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Atlas Missile Malfunction in HD

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
9 years 3 weeks ago

From yt comments,

This would probably be Atlas launch 27E, June 7 1961 at 2137 GMT. One of the engines suffered a combustion instability; it looks to be the one on the left in the first high-speed camera view. That would explain the sudden yaw (I think) toward the left. I wonder what caused the sharp roll that immediately followed.

(via Jalopnik)

YouTube description:

Three different views of an Atlas Missile Explosion in 1961. The first clip is a wide shot at normal speed, the second two clips are photographed high speed at 400 frames per second. They are mesmerizing.
This was a test of the Atlas E Missile outfitted with a dummy warhead at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the California coast. This footage was shot by the folks at Lookout Mountain Air Force Base.
Sorry, no sound! From 2K high resolution dpx scans.

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There were plenty of other Atlas failures, like this one from 1959 (9C):

Final score card was 48 launches, 33 successes and 15 failures, between 1960 and 1995.

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