My father James Winston Fowler was the boss building Hangar J on the Cape. His sons Rodger and Russell were hire as labors to learn construction work. Dad build many structure on the Cape including the Block house for launch pad 11,12,13,and 14. He also design and build the Central Control on the Cape. Many years later he was ask by the Air Force,and NASA to build the Vehicle Assembly Building on Merritt Island which is now call Kennedy Space Center. The corner stone on the VAB has Fowler name. As you look at the two big doors the corner stone is on the right of the doors on the corner. James Winston Fowler build the first support structure on the Cape for the Air Force. Mr. Wernher Von Braun admire my Father.
@Marcus Knightingale Thank you Marcus. I understand now that there was storm damage many years ago and when they recover the building the corner stone was cover up. Wish there was a way to un-cover the corner stone.
@Marcus Knightingale One more bit of information, NASA, Air Force and President Eisenhower gave my father a thank you for all the great work he did. I am very proud of my Father. I have come across people that confirm the Corner Stone.
Interesting seeing them putting up the brand new & huge plant in Kearny Mesa. I can still see all of the buildings standing in 1996 in Google Earth using the HISTORICAL IMAGERY tool, but by the year 2000 everything is gone, all the way down to bare dirt...even the parking lots....Not a trace of it is left, and the entire valley is developed now.
Its odd that, bc many a time I have hiked into those hills just north of Santee, south of Poway, and explored the old missile base there. Still have silos and bunkers and this gigantic yellow j-shaped deal that I think was some kind of exhaust containment thing but its massive u can look at it from Google maps.
trey kearns You are referring to what was called the Sycamore Canyon test area. I was able to watch one test run of a full-up missile. We sat in an old army tank. I worked on the Azusa tracking system.
Incredible history! 1956 all this testing for research, and the cost during the cold war years is mind boggling and we still defeated the Soviet union by bankrupting them in 1990! Chimes of freedom 🇺🇸🤣 yes the super 8 MM film should be remastered to digital technology but who in the hell has a budget for that! Try to live well and free 🏁
We use to sail around point Loma now I know what that was, Camp Elliot looked abandon. We were waiting to get nuked, we learned how to duck an roll at school, toe to toe with the ruskies
I can handle the flicker, but it sounds like you've intentionally overdubbed the projector audio, or placed a microphone in the room with the projector without any attempt to take a direct output from the projector... 😕
My dad worked for GD Convair back in the 50's and 60's in Palmdale, Altus AFB in OK, and then back in San Diego before coming up to Pomona. He helped do missile and systems checkout in the newly constructed ICBM missile silos around Altus AFB.
I worked at GD Pomona from 1977 to 1981, test equipment in support of all Pomona programs at the time. A couple of the older guys I worked with had worked on Atlas. Later, in the 90s, I worked at Wyle Labs and engineered tests on Atlas updates...a more modern material replacement for the asbestos boot they mention in the film.
@@orangelion03 I too worked at GDPD from Jan. 1980 to late May 1985 as a milling machine machinist 'A' and as an N/C Programmer. My dad came back to GDPD in early 1985, and worked until his retirement in 1993 finishing up in Kearney Mesa.
Father of the atlas rocket program was the Belgian Karel Bossart , inventor of the monocoque structure for all succceeding american missiles thereafter , he was chief director at convair
I havent had enough seizures due to flicker. Can you add more flicker? Also put super annoying fake movie projector noise to ruin everything. We need more videos that people have purposely made impossible to watch.
I didn't add anything to this upload. It was a curiosity I found at work at a retired coworkers desk. Do you have a link to a better version? I'll link to it in the comments if so. Thanks for that
Groan - only five videos in your channel? I did subscribe, and am hoping you continue your research. As it stands though, great work with these Atlas archives, this is great.
I would like to add to the comments about the flicker and phony projector noise. This is so annoying and stupid. The poster "Structurally Unstable" should be called "Mentally Unstable". Otherwise the old films are interesting if you can stand the noise and flicker.
@@michaelwier1222 woah actually check this out ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gqbmH6TNaPM.html apparantly there is footage of the Atlas rocket without added shutter sound and visual effect. Funny how that happens
Chocolate Rocket...Sorry, bad day for me today. Sorry if I came across being short. I thought that maybe since this is taken from an old film (poor film quality and camera quality) the flickering couldn't be helped. Although the fake projector noise could have been dealt with.
This awesome flashing, as if we're at once in a club, and watching a great documentary...is simply *not comfortable to endure. Enough so, that i will not watch it.* It would be really great if someone had a program for that...like a stabilization program?
Flicker? What flicker? Great old film with a lot of excellent historical information about the beginnings of our ICBMs and early manned space flight. I doubt you'll see it released as IMAX, but it serves my purposes well more than 60 years later.
RI: Of course you are incorrect. Successful Atlas I, & II, Titan I & II, MX, Polaris, Posieden, etc. Russian motors were used by deliberate choice and does not represent any failure of US engineering or manufacturing ability.
