Debris found in Southern CA Desert - Anyone know what it might be?

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Pat Flannery wrote:
The Vig also had a 'dummy' bomb/ 'live' fuel tank combo that it
carried for day-to-day operations, but IIRC it was not jettisonable...

They found out the hard way that the bomb itself wasn't very
jettisonable...
The aircraft promptly got changed into a recon machine.

If memory serves, the bomb-ejection system did *eventually* work, although
only after a lot of development grief. The switch to the recon role was
because of a more global change: the USN strategic-weapon-delivery
mission was transferred from the carrier-based bombers to the missile
subs. The carrier-based bombers had to find other roles, and by and large
they weren't well-suited to the attack role, so they ended up doing things
like recon and EW.
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Henry Spencer wrote:

If memory serves, the bomb-ejection system did *eventually* work, although
only after a lot of development grief.


I'm still trying to imagine a catapult launch where there is the roar of
the motors coming up to full power; the whoosh of the catapult; the
aircraft leaping into the air...as a trail of sparks starts behind it;
the blast of fire dispersing the steam; and the sight of the nuclear
bomb sitting in a sea of burning jet fuel on the carrier deck...
The carrier's crew would find this disturbing.

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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The carrier's crew would find this disturbing.

Yes, they might be quite put out by it, possibly even vexed.

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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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The carrier's crew would find this disturbing.

Yes, they might be quite put out by it, possibly even vexed.

Peeved, at the very least...

Aw, who are we kidding? You're talking about a *massive* problem for
the ship's Laundry Officer... after several hundred guys all **** in
their pants simultaneously.

Doug