You're very welcome. I'm a big dog guy.I had an Alaskan Malamute once that was protection trained. It's funny how they can be such sappy petting craving dogs. Til you turn them "on".
Anyway, I rescued my Lab/Chow mix from Katrina. i don't know what he'd do in a real situation but he sure looks and sounds like you don't want to mess with him.
The B-58 had a Mach 2 "dash" capability on bomb runs only, otherwise flew/cruised much slower than that. Only the SR-71 Blackbird had Mach 3 capability. I had the profound misfortune to watch two of them (B-58s) crash and burn, at the 1962 and 1964 Paris Air Shows, respectively. Not all the crews survived. I don't ever again in my life want to see anything like that. Truly, freedom isn't free.
Member formerly known as "vlafrank."
Vic, I've sat in on several maintenance debriefings where pilots complained about yaw damper system stability problems "above Mach 3". The autopilot system was my area of specialty. The "official" top speed was considerably slower. You're right about the cruise speed being a lot less than low-level bomb runs. The B-58 was a one-way ride to the target in full afterburner- - - -no gas to get home, and no home to come back to. The reason they were based at Little Rock and Bunker Hill was so we could have the maximum scramble time before the nuke-tipped Russian missiles started landing- - - -a whole 14 minutes to get the alert pad birds airborne!
Jerry
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