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was labeled Building 101D.  We only forgot one small

               thing  –  restrooms!  This  was  especially  dicey  for  our
               female personnel, especially if they were pregnant. It was
               a long walk to get to the restrooms outside our building in

               the manufacturing shop area.

               The new LOT organization was sort of like a company

               within a company.  Our engineers and technicians came
               from several disciplines including materials, propulsion,
               aerodynamics,  design,  electronics,  operations  analysis,

               manufacturing,  contracts,  administration,  and  security.
               All in all Dave and I were responsible for about 70 souls.


               One of our initial jobs was to solve the material problem
               that  got  me  into  this  new  and  bewildering  technology,
               since that material was going to be one of the baselines

               that would make us unique and make it possible to win
               the  new  weapon  program  that  MDMSC  (we  were  no

               longer MDAC) was preparing to bid.  Ultimately, we did
               find  a  way  to  make  this  material  consistently,  but  we
               simply  did  not  have  enough  time,  or  intelligence,  to

               perfect  its  application  to  real-world  structural
               arrangements.
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