Comments on: Tomorrow’s Missiles Take Off (Oct, 1947)

By: Sirscott

Sirscott — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:23:16 +0000

Most of these weapons appear to be the direct american developments of captured german weapons. the “gargoyle” and the “KDD-1″ appear to be very similar to the Fi 109 “V1″ used by the germans from 1943 , and the “little Joe” is remarkably similar to several ground based anti aircraft rockets

By: Emcha

Emcha — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:12:27 +0000

All of these missiles seem to be WWII developments and were cancelled few years after the war.

By: Stannous

Stannous — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 04:25:19 +0000

The Douglas Skyraider shown on page 1 was still in active service through the Vietnam War (1945-1974). By that time it had an even bigger power plant making it the largest single-engined prop plane ever. It could fly for 10 hours at a time!
There are numerous examples still flying around the world and a great history here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-1_Skyraider
as well as a dedicated site here:
http://skyraider.org/