Re: A-9 landing procedure

On Mar 26, 5:09 pm, Pat Flannery <flan...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's somewhat surprising they didn't think about putting a pilot in it,
as that would solve a lot of guidance problems

A: Not necessarily. What condition will the pilot be in at that point
in the flight? What level of control will he really have?
B: Adding a pilot means deleting a warhead. Lobbing an ICBM across the
Atlantic packing one ton of high explosive is lame-ass enough, but
lobbing an *empty* ICBM across the ocean would be damn near a joke.


Anyway, the piloted V-2 ICBM story goes back at least as far as 1947:http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/12/20/transatlantic-roller-coaste...

"Amazing Semi-Factual Tales of Super-Science." Those magazines at the
time were good for learning how to make a table or for an hours
entertaining reading, but as historical documents... not so much.
.

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