Wednesday, June 12, 2024

All sorts of wild stuff here

 


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  1. No need to be Snarky…

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  2. Had a plastic model kit of that missile when I was in grade school.

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    1. So did I. One of my first.

      Boeing CIM-10 Bomarc

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    2. I too had a model of the Bomarc when I was a kid.

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    3. Northrop SM-62 Snark and GM Firebirds I and II, which dates the picture to 1956 or later.

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  3. snark cruise missile. crashed so often during development that the water by cape Canaveral was designated snark infested water

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  4. Why would the star and bar emblem be applied at an angle? Something is screwy.

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    1. I would guess just for the photo so that it was level when the bird was at an angle.

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    2. Insignia probably only applied at the odd angle on the test Snarks. Operational birds were a light gray color, and armed with a 4mT W39 warhead. One is displayed at AF Museum in Dayton. Yup, I built the Revell kit many decades ago too, but Monogram and Lindberg made kits of it too. Being a nonpolitical topic, Wikipedia is not a bad source of information for “SM-62 Snark”.

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  5. I had flannel PJs with that car in the foreground printed on them (and other concept cars as well).

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