Thread: Whaddat?
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Old June 30th 07, 12:07 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
William R Thompson
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Default Whaddat?

"Guy" wrote:

F105 with half of a wing shot off??


No; the screencap doesn't make this obvious, but when
you watch the footage in the episode you can see that
this whatever-it-is has a big JATO bottle under the fuselage.
The JATO is firing as well as the bird's main engine.

The Outer Limits episode was filmed in 1963, so the footage
is probably older than the episode. "Regulus II" is the
best guess I have, but there were so many bizarre test
missiles back then that I don't feel certain.

-- Bill Thompson