The battle of Palmdale was one of those post war oddities that had fallen between the cracks of history But don't feel bad.... A similar incident played out its events in....THE BATTLE OF SYDNEY! As far as the decision makers, and active participants....for the most part, I guess, the incidents were best forgotten.
Had a f89 as shown in Palmdale clip at Holloman in 1957. 104 unguided 2.75 rockets in wing tip pods and Genie nukes in under wing mount. Was a pain to load weapons. fired early Hughes missiles on later versions of in work arounds in early versions.Missed out on nuke tests, all of our firings were with dummy heads and smoke charges to test things outp
