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...have gone to new companies in the field. North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division currently has 10,250 employees and contracts to power a fleet of big missiles, from the intercontinental Atlas to the Army's 200-mile Redstone. A second newcomer. California's Aerojet, owned by General Tire & Rubber Co., with 1956 sales of $140 million and a $300 million to $400 million backlog, is doing equally well; it proudly boasts that it makes the engine or engine parts for "practically every missile for all three services...
Midget Atom Reactor. Aerojet-General Nucleonics of Berkeley, Calif., is developing a small (9 by 6½ ft.) low-voltage nuclear reactor for research and engineering uses. Aerojet will begin to make reactors in December, "mass-producing" one a month, hopes to sell them to schools, hospitals and industry in the U.S. and abroad. Cost: $95,000 each...
PROPULSION SYSTEMS : North American Aviation and General Tire & Rubber Co.'s Aerojet General Corp. are testing rocket engines to propel missiles beyond the earth's heavy stratosphere into the ionosphere. American Machine & Foundry Co. is at work on auxiliary power units for the missiles...
Bomarc (Boeing) is a supersonic, long-range antiaircraft missile launched from the ground. Boosted into the air by an Aerojet rocket motor, it flies during most of its course on two ram-jets (Marquardt Aircraft Co.). It carries a warhead whose fireball is capable of knocking out more than one bomber of an invading fleet. When in operation, the Bomarc will be stationed in sheds on likely tracks of enemy bombers. Designed to be fired at a moment's notice, it can cover several hundred miles while a manned interceptor is getting clear of the ground...
...Fritz Zwicky of Caltech, astronomer, physicist and inventor, is one of the world's leading experts on jet propulsion. Early in World War II, he left astronomy and joined a group of scientists who founded Aerojet-General Corp. of Azusa, Calif. Zwicky became research director, and under his leadership Aerojet developed JATO (Jet Assisted Take-Off) for rocket blasting heavy-laden bombers into the air. After the war, Zwicky picked the brains of German rocket experts and did outstanding work on rockets, missiles, torpedoes and submarines. In 1949 he resigned as research director of Aerojet, but stayed...