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Today in History – December 5, 1956 – The “Snark” disappears and is found 27 years later (maybe).

5 December 1956 – A Northrop XSM-62 Snark, 53-8172, N-69D test model, fitted with a new 24-hour stellar inertial guidance system, launches from Cape Canaveral Missile Test Annex, Florida. It wanders off-course, ignores destruct command, disappears over Brazil. It is found by a farmer in January 1983. The Day They Lost the Snark   By J.

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W. Russell Boggs

Preferred Name: Russ
Date of Birth: June 4, 1934
Highest Military Grade: Select
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Units Assigned

  • 1957 Gunnery School, Class 57-1, Luke AFB, AZ (F-84F)
  • Nellis AFB, NV (F-100A)
  • 417th /10th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Toul Rosiers AB, France (F-105)
  • 22nd Tactical Fighter Squadron/36th Tactical Fighter Wing (F-105)
  • Instructor Pilot, Randolph AFB, TX

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F-84F
F-100 A

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