PROGRAMS:

COMPANIES:

• Boeing
• North American Aviation
• North American-Rockwell
• Rocketdyne

LOCATIONS:

Rocketdyne, Canoga Park, California. Santa Susana Field Laboratory,

POSITIONS:

Drafting Engineer

COMMENTS:

My father, William “Bill” Flournoy was a drafting engineer who spent his entire career working on projects for North American Aviation which became Rockwell and later Boeing.  From the mid 1950’s until he retired in the 1980’s, my father was one of the thousands of men and women who contributed to the dream of reaching beyond the heavens.  The projects that he worked on included: X15, the Atlas, Apollo, Gemini missions.  The B1 and the Space Shuttle.  I only wish I knew more.  Some of what he did was not for public consumption.  He spent most of those years at Rocketdyne in Canoga Park and spent time at the “Hill” also known as the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.  A poem from that time:

When there’s thunder on the mountains,

Every evening just at nine,

And your walls begin to tremble,

It’s not God,

It’s Rocketdyne