Awe yeah! That baby is just engines and bombs! I heart the early supersonic jets, you know, before they all pretty much look alike. The F16 may as well be a Corrola to the F15's Camry.
I definitely will be stopping by when I go to retrieve my model 13 from Dennis.
Thanks for posting pics of her, she looks just as good as the last time I saw her.
I love aircraft museums, but they do seem give me a real rollercoaster ride in the emotions department. A bit like seeing a long forgotten photo of a lost relative, you are surprised, happy to see them, then sad they are gone. Well for me, planes do the same. I love seeing them again, revel in the memories they bring back. Then I am sad that something that once was so well cared for with dutiful purpose, that once represented the cutting edge of aviation, now has a birds nest in the intake.
I second Rusty's sentiments. Felt the same feelings as he when I saw an SR-71 on display at the Space and Rocket Center in AL - such beautiful technology shackled to the ground, never to soar in the "long, delirious, burning blue" again. -JT
If you look at tne bomb, you can see that the bottom is the extra fuel tank and the top is the bomb. The B-58 also caried four smaller bombs two on iach side, under the wing next to the fuselage. I worked on them a long time ago.
Driving up Hw 101 one evening, passing Moffet Field in '77-'78(?), my '66 Ranchero started dancing and the night got loud. Looked out the passenger side to see the noisy ends of 4 separately mounted single engine pods under a delta wing. The AoA was enough to point the jetwash at the road as it went overhead. No mistaking what THAT aircraft was!
I wonder if that might have been one of the Hustlers being moved to a final display, or storage, location?
Awe yeah! That baby is just engines and bombs! I heart the early supersonic jets, you know, before they all pretty much look alike. The F16 may as well be a Corrola to the F15's Camry.
ReplyDeleteI definitely will be stopping by when I go to retrieve my model 13 from Dennis.
Thanks for posting pics of her, she looks just as good as the last time I saw her.
I always loved that jet... looked like a sleek rocket with engines on steroids...
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I love aircraft museums, but they do seem give me a real rollercoaster ride in the emotions department. A bit like seeing a long forgotten photo of a lost relative, you are surprised, happy to see them, then sad they are gone. Well for me, planes do the same. I love seeing them again, revel in the memories they bring back. Then I am sad that something that once was so well cared for with dutiful purpose, that once represented the cutting edge of aviation, now has a birds nest in the intake.
ReplyDeleteCheers- Rusty
As a former SAC troop, this is one of my all-time favorite jets!!
ReplyDeleteThat thing is just sleek. It's the only word for it. Well, that and "bombs and engines" :)
ReplyDeleteIf I flew, it would be on my list for "daily driver". Take that puppy downtown. Especially if I could drop those bombs on...er, Iran. Yeah. Iran.
I've been reading this lately.
ReplyDeleteB-58A Remembrances [Kindle Edition]
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0091VIALA/ref=kinw_myk_ro_title
Pretty good for just a buck.
Sweeeeet.
ReplyDeleteOf course, I'm the guy who thinks the only thing missing from the SLAM is a cockpit.
(Yeah, yeah, I know, radiation, and lots of it. Party pooper.)
I second Rusty's sentiments. Felt the same feelings as he when I saw an SR-71 on display at the Space and Rocket Center in AL - such beautiful technology shackled to the ground, never to soar in the "long, delirious, burning blue" again.
ReplyDelete-JT
Is it me? or does the sign with the universal "no" symbol say no Captain Morgan posing?
ReplyDeleteIf you look at tne bomb, you can see that the bottom is the extra fuel tank and the top is the bomb. The B-58 also caried four smaller bombs two on iach side, under the wing next to the fuselage. I worked on them a long time ago.
ReplyDeleteKen:
ReplyDeleteProject Pluto is a one way ride anyway.
No one wants it to land in their continent.
Driving up Hw 101 one evening, passing Moffet Field in '77-'78(?), my '66 Ranchero started dancing and the night got loud. Looked out the passenger side to see the noisy ends of 4 separately mounted single engine pods under a delta wing. The AoA was enough to point the jetwash at the road as it went overhead. No mistaking what THAT aircraft was!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that might have been one of the Hustlers being moved to a final display, or storage, location?
I'm thinking we should donate all the still existing B-58's to Israel, so they have something that can carry the big bunker-buster bombs.
ReplyDeleteThe proposed later model (C,D?) would have been even better for them, if they had been built.
I saw a fair number of B-58s and B-52s in 1967 doing low level navigation training over central Saskatchewan. The B-58 was a very sleek bird.
ReplyDeleteSexiest. Bomber. Ever.
ReplyDeleteMurphy's Law:
ReplyDeleteAnd it can eject bears.