Some here may be interested in the following shich I posted on
packet <space@ww> in response to a posting about Lockheed-Martin
shipping the last Titan 4 rocket used for satellite launches:
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As a followup to Alan's - ZL2VAL's - post:
For those who are interested, there is one remaining Titan III ICBM
missile silo left in the US. It has been preserved as part of the
Pima Air Museum in Green Valley, Arizona, about 20 miles south of
Davis-Monthan Air Force Base mear Tucson, Arizona. By terms of one
of the disarmament treaties, both the US and the Soviet Union were
allowed to preserve one silo each as a museum under the following
conditions:
The missle is deactivated - the first stage booster removed and set
out beside the silo, a large hole burned into the nose cone, the
balance of the rocket replaced into the silo and the silo doors
partially closed and cemented into place whereby they cannot be
opened or closed. The Soviet surveillance satellites verified the
US compliance and the US surveillance satellites verified the Soviet
compliance.
Visiting the museum was a walk down memory lane. In the early
1960s I was an electronics engineer with the U S Strategic Air
Command, and supervised installastion and certification of certain
command and control devices for that program. The stuff is still
there!
It is an interesting place to visit when in the area.
== 73 de K2ASP -- Phil Kane, Beaverton, OR ==
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