On Tue, 27 Mar 2018 20:05:46 -0400, Greg \(Strider\) Moore wrote:

"Michael Gallagher" wrote in message
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 07:15:57 -0400, "Greg \(Strider\) Moore"
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"Michael Gallagher" wrote in message
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPmplphBQO4


Enjoy.

Nice video.
I'm a little confused about the designation. I'm not aware of any Atlas
that was called an Atlas 5.
The current model (which this obviously isn't) is the Atlas V.
The early ones were Atlas A-H.


You'll have to ask the Air Force about how they designated what.
Here's its entry on Wikipedia. Hope that clears this up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM-65_Atlas#Survivors

Thanks. I missed that when I looked earlier.

Interesting. I'm even MORE curious now how it got its designation :-)

It's simple, really - it was hull number 5 in the initial run of the
prototype A series (X-11) Atlases, and, as a static test article, wasn't
flown.
So, it's Atlas A, #5.
16 Atlas As were built, and 8 were flown (to varying degrees of success)


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