O. B. Mallott's accomplishments
With 24 separate awards, I am the most awarded employee in the history of the Boeing Co. My revisions to their facilities, tooling, and production methods, over the course of 14 & 1/2 years has saved the Boeing Co. billions of dollars. In the period of 1967-72 I believe I saved the Boeing Co. from bankruptcy. They could easily prove or disprove this as according to FAA regulations all aircraft tooling and production revisions must be recorded with the responsible persons name and badge number. If I did actually save them from bankruptcy I think they would want to know if it was true as it would make me a Hero. Two engineers in two weeks could investigate and determine the truth. Perhaps they would then restore my retirement income.
Even though I was still technically employed by Lamb-Grays Harbor Co. in Hoquiam, WA I went back to work for Boeing at the Auburn, parts manufacturing facility. In 1954 &1955 had previously been a draftsman doing seating arrangements for the first commercial 707 and as a jig builder on the Plant 2 balcony make the revisions drawn by tooling engineers.
My first supervisor was Donald P. Ecklund as a tooling revision coordinator. He found that I was quick to find errors and or make suggestions to improve the tool I was working on so he gave me first assignment as an individual. My first assignment was in the Weld & Duct shop where they made tubes & connectors for aircraft pneumatic & hydraulic systems. More parts were rejected and required rework in this shop than any other. Their only calculator was a 10 button by 10 button hand crank adding machine which would take several minutes to do complex calculations. Texas Instruments had just come out with their new TI-100 that could do any complex calculation with the push of a few buttons in seconds. So I bought one and Boeings future was set.
My first decision was to develop standards for pullouts in all metals, aluminum, stainless steels, copper & titanium. A pull-out is a flange in a tube that is used to weld another tube thereby making a T, a Y or an X.. A ball is inserted in the tube.
I started the first program to standardize parts. I know more about the capabilities of the Boeing Co. than any person who has ever lived. In order to solve Global Warming all of the airplanes in the world will be needed. We need to stop having bean counters in any management position. We need to start having people who are Superintendents of Tooling, Production and Facilities in upper management because they know the requirements of building airplanes and how they are produced.
Prior to going to work at Boeing in 1966 I worked as a aircraft mechanic, draftsman, equipment designer, project manager, sales engineer and standards analyst. So I was well prepared for what would be my duties at Boeing.
My territory as a Sales-Engineer for Lamb Grays Harbor Co, was from Alberta east, the vast majority of Canada. In 2 1/2 years I drove every road in Canada, most of them several times. About 150,000 miles. I've flown out of every airport several times, 250,000 miles back when it was called Air Canada, The Paper Roll Wrapping Systems saved the Canadian forest products industry. Today's value would be about $15,000,000.
Here is a special deal: Hey Gold Miners, I know a place where the Mayans had to a tile road for carts to haul out the GOLD. All we need is two helicopters a crew of 10 equipped with all the new locating equipment. Finding it will be no problem because its mostly nuggets. I say the crew gets 10% off the top. You investors and I split the rest, 60% for you and 40% for me.
Eulogy for Pop,
Goodbye Pop my love for you will never stop.
Where you have gone I hope there's trees,
where you can sit and enjoy the the breeze,
or cut and chop and do as you please.
To fish and swim or warm yourself by the high
noon sun and think of things you've never done.
If you could speak to me today,
I'm sure I'd hear your voice say:
My work is done my life has passed
I just wish it hadn't gone so fast.
My body served me well for all these years
now let's get on without the tears.
I gone now to meet my maker knowing
that I've done my best to meet this
which has been Gods earthly test.
Died Dec.22, 1980 from a Glioblastoma after using
Wood-life an outdoor wood preservative that contained
tolulene-di-isosionate a poison that caused almost instant
brain tumors.
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Published in the Tacoma News Tribune, Jan 8, 1955
Did you ever gaze into a looking glass
just to see what you could find ?
Perhaps the face you sought
Was one both sweet and kind-
but should you look enough
It might drive you from your mind-
A mind that never though of the face
It might not find.
By: Orville B. Mallott, June 22, 1950
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By Orville B. Mallott, June 22, 1954
Early Morning in the City
This was inspired by the gutters and telephone poles by the old Broadway High School in Seattle.
Through the gutters of early morn, the rain drifts along
washing with it the spew of every animal that has traversed
the street through-out the day, tugging and pushing at
bits of paper, strands of hair, it swirls against the curb in an effort
to cleanse it of the blood from a fight of a few hours previous.
The monarch stands stripped of it's bark that carried the life giving
sap to it's out stretched branches. Now coated with creosote and
punctured incessantly by lineman's spikes, bowed beneath the
weight of the heavy copper wires, held erect by cables
running this way and that. The telephone pole silently remembers
the cool breezes and sunshine in his bristling needles.
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By Orville B. Mallott
Dreaming
There I was just sitting alone and think
of going home.
You looked across at me and smiled.
My face got red in a full blown blush
I lifted my glass with a smile encased
in red. All I could think of was going
to bed. As you walked towards me my
heart began to race.
The dim lights, the sound of the Juke-box
The hum of chatting, and tinkling of beer
glasses, The blended smell of beer, perfume,
and cigarette smoke made my brain swirl.
As you walked towards me my heart raced
faster and faster. I said sweetheart and
woke myself up.
Now let me explain the universe as I understand it I might be wrong but I've never been wrong before so I'll just bet on me. The age of the Universe is unknown. Everything was created using the energy of black matter. Everything was created because of its attraction to another, making it automatically compatible. The most difficult thing for me to understand is the word endless or infinite. There isn't an end,
I say that in this endlessness there are vast areas of nothing. Nothing, how can that be. I can understand a light-year but endless light-years. Because everything that is attracted to each other has joined together. Endless galaxies joined together over endless light-years.
So exactly when did GOD say let there be light ?
In reference to the "Big Bang" theory. Are we so naïve as to believe that the Big Bang created infinity. Our universe is expanding into a vastness that already existed, infinity. A better answer for me is that our universe was created by the collision of two or more galaxies. Are we saying that in this infinite vastness the Earth is the center of creation? Ridiculous!
I don't believe that matter can be destroyed. It can reshaped, made larger or smaller, become more or less dense but it cannot be destroyed.
I would like to talk to anyone out there on our earth, who has thoughts that are different.
I know the dog is suppose to be man's best friend but I believe that the horse is man's best friend.
Where would man be today without having a horse to take him to war.
To carry his body while he conquered the unexplored.
What about the thousands of movies that would not have been possible without horses.
Have you ever wondered how a horse is able to gallop across a rocky stream or river without injury ?
It's because of his wonderful hooves. The outer hardened hoof contains the softer inner-hoof which is
attached to the leg by what is essentially a ball bearing. The hoof can come down at any angle with
any amount of contact without injury. I believe the horse is GODS second best creation.
Horses are adaptable to any weather or work condition. From the depths of a coal mine to height of the highest forest. Mated with donkeys they've provided an even stronger version, the Mule. They've done every job that was to difficult for man to do alone. When necessary they give their lives so that man could eat. They deserve the fact that all work is referred to terms of Horse Power.
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O.B. Mallott
P. O. Box 23283
Federal Way, WA 98083
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