General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: FLOOB on January 12, 2017, 06:51:13 PM
Title: Titan Missile
Post by: FLOOB on January 12, 2017, 06:51:13 PM
Did you see the latest episode of American Experience? Check it out.
Title: Re: Titan Missile
Post by: FLOOB on January 12, 2017, 06:54:24 PM
Because you're probably lazy.
http://www.pbs.org/show/american-experience/
BLUHDOW!!
Link provided.
Title: Re: Titan Missile
Post by: PR3D4TOR on January 13, 2017, 07:45:36 AM
Thanks for sharing. :aok
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Post by: oakranger on January 13, 2017, 07:53:39 AM
Will check it out. I know I have a titan missel site 6 miles from me and dozens of other near by, but no longer active......I think.
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Post by: puller on January 13, 2017, 07:55:08 AM
I watched this the other day...very spooky...I will not spoil it for anyone that hasn't seen it...
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Post by: PR3D4TOR on January 13, 2017, 07:15:38 PM
Remember watching the movie on TV many years ago.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095032/
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Post by: Rich46yo on January 13, 2017, 08:20:56 PM
I was stationed there at LR AFB when it happened.
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Post by: NatCigg on January 14, 2017, 04:53:54 PM
Murphys law gets you every time. One more correction to procedure in the never ending balance of automation and operator error. I really liked the animation of the socket hitting the ground. I bet it's a good bit like how it happened. Funny that a physical switch is what kept the Carolina bomb from blowing. As they said, good engineering was the safe. Like a good scientist told me, you got three genes that would need to mutate. The odds are astronomical. :cheers:
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Post by: rpm on January 14, 2017, 06:59:58 PM
Great documentary.
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Post by: pembquist on January 14, 2017, 08:18:00 PM
What I didn't understand is what they could have done about it even if they had been more decisive. They mentioned an emergency unloading of the oxidizer but how could you do that when the whole place was full of rocket fuel mist? I mean, any tiny leak of that stuff from hooking up a hose or what not would be curtains. I didn't understand why everybody fled after the explosion, were they afraid of contamination or were they just freaked out? I also didn't understand the whole thing of going in through the blast doors when they had already gone down the escape hatch. All in all it seemed like no one ever thought there could be or at least never made a plan for how to deal with a significant accidental fuel leak. Those guys in the white suits sure had balls :salute
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Post by: ghi on January 14, 2017, 09:46:10 PM
interesting, :salute i still believe the nuclear power plants are way more hazardous than stored nukes. It's the aliens, they are babysitting and monitoring us , won't allow us to destroy the planet, not our property,we are here on short term lease to burn bad karma and sins..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYWTWMcmVD0
Title: Re: Titan Missile
Post by: Chalenge on January 14, 2017, 11:01:04 PM
Only if snowflakes run the power plants.
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Post by: pipz on January 15, 2017, 12:27:41 PM
Just watched it on Demand. I never knew that happen. Despicable how the people who went in were treated after the incident. Thanks for posting Floobster.
Title: Re: Titan Missile
Post by: DREDIOCK on January 16, 2017, 03:13:25 PM
Just watched it on Demand. I never knew that happen. Despicable how the people who went in were treated after the incident. Thanks for posting Floobster.
If I remember right they violated several safety protocols or it wouldn't have happened. When USAF says fold your underwear exactly six inches believe me they mean it. Oakranger the Titan-II is long gone.
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Post by: Rich46yo on January 17, 2017, 10:22:32 PM
I wasnt assigned to SAC at the time so I never went out to the sight and only got 2nd hand accounts . What I do remember is Mondale flying in for the Political thing with Clinton, he flew into the AFB and I was put on the base perimeter to watch the turkey buzzards flying over head. I had no idea any of this was going on at the time.
Later there was all kinds of spin how nobody was ever at risk. USAF dropped a big blanket on the entire thing and that was that. Not much of a war story eh?