Doug Robertson's Photo Gallery
Total 43,966 photos. 156 in this folder. Contact Photographer
Aircraft and airport photos are sorted separately. Airport photos always shown after aircraft photos.
1970's-1980's-Pacific Missile Test Center (estab. April, 1975 with consolidation of Pacific Missile Range/Naval Missile Center) History
1960's-Naval Missile Center History. I first employed at NMC commencing Jan. 1966.
1950's-Pacific Missile Range-Naval Missile Test Center History
1940's-Naval Air Missile Test Center History-First Missile Launch from an Operational Submarine
1940's-Pilotless Aircraft Unit & Naval Air Missile Test Center (estab. 1 October 1946) History
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Historic Aerospace Site-NAMTC Point Mugu, California.-Command History Storage Facility, AKA Missile Technology Museum. Open Most Thursdays 1000-1400, free admission. Just outside & right of Main Gate.
Missile Park-AUM-N-2/AQM-41 PETREL, obsolete-WWII Mk41 torpedo with wings, 22' length, 12' wingspan. Launched from PB4Y-2 PRIVATEER & other USN aircraft
Missile Park-AUM-N-2/AQM-41 PETREL, obsolete-WWII Mk41 torpedo with wings, 22' length, 12' wingspan. Launched from PB4Y-2 PRIVATEER & other USN aircraft
Missile Park-KUW-1/KGW/LTV-N-2 LOON surface to surface copy of German V-1 pulse jet 'buzz bomb' of WWII. 25' long, 19' wingspan, 1,540 lb warhead. 150 mile range. Program ended at Point Mugu 1949, used 'Operation Paperclip' German rocket scientists
Missile Park-AGM-84 HARPOON long range >60 miles, launched by aircraft, DDE/DDG ships & submarines, 570 lb warhead. 1972 1st flight-direct hit
Missile Park-AGM-78 STANDARD ARM (Anti-Radiation Missile), against RADARs or ships, 215 lb warhead, 35 mile range. 1983 use against Libya in Gulf of Sidra