05-04-2019, 04:52 PM
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Intermediate Rocketeer
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Join Date: Mar 2014
Posts: 89
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Quote:
Originally Posted by blackshire
Hello All,
I just came across *this* www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpId8SquVOY video of the launch of the very first Atlas-Centaur, which also shows it on the launch pad (LC-36A, I think). This test vehicle, which was painted with a roll pattern, was quite short, apparently having only the conical (without the rear cylinder section) top portion of the payload fairing (much like [if not the same ones] the payload fairing used on the Titan IIIAs and the early Titan IIICs).
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While this flight was shorter than some later flights, there's also an aspect ratio issue with the video. Here's an undistorted image:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...57627981313215/
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