Why does the shuttle throttle on ascent?

Brian Thorn wrote:
Coincidentally, History Channel this morning ran a show about the ICBM
Race and included Polaris launch footage. That roll was damned
impressive!

Is this the show that has the footage of the solid-fueled Minuteman
launch identified as a Titan II?

Pat

On Sat, 13 Jan 2007 16:28:30 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Coincidentally, History Channel this morning ran a show about the ICBM
Race and included Polaris launch footage. That roll was damned
impressive!

Is this the show that has the footage of the solid-fueled Minuteman
launch identified as a Titan II?

Yep. They show nearly identical footage a moment later and correctly
identify the Minuteman II.

Brian

Brian Thorn wrote:

Yep. They show nearly identical footage a moment later and correctly
identify the Minuteman II.


Then, right at the end of the show, they had footage of a Titan II
taking off.
Editors should know more about their subject.
My all-time favorite in this regard is still the Discovery Wings episode
on the B-17, where we learn that it's armed with ten _50 mm_ machine
guns. How would you like to be in a FW-190 coming into a squadron of
those? On the way home from a mission they could descend to low altitude
and engage in tank busting.
Still if nothing else it did have some interesting footage of Soviet
missiles, including that loopy Scud launcher that rises up to the top of
the submarine's conning tower.

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:

My all-time favorite in this regard is still the Discovery Wings
episode on the B-17, where we learn that it's armed with ten _50
mm_ machine guns.

Surely you (or Discovery Wings) meant ten 12.7 mm (0.5") machine
guns?

Jim Davis

Jim Davis wrote:

Surely you (or Discovery Wings) meant ten 12.7 mm (0.5") machine
guns?



That's what they obviously meant, but the narrator called them "50 mm
machine guns".
How would you like to be a waist gunner with one of those.... that would
be empowerment, wouldn't it?
The Germans did take after bombers with Me-410s armed with a single 50
mm cannon though.
They also shoehorned one of those into a prototype Me-262 jet's nose:
http://www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org...es/lrg0208.jpg

Pat