Manned BOMARC

[maxmwill]

Many years ago, I saw a photo of a BOMARC mockup with a wire frame canopy on it, and this being long before the internet was even a cocktail napkin idea, no matter how far I went research-wise, couldn't find anything on this, but the memory stuck with me, unlike my daily ongoing search for missing housekeys.

So, how about it, a manned BOMARC. This would be similar in mission to the XP-79, which was to be a flying wing bomber rammer, but the BOMARC might've taken it a step further, kamekazi type attacks the feared massed armadas of Soviet bombers coming over the Pole.

Now, thinks I, the BOMARC fuselage diameter is quite tight for the average 6 foot+ tall, square jawed steely eyed Air Force pilot, so, taking this further, special pilots were rounded up who could easily fit in the suicide machines, midgets.

And, as every special squadron deserves a name, this would be the Nitroglycerin squadron, their motto being, "Destruction comes in small but powerful packages", for those who know dead languages, as I don't know much Latin, please help me out with a Latin version(Latin mottos always give a certain air of sophistication and panache, such as E Pluribus Unum).

[Rheged]

I'll go away and cogitate on this........answer will follow in due course.

[PR19_Kit]

An interesting and novel idea. 

It makes me think of a manned Navaho, which always looked as if it should have had a cockpit to me.......

[maxmwill]

Would a Latin version of "small, but Gigantic destroyers" work?

And as to a squadron name, like the Cherry Blossoms were kamikazis, wouldn't the squadron be known as the Snow White Squadron?

And there'd be 7 bases scattered around the northern parts of North America, Happy, Grumpy, Sneezy, Doc, Dopey(this one is close to a rather large drinking establishment), Sleepy, and Bashful, with the controllers always named Snow White.

And there'd even be a klaxon of a singularly different type, upon a launch command given, blaring out, "Hiho, hiho..............."

After all, if Lewis Carrol can be tapped into(Snark), why not Disney?

[comrade harps]

Some like this? http://aviadesign.online.fr/pages/boeing-bomarc.htm

[maxmwill]

Yes. Where is that profile from? If memory is not acting like it's as old as the rest of me is(the 2nd sign of old age is loss of memory. Someone told me what the 1st is, but alas, I forgot that), the wire frame canopy on the mockup in the photo looked an awful lot like a 102, but that was many years ago.

[NARSES2]

Yes. Where is that profile from? If memory is not acting like it's as old as the rest of me is(the 2nd sign of old age is loss of memory. Someone told me what the 1st is, but alas, I forgot that), the wire frame canopy on the mockup in the photo looked an awful lot like a 102, but that was many years ago.

It's your knees suddenly deciding they don't want to play with you anymore 

[maxmwill]

In my case, I have to use an an American aphorism, "What don't hurt don't work".