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Mac 2 with no afterburner???

@@jhonnythefox7903 Mac 1, speed of sound, Mac 2, twice the speed of sound. Mac 1 in the 50’s.

Greetings from Norway! Did you fly in Scandinavia?

Incredible... You saw&lived the heydays of aviation and experienced some pretty cool stuff!! Be proud&thanks for your long&important service God bless &enjoy those memories

65 yrs old - C-5A and C-141 USAF was best job I ever had ...this brings back a memory - I never didn't enjoy a Box Lunch. haha.

@@pierredecine1936 When you're really hungry that box lunch looked like a gourmet buffet.!! 😯

Amazing I too was at Amarillo AFB at that time but in another type of tech school I’m now 77 wow

I have a feeling Kubrick must have seen this prior to making Strangelove ......

Remember, there's no fighting in the War Room.

A mutiny of preverts

I approve of this comment.

Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?

I believe he became the Wing commander at Carswell at some point. I was hoping to see him in this film.🇺🇸✈️

Did he fly Hustlers for SAC his entire career? Or switch back to B-52s once the Hustler started being withdrawn?

@Dennis Svitak , Your Dad sounded really nice... Like a Man who was proud of his kids... My folks were much the same way... Proud of their kids... One person who fulfilled that image on a T.V. program that You might remember from the 60's was a Fella named Lauren Green... He played the part of Ben Cartwright on a show called 'Bonanza'...

@@michaelmartinez1345 Lorne Greene... Canadian actor. Later! OL J R :)

@@lukestrawwalker Hmmm, I was not aware that Lorne Greene was a Canadian... An Interesting notion... I liked him when he was in Bonanza...That darned spell- incorrect check got me on that one !!! I want to turn that stupid thing off, but need to get the folks, from where I bought this thing, show me how to perform that kind of a casteration.. Thanks for pointing out that error that my device created...

@@michaelmartinez1345 LOL:) Yep I hear ya... Castration not casteration as well LOL:) Lorne Greene was also Jewish IIRC. Great actor. Loved him in the original Battlestar Galactica as well... Far superior to the newer crap. Have a good one! OL J R :)

@@lukestrawwalker Thank you for the nice compliment Luke!!! Yes, I really should get that darned spell-incorrect check thing removed soon!!! I did not know Lorne Greene was Jewish... You learn something every day!!! Lorne Greene was a good role model, and showed us what fairness and values were , and how important those traits were. Lets hope that feeling of fairness and values will stay with us , as long as it possibly can...

I remember hearing sonic booms when i was a kid and i thought they were very cool.

Out in quiet farmland in the central US we'd hear sonic booms fairly frequently. This was mostly during warm months when we spent most our time outside. Some were loud enough to bounce the big wrenches hanging on the machine shed wall. I'd always run out to try and find the source but never saw a trace of aircraft...zip, zero, nada, none. This was during the 1960s into maybe 1975 era. After that the sonic booms quit or rather I never heard another one.

Last time I checked, Grissom ARB (Air Reserve Base) still has a B-58 on static display.

Thanks for your service to our great nation.

best looking operational bomber - but the best looking was the XB70.

Beethoven 9th 2nd movement.

If wishes were horses, Rides would be free, If Huntley were Cronkite, We'd watch NBC MAD Magazine 1968

@@jameswood8860 Now *there's* a memory!

Since 1987, when Reagan rescinded the FCC’s Fairness Act of 1949.

@@blackhawk7r221 well, his FCC appointee(s) rescinded the FCC's Equal Time Rule under the Fairness Doctrine. But yep! The rescinding of the Equal Time Rule a large part of the reason we've lost guys like Huntley and Cronkite and Brinkley and Chancellor and the like.

@@RapperBC The other aspect with the path that news reporting has taken is with the TV networks [US . . . I always put that in since YT is a world-wide audience] obsession with making the news operations profitable. It used to be the network news operations were subsidized by the TV companies. But, that changed when the networks wanted the news operations to be profit centers. So, the importance of news became secondary to the content that can attract the largest viewing audience. As reporting on substance issues may not attract as large an audience as frivolous or opinionated topics.

I don't know, didn't the Russians have one with counter-rotating props and bottomless vodka served in pint glasses?

It's only because of this film that I know .... that uhhh .... I guess the British were doing all kinds of tyrannical shit around there at one time? I know one thing the Brits did for a while after the US won independence, was "impressing" which meant, if they caught a US ship they captured the sailors, treating them as British sailors who'd gone AWOL. Generally this meant "impressing" them into duty on English ships or in other labor roles.

Me too.

First electric bill will change your mind on that. I had to stop my world domination plans just for that (that and I couldn't come up with a cool evil company name)

@@lycossurfer8851 "SpaceX" was taken?

Every evil empire needs several.

Disagree, F-100C and F-86

@@robertstack2144 nice, but not beautiful ...

You are right, but I would add the F-104 as well, and maybe the 106 too.

@@Hattonbank I frown on everything about the F-104 - Lockheed's un-needed coffin ...

Agreed on the F-86. The yellow-nose Luftwaffe FW-190 is also a good-looking aircraft.

SAM technology played a big role too.

@@booklover6753 Yes, SAMs and faster/higher flying Soviet aircraft like Foxbat.

I noticed that, too... this was produced in 1960, or so.

Real men doing the tough job of protecting our country. Thank you for your service to our country.

Taking on responsibilities makes people more mature.

The Cold War Era had leadership with guys like Curtis LeMay and men like these at 12:00. Today, the leadership is stained by clowns like Milley and Austin, blind to Mission Focus, and focused on wokeness, imagined Extremism, and maternity flightsuits, and content to bow to liberal thought and continuously lowered standards. We are now very far from having a military fighting force capable of sustaining combat on two fronts. I crewed

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Hadda grow up quick considering you were probably dead by your early 60s if you didn't kick off in your 50s.

That's true very second!

A good one would bounce the big wrenches hanging on our machine shed wall. If you were between Grand Forks, Offett and Ellsworth AFB's you got to hear some noise. lol The F-100's from Des Moines, Sioux City and Sioux Falls would make their presence known, as they ventured further west to practice areas or rather Military Operations Areas.

Many U.S. "freedoms" have been quietly and systematically taken away using the "war-on-terror"/'9/11' catch-all excuse: it didn't need a threat from Russia.

Fun Fact: In the US military, meals are provided if you're enlisted, while if you're an officer you have to buy them.

I heard from a reliable source that LeMay contracted Bell's Palsy while shuttling the first of the bombers to Europe in WW-II. Bell's Palsy is type of facial paralysis. LeMay used the cigar as a way to prevent occasionally drooling from that side of his mouth. Yes, I know it sounds far fetched. The guy I heard it from respected LeMay. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_Bell%27s_palsy - Interesting list, Georg Clooney for one

See my "Fun Fact" above. In the US military, if you're enlisted, meals are provided while if you're an officer you have to buy them.

My Dad was a B-58 pilot and I can remember him bringing home those little box lunches for me if there was something left that he knew I would like such as chocolate or chewing gum. They also included little packs of cigarettes with three or four cigarettes. I wasn’t clear when or where they ate these lunches as I had sat around with my Dad’s helmet on and I couldn’t see him eating in that! We were at Bunker Hill AFB in Indiana and sometimes he would tell me I flew over your Grandmother’s house today! She lived in San Bernardino, CA!

It seemed more controlled, more organized, more prepared compared to now. But it didn't seem that way at the time.

@@LuvBorderCollies you are absolutely right, I have to admit that I was really nervous during that time period!

I feel more safer with terrorists then today's government. The terrorists were being watched and caught. The government is unchecked And a free-for-all.

It's time to start feeling nervous again.

Tactical Wonder Bread lol

@alexcarter8807 it's strategically delicious!

Yes that was the case!!

Because they're not real.

Recent events in the last couple years would tell you there IS something, just merely undetermined as to the origin so far. As to why a UFO doesn't generate a huge sonic boom? Current advanced technologies can reduce or even partially dissipate the overpressure that produces sonic booms already. Given the advanced nature of the UFO/UAFs we are seeing it is entirely likely that the technologies have been worked out to completely eliminate any sufficiently loud noise. The difference in technologies between our current technological understanding and the UAF is like trying to directly compare a Ford Model 'A' with a 2023 Tesla Roadster.

@@Crashg1972 Since UFOs don't have any concern for earthly regulations limiting sonic-boom nuisance, why would the noise they made matter to whoever/whatever was flying them ?

@@None-zc5vg That involves making an assumption that the technology involved is even capable of producing the overpressure necessary for a sonic boom in the first place? I personally doubt the constructs of UAP/UFOs even are capable of making a sonic boom because the technology appears to sidestep some standard modern physical limitations; air resistance and inertia among many other unusual properties. Whether or not the noise reduction is a voluntary effect or a mere byproduct of the technologies at hand is anybody’s guess. Referencing my previous analogy of the Ford Model A and comparison to a Tesla Roadster. The analogy of sound generated by the respective technologies is equally dissimilar. As would be the energy, efficiency, speed, and maneuverability. It’s so disparate that you’d be hard pressed to call them both a “car”.

‘Cause ain’t no pressure waves created by inter-dimensional travel.., duh silly human! Got to eat my box lunch supper now..,

Interesting. Not heard that before but it makes sense.

In the late 70s to 1990ish I did a lot of hunting in western South Dakota. Early on there was a few missile silos scattered around (roughly) the Badlands area. A couple years after Reagan's election I started noticing more and more new silo installations. I always told hunting buddies if I see a silo cover moving "by itself", I'm flooring the gas and heading east PRONTO.>!! Later on, I started wondering if there even was real missiles in those new silos, or if they were just to psyche out the Russians making them think we had so many more nukes.

Planes back then didn't have the luxury of computer development and a program to tell you if it would work or not. If you had an idea you built and tried it. If it didn't work you went back to the drawing board. Until the B-58 flew it was unknown territory

@Gold Geologist, I served in the Marines through the early to mid-80's as well... Most of my time was at a base that is no longer there, MCAS ElToro just outside of Santa Ana, Calif. I worked a little on A-4's & F-4's, but most of my time there was on CH-46 Helicopters... We maintained those planes, and went on some detachments onto various locations nearby for training... I really liked it, but at that time, Congress was trimming the budgets, and the military is where many of them started to do deep cuts... The Gramm-Rudman act was something that gave most retirement oriented service people, early out's with seps. bonus's, so the crooks in congress could screw them out of their retirements... I saw that happening with several people who had 2, 3, sometimes even 4 'hashmarks' (enlistments)... Never once did I see or hear of anybody in Congress or the Senate or the jokers they appointed (to some 'cushy' places) , being FORCED to take early retirements!!! Anyway, several people left before retiring, because of Congressional Generated budget cuts... About the B-58 Hustler, it was the world's first super-sonic bomber that could fly above mach 2... The missiles were fun to watch, even more fun to see them explode soon after a launch... Impressive? Absolutely!!! But NOT for the right reasons... The missiles, certifiably became THE MOST EXPENSIVE FIREWORKS 🎆🎇 in history... Even after they managed to keep them from blowing-up after the launchs, it took the engineers quite-awhile to develop technology to be able to survive the tremendous heat generated on re-entry into the atmosphere, and if it was carrying a nuclear payload, keeping the container intact WITHOUT melting and creating a world-wide cloud system of radioactive ☢️ fallout...Many program payloads, simply vaporized before they even got anywhere close to the target 🎯.from the re-entry. Finally they were able to solve some of those issues from re-entry heating...Then came the remote guidance challenge.... I have heard from reliable sources who were involved in those programs from the late 50's to the early 70's, and they said that the guidance systems presented some of the greatest challenges.... This was a time that the U.S. space 🚀 exploration program and the Soviet space exploration programs were racing to get to the moon... And whole nations with millions of people were getting into this...The guidance systems were vastly improved because of the Space-Race... Finally a somewhat reliable remote guidance system was worked out, but still not as reliable and useful as they wanted (needed) it to be, as the Apollo 1, Apollo 13 flights and the other failures of the U.S. space program demonstrated (Columbia , Challenger) as well as the Soviet space program failures (Soyuz 1, Soyuz 2) also demonstrated... It takes time and research and LOTS of $ to make complex things work reliably...Perhaps, the most spectacular failures of all of the rocketry programs, were the 4 seperate attempts the Soviets made to launch the massive N-1 rockets, with numerous engines... The second attempt they made created the most powerful non-nuclear man-made explosion 💥 in history... However, on the bright side, That B-58 WAS IMPRESSIVE, as it successfully sustained TWICE the speed of sound and set NUMEROUS RECORDS, FOR ROC, SUSTAINED HIGH SPEED FLIGHT, ALTITUDE, RELIABILITY, SERVICABILITY, CREW TRAINING AND COORDINATION BETWEEN THE PLANE AND THE GROUND... This plane could set altitude and endurance records of carrying a 11,200 lb. Payload to well over FL 85 for sustained periods and cruise @Mach 2 for sustained periods...Check that out, don't take my word for it... The Soviets had nothing that could even come close to reaching it at that time... Both the Soviets and the U.S.had missiles at that time, but they all had nasty habits of exploding soon after the launch... These B-58's we're highly advanced and the GE J-79 engines they were equipped with, were the first ever axial-flow jet engines that featured VSV's., Which dramatically increased thrust, efficiency, Power to weight ratio, and service life... The B-58's and their crews were highly responsible, for keeping the Soviets from trying to attack the U.S. and our allies... Remember that before you go to sleep.... Those planes did what they were designed to do, BETTER than even Gen. Curtis LeMay expected... Remember that, before you go to sleep... Thank the people who designed and supported these programs (like the B-58) for allowing you to sleep peacefully.... Other very successful defence programs followed the B-58's, too many to list here...

For what it's worth: John Denver's father was a B-58 pilot

43OMS CAFB 62-64 LRAFB 64 68 GROUND CREW/ CC- 59-2450 unless u were there don't knock it. Mine outflew missiles in a test. Acft. flown by wing cmdr Col Fry.