P-61 Black Widow with missile

[Guest ericthered1975]

I share with you some pictures showing a flying P-61 with a missile under the fuselage. Does anyone know what kind of missile is this and was used operationally? The link also contains photographs of the plane now testing some kind of jet engine. Photos can be viewed by visiting the link below:

 

http://aviacaoemfloripa.blogspot.com.br/2011/02/p-61-black-widow-em-testes-especiais.html

 

Eric

 

 

[Kiwi303]

The bottom picture is a Gorgon missile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgon_%28missile_family%29

 

The flat thing is a ramjet, the sleek missile is a heavily weighted high speed research testbed, drop like a bomb and so sleek and fast it gave transonic data useful for designing supersonic stuff. http://napoleon130.tripod.com/p61blackwidow/id49.html

 

"proposed the dropping of recoverable models from a high-flying airplane. Thus as the icing work began to phase out in 1947, Ames developed the technique for recovering intact, by means of air brake and parachute, instrumented test models dropped at high altitudes from an airplane. In this way aerodynamically clean models, if dropped from a sufficiently high altitude, would traverse the transonic range and, indeed, reach low supersonic speeds before they had to be braked for a landing."

 

The link with the information is actually given in the blog. napoleon130.tripod.com is listed under the pictures.