ROCKETEER
Circus celebration
held by youngsters
at Children's Center
The Children's Center concluded its
celebration of "Circus Month" Thursday
night, Aug. 19, with a unique event - a
circus performed by 100 youngsters between
the ages of three and nine years old for more
than 200 family members and friends.
Cynthia Garvin and Debbie Bergstrom,
coordinators for the event, were assisted by
15 other Children's Center staff members
who donned bright make-up and haggy
pants and clowned around with the kids in a
variety ofcircus acts.
Children dressed as lions, tigers and bears
.(and other scaled.-1272.
1:l u.s.Gov.,.nmenf Printing Office:
I982-No.103'
From:____
PLACE
STAMP
HERE
To: ____ ____
Be forewarned,
extensive road
repairs slated
A contract in the amount of $1,400,000
was awarded recently to the Desert Con-
struction Co., of Victorville, Calif., for the
paving of numerous streets located in the
main site area of the Naval Weapons
Center.
Among other things, the contract calls for
installing a II>-in.-thick pavement overlay
on East Inyokern Road from the·NWC main
gate to the traffic circle, and also along East
Inyokern Road to Richmond Road.
In addition, the troublesome section of
East Inyokern Road between the main gate
and the traffic circle will be widened to two
lanes in both directions.
Furthermore, the heavily-traveled sec-
tion of Knox Road from the traffic circle
north to Blandy Avenue also will get II>
inches of pavement overlay, and a chip seal
treatment is scheduled on Blandy Avenue
all the way from Sandquist Road to Essex
Circle.
In addition, this same chip seal treatment
will be applied on Nimitz Avenue between
Knox Road and Lauritsen Road, and there
will be a I-in. thick pavement overlay on
Lauritsen Road between Nimitz Avenue and
Knox Road that carries traffic headed to
and from the range areas and Armitage
Field.
All of the new paving will be restriped to
make the centerline easily visible to
motorists.
Apavement rejuvenator treatment will be
applied on Richmond Road from the Trona
Road on the south to its intersection with
Nimitz Avenue on the north.
New paving or the application of
rejuvenating agents to the surface of roads
or parking lots also is called for in the
recenUy..awarded contract.
Pavement overlays or slurry treatment
are scheduled on parking lots at the bowling
alley, the CPO Club, and the north side of
Schoeffel Field, as well as those at
Michelson Laboratory, the Solid State
Laboratory, and the Training Center.
Work also is to be done on many of the
roads and parking lots in the China Lake
pilot plant area, the ranges, the airfield, Salt
Wells, and Randsburg Wash. Installation of
most of the new pavement will require
demolition of existing curbs and the con-
struction of new ones.
This contract is scheduled for completion
in January 1983. The contractor is required
to provide at least one lane of traffic at all
times. At no time will a road be completely
closed off without a suitable detour being
provided. All traffic control devices will
conform with the latest State of California
manuals.
{ Continued on Page 3}
NAVAL WEAPONS CENTER
CHINA LAKE
CALIFORNIA
August27,1982
VoI. XXXVII, No. J.c
IN WITH THE NEW - John Dancy, seated at the A-6 Navigation an electronics engineer, is testing an interfilce to verify that the
Work Station, "fliesu
the A-6 simulator while (at right) George Mills, correct displays are being generated on the simulator grllphics.
Newly-equipped Weapon System Support
Facility moves to new site in Hangar 3
The "Blue Whale" has been beached. But
in its place has been installed a Weapons
Work Station that, in addition to the
Navigation Work Station presently
operating, is the backbone of the A~
Weapons System Support Facility (WSSF)
now located in more spacious quarters on
the main deck of Hangar III at Armitage
Airfield.
While the "old beast" performed faith-
fully, its many idiosyncrasies (due in part to
its early 1970 digital circuitry) caused
more than a few maintenance problems for
the engineers and technicians who have
worked with it since it was moved here in
February 1978 from the Naval Surface
Weapons Center at Dahlgren, Va.
According to John LaMarr, head of the
A~ Facility Branch (Code 3112) in the .
Avionics Facilities Division of the Aircraft
Weapons Integration Department, the A~
aircraft simulator was placed in operation
in April 1978. At that time it consisted of
the "Blue Whale," an elaborate labyrinth of
wires and connections enclosed in a large,
blue-eolored metal cabinet (hence the
name), and a twlrSeat cockpit from a
wrecked A~ Intruder Aircraft.
The purpose of the "Blue Whale" was to
provide the interface between the avionics
computer (a CP-3), other A~ avionic sub-
systems and the simulation software.
Code 3112 personnel improved upon the
"Blue Whale" by installing more modern
simulation computers and incorporating
improvements to the cockpit displays, the
Carrier Approach Inertial Navigation
System (CAINS), and the Target
Recognition Attack Multisensor (TRAM)
simulation software.
The primary purpose of the A~ WSSF, La
Marr explained, is to provide both a Fleet
and mission~realistic environment for the
development, testing, verification and
validation of the A~ aircraft's Operational
Flight Program (OFP).
In addition, the A~ WSSF provides the
capability for :
.....,.-- (I ) Developing the tools required to
support the A~ weapons delivery system
analysis, engineering, and testing.
OUT WITH THE OLD - David Stone (at right) dismantles the
cockpit of the old A-6 simulator, while 8ill Rha my removes
parts from the "Blue Whale," which is the electronic portion of the
sim ulalor. -Photos by PHAA Rebecca Carpenter
(2) Supporting the OFP performance
analysis, problem analysis, and tactical
software quality assurance.
(3) Finding and fixing problems in a cost-
effective simulated laboratory environment
instead of finding problems in the Fleet or
during range testing of weapons.
It is also the function of the A~ WSSF to
measure performance and reliability of the
aircrafts' avionics systems before their
introduction into the Fleet, and provide a
historical data hase of weapon system
performance characteristics and subsystem
behavior.
The present simulation capabilities of the
A~ WSSF are now provided by an In-
tegration Laboratory whose prime features
inc;lude a SEL mini-computer system ar·
chitecture and an operator's console that
provides WSSF engineers and users with a
cost effective, expandable and flexible
facility to build upon for supporting future
A~ aircraft program objectives.
The Integration Lab's Work Stations pr()-
vide weapon and avionics integration and
testing with the simulation being the key
element. The lab's computer generated
simulations are keyed around "models" for
the A~ airframe, radars, inertial nav-
( Continued on Page.)
, OCR Text: ROCKETEER
Circus celebration
held by youngsters
at Children's Center
The Children's Center concluded its
celebration of "Circus Month" Thursday
night, Aug. 19, with a unique event - a
circus performed by 100 youngsters between
the ages of three and nine years old for more
than 200 family members and friends.
Cynthia Garvin and Debbie Bergstrom,
coordinators for the event, were assisted by
15 other Children's Center staff members
who donned bright make-up and haggy
pants and clowned around with the kids in a
variety ofcircus acts.
Children dressed as lions, tigers and bears
.(and other scaled.-1272.
1:l u.s.Gov.,.nmenf Printing Office:
I982-No.103'
From:____
PLACE
STAMP
HERE
To: ____ ____
Be forewarned,
extensive road
repairs slated
A contract in the amount of $1,400,000
was awarded recently to the Desert Con-
struction Co., of Victorville, Calif., for the
paving of numerous streets located in the
main site area of the Naval Weapons
Center.
Among other things, the contract calls for
installing a II>-in.-thick pavement overlay
on East Inyokern Road from the·NWC main
gate to the traffic circle, and also along East
Inyokern Road to Richmond Road.
In addition, the troublesome section of
East Inyokern Road between the main gate
and the traffic circle will be widened to two
lanes in both directions.
Furthermore, the heavily-traveled sec-
tion of Knox Road from the traffic circle
north to Blandy Avenue also will get II>
inches of pavement overlay, and a chip seal
treatment is scheduled on Blandy Avenue
all the way from Sandquist Road to Essex
Circle.
In addition, this same chip seal treatment
will be applied on Nimitz Avenue between
Knox Road and Lauritsen Road, and there
will be a I-in. thick pavement overlay on
Lauritsen Road between Nimitz Avenue and
Knox Road that carries traffic headed to
and from the range areas and Armitage
Field.
All of the new paving will be restriped to
make the centerline easily visible to
motorists.
Apavement rejuvenator treatment will be
applied on Richmond Road from the Trona
Road on the south to its intersection with
Nimitz Avenue on the north.
New paving or the application of
rejuvenating agents to the surface of roads
or parking lots also is called for in the
recenUy..awarded contract.
Pavement overlays or slurry treatment
are scheduled on parking lots at the bowling
alley, the CPO Club, and the north side of
Schoeffel Field, as well as those at
Michelson Laboratory, the Solid State
Laboratory, and the Training Center.
Work also is to be done on many of the
roads and parking lots in the China Lake
pilot plant area, the ranges, the airfield, Salt
Wells, and Randsburg Wash. Installation of
most of the new pavement will require
demolition of existing curbs and the con-
struction of new ones.
This contract is scheduled for completion
in January 1983. The contractor is required
to provide at least one lane of traffic at all
times. At no time will a road be completely
closed off without a suitable detour being
provided. All traffic control devices will
conform with the latest State of California
manuals.
{ Continued on Page 3}
NAVAL WEAPONS CENTER
CHINA LAKE
CALIFORNIA
August27,1982
VoI. XXXVII, No. J.c
IN WITH THE NEW - John Dancy, seated at the A-6 Navigation an electronics engineer, is testing an interfilce to verify that the
Work Station, "fliesu
the A-6 simulator while (at right) George Mills, correct displays are being generated on the simulator grllphics.
Newly-equipped Weapon System Support
Facility moves to new site in Hangar 3
The "Blue Whale" has been beached. But
in its place has been installed a Weapons
Work Station that, in addition to the
Navigation Work Station presently
operating, is the backbone of the A~
Weapons System Support Facility (WSSF)
now located in more spacious quarters on
the main deck of Hangar III at Armitage
Airfield.
While the "old beast" performed faith-
fully, its many idiosyncrasies (due in part to
its early 1970 digital circuitry) caused
more than a few maintenance problems for
the engineers and technicians who have
worked with it since it was moved here in
February 1978 from the Naval Surface
Weapons Center at Dahlgren, Va.
According to John LaMarr, head of the
A~ Facility Branch (Code 3112) in the .
Avionics Facilities Division of the Aircraft
Weapons Integration Department, the A~
aircraft simulator was placed in operation
in April 1978. At that time it consisted of
the "Blue Whale," an elaborate labyrinth of
wires and connections enclosed in a large,
blue-eolored metal cabinet (hence the
name), and a twlrSeat cockpit from a
wrecked A~ Intruder Aircraft.
The purpose of the "Blue Whale" was to
provide the interface between the avionics
computer (a CP-3), other A~ avionic sub-
systems and the simulation software.
Code 3112 personnel improved upon the
"Blue Whale" by installing more modern
simulation computers and incorporating
improvements to the cockpit displays, the
Carrier Approach Inertial Navigation
System (CAINS), and the Target
Recognition Attack Multisensor (TRAM)
simulation software.
The primary purpose of the A~ WSSF, La
Marr explained, is to provide both a Fleet
and mission~realistic environment for the
development, testing, verification and
validation of the A~ aircraft's Operational
Flight Program (OFP).
In addition, the A~ WSSF provides the
capability for :
.....,.-- (I ) Developing the tools required to
support the A~ weapons delivery system
analysis, engineering, and testing.
OUT WITH THE OLD - David Stone (at right) dismantles the
cockpit of the old A-6 simulator, while 8ill Rha my removes
parts from the "Blue Whale," which is the electronic portion of the
sim ulalor. -Photos by PHAA Rebecca Carpenter
(2) Supporting the OFP performance
analysis, problem analysis, and tactical
software quality assurance.
(3) Finding and fixing problems in a cost-
effective simulated laboratory environment
instead of finding problems in the Fleet or
during range testing of weapons.
It is also the function of the A~ WSSF to
measure performance and reliability of the
aircrafts' avionics systems before their
introduction into the Fleet, and provide a
historical data hase of weapon system
performance characteristics and subsystem
behavior.
The present simulation capabilities of the
A~ WSSF are now provided by an In-
tegration Laboratory whose prime features
inc;lude a SEL mini-computer system ar·
chitecture and an operator's console that
provides WSSF engineers and users with a
cost effective, expandable and flexible
facility to build upon for supporting future
A~ aircraft program objectives.
The Integration Lab's Work Stations pr()-
vide weapon and avionics integration and
testing with the simulation being the key
element. The lab's computer generated
simulations are keyed around "models" for
the A~ airframe, radars, inertial nav-
( Continued on Page.)
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