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Originally posted by FOG
BOth made it out. Not a training flight but a test hop at Pax river. from memory I believe it was a weapons rack release.
Exactly right...storage separation testing, very much Pax Rivers stock in trade.

The aero models are sooo much better now in predicting separation characteristics that the close chase is not even required anymore for most tests.
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