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From: faunt@hplabs.UUCP (Doug Faunt)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Vigilantes (not Goetz :-)  )
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Date: Wed, 6-Mar-85 16:52:17 EST
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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

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
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