On Fri, 15 Apr 2016 19:51:36 -0500, "Byker" wrote:

Film footage: http://tinyurl.com/ztmxeqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IElnBqHI-hE

The booster engine was redesigned to become the engine for the Redstone,
later for the Saturn 1. So this one of Apollo-Saturn ancestors.?

Officially, the program was canceled on 13 July 1957, after the first four
launches ended in failure. In reality the program was obsolete by mid-1957
as the first Atlas ICBM began flight tests in June and the Jupiter and Thor
IRBMs were showing great promise. These ballistic missiles however would not
have been possible without the liquid fuel rocket engine developments
accomplished in the Navaho program.

It's cancellation was a real blow to the work force at North
American. They said that people were lined up in the halls getting
their pink slips. Took a while to recover from the cancellation.


Dave:
Old age comes at an inconventient time

HONK if you do everything people tell you to do.