1945, boy in rocket

[rich]

or it could've been just Gilligan

8) X Marks the Spot - In a test of a deadly new missile, called
"Operation Powder Keg," the Air Force chooses an "uninhabited island"
which just happens to be Gilligan's Island.  When the rocket lands and
does not explode, Gilligan is chosen to crawl inside to defuse it,
because he is the only one that can fit inside!

aired, January, 1965

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen
<lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> To the one who asked: No, I wasn't joking. And yes, I did answer Laura
> Kelber's request offlist.
> Well, actually I rarely joke when it comes to facts. And since I remembered
> the title of of my
> old mail correctly and also cited it correctly, the list's archives -
> despite all their inherent vice -
> spat it out immediately. But hey, I have time like sand on the strand, and
> here's an article from
> wikipedia:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Sieber
>
> The more I think about it, the more I think that Pynchon knew about this
> from his Boeing sources
> and did not really invent the boy in the rocket.
>
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>> http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0210&msg=71548&keywords=fly%20me%20to%20the%20moon%20rainbow%20files
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>> Have not the time today to go into further research, put perhaps my
>> original mail from 2002 (yes, it's time that's flying ...) with its
>> reference to Stanford will help. Guess you can also find the article in
>> the "Spiegel"'s digital archive and perhaps there's by now either a
>> translation of the book mentioned or a similar text in English. While
>> we're at it: The mail's "outtakes" are of course "excerpts".
>>
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