Mad Max:
A cold war project that never quite made it off the ground.
Question:
What is it?
Answer:
(To be published later this week.)
Shades of Mad Max….
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Mad Max:
A cold war project that never quite made it off the ground.
Question:
What is it?
Answer:
(To be published later this week.)
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I’m saying it’s an anti-aircraft water canon.
Dave — That’s imaginative,
but not right. 
Drat! Time to think again.
See the third guess for answer. More in a later post.
Never would have got that. I was about to guess air-con for nuclear bunker but Rummuser beat me too it. Looking forward to the full story.
Ventilation system for underground safe homes.
Ramana – I guess something that size could supply an underground apartment complex
, but that’s not right, either. 
See the third response for the correct answer. More in a later post.
It was the prototype for a nuclear powered airplane engine.
Not that you’d know anything about nuclear power.
“These giant metal structures are test stands containing atomic jet engines.” The project was canceled by John F. Kennedy in 1961 after the premise upon which they were based was made obsolete by the development of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
More in a later post.
Thanks, Mark!
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