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... for the Shuttle. I was assigned to work the Grumman Aerospace Corporation proposal, and so we wound up with three main proposals, Grumman’s, McDonnell Douglas’ Corporation , and North American’s Rockwell ... they selected the contractor, they selected North American, and then essentially, North American built the Grumman proposal. So I don’t know what all went into those kind of things, but ...

... Proj Off)'' Impact of aerospace industry slump and termination of lunar excursion module project on Grumman Corp. and Long Island, N.Y., area was described by New York Times. With 26 ... aerospace combines, even far beyond those two counties that jointly claim Grumman as their own." Nearly 1000 subcontractors depended on Grumman's patronage. Firm was "largest real estate taxpayer in Nassau County ...

... University of Rhode Island and got my degree there. …I had a job offer from Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. and another one from NACA national Advisory Committee for Aeronautics at Langley ... American Rockwell, there was a good job done by Rocketdyne and all the people at Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. that did the lunar module. They made that. That was all pretty ... 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 ...

... six of us, and we went to LTV Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. —we went to Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation —we went to McDonnell Douglas Corporation , we went to North American Rockwell ... . For the next six years I consulted in the aerospace industry, working for Boeing, for Grumman, for NASA, for Lockheed, for McDonnell Douglas, in which I signed contracts of a defined ... building programs. So during the consulting I worked on the Space Station for Boeing and Grumman up in Reston Virginia when the Space Station was headquartered there. I worked for Lockheed ...

... contract competition. North American Rockwell had won contract July 26. Grumman Aerospace Corp. President Joseph G. Gavin, Jr., told press after Grumman debriefing that his firm was unsuccessful largely because its shuttle ... said NASA officials had considered "mission suitability" and not management problems as weakness in Grumman bid. Grumman design had more complex swing arms to hold shuttle stationary before launch and lacked "background ...

... it had exercised option to procure 48 F-14 aircraft from Grumman Aerospace Corp. in accordance with terms of original contract. Grumman issued statement same day saying costs had risen to point ... the Nixon Administration will stand behind the Navy or give Grumman special aid." ''(Wilson, W Post, 12/12/72, Al; DOD rio; Grumman release)'' NASA launched Aerobee 170 sounding rocket from White ...

... . ''(Lyons, NYT, 1/3/73, 1)'' Grumman American Aviation Corp. was formed by the merger of Grumman Corp.'s general-aviation interests and American Aviation Corp. Grumman 's Gulfstream 1 and 2 and ... shares in American. Corporate headquarters of the new company would be in Cleveland, Ohio, with Grumman President E. C. Towl as company Chairman and Ameri­can President and Chief Executive Officer ...

... before 1985. Although most U.S. aerospace companies had been working on structures in space, Grumman Aerospace Corp. had been in the forefront in large space-structures work; MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER MSFC had awarded Grumman four of six contracts for large space structures development, and Johnson Space Center JSC had ...

... module had been displayed, a real lunar module. We worked with Grumman Aerospace Corporation out of Bethpage, New York, on that. Grumman took an LM Lunar Module -2 descent, LTA Lunar Module ... there very patiently watching, and then they scurried about, following the same techniques that the Grumman people followed, and started putting on the other legs, and within a short period had ...

... for proposals, the prospective bidders were told that teaming agreements between contractors were not permitted. Grumman was selected even though they proposed teaming with RCA for all radar equipment. Bob Piland’s tack was to get Grumman to compete for the radar instead. After some unsuccessful discussions, he received instructions from NASA ...

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