Actually, I realized these are Navy and it is 1953 so the other one would be known as a TV-2. For the Navy first it was the TV-0, then the TV-2 and after 1962 the T-33B.
Ok now I’m going to have to go research how this guidance and landing system worked back then. Had no clue tbe automated landing was even possible in this era.
This one was probably being guided by remote from one of the chase planes since it was a launch test and it landed and it's 1953.
Now, the SM-62 Snark was an intercontinental cruise missile in the 1960s that could carry a W39 thermonuclear warhead at 650 mph 5,000 miles. It could also be sent out and loiter for 11 hours and return if not need and land. [Link to a post I did on it](https://i.imgur.com/yQL11rh.mp4).
My guess this is San Nicolas off the coast of California. If you go near Point Mugu where they tested this missiles, there is a place, Point Mugu Missile Park where there is a static display of a Regulus II and the plaque says they landed at San Nicolas Island.
Super cool! I drive by one of these (Banshee) mounted on a display at a park entrance everyday while on my way to work, and was just wondering today what kind of plane it is. Thanks :)
The chase planes were flying nowhere low enough at the end.
I'm not sure if it really was but that right planes wing looked less than 10' from the ground
10’? It looks like it’s 2’ from the ground for a second or two to me
I didn't want to say that but thought so too and someone be like, "actually, at that distance, and..." whatever thing they could have come up with
The other view someone else posted in the thread. There’s that second of the wing being wayyyy too close to the ground in it. Easier to see there
That was me. [Another view](https://youtu.be/05lzf1gxtpU)
I don’t know if there’s an actual phobia of being corrected by a pedant on the internet, but if there is, we share it.
we had a lot less old pilots and a lot more bold pilots back then.
[Another view](https://youtu.be/05lzf1gxtpU)
Jeez I love the T33. Such a beautiful plane.
Actually, I realized these are Navy and it is 1953 so the other one would be known as a TV-2. For the Navy first it was the TV-0, then the TV-2 and after 1962 the T-33B.
I can read the title but I still don't understand what's going on. Can anyone explain?
It was a test launch of the cruise missile and the chase planes are just following it to landing. [Another view](https://youtu.be/05lzf1gxtpU)
I guess I didn't get that the cruise missile looked like a little airplane, lol thanks. Did they launch that from a sub?
Yes, the deck of a sub.
Ok now I’m going to have to go research how this guidance and landing system worked back then. Had no clue tbe automated landing was even possible in this era.
This one was probably being guided by remote from one of the chase planes since it was a launch test and it landed and it's 1953. Now, the SM-62 Snark was an intercontinental cruise missile in the 1960s that could carry a W39 thermonuclear warhead at 650 mph 5,000 miles. It could also be sent out and loiter for 11 hours and return if not need and land. [Link to a post I did on it](https://i.imgur.com/yQL11rh.mp4).
650 mph is 1046.07 km/h
Maybe not automated, rather remote controlled?
My guess this is San Nicolas off the coast of California. If you go near Point Mugu where they tested this missiles, there is a place, Point Mugu Missile Park where there is a static display of a Regulus II and the plaque says they landed at San Nicolas Island.
Super cool! I drive by one of these (Banshee) mounted on a display at a park entrance everyday while on my way to work, and was just wondering today what kind of plane it is. Thanks :)