From don_boelling@ideon.comTue Apr 30 16:37:34 1996 Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 12:26:34 -0700 From: Don Boelling To: bor@world.std.com Subject: Titan II Museum Alastair, Great pictures of the Titan museum. However, there are a few mistakes in you description. The lights on the pole topside, only indicate the site safety status, not Defcon level. Green for safe( all clear) Yellow for caution (approach with caution), and Red for unsafe, (do not approach). That's SMART treaty. The rack with the three gauges is the facility monitoring console. It doesn't contain KEY #2. KEY #2 is on the Deputy Commanders console to the left the Facility Console. The module above KEY #1 is not a radio. It is a fuel and oxidizer tank pressure monitior. It was installed shortly after the major accident in 1977 at a site in Wichita KS. The old guidance system had only a three target capibility. The new system that you showed as a single panel, had a 100 target capibility, but only three were generaly used. Target 2 was not the default. It could have been any one of the three, depending on the site and sortie mission. How do I know these things, you ask? I was an Titan II ICBM Senior Wing Instructor at Davis-Monthan for 6 years. I pulled many alerts at the silo's there. Even pulled a few at the museum site. I will be developing a web page dedicated to Titan II and would love to get GIF or JPEG's of your originals. I also have some launch photo's if your interested. Don Boelling boelling@teleport.com don_boelling@ideon.com http://www.teleport.com/~boelling