" REPORT FROM AEROJET " 1950s AEROJET GENERAL MISSILE & ROCKET ENGINES THEODORE VON KARMAN 74522

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‘Report from Aerojet’ is a 1950s promotional film that outlines the different divisions of Aerojet General company and the multitude of ways that their products and technologies contribute to military defense in the form of drones, missiles, and rockets. The film was produced by Aerojet’s general corporation, which is a subsidiary of General Tire and Rubber Company. In the film, the narrator discusses the different Aerojet power plants across the country in Azusa, Covina, Downey, San Ramon, and Sacramento in California and Frederick in Maryland. Additionally, the types of products and research done at each division of Aerojet are described and demonstrated with footage of Aerojet employees at work.
00:20 A missile taking off from a silo, probably a Minuteman 00:25 Movie title: ‘Report from Aerojet’ 00:33 Movie production credits 00:55 A Polaris missle taking off from undersea 1:30 View of a full parking lot outside an Aerojet power plant 1:37 Map of America with the six plant locations across the country marked: Azusa, Covina, Downey, San Ramon, Sacramento (in California) and Frederick (in Maryland) 1:54 Aerial view of the Azusa plant 2:16 Theodore Von Carmen sitting and talking into the camera 3:17 Two Aerojet employees working on a rocket engine skirt 4:17 A large solid rocket motor chamber (for Polaris 3?) being made with roving glass filament and epoxy 5:05 Boeing KC-135 having it’s radiation characteristics studied under the RAMP program at the Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Florida 7:27 Aerojet employee constructing a field lens 9:06 A doubly refractive polymer being tested for stress strain relationships using color spectra measurements 9:33 An Aerojet employee working on a Chromatographic device 10:03 A scientist placing a sample of basalt rock from a volcano in the Mojave desert in California under a vacuum jar in an arc image furnace 10:51 A scientist propagating algae in large tubes 12:03 A ship on the ocean (a Gearing-class destroyer?) 12:29 A MK 46 Torpedo being launched from a rocket carrier on the sea 12:41 A Grumman S-2 Tracker dropping a MK 46 torpedo 13:14 A ring channel testing models and prototypes at the plant in Azusa, California 14:35 Snap-8 turbo electric space vehicle power system in place 15:24 a 500 KVA model alternator 16:03 Aerial view of the Aerojet General Nucleonics Plant in San Ramon, California 16:22 View of a gas cool reactor 16:55 The ML1 reactor or power conversion unit being transported on the back of a flatbed 17:05 Technicians working on an assembled ML1 power plant 17:32 Rubidium metal being boiled in the lab 17:55 Aerial view of the Aerojet Downey Power Plant in Downey, California 18:30 T45 or T46 Warhead taking off into space 18:56 An ordinance laboratory and test area in the Chino Hills, California 20:02 Technicians working on a SD2 multi-purpose drones 21:03 Chambers for Polaris rockets being produced in the an Aerojet manufacturing division 21:23 A mechanized production line for missile chambers at the production plant in Downey, California intended for use in the Hawk, an air defense weapon 21:57 Aerojet model letter and parcel sorters 22:44 view of Aetron sign outside the headquarters of the architect engineers division in Covina, California 23:07 Test stand at Edwards Air Force Base, California 23:19 Saturn V Dynamic Test Stand in Huntsville, Alabama (check) 24:06 General Tire and Rubber Company in Odessa, Texas 24:43 Titan I or Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) engines on a conveyor belt 24:57 View of two Titan II ICBM engines at the base of a missile 25:18 A Titan I missile launch at the Vanderberg Air Force Base, California 26:28 Model of a liquid hydrogen and oxygen engine 28:21 A high speed research sled taking off 29:01 A Polaris missile taking off 29:06 The Douglas AIR-2 Genie rocket being dropped and taking off 29:11 A Hawk missile taking off (MIM-23 HAWK?) 29:16 A AIM-7 Sparrow missile being dropped by a F4D-1 Skyray 29:27 A RIM-24 Tartar missile being launched 29:31 The GAR-9 Missile 29:33 A Scout rocket 29:40 Minuteman III Second Stage rocket 32:13 Text: Aerojet-General Corporation 32:19 End credits.
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[@mac26x98]

I worked R&D at the Sacramento/Citrus Heights plant on the Polaris, Minuteman, and I think we got a little work on the Gemini, and Apollo. During JFJ’s Cuban blockade I spent most of ‘62-3 in Charleston SC teaching the Navy how to care for the Polaris ICBMs coming in from the Subs.

[@lethrbear32]

My great grandmother, Margaret Miller worked as an electrician here and wired the control panels for the Apollo capsules. We still have her tools, including the soldering irons she used on the panels.

[@henryj.8528]

Von Karman was one of a group of Hungarian scientists (including Teller, Wigner, Von Neumann, Szilard, and others) who were so unnaturally brilliant, their contemporaries joked that they must be aliens and the group was referred to as "The Martians."

[@josephastier7421]

Back in the day when science wasn't seen as heresy and every kid wanted to be an astronaut.

[@happyfox711]

back in the day when we nuked cities...and dominated the rest of the world with fear of insane mutual destruction.. great ! there was also a time where you didn't shoot a guy(a soldier of course) in the back. But that was waaaaaay back..

[@jrt818]

@@happyfox711 Like the British soldier who didn't shoot an unarmed Hitler in WWI giving him a sense of destiny.

[@gary24fan]

Instead of an Instagram or KZbin star.

[@josephastier7421]

@@happyfox711 Yes, we waged total war during WW II, which we will never do again. And during total war, you shoot the enemy any way you can. In the back, front, or while asleep, all good. The more you shoot the enemy, the less the enemy shoots YOU.

[@super1337bf3ordie]

@@happyfox711 the nukes saved lives the japinese had school kids trained with bamboo spears ready to fight and now we were proven right about rissuan aggression and how it had to be detered

[@Anvilshock]

Man, these guys got all the cool toys ...

[@zsolteditor]

after TikTok, this looks sooo normal and natural. Science and information, perfect. Made probably in the '60-s.

[@JeffersonMartinSynfluent]

In von Karman's voice I seem to have heard a character from the movie 'Dr. Strangelove'.

[@Nick-ye5kk]

Exactly what I was thinking

[@willb3698]

19:11. 4,300,000 frames per second.. Anyway - That was a corker of a film. Fantastic. 33,000 employees. Amazing engineering, simply amazing, and ahead of it's time. Thanks Periscope.

[@josephastier7421]

Exploding bridgewire detonator test?

[@DoktorStrangelove]

Herr von Kármán stole my voice!

[@teccec]

Nice vid. Brings back memories of when we had massive investment in mechanical and other non-virtual technologies. It'd be nice to think we still have great projects going on, but there's been little evidence of it the past decade or two. Aerojet in Sacramento today is barely a faint shadow of what it used to be.

[@sw8741]

Charlie Franz WTF are you talking about? Is creationism taught in schools?? NOPE. Are funds being diverted to teach Creationism? NOPE. Are public schools teaching Christianity like some Pakistani Madrasa? NOPE. Your neo liberal diatribe is nothing but fantasy preached just like any religion. Public schools are failing because of Progressive Far Left Critical Theory Cultural Marxism and its constant tearing down of the Institutions and reinvention of them more than anything "Christian"! Sex drugs and rock and roll baby! Western Civilization is evil and racist! Whitey is evil, keeping the "brown peoples" down and must be torn down! How to properly fuck someone in the ass is taught in schools and what type of condom to use to give someone a blow job, not "Creationism". Now schools are starting to teach "What gender are you? Theres not such thing as boy or girl!!" BS I guess Gay sex is now taking a back seat right? Not even going to go into "Man made global warming" and "Your Carbon Foot print is destroying the planet!" BS Yeah right, Christianity is the problem?? LMFAO! Get that transgender fake dick out of you mouth or go hit the bong a few more times!

[@kurtbjorn]

Thank you. That idiot has pasted his "Jesustards" rant in more than one place. Funny thing, these Aerojet folk were likely "Jesustards". So were our industrial leaders in WW2. And yes, our founding fathers as well. Hmmm.

[@V0YAG3R]

Charlie Franz Yes, those fundamentalist evangelicals who voted, twice, for the likes of a Jesustard like Obama whose last name is Hussein, totally an American and Judeochristian name, and Donald Trump, a blond version of the virgin, innocent saint Hugh Hefner. NAILED IT! 👌🏻. And Islam, Pedohammed and the Mein Quran'pf mean peace, love and tolerance. Tras de ladrón, bufón. Psychological projection, cognitive dissonance, lack of self-awareness and historical revisionism, all pathological in non-functional sociopaths like you.

[@dualoz7004]

Grandpa retired from Azusa. Dad retired from Sacramento in , I think, 1990 after working for 34 years. He just hit 92 and is going strong. Praise the Lord. We went through a lot of General Tires in those years. I used to love to go to the company store. Yes, those were the days. Get an education and then work for the same company till you were 65 and retire comfortably. Then, liberal democrats turned into full blown communists and they, granted with help, have been doing everything they can to tear it all down. Sure hope that's over for a very long time. I'd love to regain the society, morals, and government we had back then.

[@cat637d]

So true, Democrats are like all invasive species! The destroy and then move on, leaving devastation in their path! SCUMBAGS!

[@cowboybob7093]

It's ironic that other posts in to this video clip blame the demise of our country on fundamentalist Christian republicans for replacing science, technology, engineering and math in our schools with religious doctrine. Search for something like "Blake Shelton Oklahoma textbook" We really need to promote education in our great country. We taught the world how to compete.

[@alwayscrabby7871]

Very well said.

[@colderwar]

The only sort of science that socialists are concerned about is a bogus one - 'climate change' - they've latched onto that as a perfect excuse to try to justify their ideas of wealth redistribution. Otherwise they are the craziest crystal worshipping, new age, anti-vaxxing Mother Gaia loons you could wish to meet.

[@wtxrailfan]

So your grandpa and your dad worked for a company whose very existence was entirely dependent on government contracts. And those government contracts were paid for with taxpayer dollars. Hmm. Sounds about as close to socialism as one can get and still laughably call themselves a capitalist company. Back then they taxed millionaires at a top rate of 50%. That's what helped pay for all that great infrastructure built in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. Then Republicans started cutting tax rates for millionaires and corporations and then everything started falling apart. In their lust for ever-greater profits, American capitalists moved their factories over to Communist China to exploit cheap Chinese labor. Looks to me like you're a bit mixed up about things.

[@bellakorty1334]

Again another very clever German scientist who started the company, great video.

[@heintmeyer2296]

who are you talking about? Von Karman was Hungarian and Fritz Zwicky was Swiss...

[@RHoonte]

21:17 Best dressed welder ever!!!

[@cowboybob7093]

I noticed it looked like there was a company memo about a camera crew, but I missed that employee. _Well Played_

[@doguecreek]

My father worked at Aerojet in Sacramento, and helped with the Polaris (solid rocket motors) among other things.

[@Debunker246]

thanks for this

[@wombatlover2796]

Wow !!! The American engineering science knows no bounds and this was the 1950's.. Simply astonishing!!!

[@danielramirezcruz.2209]

Super video great information thanks l love it

[@johneddy908]

Aerojet would later merge with Rocketdyne and is today Aerojet Rocketdyne.

[@thesquirrel914]

The coolest name for a company ever, hands down. They just got bought my Lockheed Martin.

[@johneddy908]

@@thesquirrel914, actually it was acquired by L3Harris Technologies.

[@sirbader1]

We called it, America. Aerojet - Rocketdyne, Sacramento,CA.

[@josephastier7421]

30:58 Now that's a heat treat furnace.

[@willb3698]

2:15 IT'S DOCTOR STRANGELOVE!

[@jrt818]

Strange I googled project Vanguard yesterday, with its Aerojet engines, and this video pops up.

[@BigDaddy-yp4mi]

I talked about an obscure as hell sitcom with a friend in facebook messenger and the next day a best-of clip popped up on my recommended videos. The show aired late 90's for two season on CW called Jack & Jill. My gf of the time made me watch it with her. It was a rom-com series basically and wasn't that bad. I had never mentioned that show in 20 years and then mention it in a private facebook message and 15 hours later a best-of reel shows up recommended for me? Apple, Google, Amazon & Facebook literally have already taken over the world. If you delve into what each and every company does.....it's unreal. The government didn't become omniscient, though it tried. It wound up going omniscient via the commercial route, THE American way.

[@WWeronko]

The story reminds me what SpaceX is becoming. Hopefully SpaceX does will not share the same fate. Aerojet had massive downsizing to less than one-tenth the size of what it was when this film was made. Aerojet grew steadily in the early 2002 to more than 3,500 employees in 2008. In July 2012, Gencorp announced that it was buying Aerojet's competitor, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne; the merger was completed in 2013. Aerojet's core issue was it was too dependent on government business. SpaceX needs to learn from that.

[@tallswede80]

They did learn, most of their business is commercial satellites including starlink

[@Zoomer30_]

Just to clarify: Shuttle contracts in a perfect world: SRB: Aerojet and NOT Morton Thiokol. Main Engine: Pratt&Whittiny and not Rocketdyne. The eff up on the SRB contract directly led to 7 dead in 51L/Challenger.

[@johnorlitta]

I guess you really can get water out of a rock.

[@altfactor]

I believe the "General" part of Aerojet-General's name came from General Tire, which bought out Aerojet.

[@cowboybob7093]

I think you're right, 0:31

[@gregorydahl]

At 9:30 in this video it said 11kW per 1000 gallons . But is that 11kW for 10 years , or 10 centuries , or 10 seconds .

[@tom7601]

The Hydrocket engine looks like a Jet Ski, jet boat propulsion system.

[@lindsayfog5246]

looks suspiciously like the Hamilton jet from NZ

[@josephastier7421]

Nothing to do but take it to the lake and test your theory.

[@rocketmentor]

Aerojet sure got the short end with Apollo, M-1 was a short lived bone and SPS just a morsel. Aerojet engines were sexier than Rocketdynes though I love the F-1 and solids don't count.

[@josephastier7421]

32:18 The cartoon rocket at the end looks a bit like Starship.

[@Cartoonman154]

You mean that starship looks like someone else's design.

[@thetreblerebel]

Not bad for a tire company, I wonder if they are still big like they are here...🤔

[@Zoomer30_]

Aerojet: Getting Screwed by NASA, It's What We Do.

[@Tom_the_great]

DSP was a good gig

[@pitdog75]

Drones :)

[@jayhollowayii2]

is there anyway to remove the time stamp at the bottom of the screen otherwise love the videos

[@adamwhite3584]

Yeah.. by paying for the rights to the video. That's what this channel does. Sell usage rights..

[@jrdeckard3317]

8:03 Nice cover for their meth lab.

[@josephastier7421]

I see elements of the Nova vehicle in the Big Falcon Rocket.

[@V0YAG3R]

Joseph Astier nope

[@davidsandell7833]

You would think they could find a way to limit the smoke coming out of the missiles.

[@jackandersen1262]

David Sandell that is LOX boiling. Stoping that is basically impossible. Titan I and the early Atlas rockets would have propellant stored in containers separate from the missile, and were loaded in just before launch. Titan II and Minuteman would get around this by using storable propellants.

[@davidsandell7833]

Understand. Thanks for the reply. I guess it really doesn’t matter at the speeds and altitudes they’re going.

[@kurtbjorn3841]

They have smokeless propellants now that make our sidewinder missiles impossible to see. Instant and guaranteed death.

[@mikes7639]

Madness, defense budgets bloated to insanity

[@jeffreycutler5306]

All these modern-day Technologies invented 60 years ago ---what has been invented since? Seems like we live in a time of stagnation now

[@Tom_the_great]

I worked in the Azusa location.

[@deanrobert8674]

I'm surprised they didn't clame that water, oxygen, soil or the earth wasn't made in 1 of there diversions.

[@jrt818]

Hydrogen oxygen engines do make water, something they were doing since '47.

[@deanrobert8674]

@@jrt818 w0w, For ducking snacks . The Sarcasm clown was here.

[@maplemanz]

Was a big polluter.

[@68orangecrate26]

Back when scientists didn’t think they KNEW EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING.

[@anthonydied8697]

You want to play games

[@Zoomer30]

Aerojet, The Charlie Brown to NASAs Lucy. NASA screwed them over so many times. (One screw job killed 7 astronauts when NASA give the Shuttle SRB contract to Morton "We need O-rings Because we are in effing Utah!" Thiokol instead of Aerojet)

[@albclean]

NASA's decision to fly ignoring engineer's warnings about what cold can do to the o ring seals is what happened not the contractors.

[@edwardschoenman2139]

@@albclean my brother, an engineer and program supervisor at Aerojet General, told me a space shuttle would blow up years before Challenger exploded and he told me why it would explode. Morton Thiokol was in Utah, given the solid rocket booster contract for political reasons, had to build the boosters in sections due to transport considerations. O-rings were used and were guaranteed to fail. And they did.