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George Simpson
Springfield, NJ
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To those who may have some history ,photos and artifacts. I presently volunteer at the NJ Aviation Hall of Fame and we recently rescued the Bendix airport beacon. It was mounted on the roof. we plan to use it in our Airport room and give some of the history of the Bendix story. If anybody has any artifact pictures of the Bendix operation please contact me at ahofmuse1@aol.com george Steve Vodzik wrote: My uncle worked in Bendix his name was Steve Bognatz. Does anyone know him?. He worked on various projects including skylab. He gave me brochures when the space shuttle program was being conceived and the illustrations on them do not even come close to what it looks like. IHe also gave me alot of other memoribilia from the space program that he geot from Bendix. Its a shame that all our history is being sacrificed for the sake of scumbag developers and nothing is being preserved for our children. I am equally upset at what happeed to the ITT tower in Nutley. Also Curtiss Wright in Woodridge. I know there is alot of equipment getting scrapped in Bendix. I would love to take a walk in there and Curtiss Wright to see what was left and to for the last time go back in time when technology was what kept Amereica going and the electronics industry was booming in the US. NOTE: I found pics on the web that shows the inside of Curtiss Wright as someone went in and took the pics and rread articles of things that were left behind from an era that will never happen again in the US. This has tho change people!!!!
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Paul Malmstrom
Jersey City, NJ
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My dad worked ther in the 60's when it was Bendix. I was very young so the details are not clear but I remember how proud he was of the work he did on the B-58(I think he worked on the auto-pilot system but I'm not sure).
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Tom Mitch
Tyler, TX
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Bob T melbourne FL wrote: Bendix was my first job out of school. Worked on AN/GJQ-9 for the Test Equipment Dept. Tested C-141 autopilot stuff. Great place to learn and work. Many fond memories. Yes, I remember the Q-9. Worked on mid-nights maintaining the Q-9's testing the C-141 autopilots and then got drafted to support them in Thailand with the F-111's. Teterboro was a great place to work, but the decline started with Bloomenthal. All the research labs were shut down under him. Bossidy just did what the board wanted.
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Robert Fomen
Wayne, NJ
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My uncle, John Capko got me a job in the drafting department in Dec 1960. Worked in change order then went to Ed Sweetman's group and worked on the Pershing missile project. In March of 1963 got another job with more money, $90.00 per week. Do not miss running RT 46 from Fairfield to Teterboro every day. Bob
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Oscar
Mahwah, NJ
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mike wrote: And the same thing happened to the old Bendix Electric Power Division in Eatontown, NJ (which was a spinoff from Teterboro). The property was sold and now there's a Walmart there. History lost forever...
PS - I have one of the books that Bernie O'Conner had commissioned back on the history of Bendix Eclipse-Pioneer from 1938-1974. There's some wonderful old pics in there and aerial views of the facility during it's heyday. Welp, thats all I have left to remember my years working there... I didn't know Bernie published a book; I worked for him and others from 1962 to 1969 on the Pershing and Saturn/Apollo guidance. Last time I looked there were no buildings at all.
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Frank
Princeton Junction, NJ
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I also worked there on the production floor and also in the test department from 1995 to 1999. In late 1999 there were rumors that Teterboro Airport wanted to expand and that there were plans to shut it down and to move their operations elsewhere. If anyone has any photos of the plant please send them to me. fsphotos@comcast.net
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