Stopped at Bunker Hill AFB to refuel early one pitch black night.
Filed flight plan and went out on ramp to preflight my bird.

All of a sudden heard the damnest noise and big shooting flames (fire
ball) going down the runway.

It was a B-58 taking off at night with all four burners on.

Very impressive even though I had seen lots of single and two engine
fighters take off at night in after burner.

There was so much fire that even a little leak would have caused the
thing to explode.

Cured me of wanting to fly that bird even with it's performance (

Big John
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On 20 Mar 2006 07:30:03 -0800, "
wrote:

Nice site. The 2nd photo of the crew standing up with hatches open
reminds me of the "Whack-A-Mole" game.

The Hustler was always one of my favorites. Amazing how far engine tech
has come - 15,000lbst in burner for the J79 doesn't seem like very much
today.