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This collection documents the history of the Atlas Missile program at Convair/General Dynamics.

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This collection contains the full run of Convairiety, the company newsletter of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation (Convair).

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John Calvin Ferguson was a model builder in the 1960s at Ryan Aeronautics, Convair Division of General Dynamics Corporation and a plastic fabricator and machinist at Cubic Corporation.

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Reuben Hollis Fleet was the founder of the Consolidated Aircraft Company

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The paraphernalia of this collection comes from Stan Hodges, Art Director at Convair in the mid-1950s and 1960s. He designed many of the posters that were placed in the plant, as well as the General Dynamics sign.

Abstract General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American aerospace and defense company established through a series of acquisitions and mergers, forming in 1952 through the combination of the Electric Boat Company, Consolidated-Vultee (Convair) and many others. The Division’s Lindbergh Field plant and Harbor Drive Test Facility were on land leased from the San Diego Unified Port District. GD arranged with the Port District to surrender its leaseholds in phases. This report was generated from this...

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The majority of the collection contains approximately 400 photographs of various sizes. There are also some negatives. The photographs are from the San Diego US Army Photographic Air Wing during World War II, and combat scenes from the Pacific Islands. There are some graphic photographs of death and surgery within the collection.

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This collection contains material related to the lives of Morten Jorgensen Sr. and Jr. Mort Sr. worked at Ostergaard Aircraft as a general aircraft mechanic, while his son worked at Convair and served as surgical support on recovery carriers for the Apollo Space Program.

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The collection contains 92 manuscripts, written/compiled between the early twentieth century and early twenty-first century. These manuscripts range from television and movie scripts to flight logs, accident report, personal recollections, and biographies/memoirs. Subjects include (but are not limited to) early flight, World War I, World War II, women avioators, air ships, and flight testing.

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Willard Martin served as Director of Public Relations for Convair in the 1970s.