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Show 't ir Boeing Readying V Minuteman Job 1960, the Boeing was requested by' Company the Air Force to conduct site surveys for Air Force Plant 77. As a result of those surveys, a portion of Hill Air Force Base was selected as Plant 77 lor assembly and test of the Minuteman missile. Construction of the plant began September 15, 1960, with completion July 15, 1962, and cost an estimated 11 million dollars. This included the modification of 57 buildings, construction of nine new buildings, plus a heating plant, electrical distribution and utility piping systems, and six miles of road. Plant 77 was located in the Ogden area because of its nearness to the engine' manufacturers and deployment sites, availability and reliability of transportation facilities of all kinds, and the appropriateness of Hill Air Force Base as a logistical support ters. The assembly plant is enand tirely government-owneBoeing is an operator for the course of the Minuteman The present contract runs to 1965. Separate Operation The Boeing organization at Plant 77, known as the , Ogden Operations is, intellect, a separate industrial operation 857 miles from the parent Boeing Seattle Industrial complex. Virtually, every service provided to comparable manufacturing programs in the Seattle area by support organizations such as In January, d con-trac- t. Min-utema- n Sec-tion- V The Salt Lake Tribune, Tuesday October - U.S. Outlay Near $7 Billion e Finance, Materiel, Industrial Relations, etc., are supplied at Plant 77 by segments of the Ogden Operations Section. Deployment of Minuteman missiles from Plant 77 to lauch-insites will be primarily by airlift, and secondarily on railroad trains. Associated logistics operations will be under the immediate direction of the Ogden Air Materiel Area. A three million dollar facility for repair and recycle of the stored missiles by the Air Force is being built near the assembly plant. To Employ 1,000 Present plans indicate an ultimate Boeing payroll at Plant 77 of approximately 1,000 persons, 75 per cent of which will be hired locally; The annual payroll for 1962 is expected to be about five million dollars. William H. Chariot was named manager of Minuteman Ogden Operations in August, I960.- - He is responsible for directing, the over-al- l planning, implementation, and operation of Air Force Plant 77, for the assembly and checkout of missiles and mobile units. His appointment climaxed 12 years of active and qnthtrsiaxti (participation In the Boeing Cos program. Test Supervisor From an initial assignment in 1948 as an electrical functional test technician, he advanced in 1950 to Functional M -- AW' g n Aero-Spac- e J 450, 19fi2 Missiles, as a major ijJfrn of development and procurement by the UJ3 Defense Depart ment, started in 1956 when to tal funding topped 2 billion dol lars lev el. These funds for the past four jeais have approxi mated seten billion dollars an nually. The long range missiles now absorb approximately half the total missile money The curient fiscal budget, reports Aeiospace Facts and Figures for 12, contemplates of 13 ATLAS squadrons, and 12 of the 14 TITIAN squadions. Militaij interest for the more lmmedi ate future is primarily in the solid fuel submarine based PO LARIS and the hardened and possibly the mobile, land based completion MINUTEMAN. Pentagon officials will not say at this time how many of the two systems eventually will be purchased, but in any casp, the Navy and Air Force, respectively, will continue their efforts to improvefur-the- r the performance of these weapons with respect to reliability, accuracy, yield and penetration capabilities. With TITAN I operational, heavy empfiasis is being placed on development of the TITAN II weapon system There will no doubt also be additional for TITAN II boosteis in the space program. 'ft'' OVER i ywF juttf Jii 80 YEARS OF RELIABLE SERVICE SERVING v THE MISSILE 9c Largest tractor trailer ever designed is transporting Minuteman missile to and test supervisor on the B50, KC97, ind B52 airplanes,-- in f 1956 to senior supervisor of the Component Test Laboratory for new components and and in 1958 to planning chief for Minuteman research and development operations at the Atlantic Missile from launch sites. It was built for Boe-fo- r ing company by unit of General Motors. INDUSTRY vrv ... i BETWEEN UTAH, IDAHO, staff sergeant in the Radio Range. Following his graduation In ;anT RadarTlepaiF andMainfe 1941, Mr. Chariot worked brief nance field In 1946, lmme ly for the Western Electric Co diately following the war, he He enlisted in the U S Marine rejoin! Western Electric as Corps at the beginning of the a test supervisor for the then war, and served in the Pacific new Crossbar Exchange Svs thpater. During the succeed tern, a position he held until ing 4 years, he advanced to joining the Boeing Co - AJ MONTANA, WYOMING ARIZONA NEVADA, AND ' ' -- 1 H NEW MEXICO SALT LAKE TRANSFER CO. 170 West 2nd South Salt Lake City, Utah" T7- - M Ph. 5 15 Hercules Powder Companys Bacchus Works has become one of the nations most Important missile manufacturing facilities. Produced here are the third stage of the Air Force Minuteman and the second stage of the Navy Polaris. Minuteman and Polaris, both solid fueled missiles, ready for Instant action, form the backbone of the nations defense effort. Hercules Is proud to play such an Important role In preserving the peace, and Is also employing Its 50 years of experience to develop projects for future space exploration. HERE'S HOW ROCKET ENGINES AND MOTORS ARE MADE AT BACCHUS a'rer conics to under va process casting in pressure ves'el, or may be transported through tubing. Bae grain'' tbe solid constituents of the fuel formed into precise 0 01 x inch cylinders and blended to umfoimitv, is loaded into 1 va nation tbe motor assures that no voids can n0. ei-t- . Heres Consistent Energy for the Conquest of Space What does it "take to move a missile, to send a apace explorer speeding on a preappointed path? Energy; thrust and reaction; surely and smoothly applied. As long as the force-tim- e product from the built-ia source is steady, predictable energy n function, all is well. Let there be a variation in fuel feed or composition, or any discontinuity, and failure, which may range from minor misdirection to complete disaster, is the inevitable result The process for making cast, base propellants is designed composite, double Hercules-develope- d specifically to produce fully uniform and reproducible chemical and mechanical characteristics. The propellant behaves asa unit, which assures the requisite predictability in thrust development, thrust pressures, and thrust duration. Altair, Antares, Polaris second stage, Minuteman. third stage. and others yet to come testify by their performance to the adequacy of this concept. During the casting process, the plasticizer flows into the evacuated case, around and among the particles, until the case is full. There is no chemical reaction. Only the physical changes of solvation and plasticization lake place during the curing process, and the grain becomes one hortiogeneous plastic mass. There can 'be no disdimencontinuity in composition, no matter how large the sion of the motor. The finished propellant i in physical and chemical equilibrium storable for extended period of time, ready for instant use when needed. base-grai- Chemical Propulsion Dhhion HERCULES POWDER COMPANY 910 Market Street Unungton 99, Delaware Hercules Toner W ' "3- - vt n |