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Photograph caption dated November 4, 1963 reads, "North American Aviation officials move a huge 33-foot-in-diameter thrust ring for a rocket engine test stand through the Valley early today en route from Los Angeles International Airport to the Rocketdyne test site in the Santa Susana Mountains. The 30-ton ring, in the shape of a gigantic saucer with the middle out, is several feet wider than the average house. The truck hauled the ring through Sepulveda Blvd. in the Santa Monica Mountains to the Valley. From there it was a seven-hour trip to the test site north of Canoga park."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
North American Aviation.--Rocketdyne Division Men--California--Simi Valley Trucks--California--Simi Valley Rocket engines--Thrust Freight and freightage--California--Simi Valley Signs and signboards--California--Simi Valley Streets--California--Simi Valley Mountains--California, Southern Trees--California--Simi Valley Sepulveda Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.) Santa Susana Mountains (Calif.) Simi Valley (Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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