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... in FY 1976 valued at $1.51 billion (3.6% of the total). Third was Northrop Corp. with $1.48 billion (3.5%); fourth was General Electric Co., $1.35 billion ... %); Boeing Co., $1.18 billion (2.8%); General Dynamics Corp., $1.07 billion (2.6%); Grumman Corp., $982 million (2.3%); Litton Industries, Inc., $978 million (2.3%); and Rockwell Intl ...

... Aviation, that made most of the… naval aircraft, for the British, similar aircraft to what Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., Bethpage, Long Island, New York did over here; Armstrong Whitworth, which was ... of it, although the spacecraft came out of McDonnell. But it was Rockwell and the Northrop Radioplane Division that had the paraglider part of the job, as I recall, and Rod ...

... . '''Rusnak:''' Did you find significant differences between working with Grumman and working with North American? '''Haines:''' Oh, yes, they were different. Grumman, their entire history had been working with Navy aircraft. They ... that job was underestimated, and I don’t think it was Grumman’s fault. I don’t think the delays were Grumman’s fault. I think the job was just underestimated, the ... . So we went to a Phase B contract, study contract, with Lockheed and Grumman, awarded the contract to Grumman, primarily because we were convinced that we had to have the in-flight ...

... had a communication problem, because they were trying to direct Grumman by each function in NASA directing each function in Grumman. So I'm not sure if anybody knew what the hell ... Grumman a letter saying, "Sorry about that, but I don't know what's best for Grumman, but I think what's best for Grumman is what's best for the country. If Grumman will do it, than that's best for Grumman." So he called ...

... . But at least we meet, and that’s a combination of Aerojet General Corporation people, Grumman people, Zia Corporation people, NASA people, North American, the whole works. LTV Aerospace Corporation . So ... from being an engineer. You mentioned an interesting point. You mentioned that the women of Grumman, they wanted certain types of meat or different types of services than Las Cruces was ...

... Office and an interest in getting into aerospace management, an opportunity came along to join Grumman Grumman Aerospace Corporation that I just felt it was the right time to start my next ... program that I was involved with is under the service company I headed for Grumman, later Northrup-Grumman. We had a contract here at Johnson Space Center for the institutional computing systems ...

... flight of tailless Northrop X-4 X-4 (No. 1) research airplane completed, Northrop test pilot Charles Tucker as pilot. Two Northrop X-4 X-4 's were built by Northrop aid some 60 research flights were made by National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA at Muroc with the Northrop X-4 ...

... during a demonstration flight at Suwon Air Base near Seoul, South Korea, killing Northrop chief test pilot Darrell Cornell. Northrop reported at the time that the crash was "pilot induced" and the ... on the assembly line. An attempt earlier in the month to provide funding for the Northrop F-20 failed, Defense Daily reported, when an amendment by Rep. James Courter (R-N.J.) to substitute 30 Northrop F-20s for 24 General Dynamics F-16s in FY 86, brought up in a ...

... modified Gulfstream II, and we had a competitive procurement, bought two airplanes, delivered them to Grumman, Bethpage, where they were modified, and got them in service in late 1976. Just about ... of 1974, ferried them from Savannah, where they were being manufactured, to Bethpage, and then Grumman started their mod. Of course, in that same time period we were supporting the Skylab ...

... up after a year or so about $10 million dollars over budget. Our contractor was Grumman, and so we went up there. We did a special investigation. I remember going through every single drawing, everything, trying to figure out where the work was. So Grumman came in here the first of one month and had a big meeting in front ... not believe that the director of a center would tell—they had the president of Grumman down here, the president of a big—you wouldn’t believe how he talked. Then ...

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