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To: doorgunner69

My B-58 experience was very low. It removed the snow from the pine trees. From that moment the Hustler became my favorite USAF plane.


86 posted on 06/07/2016 3:34:35 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Jus Soli + Jus Sanguinis = NBC)
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To: ASA Vet
The book I read "B-58 Remembrances" had some great stuff. Really like one thing where they showed up some fighter jocks by doing a near vertical takeoff with a bare B-58.

I can only imagine the performance of the plane when lightly loaded and no external stuff.

The maneuver was apparently not approved for the airframe but they did it anyway to shut up the fighter guys. Would have loved to hear the racket of those four engines in afterburner.

88 posted on 06/07/2016 3:57:55 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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