Roundhouse?

My guess was “Big Noise.” I recall that it seemed to be appropriate. The all clear was “Fast Fade” which was another good name.

The only place I saw these listed was on an old poster in an eternally unlighted section of a test facility at Tinker AFB, OK. If you opened the door you could just make out the poster. Shucks, it is probably still there.

Paul M: The problem with anything you use to knock down a jumbo jet is that if it hits anywhere in a populated area it is going to cause severe damage, even without hitting the intended target. You would have to all but vaporize it to avoid loss of life on the ground, and that is very hard to do with the armament carried by current fighters. Now if we had the 104 2.75 in unguided rockets of the F-94 that might do it, but current military thinking is that once you badly damage a military bomber the crew is going to focus on stepping outside to discuss the situation as soon as possible. But terrorists don’t have the option or desire to take that approach.

Of course the masses of unguided rockets carried by the F-86D, F-89, and F-94 fighters guided by the SAGE system was based on a lack of guided missiles as well as the need to do as much damage to nuclear armed bombers as possible. And the accuracy limitations of the system.

Anyone ever see the radar scope of an F-102? When it locked on the target it lit up exactly like the scopes on the original Battlestar Galactica fighters. Cool as hell.