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"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2007/07/23/42334 |
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"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
"Jim Oberg" wrote in message ... "El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2007/07/23/42334 Cool. Knowing the name of this thing allowed Google to find some other stuff: http://www.airzoo.org/archive/elkabong/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Zoo Which finally led me here, high resolution pictures! http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldgu.../elkabong.html You've gotta love the Field Guide to American Spacecraft. Jeff -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - B. Franklin, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919) |
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"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
Jim Oberg wrote: "El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2007/07/23/42334 As far as the name goes, check up on the cartoons of the era: http://www.bcdb.com/bcdb/detailed.cgi?film=9597 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Draw_McGraw I assume the idea came about as Gemini swinging down out of the sky like Quick Draw McGraw on his rope, with the parawing serving the part of the cape., and the black Gemini and it's windows looking like his masked face. If you think that concept looked iffy, try this on for size: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/winemini.htm http://www.astronautix.com/gallery/cwiemini.htm Great aerodynamics! :-D I always thought ASSET was probably a test vehicle for a aerodynamic MARV warhead. The concept of a quick-launch manned recoverable spacecraft seemed to be on a lot of people's minds back then (This concept, Space Cruiser, SAINT II) I wonder if the mission was to disable Soviet orbiting nuclear weapons platforms in a covert way. Pat Pat |
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"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
"Jeff Findley" writes:
"Jim Oberg" wrote in message ... "El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2007/07/23/42334 Cool. Knowing the name of this thing allowed Google to find some other stuff: http://www.airzoo.org/archive/elkabong/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Zoo Which finally led me here, high resolution pictures! http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldgu.../elkabong.html Poster with some in-flight fotos: http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldgu...g/IMG_0525.JPG This is a nice concept. Scale the thing up for a larger crew, add a hatch through the heat-shield and a service/mission module (as the russian TKS did), and you have something. But why did they use skids? With the ability for precision landings you can land at a runway and use wheels. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
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"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
Jochem Huhmann wrote: Poster with some in-flight fotos: http://aesp.nasa.okstate.edu/fieldgu...g/IMG_0525.JPG Well, that confirms the Quick Draw McGraw connection. This is a nice concept. Scale the thing up for a larger crew, add a hatch through the heat-shield and a service/mission module (as the russian TKS did), and you have something. But why did they use skids? With the ability for precision landings you can land at a runway and use wheels. I assume they were concerned about winds making it drift off course during approach. They thought skids would be more forgiving on a landing on the desert at Edwards. There is also the problem of the tires getting hot during reentry and exploding. Dyna-Soar was also going to use skids, as was the Soviet Spiral space fighter. Pat |
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"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
After it, uh..., landed the first time, I recall Gus Grissom being quoted as
saying, and you really need to put Gus's voice against this quote, "They want us to land in that thing?" ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
For those who don't remember its namesake, "El Kabong" was the alter ego of
Hanna-Barbera cartoon horse cowboy "Quickdraw McGraw". "El Kabong" was a Zorro-like hero, who swung down on a rope with a guitar, with which he to bashed bad guys over the head. At the moment of impact, he would say "Kabong!" Now if this sounds lame in 2007, remember that is was 1963 or 64 when the cartoon was popular. It followed on the heels of the very popular "Huckleberry Hound" show, which introduced other cartoon heroes, including "Yogi Bear". Hanna-Barbera was instantly famous overnight, then kept on runnng extremely diluted off-shoot cartoons based on the originals. For their time, they were extremely novel programs with the earliest having some very well written, and funny - truely funny - dialog. While totally unrelated, I think these cartoons were following to catch up on the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" programs, which were perhaps the the funniest, most intellectually pleasing, topical, cartoons of their day. These were cartoons which didn't talk down to children or adults, and actually required some literacy to really understand. These were produced by Jay Ward and Bill Scott. I don't think anything available today encourages the same literacy required by these early gems. Couple that atmosphere with the prospect of human going out into space, and a government drive to get us out into space, and you have a tiny slice of what it meant to be thirteen, in 1963. ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Unrestricted-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
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"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:38:56 -0400, in a place far, far away,
"R.Glueck" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: For those who don't remember its namesake, "El Kabong" was the alter ego of Hanna-Barbera cartoon horse cowboy "Quickdraw McGraw". "El Kabong" was a Zorro-like hero, who swung down on a rope with a guitar, with which he to bashed bad guys over the head. At the moment of impact, he would say "Kabong!" Now if this sounds lame in 2007, remember that is was 1963 or 64 when the cartoon was popular. It followed on the heels of the very popular "Huckleberry Hound" show, which introduced other cartoon heroes, including "Yogi Bear". Of course, now we know that Huckleberry Hound was totally gay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Hound (control-F "gay") |
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"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
"Jim Oberg" wrote in message ... "El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965 http://www.temple-telegram.com/story/2007/07/23/42334 This Time article from 1965 indicated the parasail was for military use on things like the upcoming manned orbiting laboratory http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...romoid=googlep |
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"El Kabong" Gemini parasail landing tests, 1965
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:25:03 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote: I assume the idea came about as Gemini swinging down out of the sky like Quick Draw McGraw on his rope, with the parawing serving the part of the cape., and the black Gemini and it's windows looking like his masked face. ....From what I recall, that was part of the inspiration. The other one was the sound the boilerplate made when you hit it - a "kabong!" sound. OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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