I remember in his book, Chuck Yeager liked flying the B-57. If I recall it took something like a shotgun shell to start the engines.
I sure did. When I was controlling at Portcall all the B-57’s were flying out of Phan Rang. Our B-57s were the 8th and 13th Bomb Group. They were the Redbirds and Yellowbirds. They flew single ship at night north and hit the Ho Chi Minh trail.
“If I recall it took something like a shotgun shell to start the engines”
Reminds me of the plane from the great Jimmy Stewart film Flight of the Phoenix.