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Guy catches missile...
"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message ... On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:11:12 -0700, "Calif Bill" wrote: "Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message . .. On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:25:09 -0400, "mmc" wrote: "Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message m... which was live and keeps it in his boat for ten days before having it disarmed. Yeah - that's what I'd do - nothing like carrying a live missile around in your boat just for laughs. :). http://tinyurl.com/l62fqs AIM 9 Sidewinder. Definite candidate for the Darwin Awards. The father of one of the members of my fishing club ran a big dragger out of Point Judith during WWII. He tells the story of his Dad running out one evening to run the beach from there to Westerly for flounder. It was getting dark and making his final pass back towards Pt. Judith about a mile out when he heard a thud - looked around, didn't see anything and continued his run. Pull in the dragline, boards come on board, net comes onboard and there's this shiny thing in it - a torpedo. It wasn't one of ours either. :) Started the hunt for a German sub - according to the story, it might have been the one they sunk off Newport South Beach two days later. Couple years ago at most. Last year I think. They found a live torpedo under the Piller Point fuel dock. Great place to find a torpedo. http://montereybay.noaa.gov/sac/2003...62003emerg.pdf Guy dropped a prized money clip and dove for it was how it was found. |
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Guy catches missile...
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 19:41:13 -0700, "Calif Bill"
wrote: "Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message .. . On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:52:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jun 9, 5:59 pm, Wizard of Woodstock wrote: which was live and keeps it in his boat for ten days before having it disarmed. Yeah - that's what I'd do - nothing like carrying a live missile around in your boat just for laughs. :). http://tinyurl.com/l62fqs "The bomb squad said the missile was very corroded from floating in sal****er for a long time. They said it was live and in a very unstable state." I didn't know those things could float? I wonder who got chewed on for losing live gear? But then again, I always thought that they did train with live ordinance for weight, but they weren't armed. either way it's not a good situation Could have been a failed rocket engine too. And could have been a really old Sidewinder. I made shipping crates for them in my teen years at a pallet company I worked for summers. And that is 51 years ago. Little known factoid. The scientist who designed and solved the glass fusing problem on the Sidewinder heat/infrared sensor lived here in Woodstock. Mrs. Wave and I bought the little house from his estate. |
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Guy catches missile...
On Jun 9, 9:21*pm, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 17:52:32 -0700 (PDT), Tim wrote: On Jun 9, 5:59*pm, Wizard of Woodstock wrote: which was live and keeps it in his boat for ten days before having it disarmed. Yeah - that's what I'd do - nothing like carrying a live missile around in your boat just for laughs. *:). http://tinyurl.com/l62fqs "The bomb squad said the missile was very corroded from floating in sal****er for a long time. They said it was live and in a very unstable state." I didn't know those things could float? I wonder who got chewed on for losing live gear? But then again, I always thought that they did train with live ordinance for weight, but they weren't armed. either way it's not a good situation Could have been a failed rocket engine too.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I didn't realize this until I started reading about it, but there was a LOT of enemy activity near our beaches during WW2. |
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Guy catches missile...
"Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message ... On Tue, 9 Jun 2009 20:25:09 -0400, "mmc" wrote: "Wizard of Woodstock" wrote in message . .. which was live and keeps it in his boat for ten days before having it disarmed. Yeah - that's what I'd do - nothing like carrying a live missile around in your boat just for laughs. :). http://tinyurl.com/l62fqs AIM 9 Sidewinder. Definite candidate for the Darwin Awards. The father of one of the members of my fishing club ran a big dragger out of Point Judith during WWII. He tells the story of his Dad running out one evening to run the beach from there to Westerly for flounder. It was getting dark and making his final pass back towards Pt. Judith about a mile out when he heard a thud - looked around, didn't see anything and continued his run. Pull in the dragline, boards come on board, net comes onboard and there's this shiny thing in it - a torpedo. It wasn't one of ours either. :) Started the hunt for a German sub - according to the story, it might have been the one they sunk off Newport South Beach two days later. That's not what a fisherman wants to see land on deck! There's a really good non-fiction book called "Torpedo Junction" about the German submarine attacks against North American shipping from Canada to Louisiana. |
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