Abstract
I met Floyd Nixon shortly after going to the Naval Air Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, California in mid-'49. Floyd says he became involved in simulation in 1948 as a means of trying to find out why a certain missile (probably the Bullpup) didn't straighten up and fly right. He was with the Glenn L. Martin Company (now Martin Marietta Corporation) stationed at Point Mugu at the time, and his interest in simulation was influential in the establishment of the NAMTC Guidance Simulation Laboratory in my sec tion of the Guidance Division a couple of years later. Floyd also encouraged me in the formation of the first Simulation Council, and is a Charter Member of SCS by right of having participated in the founding meeting at the Colonial House in Oxnard., California on the evening of Friday, November 7, 1952. Floyd Nixon's career has been devoted almost exclusively to the development of guidance and control systems and - except for three years with the Aerospace Cor poration-that work has been with Martin Marietta.
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