[JCEccles]

For the next ten minutes I watched as 9 B-52's taxied into position, formed up on the runway and then ran down the runway in echelons of 3 about 1000 yards apart and lumbered into the sky. The fury of hell seemed to have been unleashed. The ground and the air shook!

MITO: minimum interval take-off. At the height of the Cold War, I watched a couple of these as the concluding event of wing operational readiness inspections.

Watching and hearing those roaring Buffs climb an invisible staircase into the blue . . . . well, awesome doesn't begin to describe it.

[HardStarboard]

>>>...well, awesome doesn't begin to describe it.<<<

Exactly Right! There isn't a word in the English language that comes even close. Glad to know at least one other Freeper out there experienced it.