Got hold of a Stoner as chief design engineer, Armalite quickly released a number of interesting developments. was a very small organization (in 1956 there were only nine people, including the Stoner). Interestingly, at the time, Armalite Inc. And he was smart enough to appreciate them, and immediately hired him as chief engineer-constructor of the company Armalite. Since the beginning of 1950-ies he worked in various companies, and in his spare time created prototypes of new models of small arms, well, he spoke in detail about their ideas Sullivan. Sam Stoner was a marine, participated in the Second world war, and was a good expert on small arms. During the test, the AR-1 design prototype survival rifles at the local shooting range, Sullivan met Eugene Stoner, a talented small arms inventor. And then something happened that sooner or later had to happen. Clearly, Armalite, with its limited capital and tiny machine shop from the very beginning focused on mass production of weapons, but had to develop concepts and designs for sale to other manufacturers. And on 1 October 1954 the company was incorporated as the Armalite Corporation and became a division of Fairchild. After leasing a small machine shop at 6567 Boulevard Santa Monica in Hollywood, California, Sullivan hired several employees and began work on a prototype for a lightweight rifle for survival, which could use downed pilots. He was acquainted with George Sullivan, the patent counsel of the Lockheed Corporation, which funded his company, and he-he offered to open a company, but under his patronage. And it came to pass that the President of Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation Richard Boutelle came up with the idea to do a small arms.
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