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We've used Avon Park as well, but it was always busy. USN really screwed the pooch (again) when our leadership sucked up to the klintons and gave up Vieques and Roosy Roads. That was really the best place for us to train as well as Fallon of course but that's kinda far especially for those lousy Hornets 
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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7 seconds faster  Bastid! 
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7 seconds faster Bastid! Geeze, you guys know your stuff! And I thought I was an aircraft loon. 
"For joy of knowing what may not be known we take the golden road to Samarkand."
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A little tougher... ![[Linked Image]](http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk239/avmusician/Airplanes/WD402.jpg)
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Yup. Pretty worse for the wear,also! 
"For joy of knowing what may not be known we take the golden road to Samarkand."
James Elroy Flecker
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20 years in the USAF helps a little..........and i've got a brown belt in Google-Foo.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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One of my favorite all-time aircraft; and no hook!
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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One of my favorite all-time aircraft; and no hook! , Jorge. I have never seen a B-58, but I hear that the AF museum in Nebraska? has one in good shape?? Also, I bet that thing was a beast to fly. Too bad they didn't have a longer service life, though.
"For joy of knowing what may not be known we take the golden road to Samarkand."
James Elroy Flecker
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20 years in the USAF helps a little..........and i've got a brown belt in Google-Foo. Damn! You guys are good! ![[Linked Image]](http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk239/avmusician/Airplanes/IMG_1973.jpg)
Last edited by Plinker; 02/02/12.
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I heard they were a maintenance nightmare plus the mission changed. Maybe one of our USAF brethren can enlighten us? It was one HELL of a speedster though!
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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I should close one eye. Kind of unfair for a photo interpreter to play this game. 
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I heard they were a maintenance nightmare plus the mission changed. Maybe one of our USAF brethren can enlighten us? It was one HELL of a speedster though! I seem to recall hearing they drank fuel like a wino as well i.e., lousy combat range. And like you mentioned, the mission changed, due to improved SAM's and interceptors.
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I should close one eye. Kind of unfair for a photo interpreter to play this game. Isn't that like counting cards at the blackjack table? Okay, one we all know this one but I love the lines on this "pretty bird".... ![[Linked Image]](http://www2.interceptor.com/~thumper/xb2/xb70to.jpg) She was built 3 miles from where I type this. ![[Linked Image]](http://www2.interceptor.com/~thumper/xb2/in-flight.jpg) The North American XB70 story. Her loss still saddens me to think about. Photos of her last flight and loss are at this link: Death of a Valkyrie
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20 years in the USAF helps a little..........and i've got a brown belt in Google-Foo. Damn! You guys are good! Boeing YC 14. It was right on the tail and #1 engine cowling. lol
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Plinker, that is my favorite aircraft ever built. She is amazing to see up close, even 50 years later.
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My wife's callsign
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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That's ok, I'll ass shoot a dink.
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I heard they were a maintenance nightmare plus the mission changed. Maybe one of our USAF brethren can enlighten us? It was one HELL of a speedster though! There used to be a complete B58 in an aircraft park just outside the gate to what was Carswell AFB in FT Worth Tx. There was a B36 too along with several other planes. Don't know it it is still there or not. My uncle Jim Hejl was lead engineer on the B58 and spent almost his entire career working on it. Closed his working days out on the TFX. At the time he was working the project was hush hush so he never could say much about the Hustler. He did tell me that it could and did in a few instances partially melt the leading edge of the wings and the pilots had to be carefull not to go as fast as it could. True or not I don't know. Just what Unk Jimmy said.
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