Robert's USAF Missiles

With an IR-guided AIM-4G Falcon missile in Duluth, Minnesota, in December 1961.

Robert's USAF Missiles

Robert (in white) and Bill Riney checkout a radar-guided AIM-26A nuclear falcon missile in 1964.

Robert's USAF Missiles

With DF52SP Falcon missile checkout console in King Salmon, Alaska, in 1964.

Robert's USAF Missiles

In Bitburg, Germany, 1968, when I learned that I would be promoted to Technical Sergeant.

Robert's USAF Missiles

In July 1968 I went to Tripoli, Libya, with the 525th FIS. Here is one of my radar-guided AIM-4A Falcon missiles being launched at a tow target over the Mediterranean sea.

Robert's USAF Missiles

With AGM-65A TV-guided Maverick missile serial number G-56. DDT&E test team Holloman AFB, 1971. A loading accident resulted in a broken umbilical connector, and G-56 was sidelined for the remainder of the DDT&E tests. It was later modified into a CASM and launched at a moving armored personnel carrier at Eglin AFB. It struck the ground and bounced into the target. I recovered the portion of the fuselage that had the serial number stenciled on it. (See below.)

Robert's USAF Missiles

G-56 serial number on fuselage section. See story above.

Robert's USAF Missiles

One of my 10 CASM missiles launched at Eglin AFB in 1973. (Close Air Support Missile) was a left-over DDT&E Maverick modihfied with a Martin Marietta laser seeker.