Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site hplabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amd!hplabs!faunt From: faunt@hplabs.UUCP (Doug Faunt) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: Re: Vigilantes (not Goetz :-) ) Message-ID: <1695@hplabs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 16:52:17 EST Article-I.D.: hplabs.1695 Posted: Wed Mar 6 16:52:17 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Mar-85 06:05:27 EST References: <467@ssc-vax.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 16 > 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 The A5 carried (or was supposed to) a nuclear weapon btween the engines, and "dropped" by ejecting it aft. It was one of the Navy's "strategic" bombers. It meant the weapon could be released at quite high speed (no bomb bay doors open in the airflow). I looked at RA-5C's and the IPB's for them in the late 60's because of my curiousity about that. The recon version had equipment pallets and fuel tankage there. ex-airdale -- ....!hplabs!faunt faunt%hplabs@csnet-relay.ARPA HP is not responsible for anything I say here. In fact, what I say here may have been generated by a noisy telephone line.