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It might have had that. They were Scotch tapes. Clear on top and sides with an aluminum back. I can't remember the door for the pinch roller.

They looked like this one except for being Scotch brand:

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RhB Michael said:
By the time I arrived on the scene at Whiteman AFB, Targeting Teams had been done away with during the Force Modernization Program.

My EMT Team and I targeted the missile directly with the code tapes we retrieved from Keys & Codes upon dispatch. This was loaded much the same way you loaded the data, except it was all on tape and we did it from the LER during annual code change, a can or bomb swap, or ERCS package emplacement or removal.

The cartridge tape about the size of an 8-track tape but looked like a giant cassette tape was inserted into the tape drive using on the left under the grey door. The right box is the code set verifier. All those flashy lights had to sequence correctly and for the right amount of time.

After we finished the tape-load startup and backed out, we had to wait for several alignment and missile tests before the site came up to SA, and then we went to the next site. The whole thing took about three hours on a good day.

I hear they're doing it with laptops now.

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So how did you align the bird? On MMI we aligned the mirror on the can to the photoelectric autocollimator, which was set to launch azimuth +90 degrees, so the belly band of the bird was pointed at launch azimuth. On MMII, the collimator azinuth was set at 90 degrees period, and the bird rolled to its LA after launch. The collimator bench was reduced to a short length, unlike MMI which spanned 120 degrees. I think on MMIII they have GPS and star trackers and I don't know what all. As I recall, when Whiteman went ForceMod, we got their B-birds, which could be set for two targets...one plus a fixed offset. But I don't think Malmstrom had the capability to put in the second target.

What still bugs me is the disestablishment of SAC (probably for political reasons), and several years later standing up Global Strike Command. "Peace is our Profession" is a lot better slogan than "To Assure and Deture". With some of the treaties expiring soon, I wonder if Hegseth would...Naaa!
Any other old SACumcized troops out there?
 
The LCC performed the alignment. That was one of the items we had to wait for after backout and before SA. Sometimes we were waiting outside the gate for up to an hour. IZ and OZ had set up long before alignment and missile test was completed.

Long live The Sons of Lemay.

I just remembered that the LCC did not perform the alignment. Only the alignment test. The flight computer was all INS on the D37 computer. No external alignment was needed. Only the test after a can/bomb/ERCS swap to make certain it would align.
 
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NorthBrit said:
10th JULY
2019

German automaker Volkswagen ended production of the Beetle, the first model of which had been introduced in 1938.
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I always wanted a beetle, but settled on its cousin, the square back.

It had an air cooled engine with electronic fuel injection. The cab heater was a heat exchange gizmo which worked if not rusted out.

It was really peppy, 1600 or 1800 motor. Sun roof cranked open, in the winter I duck taped it shut.

It conked out on me in 1978, while driving to Emmett, Idaho. That nasty pass traveling westerly from Jackson Hole.
 
RhB Michael said:
The LCC performed the alignment. That was one of the items we had to wait for after backout and before SA. Sometimes we were waiting outside the gate for up to an hour. IZ and OZ had set up long before alignment and missile test was completed.

Long live The Sons of Lemay.
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About as bad as having to wait on-site for alignment and calibrate (2 hrs 32 minutes) for the capsule to tell us it was "green". That is presuming it went to strat alert on the first try. If it failed, we might have to re-penetrate and try again. Had one site where we went through three cycles before Job Control said to pack up and go to the nearest LCF to RON, and vulnerable for another job after crewrest. I talk about my "fun" in my self-published book, "And the Truck You Rode In On".

BTW, are you a member of the Association of Air Force Missileers? If not, look it up and join. Next reunion is a year from now...at Minot!

"Whaddyo mean T-van 805 blew the freeze plugs again? It's only three degrees below freezing!"
 


I was a member for a year, but I didn't get much out of it. There used to be a great forum online for missileers, but I don't think it operates any longer.

My team never RON'ed. Unless you were going to HOTEL flight or another southern flight on a big job like a motor generator swap, your chances of RONning were slim. At least in EMT. Not sure about the other shops.
 
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