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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
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Posted: Thu Feb 28 11:59:19 1985
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Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA
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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)

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