Project 494L (ERCS, GIANT MOON, GLORY TRIP) / Bendix

[antigravite]

Hi, seen on ebay a Bendix (contractor) model of project 494L modified Minuteman for emercgency communications.
Mid 1960s.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/AUTHENTIC-NASA-CONTRACTOR-MODEL-SPACECRAFT-ROCKET-AIR-SPACE-MOON-ROCKET-494L-ESD-/390565505281?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5aef84a901


Found this quite unexpectedly.


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[Forest Green]

America's Cold War Doomsday Satellite

The AN/DRC-8 Emergency Rocket Communications System was built to send the orders for Armageddon when nothing else could.

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ZRCWZqT6Q

 

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The term Bendix is now associated with a certain part air racers curse about having to swap...

 

[Scott Kenny]

The term Bendix is now associated with a certain part air racers curse about having to swap...

(expletives deleted) Bendix magnetos!!!!

Slick still has a bounty on them if you swap from Bendix to Slick, you send your old Bendix mags to Slick and get a couple hundred bucks refunded!