop; Marquardt was urging "Scien- tists! See your experiment become a reality" (by means of Mar-quardt sounding rockets); and Callery Chemical Co invited pas- sers-by to sit in on a rocket roulette game. Well, I managed not to be recruited into the Boy Scouts ofAmerica, declined to emigrate to Florida, and was too busy taking pictures to settle down at the roulette wheel. I wasn't really in themarket for a sounding rocket either, and, although it hardly seemed to matter at the time, I do not smoke. But this was irrelevant. The sights of New York had provedphotogenic and fascinating. The American Rocket Society's Space- flight Report was good and loud, even if the noise of the report wa-imuffled somewhat by the clicking ball on the roulette wheel, the clinking ice in the drinks at the company hospitality suites, the rick •tick music and the cries of those trampled underfoot in the rush for cigarettes on the Northrop stand. .
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