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Today’s installment is going to the dogs.

The Hound Dogs.

“Operation Blue Nose”, a co-production of our friends at the Strategic Air Command and the “Space and Information Systems Division” of North American Aviation. This documents a test of the Hound Dog (a fairly early cruise missile) in which a B-52 crew flew for 20+ hours over the North Pole and back…and then launched one of the missiles.

I’m amused by the banter among the crew (and the guy with the Confederate flag on his helmet – try that in today’s military), but I keep wondering how they got some of this footage.

Bonus video: what if we could launch an ICBM from an aircraft in flight, instead of a silo?

“Air Mobile Feasibility Demonstration” answers that question. Yes, the military actually tested shoving ICBMs out of the back of a C-5 and launching them.

“Coming up on a burn, coming up on a burn…” Do you get the feeling this guy went into sportscasting later on in life?

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