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Print: $18.38 A dozen photos rocket launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base:
Pegasus-XL/Wide-Field Infra-red Explorer (WIRE) March 4, 1999
Atlas-IIAS/Terra December 18, 1999
Delta II/Gravity Probe B, April 20, 2004
Minotaur/Streak September 22, 2005
Minuteman III, August 25, 2005
Titan IV/National Reconnaissance Office satellite, October 19, 2005
Delta-II/COSMO-SkyMed 2, December 8, 2007
Minuteman III, April 2, 2008
Target Launch Vehicle, September 24, 2008
Delta-II/GeoEye 1, September 6, 2008
Delta II/Jason 2, June 20, 2008
Delta II/COSMO-Skymed 3, October 24, 2008
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Print: $39.95 Reprints of the Air Force Flight and Maintenance Handbooks for the Convair GRB-36D FICON carrier aircraft. It contains:
Utility Flight Handbook USAF Series GRB-36D-III/RF-84F Composite Aircraft
Utility Flight Handbook GRB-36D-III FICON Aircraft
Supplemental Handbook Maintenance Instructions USAF Series GRB-36D-III Aircraft
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Print: $39.95 Project FICON (Fighter conveyer): In the early 1950s, the Air Force conducted a series of experiments to establish the feasibility of carrying, launching, and retrieving jet reconnaissance airplanes from giant Convair RB-36 bombers. It was hoped that the bombers would carry the reconnaissance jets to the perimeter of the Soviet Union and then release them to penetrate the air defenses. Tests of the concept were conducted in 1952 and 1953 with a Republic F-84E Thunderjet and the YF-84F Thunderstreak prototype. Twenty-six Republic RF-84F Thunderflashes and ten Convair GRB-36D carriers were modified for the project. In 1955, a squadron of carriers was established at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington. A squadron of parasites was established at nearby Larson Air Force Base. Training operations began in December 1955, but the composite aircraft system faced competition from the Boeing RB-52B, Lockheed U-2, and the development of aerial refueling.
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Disc: $24.95 Five vintage films that feature Air Force efforts to carry, launch, and retrieve airplanes from giant bombers. These videos were digitized directly from 35mm films in the National Archives. The subjects include the McDonnell XF-85 Goblin, wing tip coupling a Culver Q-14 Cadet and Douglas C-47 Skytrain, wing tip coupling a pair of Republic F-84D Thunderjets and a Boeing B-29 Superfortress, and Project FICON, in which a GRB-36F carried an F-84E Thunderjet.
AMC Pictorial Review Number 8 (10:42)
XF-85 Goblin, Northrop XF-89 Scorpion
XF-85 Initial Flight (Silent) (26:59)
XF-85 Goblin
Investigation of Aircraft in Coupled Flight (8:11)
Q-14 Cadet and C-47 Skytrain
Range Extension of Bomber Escort (11:54)
F-84D Thunderjets and B-29 Superfortress
Reconnaissance Parasite Aircraft (16:29)
Project FICON, F-84E Thunderjet and GRB-36F
Running Time: 74:15
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