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Aviation History
1958
1958 - 0402.PDF
418 FLIGHT MISSILES V A Sl GUARD DRAWN to a scale of ten feet to an inch, the big rockets of the American arsenal can be compared with the "V-2" on the far right and the Spitfire. ThelCBM is, of course, larger than the satellite launchers, owing to its far greater payload; but the nuclear-tipped Sergeant can accomplish all that could be done by the big V-2 of 15 years earlier* JUPITER « Swt«Hit* laaiKMng voMdO, fevotoaoa1 ftr tat IM. Amy by Roittoaa AIMMMI, Caltacb M Proaaltloa Labora- tory ana" otbtr agendas; baitt by Cferyttw hi Detroit Enmalt shown i* that which afaeatf * •attHitg in orbit on Jaamry 31. Finl tiag* it a RW«HM RtMan* •ritb incraaMo taak loagth aatf Mgk-Mtrgy twl. TMt earrte* a taia-xtaifflzad «ran eontaiaiag 11 scalotf-aowa Sorgtaot m*ton. whick in (ara haatat tko third ttagt wttfe four tcaM Xri*aM •wton. Tat HMM ttagt l» • cyNa«ri«al uAtm* MMM «B a Overall ieagtb, aaaraifmattty batfy tteawtar. Mite; ling weight 6VKM Ib; ara- (firtt*ttaga), N.A.A. RackoWyat «xe<-eh«mber meter VANSUARD SateHtt* iaaath- ia( mbM«, «M*toa«« far ta« U.4. Navy witk Tfc« martin C*m- aaay (BaNiaiart) at tytteat niaaaftr. Eximal* ib**n vat •Mtreyet *a Mi laimekiaf aa« •a Occtnbw t; tht tavrth Vaaf aartl tucetwlBlly plac*4 a small MtdWt la arbH on March 1?. Tat nfttd* it SalMt aatf hat a Usb taaam ratio. Tfet Snt ttaet ewaaiitM laakas* tor UauM axyf mi aa« r*tm Hw4- i«C a Otawai CiwMc fiMtal- chiwktr nwtor rata< at M^0« Ib. Th» **c*»6 ttagt «waleyi aa A«rojct-aM*ra! fi»k«l-eha»ifcw awtor raw at T.wett ramiac •n mtrft *CM ao (RFNA aa« UOMH). Tin ttagt bat a taMtf-araacHant Rwtor by tin OnnM Owitril Rsektt Oomaaay, rat«4 at X.390 Ib. ATLAS tntercoatintntal kal> little BMttHti tftvtloaatf faf tlM U.t.AIr Fant at Wnaaa Sytttai 1»T-A-1, tfc* minil* KMH b^a( SM-eSA. mm tMrtractar U tonnlr Actraaaatia Dhritim; (aMaae* it (ffaetad by wry aowartul rater (6.E.) antf tmrtial/ Maaltr tyttomt ia*«lvia( a Bw- raa(ht caweatar, ami caatraciar far araaaMaa it N.A.A. Rackat- <y«t Oivisiea. Thara art tfcrM cinbai-chaaibwr awtert, all H* •at an l(aHM aa tka gratia*. Tin two 1M,0M-lh baatt motors art jaWtaa«4 at bwa-oat, Itav lilt «M ttaglt 135,M0-l» lot- fi THOR latoriMaiata-raitto »«' ttttit mlnilt, «tv«l*a*< far tit U.S. Air Fant at Waaaaa Syctan 31«A, tbt arittHa tttolf btln; 8M-7S. Prim* contractor i Oaagtat Aiittiaftj gaUanco ' otoetwl by a traly iatrtial tyttto mnt«l by A.C. Spark fix, tfivfsten sf Qwtnl Motors* SB areaaMaa it aroiriaoa" by a ting! gtmbaMkaataar motor by N.A.* RackattyM IHvitioa ise,«oo/ies,eeo ib. Two M far Hnat tra)attory c«rr»ctitn«. O»oraH Itngtfc, 7att; httic baiy iHamatar (mctudiai ganUaet aackagtt), ISOia; laaaekiag 4i«m«t*r (Bnt-ttajti, 4SJI«; iaunckim »•««, JB.9W». #tti n rang*, «• Is «,330 nttat; aaak Maca naUwr, abort M. Tat txamalt ihoam k« tfea tfoanttrfo DMo-cona aad rt ««try fto<y (by 8.E.) «hkk wi frabaHy at tttadl to AUat aba. Overall ItagHi, aHett; «uuiinB' Aamottr, txclatfag talrim •Sin; la«n«blat wtlght, raaartc ta a« iia^aoib; <tt)ga rt«s (artttat SM-TS), 1,CM mile a«ak Mack mimbtr, about 11
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