Missile Mail – a Government Boondoggle that Crashed to Earth

Missile Mail was supposed to be like Air Mail, but faster. Imagine New York to Paris in only 20 minutes. On paper, the idea looked great, but in reality, things didn't add up. As if mail by ballistic missile wasn't already bizarre enough, the government went one up and added a submarine.

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Thomas Van Hare has published over 450 articles on aviation history since 1997 at Historic Wings - http://www.historicwings.com/. He is an author, including along with Matt Lawrence, of the bestselling book, "Betrayal: Clinton, Castro & the Cuban Five", about the shootdown of Brothers to the Rescue in 1996. He serves as the Director of the Defense Technology Innovation Program LLC, a public-private partnership with the Pentagon that scouts, identifies, and brings breakthrough technologies for potential military use. He is a former three-time White House appointee working in foreign policy, national security, and defense, a former CEO of an airline and flew as a command pilot and mission director on search and rescue missions, saving over 3,000 lives.

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