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.
We moved to Fort Worth in ‘74 about 10 miles from the old Carswell SAC base. The first time they had an alert I thought we were in the middle of an earthquake. The whole house rattled. At first it bothered me but soon it gave me a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing what they were about. A couple of squadrons of B-52’s and KC-135’s does make a racket.