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U.S. Navy, Point Mugu and Port Hueneme Commands, 1971. Wraps, [64] pp (unpaginated), including 32 pp of advertisements on yellow stock; 28 cm; fold-out front cover; illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs and color paintings. Edited by Dorothy Nehlsen; cover design by Don Fay.
In Good condition. Staple bound. Glossy pictorial paper covers with photo grids of fair scenes front and rear; light bumping increasing at edges and corners; moderate scuffing and soiling with some spotting and foxing. Covers split along spine fold from head to foot, meeting staples, but still attached; binding intact. Front cover extends into a fold-out panel. Toning and some light foxing along page edges, a few small spots to inside rear cover; otherwise unmarked. Souvenir program for the twelfth annual Space Fair, the open house and air show held by the Navy commands at Point Mugu and Port Hueneme to benefit the Navy Relief Society, and the forerunner of today's Point Mugu Air Show. The fold-out front cover includes "The Point Mugu Navy Complex: A Twenty-Fifth Anniversary," a history of the station from its commissioning in 1946, with color paintings of the Loon, Bat, Petrel, Gorgon IV, Regulus I and Regulus II missiles and an aerial photograph of the point. Further sections cover the Pacific Missile Range, Naval Missile Center, Navy Astronautics Group, Naval Air Reserve, and the Port Hueneme commands, including the Seabee Construction Battalion Center, Naval Hospital and Naval Civil Engineering Laboratory. Includes the 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. air show schedules and features on the Air Force Thunderbirds in F-4E Phantoms, Bob Hoover, Art Scholl, Carolyn Salisbury, wing walkers Joe Hughes and John Kazian, and the Goodyear blimp. Advertisements from IBM, Grumman (F-14), Westinghouse, Raytheon, Teledyne Ryan (Firebee II) and Singer Librascope, along with Oxnard, Ventura and Port Hueneme businesses.