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... interviewed with a number of aerospace companies. IBM and GE General Electric were not, but Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. and Curtiss-Wright were. Also, just by accident one day at school ... on the operations team, but also by key individuals from the engineering directorate and from Grumman and from North American. Also immediately in the Apollo time frame, my job became the ...

... a hold of the people out at Long Island. There’s a company out there, Grumman Corporation , in Long Island New York . For some reason, I had talked to my neighbor, who was the local Grumman director, and I said something about, “We need some containers,” and he said, “Call this guy, Ed, in Grumman, out in Long Island.” So I called him, and I said that my neighbor had ...

... , and FRC had one that it used for in-flight simulation. Finally, there was the Grumman Gulfstream, which is a deluxe executive aircraft. So these three were the candidates, and we ... half way up the vertical tail. We decided to do an in-flight fly off. Grumman had one of its test pilots fly a Gulfstream to FRC. And of course the ... find a way of reducing lift on the Gulfstream. What we did was to have Grumman modify the wing to provide large wing flaps. These were then modulated by the simulation ...

... , it’s awesome. The Shuttle Training Aircraft is actually an old airplane. It’s a Grumman Gulfstream G II. It’s a twin-engine business jet that I have no idea ... that’s what we used the Shuttle Training Aircraft for. It’s a highly modified Grumman Gulfstream II. Although it looks like a normal one from the outside, the wing is different than a normal G II. We send it to Gulfstream in Savannah, Georgia. Grumman built a special wing for the airplane. It’s a beefier wing. It’s capable ...

... , 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 ... is and what good people they had. But I learned at both headquarters and at Grumman, what I hadn't realized until I got in those environments was that at JSC ... 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 ...

... Lunar Excursion Module development at that time. '''Carpenter:''' 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. That's where LEDs Light-Emitting Diodes were first ...

... Alamitos Naval Air Station Los Alamitos, California . My responsibility when I was there was an Grumman F6F Hellcat, and my job in the morning was to get out and clean it ... assigned to Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-114, which in those days was flying the old Grumman F9F-8 Cougar. Shortly after that, about six or eight months after I joined the ... the lunar module got very hot and heavy. I spent a lot of time at Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. Bethpage in New York while they were building the lunar modules, and ...

... Kennedy Space Center, and we all got together to resolve these interfaces, … North American Aviation, Grumman, all the contractors, to resolve these interfaces. I had a very good team of people ... , and I have to say they probably were the driving force that helped us. But Grumman was good. They all were good. If I had to single out, the best one ... 've got Joe building it, and he got some very good contractors. We got Northrup-Grumman in El Segundo. We've got Lockheed-Martin in Michoud Louisiana building the propellant tanks ...

... , yeah." That's the second time I quit. But unfortunately, Lockheed didn't win. But Grumman Aerospace Corporation was the competitor, and they won. Fred W. Haise was going to head up the new organization of headquarters. Grumman won, and I was also on their team at the same position. Unfortunately, NASA didn ... were going to have a going-away dinner for me. So I showed up. The Grumman guy got up there and said, "By the way, you guys don't know this ...

... . of Sounding Rkt. Launching; Astro. and Aero. Eng., July 1963,9)'' NASA announced selection of Northrop Corp. for negotiation of con­tract to support Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL in Project Ranger ... special board of inquiry and Jet Propulsion Laboratory JPL . NASA said it was "contemplated that Northrop later may be assigned complete spacecraft system responsibility for the Ranger program" beginning with Rangers ...

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