Atlas

 awesomeness, nukes, photography, spacecraft, weapons
Dec 122009
 

On display outside the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Nebraska…

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 Posted by at 11:41 am

  One Response to “Atlas”

  1. Pat Flannery says:
    December 12, 2009 at 11:35 pm

    The paint scheme is interesting; back in the early late 1950’s-early 1960’s artwork always showed Atlas with the bottom section red, as shown here, although I never saw a photo of a operational one with a red bottom on it.
    Here, the red paint almost looks like red primer to prevent corrosion on the non-stainless steel parts.
    Was that its purpose?

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