Remember seeing a Bomarc missile on static display at Keesler AFB in 1973 when I was attending tech school in the Air Force. Reminded me of a missile version of the SR71. Had about the same performance capability as I understand. I was an ACW Radar Repairman (AFC 30352). The search radar screen at my site on Mt Laguna AFS, California had a “Bomarc Indicator” switch that displayed the location of Bomarc Missiles in flight. Of course the Bomarc were all retired about 6 years before I got there.
@rrhone6 жыл бұрын
This is very interesting. A one of a kind video. Thanks for providing it for us.
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Жыл бұрын
Both the *_BOMARC_* and *_X-10_* look COOL.
@Sherwoody4 жыл бұрын
Amazing designs of the slide rule era.
@africanelectron7514 жыл бұрын
I'm 30 years old and I just bought a slide rule, pretty impressive bit of kit.
@Sherwoody4 жыл бұрын
African Electron there were no calculators when I was in school, just slide rules.
@michaelslack52694 жыл бұрын
Those great ole black and white Bomarc launches from the retractable buildings made me think for a sec that I was watching the Thunderbirds. Did Bomarc have an influence somehow in the formation of the show? Just thinking out loud...
@craigwall95365 жыл бұрын
Funny how much the Navaho reminds me of Eugen Sanger's Antipodal Bomber design...
@markhatch12674 жыл бұрын
That's just about the coolest aircraft I have ever seen. Might not quite edge out the XB-70 or X-15.
@orange703838 жыл бұрын
I realize film on this is rare but after all the effort, time and money put into these missiles you'd think they'd got someone that at least knew how to track them with the camera.
@lilee457 жыл бұрын
Damn right.
@cowboybob70937 жыл бұрын
ONE job to do. And most likely a million dollar piece of equipment. _"Damnit my cigarette fell down. Where is that thing. I've only got half a pack left. OUCH, ow ow ow ow, there it is. OH CRAP the plane. Where is, oh there it, my cig"_
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Жыл бұрын
I posted a separate comment about this myself...🙄
@ufoengines7 жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Was the FLODAC computer, patent 3190554 ever considered for these aircraft! I heard / read the BOMARK use a Thorium alloy in its structure and that it make the aircraft slightly radioactive. Thorium Nuclear Power! Energy Cheaper than Coal!
@bertrandviolette9008 Жыл бұрын
6:00 : Gerry Anderson sequence starts here!
@hertzair11864 жыл бұрын
5:30 looks like they took off into a rain squall...
@jrdeckard33175 жыл бұрын
The take off only took 90,000 feet of runway.
@sonnyd.67772 ай бұрын
X10 looks like a Gerry Anderson craft
@Strike_Raid7 жыл бұрын
Not redstone, totally different engine (and predates Navajo).
@Allan_aka_RocKITEman Жыл бұрын
At about 04:11 in this film/video: *_"Uh, HELLO, Mr Cameraman...PAN THE CAMERA!"_* 🙄
@jasons443 жыл бұрын
I see they Must have got the idea for a fighter jet engine side by side, looking much like a mack 2 jet ass end
@pistonssssss9 жыл бұрын
They didn't shoot down the target???
@MrShobar8 жыл бұрын
+pistonssssss Most likely confirmed only by radar.
@jwenting8 жыл бұрын
no, far too expensive. The missile is brought into close proximity of the target, then both are recovered and reconditioned to be used again. Actual shooting down only really happens in warhead tests, and even then it's rare as the warhead is thoroughly tested on the ground without a missile mated to it and only one or two full systems tests are needed.
@pistonssssss8 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I just got confused by waisting of QF-16 drones... ;)
@MrShobar8 жыл бұрын
CaptainDuckman The BOMARC has no value, except as an expendable target.
@jwenting8 жыл бұрын
MrShobar wrong. The BOMARC had a lot of value. It was a pretty expensive piece of kit. In current US dollars, each of them cost tens of millions of dollars. While seemingly pocket change, it isn't.
@petercavellini32325 жыл бұрын
Still not sure what’s going on at Area 51?, well, this old footage might explain to some extent what are being or had been,and, that the latest jets we see are probably ten years behind, who says the Cold War ended?, still developing planes and Drones to be that one step ahead....they hope!😎