Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Unknown
- Summary
- This is a flying Bomarc missile model built by an unknown manufacturer in the 1960s. It is not known whether it was flown. It is based on the U.S. Air Force surface-to-air missile of the same name that was deployed during the 1960s. The model has a pasteboard body, balsa wings, balsa nosecone, and a plastic parachute. A solid propellant rocket motor propels the model, and then at the end of the vertical flight it forces the release of a parachute. The model is then retrieved and can be used again. The model is launched from a launch pad, with a hand-held launch controller being used to ignite the motor.
- G. Harry Stine, one of the American pioneers in the field of flying rocket and missile models, donated the model to the Smithsonian in 1973.
- Credit Line
- Gift of G. Harry Stine
- Inventory Number
- A19930838000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MODELS-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Cardboard
- Wood
- Paint
- Plastic
- Cotton
- Rubber
- Steel
- Dimensions
- 12 3/8" x 4 1/2" x 3 1/8"
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19930838000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9759f1558-fdd4-4c8f-8361-0a1a769d2b36
