DEREK,
     In a message dated 03-16-98 you wrote ...
>      Boy...I know I'm gonna stir up a storm with this one (knowing how
> much Jim Sanders detests this particular subject and plane).
  The B-58 was too late and too fuel costly.  We could not longer
 use high altitude tactics due to SAMs... That is the reason they
 went to the junque yard so soon... I was offered a good job with
 the 43rd Bomb Wing when they got their B-58s but turned it down.
       It set lots of records.. good for that... Took five
 inflight refuelings from New York to Paris run. Really one of
 the Best designs in history was the B-47s. but its life was
 not as long as the B-52....
       The B-58 was beautiful, fast and had lots of GOOD
 points... but was poor weapon system. It looked like it
 doing Mach One when parked on the ramp. Not like the old
 ugly BUFF.....
       It kept a lot of Fort Worth people eating.
 'Nuff said.
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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