Truth is Stranger than Fiction
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Hillary, is that you?
Matt308
Glock Perfection
Where's a mod when you need 'em. What a noob. Say hello to your mommy for me.
mkloby
Senior Master Sergeant
Hehe
Downwind.Maddl-Land
Airman 1st Class
to the tune of the Eton Boating Song (?):
"Gentlemen will please refrain
from urinating while the train
is standing in the station, if you please,
Railway workers underneath
are getting it in the eyes and teeth......"
and so on....!
"Gentlemen will please refrain
from urinating while the train
is standing in the station, if you please,
Railway workers underneath
are getting it in the eyes and teeth......"
and so on....!
Banned
Damn I have not been online for a few days.
Damn I have not been online for a few days.
ccheese
Member In Perpetuity
Matt308
Glock Perfection
He was obviously a young kid, living at home. I remember when I had my first beer too. Full of piss and bravado, hiding behind Windows firewall makes men out of mental midgets.
Somewhere around 1992 Citroen produced a TV commercial that involved a Citroen BX 19 GTI car seen flying on the back of an airliner (707). I don't know the 'storyline' of the commercial, but the article that I got these photos from spent nine pages discussing the intricacies and the difficulties involved including how to remove Hylocks from the fuselage paneling. The problem was that the 707 was leased and had to be returned in 'pristine' condition.
From Air Enthusiast Forty Two.
From Air Enthusiast Forty Two.
Matt308
Glock Perfection
Brilliant!! 
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Glider
Captain
Whoever thought this would be viable was way off track. Imagine the call, is it a first strike, or the mail man, do I retaliate, don't I.
In 1959 USS Barbero a Submarine with a Regulas nuclear Missile system assisted the United States Postal Service (USPS) in its search for faster, more efficient forms of mail transportation. The USPS tried their first and only delivery of "Missile Mail", though the idea of delivering mail by rocket was not new. Shortly before noon on 8 June 1959, Barbero fired a Regulus cruise missile at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Mayport, Florida. Twenty-two minutes later the missile struck its target; its nuclear warhead had been replaced by two official USPS mail containers.
The USPS had officially established a branch post office on Barbero and delivered some 3000 pieces of mail to it before Barbero left Norfolk, Virginia. The mail consisted entirely of commemorative postal covers addressed to President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower, other government officials, the Postmasters General of all members of the Universal Postal Union, and so on. They contained letters from United States Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield. Their postage (four cents domestic, eight cents international) had been cancelled "USS Barbero Jun 8 9.30am 1959" before the boat put to sea. In Mayport, the Regulus was opened and the mail forwarded to the Jacksonville, Florida, Post Office for further sorting and routing.
Upon witnessing the missile's landing, Summerfield stated, "This peacetime employment of a guided missile for the important and practical purpose of carrying mail, is the first known official use of missiles by any Post Office Department of any nation." Summerfield proclaimed the event to be "of historic significance to the peoples of the entire world," and predicted that "before man reaches the moon, mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail."
In 1959 USS Barbero a Submarine with a Regulas nuclear Missile system assisted the United States Postal Service (USPS) in its search for faster, more efficient forms of mail transportation. The USPS tried their first and only delivery of "Missile Mail", though the idea of delivering mail by rocket was not new. Shortly before noon on 8 June 1959, Barbero fired a Regulus cruise missile at the Naval Auxiliary Air Station, Mayport, Florida. Twenty-two minutes later the missile struck its target; its nuclear warhead had been replaced by two official USPS mail containers.
The USPS had officially established a branch post office on Barbero and delivered some 3000 pieces of mail to it before Barbero left Norfolk, Virginia. The mail consisted entirely of commemorative postal covers addressed to President of the United States Dwight Eisenhower, other government officials, the Postmasters General of all members of the Universal Postal Union, and so on. They contained letters from United States Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield. Their postage (four cents domestic, eight cents international) had been cancelled "USS Barbero Jun 8 9.30am 1959" before the boat put to sea. In Mayport, the Regulus was opened and the mail forwarded to the Jacksonville, Florida, Post Office for further sorting and routing.
Upon witnessing the missile's landing, Summerfield stated, "This peacetime employment of a guided missile for the important and practical purpose of carrying mail, is the first known official use of missiles by any Post Office Department of any nation." Summerfield proclaimed the event to be "of historic significance to the peoples of the entire world," and predicted that "before man reaches the moon, mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to Britain, to India or Australia by guided missiles. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail."
PDKL45
Recruit
Hey all,
My first post here. I just heard a podcast dealing with this incident and had to include it in this thread. I'll try to find a link to the podcast to post here.
From what I understand, an SAC wing was deploying to Europe. In the scramble to get the wing airborne in the allotted time to go into the running for a distinguished unit citation,I believe the ground handling crew "forgot" to insert a crucial safety pin properly.
* March 11, 1958 – Florence, South Carolina, USA – Non-nuclear detonation of a nuclear bomb
* A B-47 bomber flying from Savannah, Georgia accidentally released a nuclear bomb after the bomb lock failed. The chemical explosives detonated on impact in the suburban neighborhood of Florence, South Carolina. Radioactive substances were flung across the area. Several minor injuries resulted and the house on which the bomb fell was destroyed. No radiation sickness occurred.
The strangest story, (as I recall from the podcast I heard), was the protracted legal battle the unfortunate inhabitants of the destroyed house waged with the newly formed USAF.
List of military nuclear accidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There's some hair-raising stuff there.
I also seem to remember a cold-war era tactical nuclear weapon (from a book I have in storage many tens of thousands of kilometers away) that may have been shoulder (or vehicle?) launched. The operators had to dig a reasonably deep trench as they were inevitably within the blast radius. I think it was a envisaged as a stay behind, last-resort kinda thing to blunt the tip of an advancing Warsaw Pact armored division.
The US nuclear arsenal of the 1970s was truly stranger than fiction...
My first post here. I just heard a podcast dealing with this incident and had to include it in this thread. I'll try to find a link to the podcast to post here.
From what I understand, an SAC wing was deploying to Europe. In the scramble to get the wing airborne in the allotted time to go into the running for a distinguished unit citation,I believe the ground handling crew "forgot" to insert a crucial safety pin properly.
* March 11, 1958 – Florence, South Carolina, USA – Non-nuclear detonation of a nuclear bomb
* A B-47 bomber flying from Savannah, Georgia accidentally released a nuclear bomb after the bomb lock failed. The chemical explosives detonated on impact in the suburban neighborhood of Florence, South Carolina. Radioactive substances were flung across the area. Several minor injuries resulted and the house on which the bomb fell was destroyed. No radiation sickness occurred.
The strangest story, (as I recall from the podcast I heard), was the protracted legal battle the unfortunate inhabitants of the destroyed house waged with the newly formed USAF.
List of military nuclear accidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There's some hair-raising stuff there.
I also seem to remember a cold-war era tactical nuclear weapon (from a book I have in storage many tens of thousands of kilometers away) that may have been shoulder (or vehicle?) launched. The operators had to dig a reasonably deep trench as they were inevitably within the blast radius. I think it was a envisaged as a stay behind, last-resort kinda thing to blunt the tip of an advancing Warsaw Pact armored division.
The US nuclear arsenal of the 1970s was truly stranger than fiction...
machine shop tom
Senior Airman
- 503
- Apr 13, 2007
Matt308
Glock Perfection
Not sure where you are coming from Tom. Sarcasm I suspect.
Matt308
Glock Perfection
That's some new ones that I hadn't heard before and suspect is likely BS. There were certainly instances of nuclear weapons being dropped or involved in crash incidents, but they are far and few between. Besides, the radioactivity in such incidents are easily traceable.
Now this one is a little closer to reality. In the 50s, the British had entertained buried thermo-nuclear weapons located in European middle-ground (Germany, France, etc) that could be detonated to halt a Soviet advance. There is a thread here somewhere with the technical quotes, but I can't remember where.
machine shop tom
Senior Airman
- 503
- Apr 13, 2007
JugBR
Staff Sergeant
Somewhere around 1992 Citroen produced a TV commercial that involved a Citroen BX 19 GTI car seen flying on the back of an airliner (707). I don't know the 'storyline' of the commercial, but the article that I got these photos from spent nine pages discussing the intricacies and the difficulties involved including how to remove Hylocks from the fuselage paneling. The problem was that the 707 was leased and had to be returned in 'pristine' condition.
From Air Enthusiast Forty Two.
