Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Suggs (Dalton B.) Personal Papers
SDASM.SC.10243  
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
 
 
Table of contents What's This?

 

Box 1 of 1

 

Series I – Documents

 

Folder 1 – Work History Binder 1

Physical Description: Collection of papers documenting specific projects, including blue prints, design reviews, XB-36 Design Development, and documents on B-36 and XC99 development, as well as tabs labeled:
 

Folder 2 – Work History Binder 2

Physical Description: Collection of papers documenting specific projects, including blue prints, design reviews, and structure tests (DC-10 ; POGO (VTOL), and patents, awards and certificates
 

1. B-36 Airplane programs 1942 to 1952 (ft. Worth)

 

2. B-36 Power plant design and development

 

3. B-36 and XC99 Development

 

4. Wright Field Tunnel Tests; 99 Development

 

5. Prop. Vibr. test, Moffett Field

 

6. Exhaust syst. Test - Rohr Airc. ETC

 

7. -5 and -25 engine ground test stand

 

8. Jet and turbo prop. Ground test stand

 

9. Pre-design sketches

 

10. Monorail Coronado

 

11. 20 ½ D Stainless Steel Ring (UCLA mobile sculpture)

 

12. Commercial Products, Designs and Patents

 

13. Early design sketches

 

design sketches 14. Loose drawings: 53 power plant assembly breakdown, 36p10050, Fivap no. 1110

 

Folder 3 – Work History Binder 3

Physical Description: Collection of papers documenting specific projects, including blue prints, design reviews, XB-36 Design Development, and documents on B-36 and XC99 development,
 

1. 1970-1974 D-1 Centaur/Cruise missile/quality engineering/termination

 

2. D1-T Centaur FBR & FWD. Seals

 

3. Ft. Worth Loan and DC- 10Air Pl., 1968-1970

 

4. F111 Airplane Loan to Ft worth

 

5. Atlas Missiles 1958-1968

 

6. 1952-1958, POGO-248-440 air

 

7. B-36 Airplanes 1935-1952 & Early Airplanes

 

8. Ft. Worth Loan to San Diego

 

9. B-36 Airplane Design and Test

 

10. Letters - certificates, patents- awards

 

11. Work history and resumes

 

Folder 4 – Patent and Invention

 

Folder 5 – POGO Tethered Flight Test Rig

 

Folder 6 – Moffett Field Press Day - Test Rig

 

Folder 7 – Hoisting test rig for installation in Moffett Field Hangar

Physical Description: Report: Hoisting test rig for installation in Moffett Field Hangar, ZM-5-027 spec, ZM-5-029 operating instructions
 

Folder 8 – Historical Background of Convair

Physical Description: Historical Background of Convair, a Division of general dynamics corporation Military models of Convair-liner Aircraft, revised May 1956
 

Folder 9 – Lead Pointer 

 

Folder 10 – T.L. Maloy Tax letter

 

Folder 11 – Clippings, newspaper

Physical Description: Convair Awarded $40 Million Contract, San Diego union, 30 March 1973 "Keeps on Washington: Consultant Here Untangles Educational Funds' Red Tape General Dynamics News, 12 Nov. 1969 The San Diego Union, 13 July 1981 "Convair YB-60 Bomber Dimensions Revealed" "Air Force Unveils B-52 Global Raider", San Diego Union, 14 May 1952 Convariety, 12 Oct. 1960 General Dynamics News, 6 Dec.1969 The Consolidated Eagle, 8 Oct. 1942
 

Folder 12 – Fallout Shelter and Safety Pamphlets

 

1. Emergency Action to Save Lives, the official U.S. government booklet

 

2. Facts about Fallout protection, Office of civil and Defense Mobilization

 

3. Atomic blast creates Fire, Are You Prepared?, Federal Civil Defense Administration

 

4. Ten for Survival: Survive Nuclear Attack, Office of civil and Defense Mobilization

 

5. Family Fallout Shelter: Your Best Insurance for Survival in a Nuclear War, Civil Defense, Santee, CA

 

6. Home Protection exercises, a family action program, Office of civil and Defense Mobilization, July 1960

 

7. Defense Against Radioactive Fallout on the Farm, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmers' Bulletin no. 2107

 

8. What to do now about… Emergency Sanitation at Home, A Family Handbook H-II-I, Office of civil and Defense Mobilization, Aug 1958

 

9. The Family Fallout Shelter, MP-15, Office of civil and Defense Mobilization

 

10. Individual and Family Preparedness, NP-2-1, National Plan Appendix Series, Office of civil and Defense Mobilization

 

11. Radioactive Fallout in Time of Emergency, effects upon agriculture, ARS 22-55, April 1960, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture

 

1960, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture 12. Clay masonry family fallout shelters, MP-18, February 1960, reprinted by Office of civil and Defense Mobilization

 

Folder 13 – Miscellaneous Data (History)

 

Folder 14 – Miscellaneous - Drawings

 

1. 2 Test stand assy.-jet engines, 36r20217

 

2. Layout- missile mock up room for DEI on launch control and missile checkout equip. 10c 65-1, April 1, 1958;

 

3. Atlas blockhouse mockup (DEI)

 

4. P.O.SK #27-001

 

5. Installation- Moffett Field Test Rig, 5-00524, Convair

 

6. Drawing for unknown aircraft

 

Folder 15 – Miscellaneous - patent info

 

Folder 16 – Miscellaneous

 

1. Convair, Ft. Worth division, Jet pod test stand drawing list, 25 June 1951

 

2. Certificate of participation "member of the team that launched the first American Astronaut into orbit around the earth. General Dynamics, Astronautics, 20 Feb 1962

 

3. General Dynamics Convair Aerospace Division, retired employee ID card

 

Series II - Photographs

 

Folder 17 – Photographs 0001-0025

 

Folder 18 – Photographs 0026-0056

 

Folder 19 – Photographs 0057-0071

 

Folder 20 – Photographs 0072-0079

 

Folder 21 – Photographs 0080-0111

 

Folder 22 – Photographs 0112-0136

 

Folder 23 – Photographs 0137-0155

 

Folder 23 – Photographs 0156-0184

 

Folder 24 – Photographs 0185-206

 

Folder 25 – Photographs 0207-0222

 

Folder 26 – Photographs 0223-0261

 

Folder 27 – Photographs 0262-0273, redundant

 

Folder 28 – Photographs 0274-290

 

Folder 29 – Negatives of duplicates