B-58

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.

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.