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	The Skybolt Air-Launched Ballistic Missile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Skybolt was an effort by the Air Force to utilize B-52 bombers as ballistic missile launchers.
		As originally conceived, Skybolt was to have been a 39 foot (11.9 meter), 11,000 pound (5,000 kilogram), two-stage missile with a range of some 950 nautical miles (1,759 kilometers) when dropped from a B-52 at a height of 40,000 feet (12,192 meters).
		But with Skybolt deemed a failure, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft set their sights higher and eventually convinced Kennedy (against the advice of the State Department, which was deeply concerned about the example this would set) to offer cooperation on the Polaris SLBM program.
	www.brook.edu /FP/projects/nucwcost/skybolt.htm (500 words)

	Skybolt
		After studies in 1958 had shown that it was feasible to air-launch ballistic missiles from high-flying strategic bombers, the USAF issued a requirement in 1959 for a long-range ALBM (Air-Launched Ballistic Missile).
		Although Skybolt certainly had its technical difficulties and was well behind schedule, the cancellation was also very much influenced by economical and political factors.
		While on the pylon, the Skybolt was fitted with a tail cone to reduce aerodynamic drag.
	www.astronautix.com /lvs/skybolt.htm (490 words)

	What is Skybolt?
		Skybolt is a web-based program for talent agents to submit packages of the talent they represent to their clients, and presents them as though they came directly from the agency.
		Skybolt provides a place for the talent to update their sizes on line and prepare a professional looking resume with their agent's unique look.
		If Skybolt were a casting service it would be competing with the agents to get the ad agencies, casting directors and photographers to call them and not the agents.
	www.skybolt.net /info.html (484 words)

	Beyond the Super Skybolt The au (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Skybolt would solve that problem, but it would require aerodynamic and control modifications to improve its agility to the standard set by the monoplanes.
		This Skybolt was built as a partnership with a coworker, Scott Runyan.
		Once in the Skybolt we were warm and dry, which is more than I can say for all the Stearman pilots departing their annual fly-in at the same time -- at 100 mph and in an open cockpit.
	www.bearfeat.com /beyond_the_super_skybolt.htm (2893 words)

	Skybolt (Steen)
		The Skybolt is capable of extreme, on-the-edge aerobatics, yet it is polite, predictable and forgiving in the air and on the ground.
		The Skybolt is by far the most popular 2-place experimental biplane, and is loved for its perfect, classic biplane lines.
		The Skybolt is extremely strong, and has been thoroughly analyzed for strength - there has never been an in-flight failure attributable to insufficient design strength.
	www.pilotfriend.com /experimental/acft6/18.htm (263 words)

	Peluru berpandu Skybolt ALBM - Wikipedia
		Peluru berpandu Douglas GAM-87A Skybolt merupakan peluru berpandu balistik lancar di udara (ALBM) yang dimajukan pada penghujung tahun 1950an.
		Pada awalnya dikenali sebagai WS-138A, pada tahun 1960 projek tersebut diberi nama GAM-87 Skybolt.
		Mereka merasakan bahawa Skybolt akan memberikan sistem penempatan yang lebih selamat, sementara pada masa yang sama membenarkan armada pengebom V agar terus menjadi ancaman bermakna, dengan jarak bersedia yang jauh mengekalkan mereka dari sistem pertahanan PVO Strany yang semakin meningkat.
	ms.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peluru_berpandu_Skybolt_ALBM (594 words)

	The Skybolt Air-Launched Ballistic Missile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Skybolt was an effort by the Air Force to utilize B-52 bombers as ballistic missile launchers.
		As originally conceived, Skybolt was to have been a 39 foot (11.9 meter), 11,000 pound (5,000 kilogram), two-stage missile with a range of some 950 nautical miles (1,759 kilometers) when dropped from a B-52 at a height of 40,000 feet (12,192 meters).
		But with Skybolt deemed a failure, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and his Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft set their sights higher and eventually convinced Kennedy (against the advice of the State Department, which was deeply concerned about the example this would set) to offer cooperation on the Polaris SLBM program.
	www.brookings.edu /fp/projects/nucwcost/skybolt.htm (500 words)

	Steen Aero Lab - Steen Skybolt Homepage
		The Skybolt is capable of extreme, on-the-edge aerobatics, yet it is polite, predictable and forgiving in the air and on the ground.
		The Skybolt is by far the most popular 2-place experimental biplane, and is loved for its perfect, classic biplane lines.
		Hydraulic Landing Gear - The Skybolt R uses the same hydraulic landing gear architecture as the Skybolt D, with altered geometeries for the larger prop swing.
	www.steenaero.com /Skybolt (1168 words)

	Douglas AGM-48 Skybolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After studies in 1958 had shown that it was feasible to air-launch ballistic missiles from high-flying strategic bombers, the USAF issued a requirement in 1959 for a long-range ALBM (Air-Launched Ballistic Missile).
		While on the pylon, the Skybolt was fitted with a tail cone to reduce aerodynamic drag.
		For launch, the missile was dropped from the pylon, the tail cone was ejected, and the first motor stage ignited.
	www.designation-systems.net /dusrm/m-48.html (352 words)

	Skyboltl - Aircraft Launched Missiles - Strategic Air Command - Nuclear Warhead
		The decision to proceed with the Skybolt was made in February 1960, with initial deployment projected for 1964.
		The first fully successful Skybolt flight occurred on 19 December 1962, but on that same day the whole program was cancelled and the production of the operational GAM-87A stopped.
		Although Skybolt certainly had its technical difficulties and was well behind schedule, the cancellation was also very much influenced by economical and political factors.
	www.strategic-air-command.com /missiles/Aircraft-Launched_Missiles/gam-87_skybolt_missile.htm (294 words)

	AMSAT-UK - Starchaser Unveils its new Skybolt Rocket Prototype
		The SKYBOLT rocket, which will be flown from an overseas launch site next year is the first of a new generation of large scale, privately funded unmanned rockets that can carry science experiments over 130km (83 miles) into space.
		SKYBOLT rockets will also be used as part of Starchaser’s Educational Outreach Programme [space4schools], which visits more than 200 schools every year with the aim of encouraging youngsters to consider careers in science and engineering.
		After a photo opportunity outside Salford University’s Maxwell Hall, SKYBOLT together with Nova, Starchaser’s “people carrying” rocket, will take to the busy A6 at about 10:45, and pass through the city of Manchester, where the missiles in convoy are sure to halt traffic.
	www.uk.amsat.org /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=294&Itemid=86 (271 words)

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		I would think just one of them (could we have seen a 2500km range or more with a 1000kg warhead?) would be an ideal palace-smasher, and would certainly send any known naval vessel to the bottom within seconds.
		But since sub fleets and tactical nuke cruise missiles have rendered the Skybolt (and Blue Steel, etc) idea pretty much obsolete, this would be the only saving grace of such a missile: a very large, very fast, mission-critical-target elimination system.
		Skybolts size and kinetics would have made quite the bunker buster of sorts.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/387-1120.aspx (467 words)

	SPACE.com -- U.K.'s Starchaser Racing Virgin to Space
		Called SKYBOLT, the unmanned rocket is designed to carry science experiments up to 83 miles (130 km) into space.
		SKYBOLT will be one of the first reusable rockets to be powered with liquid fuel, a move that slashes traditional launch costs.
		Starchaser plans to launch SKYBOLT at the end of 2007 from a launch site in the United States.
	www.space.com /news/060929_starchaser_unveiling.html (699 words)

	Advertiser Specials (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Skybolt is the only fastener supplier that has actually built a Vans RV aircraft.
		Skybolt is the only fastener supplier that regularly supports and participates in EAA Oshkosh and SunNFun as a vendor.
		It stands to reason, Skybolt will always be at least two generations ahead of any competitor for new innovations, improvements, and ability to serve the customer direct and real time.
	vansairforce.net /specials.htm (389 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Skybolt has been called "an essentially invulnerable weapon." It was a solid propellant, two-stage inertial guided air-launched ballistic missile.
		Advantages of the Skybolt included: ability to remain aloft on alert status within relatively close range of an aggressor, invulnerability to destruction by surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, and the ability to remain "hidden" from an aggressor.
		Once a Skybolt was released from an aircraft, its weight gave it a clean fall.
	www.space.edu /LibraryResearch/swanson/Exhibits/Skybolt.htm (254 words)

	The Scrap over Skybolt \| TIME
		Since Britain was thereby persuaded to place all its missile hopes in Skybolt, it came as a considerable shock when the U.S. last week threatened to scrub the entire project.
		McNamara stressed Skybolt's "enormous complexity,'' noted that Skybolt development is lagging a year behind schedule, argued that the U.S.'s silo-protected, fast-firing Minuteman ICBM has vastly diminished the need for Skybolt.
		Skybolt's defenders insist that the five test failures are virtually meaningless; almost all missiles have failed in their early tests, including Polaris.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,940129,00.html (617 words)

	News: Lecturer hits the high spots with students \| News \| University of Salford - A Greater Manchester University
		Launching early next year, the Skybolt rocket is the first of a new generation of large scale, privately funded unmanned rockets that can carry science experiments over 130km (83 miles) into space.
		Steve, whose company Starchaser Industries manufactured the rocket, said: "Skybolt really is breaking new ground as it's powered using liquid fuel and is totally reusable - slashing traditional launch costs." The rocket will serve as a test bed for Starchaser's Space Tourism programme that gives ordinary people the chance to be real astronauts.
		The nine metre Skybolt is being used to help undergraduate projects from the University's Space Technology degree course - making it another example of the University of Salford's commitment to real-world teaching.
	www.salford.ac.uk /news/details/421 (196 words)

	Welcome to Starchaser - COMMERCIAL SPACE ACCESS
		SKYBOLT has been designed to flight test a Starchaser rocket engine and prove the modular vehicle construction and secondly to achieve real space flight experience.
		SKYBOLT is designed to be reusable, a trait that is almost unique compared to other existing sounding rockets.
		At around 800mm diameter and nearly 12m tall SKYBOLT will deliver a 20kg payload to a target altitude of over 130km (83 miles).
	www.starchaser.co.uk /index.php?view=skybolt_project (74 words)

	FEATURES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The SKYBOLT (TM) 's unique operating principles have made itpossible to design and build a home reactor that is less than6.5 cubic feet in total volume.
		The SKYBOLT (TM) reactor homeunit is specifically designed to meet or exceed the electric powerrequirements of the average home.
		The SKYBOLT (TM) process induces overlapping quantumstates for the ionized fuel nuclei, and produces that which issimilar to a monoenergetic beam state in the fuel nuclei.
	www.singtech.com /features.html (721 words)

	Cape Canaveral Rocket and Missile Programs:
		Development of the Skybolt Air-Launched Ballistic Missile began in 1958 following feasibility studies to determine whether or not a ballistic-type missile could be successfully deployed from the air.
		Although the Skybolt did have wings, it was originally classified as an Air Launched Ballistic Missile (ALBM), not a cruise missile.
		The Skybolt was ultimately intended to be deployed on B-52H aircraft, which were fitted with two twin Skybolt pylons under each inner wing.
	www.spaceline.org /rocketsum/skybolt.html (399 words)

	AGM-48 Skybolt - Definition, explanation
		Not only was the missile long overdue and overbudget, but the limited land area available on the British isles meant that it would be fairly easy for the USSR to find, and thus attack, the silos.
		They felt that the Skybolt would provide a much safer basing system, while at the same time allowing their V-bomber fleet to present a continued credible threat, with a long standoff range keeping them well away from the ever-increasing PVO Strany air defenses.
		The missile was fitted with a tailcone to reduce drag while on the pylon, which was ejected shortly after being dropped from the plane.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/a/ag/agm_48_skybolt.php (637 words)

	Steen Skybolt 180 Pilot Report
		The Skybolt had played around on the corners of my consciousness at the airshows for years and I had always ignored it, passing it off as a chubby, backyard knock-off on an S-2 Pitts.
		The first thing I noticed after cavorting for a while was that the Skybolt doesn't accelerate downhill nearly as fast as the Pitts, nor does it fly away from a stalled or nearly stalled situation as well.
		To be safe in the Skybolt (or a Pitts or a Starduster, etc.) you have to jink the nose back and forth to see anything smaller than an L-1011 that's in front of you.
	www.airbum.com /pireps/PirepSkybolt180.html (3511 words)

	Welcome to Beej's Skybolt
		However, having seen the Skybolt on my visit to Oshkosh (a journey specifically made to touch, see, and finalize my decision to build the Zodiac!), I fell in love with it.
		For those not familiar with the skybolt, it is an aerobatic biplane.
		I read somewhere that a project like this is very comparable to an BA Degree - it costs about the same, takes the same amount of time (if not more), requires at least as much effort, and is easily as educational.
	www.65degrees.net /skybolt/index.asp (555 words)

	Brad's Steen Skybolt construction page
		The Steen Skybolt is an experimental biplane designed by Lamar Steen and built by Lamar Steen and his class at Manual High School.
		The Skybolt is a fairly large biplane with a 24 foot wingspan which seats two and can accept engines from 160 to 300+ horsepower.
		There is a link to other Skybolt builder's pages as well as a link to The Biplane Hangar, a group of biplane builders which include builders of Skybolts, AcroSports, Pitts, Acro Dusters, Hatz biplanes Stardusters and many more.
	www.bradroberson.com /skybfram.htm (372 words)

	Cape Canaveral Rocket and Missile Programs:
		Development of the Skybolt Air-Launched Ballistic Missile began in 1958 following feasibility studies to determine whether or not a ballistic-type missile could be successfully deployed from the air.
		The Skybolt was ultimately intended to be deployed on B-52H aircraft, which were fitted with two twin Skybolt pylons under each inner wing.
		The British government was faced with a decision of purchasing from the U.S. either air-based Skybolt or sea-based Polaris missiles to augment their national defense arsenal.
	spaceline.org /rocketsum/skybolt.html (399 words)

	The Biplane Forum: Older Skybolt Article
		The Skybolt had played around on the corners of my consciousness at the airshows for years and I had always ignored it, passing it off as a chubby, backyard knock-off on an S-2 Pitts.
		The Skybolt, even with only 180 hp did its best to play fighter, and tore down the painted stripe as if it had someplace to go in a hurry.
		To be safe in the Skybolt (or a Pitts or a Starduster, etc.) you have to jink the nose back and forth to see anything smaller than an L-1011 that's in front of you.
	www.biplaneforum.com /forum_posts.asp?TID=291&PID=1392 (3391 words)

	super skybolt engine size
		An IMAC airplane was up during my 3rd flight and the Skybolt blew by him like he was big and heavy.....
		The "different" Skybolt has polished metal gear that looks to be quite a bit longer than the Great Planes Skybolt ARF's gear.
		That 2nd Skybolt also has bent wire cabane struts that are soldered together, and the interplane struts do not have the ARF's screw connections.
	www.rcuniverse.com /forum/fb.asp?m=4863270 (1836 words)

	South Jersey Skybolt
		There are a lot of people that have knowledge about aircraft building and are willing to pass it on to you.
		The Skybolt is probably the best combination sport/acro plane...
		The credit belongs to the man in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly.
	www.geocities.com /usav8or/skybolt_main.html (370 words)

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