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Description
| Notes: F-8C modified for Digital-Fly-By-Wire | ||
| Manufacturer: | North American | |
| Base model: | GM-28 | |
| Designation: | AGM-28 | |
| Version: | B | |
| Nickname: | Hound Dog | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Tri-Service | |
| Basic role: | Surface Attack Missile | |
| Modified Mission: | Air Launched | |
| First Flew: | 1958/08/20 | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| USAF Armament Museum | Eglin AFB | Florida |
AGM-28B on display
USAF Armament Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Roy H. Lewis Wappingers Falls, NY | Well;
I was a 31651Q type of guy. ( Guidance & Flight Control Shop). Stationed at Griffiss AFB 67-68. Then on to the 55th SRW Offutt AFB Nebraska. My career lasted 3 years, 9 months and 10 days. I enjoyed working with all the guys during my tour. Especailly the group in the 55th AMS at Offutt. Roy H. Lewis 08/12/2008 @ 07:10 [ref: 22439] |
| Bob West , CA | Does anybody know where the data plate is located inside the fuselage of the Hound Dog missile? I am looking for the actual serial number and it is not on the vertical stab. 08/24/2007 @ 06:40 [ref: 17734] |
| P J \"Pat\" Cain Mason, OH | Hello to all you "old missileers"! I was stationed at Barksdale AFB 1960-1965, I was an airframe & engine mech. I can remember when we took a bird to the test cell (out between 3 active runways) and the Ammonia station was close by (also between the runways). On those hot humid Louisiana nights when we were at the test cell trimming engines we use to have to sweep and shovel up the bugs that died as a result of flying through the exhaust of the GE-52 engines. The front & rear doors were always open during the engine runs. To make the 4-midnight shift interesting we would bet on how many pounds of dead bugs we would have to clean up after each engine run. Wow! Were we bored!
Like many others, I also was hunkered down during the Cuban crisis only to find 2 weeks later that President Kennedy directed us to serve and additional 12 months before being discharged. That is how I came to serve 5 years instead of the 4 I signed up for. I crewed a missle #02176 and come to find that is the same missle now on satic display at Barksdale AFB. Tsgt Salma (currently active duty at Barksdale)recently emailed me and said his crew just completed refurbishing that Houd Dog and it is once again on static display however, the museum director had him paint it with camo instead of the original white. This is a picture he sent me at the completion of the refurbish. It sure is enjoyable to read all of your old war stories. Good Luck to everyone who served. P J "Pat" Cain 07/18/2006 @ 14:52 [ref: 13745] |
| Otis Brown FL, FL | I was stationed at Minot 1961-1965, Robins 1965-1970, Barksdale 1970-1974. I started out as a 44 and later cross-trained to a 31. I can relate to Pat Bergin's analysis of trimming the engine in combined systems. My feet would vibrate off the floor. The test comductor said his ass hole would pucker every time the engine was advanced to Take-off position during the test.
There is a Patrick Benton in the combined system picture at Robins AFB Memories in the ammsalumni.com web site. I thought that was Pat Benton. My memories of Minot included the Cuban Missile Crisis. Some of us were locked down in the SAGE building until the ships that carrying missiles to Cuba were turned around. I think that our missile program had a lot to do with the outcome of the Cold War. 06/03/2006 @ 12:07 [ref: 13446] |
| Pat Bergin , VA | What I remember most vividly about maintaining the Hound Dog was getting underneath the damn thing in Combined Checkout with my little allen wrench, and trying to set the fuel control with the dog running at max continous.
For those that might not be familiar with the J-52 P3, it was designed to run at max-power for a limited period of time. It would never be used again (presumably) so there were no over power considerations. When we tuned it we tuned it at max-continuous, since to run it up higher would lead to an over-heat and a trip to field maintenance. Crouching underneath the bird with that engine screaming, and doing it's best to pull the test stand out of it's concrete moorings, (you could actually see the bottom of the stand lifting ever so slightly under the strain) was scary as hell! That's something I never want to do again. 05/30/2006 @ 08:26 [ref: 13411] |
| Ronald Begin houston, TX | I was a guidance and flight control tech. stationed Homestead Fla 1960-1964. I loved the missile and the B52H. My son was stationed at minot flight sim on the B52H. I got to fly it one night will never forget. Nothing equals the B52 I still have my working copy that I used to check out the missile on the pad. Would like to hear from some of the airmen that I worked with. 05/24/2006 @ 13:13 [ref: 13374] |
| Pat Bergin fredericksburg, VA | I was a Missle Mech. on the Hound Dog at Minot, 450 AMMS 1964-1967. I'm the idiot that dumped the entire contents of the ammonia servicing cart, and sent a noxious cloud toward a bunch of AP trucks at the end of the flight-line! :-))
Needless to say, I stayed one hitch and put the pedal to the metal. Spent 35 years in radio and TV and am now a systems administrator at the DOE, but I still remember my years as a missile tech. quite well. I think most of the guys at Minot during that period might remember too!!!! 05/19/2006 @ 11:01 [ref: 13322] |
| Daniel Lee Silliman Greater Portland, ME | For those who may not know...All of us are alumni of the AMMS program, thanks to Tom Clinard, who has since passed, we have a tremendous alumni site. The site has been updated and is being carried on by others...THANK YOU
Copy and paste into your favorite search engine... http://www.ammsalumni.org/ PS:There is a dog laying around @ the War Meuseum in Elmira, NY at the Airport. 03/03/2006 @ 23:06 [ref: 12697] |
| Daniel Lee Silliman Greater Portland, ME | Hound-dog duty at Loring AFB from July 1964 through Aug 1967.
I was one of those troops in the Vace shop that the rest of the AMMS Squadrons relied on to have the AGE in tip top shape so the everyone else could look good. One of the first things I remembered in the AGM-28 program...where was the common sense in a lot of the manufacturing techniques and why did Uncle Sam accept sqirrel cage fans with shafts with no set screw detents to keep the shaft from spinning inside the fan housing? I did have a geat AFTO 22 accepted regarding the same, but it had already costs the taxpayers tens of thousands of Dollors. 03/03/2006 @ 22:49 [ref: 12696] |
| Daniel L Sillim,an Greater Portland, ME | Stationed at Loring AFB July1964-Aug 1967. I was one of those VACE troops that the rest of the Organization relied on to do Their job.
One thing I never understood, based on common sense...why did Uncle Sam accept so much equipment using squirrel cage fans with shafts with no setting screw detent. For those who may not be familiar with AMMS Alumni...consult the link below. http://www.ammsalumni.org/ 03/03/2006 @ 22:40 [ref: 12695] |
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