Boeing CIM-10B Super Bomarc

The Boeing MiM-10B Super Bomarc
  • Period: Postwar (1945-1959)
  • Uses: Missile
  • First Flight: 1959 (MiM-10A)
  • Display Status: On the Museum Floor.

Introduced after the cancellation of the Avro Arrow, the Bomarc filled an anti-aircraft role as an unmanned long-range, surface-to-air weapon. By 1962 two RCAF Missile Squadrons were equipped with Bomarcs as part of the North American Air Defence Command (NORAD). Both squadrons formally disbanded on April 7, 1972. The Bomarcs were returned to the United States by September of that same year.

The Bomarc was a winged missile stored horizontally in a shelter from which it could be launched, after being raised vertically through a sliding roof. A solid-propellant booster rocket augmented the thrust of the two integral ramjet engines. Bomarc stands for Boeing Michigan Aeronautical Research Center.

Museum Example

  • Registration #: 60446 (RCAF)
  • Manufacturer: Boeing Airplane Company, United States
  • Manufacture Date: 1960
  • Construction #: 656
  • Aquisition Date: 1972
  • Provenance: Transfer from CAF

Manufactured in Seattle, Washington, this Bomarc served with the RCAF and the Canadian Armed Forces until 1972 when it was transferred to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.

Specifications

Wing Span:
5.5 m (18 ft 2 in)
Length:
13.7 m (45 ft 1 in)
Height:
0.89 m (2 ft 11 in)
Weight, Empty:
Unknown
Weight, Gross:
7,272 kg (16,032 lb)
Cruising Speed:
3,434 km/h (2,134 mph)
Max Speed:
3,434 km/h (2,134 mph)
Rate of Climb:
Unknown
Service Ceiling:
30,480 m (100,000 ft)
Range:
700 km (440 mi)
Power Plant:
two Marquardt RJ43-MA-7, 5,440 kg (12,000 lb), static thrust ramjets, plus one Thiokol XM-51 22,650 kg (50,000 lb) static thrust rocket engine