It’s Not Rocket Science! Mystery Cache

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Hidden : 6/14/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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The other day I bought my oldest boy his first model rocket, and mine. It was a lot of fun. I didn't know much about model rockets and the engines that go in them. So of course I have this little plastic rocket with a 6 second burn time and a 5 second chute delay engine. Well I thought it would only maybe go up 150 feet and come back down. Well to my disbelief that rocket shot up to well over 1000 feet. After the rocket ejected its chute, we watched it for well over 10 minutes as the thing drifted over 31 hundred feet away to someone else's property in the middle of the desert. I work with rockets (missiles) and I thought of a great idea for a puzzle cache. One that I can share with everyone my experiences with rockets.

The first missile that interested me is the Entac. The Entac was a French designed and built wire guided missile, it was first introduced in the late 1950. It is amazing that this type of technology existed way back in the 50's. The Ford Blue Scout is not a very interesting missile for it had a short lived life. But its basic purpose "was to provide a reliable and survivable connectivity between command posts and launch control centers. The ERCS UHF transmitters carried prerecorded force execution messages that were transmitted to all units within line of sight of a rocket's apogee." This next missile is the best missile ever designed and one of the most state of the art missiles in the arsenal we have today. Of course am slightly biased because it is this product that puts food and the table and as my son puts it "makes it so I can buy him toys". It is the AMRAAM manufacture right here in Tucson, Arizona, by Raytheon Missile Systems. I will let you read all about this missile on Wikipedia.org. As well as there is this very neat video that someone put together on Youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpJSviD8D4k

The Martin made MGM Matador was manufactured in the late 40's early 50's. The highlight of this missile was that it was part of the 1st pilotless squadron. The operation range of this missile was only 700 miles, and it also carried a nuclear warhead. The Boeing Bomarc was the only surface-to-air missile ever deployed by the U.S. Air Force. All other U.S. land-based SAMs were and are under the control of the U.S. Army. The Skybolt is the next missile, "Skybolt was an air-launched ballistic missile (ALBM) developed during the late 1950s. It was intended to provide a mobile basing for the USAF's ICBM missile force by mounting them on heavy bombers rather than in fixed missile silos. A series of test failures and the development of submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs) eventually led to its cancellation in the mid-1960s. The Next missile was interestingly named the Honest John. Honest John "was the first nuclear-capable surface-to-surface rocket in the US arsenal. Designated Artillery Rocket XM31, the first such missile was tested in 1951 and deployed in January 1953. The designator was changed to M31 in September, 1953 and were deployed in Europe several months later. It is important to note that alternatively, the missile was designed to be capable of carrying ordinary high-explosive warheads, even though that was not the primary purpose for which it was envisioned.". Finally the last missile APL RGM Taurus. "The U.S. Navy looked for a replacement weapon for providing ship-to-shore fire support for landing troops. The LFSW (Landing Force Support Weapon) requirement of August 1961 called for a non-nuclear missile to be used against unprotected troops and unarmored vehicles. The requirement called for missiles with ranges up to 55 km (30 nm) for beach assaults, and ultimately up to 370 km (200 nm) for long-range fire support. The efficiency of the LFSW against the intended targets was to be at least as good as guns and unguided rockets."

I hope that you found these sites and missiles as interesting as I do. Good luck caching.

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