Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!wanttaja From: wanttaja@ssc-vax.UUCP (Ronald J Wanttaja) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Vigilantes (not Goetz :-) ) Message-ID: <467@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 11:59:19 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.467 Posted: Thu Feb 28 11:59:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Mar-85 02:44:41 EST Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 13 I've got a bit of a question about the A-5 Vigilante, the '50s Navy attack bomber/Recce aircraft. I seem to remember a model kit of the A-5 that featured a rearward-firing torpedo. Did the A-5 actually have that? Did it eject backwards merely to cancel out the forward speed of the aircraft, or did it also travel in the reverse direction to the aircraft flight? How was it planned to use this operationally... was the aircraft required to fly over the target ship before firing? Ron Wanttaja (ssc-vax!wanttaja) Archbury control, this is Ramrod Leader...