History of the Atlas Missile 10/1/1960 HACL Film 00177
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- Опубліковано 24 бер 2014
- Film from the Atlas Centaur Heritage Film Collection which was donated to the San Diego Air and Space Museum by Lockheed Martin and United Launch Alliance. The Collection contains 3,000 reels of 16-millimeter film.
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7:04 the engineer in the foreground is George Cooper. I worked with him at Kearny Mesa on the Tomahawk program in 1977. What a surprise to see him in this film.
Worked the Atlas Program from Jan 1957 at Edwards AFB Rocket Site, Test Stand 1-1 thru Dec 1957 with the USAF. Then Mar 1959 thru the end of 1964 with Convair Astronautics. I was on the launch team for the first Atlas Launched from Vandenburg AFB Calif September 9, 1959
Come by the Museum and say hi to some of our Volunteers who also worked there!
+Joseph A Williams Thanks for the work. That must have been great.
I would have loved to have lived back then and worked in the aerospace industry. Such fantastic development has not been seen since then.
Very nice film. I love these old films where you can see the technical details so well.
My dad was on this. Convair san diego.
Lead engineer for putting in the original instrumentation at cape Canaveral.
In flight engineer. Engine test. Worked on nozzles..
Saturn. Mercury. Atlas.
I have movies pictures him flying back and forth from the cape.
Air force prop planes.
He was there when Shepard and glen went up.
Shook glens hand and wished him well. As he was going to the atlas
I know one pad is still there. Near hwy/15x clairmont mesa Rd.
That is a great piece of history you’re sharing, you must be pretty proud of your Dad. I appreciate the history of where things stand now, it’s amazing what our dad’s accomplished to keep us safe. Thank you for sharing.
@1:10 Not the first example of 774's gimbaled thrust (sic) but after a couple of seconds it's clearly swiveling. The earliest one was great, the thrust was like a spiral being drawn and the nose _looked_ rock solid. You know there were some engineers holding their collective breath for those launches.
My dad worked on the Atlas installations around Altus AFB in Oklahoma back in '61 to '62, for GD Convair Astronautics. I remember witnessing the trial runs they did, where the silo doors would open, the raising and lowering of the missile showing readiness mode, and the closing of the silo doors. It was quite the spectacle for a kid to see that.
The Route-66 guys Todd and Buzz worked here briefly in episode 24, 1960. It looks like their job was to 'walk around and wave'.
Convair was a truly great company. Now we relay on just four major defense contractors.
Strength Maintains Security
Crazy. I worked w .025”1101 aluminum on some parts for a warbird restoration (using mostly 2024 alloy), it’s simply incredible how the missile’s fuselages stayed so uniform and shiny. Handling such thin aluminum was very similar to working aluminum foil. I’m amazed at the engineering needed to keep, these structures sound and predictable.
A stainless alloy was used in Atlas. Not aluminum.
Is the offset burn due to the open cycle burn of the engines?
No mention of Karel Bossart at all? 😞
He came up with the monocoque design of pressurised fuel tanks. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Bossart