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AIA 1959 Annual Report .t_~J(~ * - ~~· * ,.,. .· .. , ~. TO THE lVIElVIBERSHIP The fiscal year for this Association ended on Octo­ force made up, for the most part, of relatively conven­ ber 31, 1959. This year has been both an important tional weapons. At the same time and as a result of one in progress and a crucial on~ in its impacts on rapid advances in technology, the defense establish­ the aerospace industry. ment must support an unusually large research and In progress, the year was marked by impressive development effort so that the greater performance gains in air and space science and technology, and by capabilities inherent in new and advanced weapons fulfillment of the long-heralded jet age of air trans­ can be realized at the earliest possible date. portation. A number of important weapons moved To operate and maintain a tried and effective force­ from test to operational status. More successful ex­ in-being is a costly undertaking. To compress into plorations of space were accomplished, and the thresh­ some five years the research and development efforts old of man-in-space projects was reached through re­ that normally would take perhaps twenty-five to fifty search and through flight tests of a manned air and years is another extremely costly program. To en­ space vehicle. Significant gains also were made in air­ deavor to do both concurrently is a challenge of the craft and missile technology, including new tooling greatest magnitude. and manufacturing methods. Test status was reached The military will be required to take greater calcu­ in rocket engines far more powerful than any presently lated risks in making determinations as to the alloca­ in use . tion of funds. They will be forced to earlier deci­ Great advances also were made in utility aircraft sions that future programs will prove out. This means and helicopter improvements and sales, and in the that projects of great future promise may have to be development of new ideas in vertical and sh ort-take­ delayed to provide for an immediate capability. This, off-and-landing aircraft. in turn, has varied and profound effects upon the in­ This year, as in the past several years, was marked dustry members of the team. by changes which deeply affect the co nstituted aero­ Reduced weapons inventories of the missile era has space industry-changes horn of the very progress brought a shift from mass production to precision which is being made in the development of weapons of fabrication of very limited quantities. One result of almost cataclysmic potential. The rate at which this is that more and more companies are competing changes are occurring in virtually every facet of en­ for fewer and fewer contracts. Another result is that deavor is posing far-reaching problems for industry's the need for an unprecedented degree of reliability in management. components has made precision fabrication more es­ While solving many of the technological problems sential than ever before. This requires an extensive involved in the development and fabrication of new realignment of our labor force with a decline in the aircraft, missiles and space vehicles, equal success was number of producti on workers and an increased re­ not enj oyed in solving many of the other acute prob­ quirement for engineering and technical skills. It ne­ lems confronting the industry. cessitates high-cost machines which quickly could he­ First are the problems confronting our maj or cus­ come useless as the result of an advance in our tech­ tomer- the Defense Department- which industry must nology. It is pertinent to observe that the cost to share directly or indirectly. Our military customer develop one of our modern weapon systems could must continue to maintain an effecti ve retaliatory easily exceed the cost of producing the limited num- 2 ber of weapons that defense would require. policies and procedures governing the utilization of Thus, during this period, we are primarily devoted the airspace. The increasing use of modern, high­ to research and development, rather than production speed jets-both military and commercial-together effort. To meet and solve these problems, aircraft and with the increased usage of utility aircraft of all types, mi ssile manufacturers have made and are continuing necessitated careful coordination of industry's need for to make radical changes in their organizations in or­ adequate space in which to conduct its flight test oper­ der to cover the broad scope of aircraft, missiles, ations without interfering with the activities of other spacecraft, their propulsion systems, guidance and airspace users. It is not generally realized that flight related equipments. test operations also are essential for development of Reflecting the changing nature of the organization some missiles, guidance systems, and aeronautical and activities of the companies who comprise this As­ equipment and components as well as for complete sociation, the organization name was changed in May aircraft. to Aerospace Industries Association. By definition, Therefore, industry participation in the solution of aerospace embraces research, development and produc­ airspace problems is necessary in order that the Fed­ tion of manned and unmanned vehicles and their sup­ eral Aviation Agency may have available all the in­ porting eq uipment for movement above the Earth's formation it needs for proper evaluation of test re­ surface, whether they move within the layer of atmos­ quirements. phere which surrounds our planet or above it. Typical of recent projects in which AlA members Two other organizational changes were made to pro­ have made a major contribution are these : vide greater concentration of effort on specific activi­ l. The development of a new system for machining ties. As a result of the rapidly increasing proportion of complex aircraft and missile parts which offers sav­ the defense dollar which is allocated for missiles-ap­ ings in skilled man-hours of 80 to 95 per cent. This proximately 6.8 billion dollars in the current fi scal year, system, called APT for Automatically Programmed compared to 58 million dollars in 194-7-the Guided Tool, employs a teclmique similar to the paper roll in Missile Committee of the Association, formerly a divi­ a player piano. A high-speed digital computer cal­ sion of the Technical Service, was reorganized in June culates the data necessary to program the motions of a as a separate entity known as th e Gu ided Missile Coun­ numerically controlled machine tool in cutting metal cil. Previously, the Committee had concerned itself pri­ co mponents. An example of the time and money sav­ marily with the engineering aspects of missile research ings made possible by this system is evident in the and manufacture. The reorganization was made to programming task for a wing rib shape, which re­ afford the Council a scope of activity encompassing quires 200 hours to program manually and only fiv e management interests in addition to engineering and hours by the APT method. manufacturing, and to give it increased stature in the APT was developed as a joint effort by the USAF Association. Thirty companies are represented on the Air Materiel Command, Massachusetts ·rnstitut e of Council, reflecting the wide participation of th e mem­ Techn ology and technical representatives of 19 ATA bership in the guided missile fi eld. member co mpanies. It is now being refined for even A Flight Operations Safety Committee also was es­ grea ter productive effi ciency under the managment of tablished to develop and present industry's views on the APT Project Coordinating Group of AI 's Nu- 3 merical Control Panel. these committees are prepared for or made available to 2. Preparation of an annual five- to ten-year forecast the Department of Defense, the Army, Navy, and Air of engineering and manufacturing trends and require­ Force, the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis­ ments, a document which represents the combined tration, the Federal Aviation Agency and other inter­ thinking of industry's top specialists in design, pro­ ested governmental agencies. Collectively, the results duction and materials. This important book serves as of this unheralded "pick-and-shovel" work produced a a guide to Government agencies in determining wheth­ fount of knowledge of inestimable value to the Na­ er certain projects are feasible within a given time pe­ tion's aerospace programs. riod, and it indic~tes to the Government, the aerospace industry and its allied industries, problem areas which General Aviation: will require increased attention and effort and future One of the brightest spots in the aerospace picture requirements for tools, equipment and materials. This is the increased acceptance of small aircraft for busi­ forecast is a joint effort on the part of several AlA ness and utility purposes. The five-year period, 1954- committees and subcommittees. 1958, has seen the production and sale of such aircraft 3. Preparation of a study entitled "The MILDDU more than double, reaching 6,4-14 units valued at Proposal" which, despite its unwieldy title, is an im­ approximately $135,000,000. This trend has continued portant contribution to the increasingly complex prob­ during 1959. In the first nine months, the industry lem of logistic support. MILDDU is a program which has delivered approximately 5,600 units having a re­ wo uld provide a universal standard for military-indus­ tail value of $128,000,000, compared to 4,725 units try support data interchange, increase the accuracy of valued at $102,000,000 delivered in the same period spare parts accounting, reduce over-purchase of spares last year. and improve the speed and efficiency of providing To offset this promisinbrr trend is the shortarre of • b needed spares at the right time. landmg areas for the utility aircraft fleet.
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