Armament System (Missile Bay & Missile Launcher Detail) [Marked CONFIDENTIAL]; Chart No. 15 (3 of 4) 3/30/59
Published by United States Air Force, San Diego, CA [?], 1959
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RARE SURVIVING COPY. This large training chart has been folded multiple times. The format is approximately 42 inches by 10 feet. It has illustrations and captions. The title of the primary graphic on this training chart is View of Launcher Mechanism in Firing Position. There are a number of component diagrams, with captions. There is in red a notation of Butler Field and a number in red. Convair USAF F-106A Delta Dart related. Training Section - Interceptor, Armament System (Missile Bay & Missile Launcher Detail) [Marked CONFIDENTIAL]; Chart No. 15 (3 of 4) 3/30/59. Convair Division, 1959. Revision B. This very large chart, printed on a strong flexible backing material, has been folded multiple times, but presents no hard creasing, significant crease/fold wear or tearing or discoloration. The chart consists of a number of illustrations, with captions, pertaining to the armament system of the USAF F-106A Delta Dart nuclear capable jet interceptor. The primary graphics of the chart pertain to the Trunnion and the Uplock Mechanism, with a number of close-ups of system details. There is a notation in red of "Butler Field" (perhaps this was what is now Butler-Municipal in Georgia) and a number in red. This chart came from the Estate of Convair engineer, who worked on the Armament Control aspects of the F-106A, in the late '50s and ' 60s. The F-106 Delta Dart was an all-weather interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Convair. The interceptor had no provisions for guns or bombs, instead carrying the MB-1 Special Weapon and AIM-4 Falcon air-to-air missiles within an internal weapons bay, which presented a clean exterior beneficial to supersonic flight. On 26 December 1956, the prototype performed its maiden flight. After flight testing demonstrated lesser performance gains than anticipated, the USAF ultimately only ordered 350 of the planned 1,000 F-106s. Becoming operational in June 1959, the F-106 was the primary all-weather interceptor aircraft of the USAF through much of the Cold War era. The F-106 was gradually withdrawn from USAF service during the 1980s as the arrival of newer air superiority fighters, particularly the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, had made the role of dedicated interceptors obsolete. The all-missile armament, housed internally in a ventral weapons bay, consisted of a single Douglas MB-1 (AIR-2A or 2B) Genie unguided rocket equipped with a 1.5 kt W25 nuclear warhead, plus four Hughes GAR-3 Falcon radar-homing or GAR-4 infrared-homing air-to-air missiles. The MB-1 was an unguided timer-detonated rocket, relying on its 1.5 kt nuclear warhead to ensure a kill. Launch weight was 822 pounds and maximum velocity was Mach 3.3. Snap-out fins gave the missile stability during flight. Range was about 8 miles, flight time to target was about 12 seconds, and the effective blast radius was about 1000 feet. The Genie rocket was ejected from the weapons bay by gas pressure generated when 5 impulse cartridges fired on the special weapons rack, kicking the rocket down and away from the aircraft. Good. Single sheet, printed on one side. Single sheet, printed on one side.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Armament System (Missile Bay & Missile Launcher Detail) [Marked CONFIDENTIAL]; Chart No. 15 (3 of 4) 3/30/59
- Author
- Convair [a Division of General Dynamics Corporation)
- Publisher
- United States Air Force, San Diego, CA [?]
- Publication year
- 1959
- Condition
- Good
- Edition
- Revision B.
- Seller catalogs
- Military Training
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