Identify this flying contraption

[Joshuajayg]

Early generation cruise missile?

 

[Velocity173]

Looks like a "Matador."

 

[RJM62]

Looks like a "Matador."

Yep, I think so too.

Rich

 

[N659HB]

BOMARC?

Edit: Nope. Google confirms it's a Matador.

 

[mscard88]

Matador...unsure which version this is though. Carried a nuclear bomb.

 

[mscard88]

BOMARC?

Edit: Nope. Google confirms it's a Matador.

Yeah this is a Bomarc, more of a Delta wing design than the swept wing of the Matador. When I was at Eglin AFB early 80s they would launch Bomarcs out into the Gulf and fighters would shoot 'em down. Beachgoers would freak out, usually because of the smoke & fire from the launch and call the base thinking a plane had crashed. Think they quit using them around the mid 80s, at least at Eglin.

 

[Zeldman]

But why is it on display next to a sign advertising churches..??

 

[jsstevens]

Well, we had one in front of my high school when I went there in (cough, cough) 1975-77.

 

[nauga]

MGM-13 Mace.

Nauga,
and his twins.

 

[Stingray Don]

I think @SixPapaCharlie should put one of those in his front yard. I'll be the neighbor kids would leave him alone then!

 

[Jeff Oslick]

But why is it on display next to a sign advertising churches..??

Because if you have to launch one "for real", proceeding afterwards to a house of worship makes a lot of sense.

 

[Velocity173]

Yep, an MGM-13 Mace. Must have been difficult to fly with no windows.

 

[GlennAB1]

But why is it on display next to a sign advertising churches..??

Because it's the military' job not to judge, but to arrange the meeting between God and the enemy.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

is it an ICBM or what, spare me from wikipeeing.

 

[X3 Skier]

is it an ICBM or what, spare me from wikipeeing.

Nope, more like short range missile for tactical use IIRC. Yes we did have tactical nukes.

CHEERS

 

[GlennAB1]

Early generation cruise missile?

Yep, the first operational cruise missile, with a range of 700 mi.

 

[Cap'n Jack]

Yep, the first operational cruise missile, with a range of 700 mi.

Just curious, why wouldn't the V-1 be considered the first operational cruise missile? Or earlier still, the Kettering bug?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-1_flying_bomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettering_Bug

 

[GlennAB1]

Sorry, first built by the US.

 

[Let'sgoflying!]

Nope, more like short range missile for tactical use IIRC. Yes we did have tactical nukes.

Thanks
I did read how we had tiny nukes ie backpack size, once.

 

[Joshuajayg]

Fascinating. It was set up at a park in a small Kansas town.

 

[Clark1961]

Fascinating. It was set up at a park in a small Kansas town.

Small town in Kansas...hard to believe...

 

[RJM62]

Yep, an MGM-13 Mace. Must have been difficult to fly with no windows.

You just kind of straddled it, like a horse.

Rich

 

[mscard88]

You just kind of straddled it, like a horse.

Rich

Yup like Slim Pickens in Dr Srangelove.

 

[Mason]

You just kind of straddled it, like a horse.

Rich

I think I saw that in a movie once, but it was a B-52.

 

[flyingron]

Definitely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-1_Matador

 

[nauga]

Definitely https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-13_Mace

Nauga,
with a tear in his eye

 

[mscard88]

I think I saw that in a movie once, but it was a B-52.

Slim was flying a B-52 and the bomb hung up, so he went down to the bomb bay and worked it loose, and then rode the bomb down. That may be what you're thinking.

 

[X3 Skier]

I think I saw that in a movie once, but it was a B-52.

The movie was Dr Strangelove or How I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb. Loved some of names of the characters, Bat Guano, Buck Turgidson, Dr Strangelove, Jack D Ripper.

Slim's "Maj King Kong" B-52 never got the recall message.

Cheers

 

[denverpilot]

The movie was Dr Strangelove or How I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb. Loved some of names of the characters, Bat Guano, Buck Turgidson, Dr Strangelove, Jack D Ripper.

Slim's "Maj King Kong" B-52 never got the recall message.

Cheers

One of the best satire movies ever made.

I saw where a national "events" chain associated with movie theaters is showing it on the big screens this month in the previews at the theater last weekend.