[ARC5] ART-4 and GRR-1

[J. Forster]

Funny.

Maybe this thing is to detect the sonic oom of bullets?

-John

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> John:
>
> I recall reading an article in an aviation magazine where they were
> testing something similar to that using a Culver PQ-14 drone.  The idea
> was that the system detected the sonic booms of bullets whizzing by and
> transmitted down the data that told how close the bullets were coming to
> the target drone.
>
> They equipped a B-17 as the control aircraft and flew it and the PQ-14
> down from WPAFB to Eglin AFB to test.  They got an F-84 pilot to go up and
> fire at the PQ-14.  The pilot was very very experienced.  Too experienced!
>  With his first short burst he hit the PQ-14 in the cockpit area and it
> blew up.
>
> Guess they should have told him to miss it, not hit it.
>
> The guys in the B-17 flew straight back to Wright Patt without bothering
> to stop at Eglin again.
>
> Wayne
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