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☆ A rusted Cold War missile built to carry a nuclear bomb discovered in a Washington garage, says report
  + stars: | 2024-02-04 | by ( Rebecca Rommen | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
An inert Cold War-era nuclear rocket was found in a Washington garage. The rusted Douglas AIR-2 Genie was designed to carry a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead. AdvertisementA rusted Cold War missile was discovered in a deceased man's garage in Washington state, The Seattle Times reported. It was used by the US and Canada during the Cold War and was the US Air Force's most powerful interceptor missile ever used. The Cold War era lasted between 1947 and 1991.
Persons: —, Douglas, Seth Tyler, Elton John's, 🚀h ttps:, rade, egan Organizations: Service, Seattle Times, National Museum of, US Air Force, Bellevue Police, Douglas AIR, BBC Locations: Washington, Dayton , Ohio
☆ Police: Inert Cold War-Era Missile Found in Garage of Washington State Home
  + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Associated Press | Feb. | At A.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +1 min
BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — An inert rocket of the type used to carry a nuclear warhead has been found in the garage of a home of a deceased resident in Washington state, police said. Bellevue police responded Thursday to a report of a military-grade rocket in the garage of a home in the city across Lake Washington from Seattle. Bomb squad members inspected the rusting object and found it was a Douglas AIR-2 Genie (previous designation MB-1), an unguided air-to-air rocket that is designed to carry a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead. According to the Air Force Armament Museum Foundation, the unguided air-to-air rocket was used by the U.S. and Canada during a period of the Cold War when interception of Soviet strategic bombers was a major military concern. In July 1957, a Genie was launched at 18,000 feet (about 5,500 meters) from an F89J interceptor and detonated over Yucca Flats, Nevada, the first and only test detonation of a U.S. nuclear-tipped air-to-air rocket.
Persons: Douglas Organizations: Seattle . Police, Air Force, Douglas AIR, Air Force Armament Museum Foundation, U.S, Soviet, Twitter Locations: BELLEVUE, Wash, Washington, Bellevue, Lake Washington, Seattle, Dayton , Ohio, Canada, Flats , Nevada, U.S
☆ Boeing’s Problems Started Long Before the Alaska Airlines Mishap - The New York Times
  + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Bill Saporito | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
That company’s already turbulent reputation suffered another jolt this month when a door plug — a fake door that replaces a real one in some airline configurations — on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 Max 9 blew out at about 16,000 feet. Investigations have commenced into the 737 Max 9, a fairly new jet freighted with Boeing’s penchant for producing flawed aircraft. With flights already full, the system can ill afford the grounding of 171 737 Max 9s. Aerospace was the West Coast’s original geek technology: Hughes Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, Northrup, North American, Lockheed and others in California, and in Seattle, Boeing. Hughes, Douglas and North American would disappear in acquisitions and mergers.
Persons: Max, Hughes Organizations: Xerox, . Steel, Boeing, Alaska Airlines Boeing, Max, Investigations, Aerospace, Hughes Aircraft, Douglas Aircraft, Lockheed, North Locations: North American, California, Seattle, Vietnam, Douglas
☆ A fighter plane designed for the US Navy during World War II was still taking down jet fighters over Vietnam 20 years later
  + stars: | 2023-04-16 | by ( Benjamin Brimelow | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
The Douglas A-1 Skyraider was designed for the US Navy in the final years of World War II. The US Air Force and its South Vietnamese counterpart also began operating the plane that year. Navy Skyraider pilots even managed to down MiG-17 fighter jets on two occasions. By the end of the war, Air Force Skyraiders conducted more than 90,000 combat sorties, including more than 1,000 a month during the peak of the fighting. The last Air Force Skyraider mission was on November 7, 1972, and all of the service's remaining Skyraiders were transferred to the South Vietnamese air force in 1973.
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