SAC's B-47 Stratojet & TB-58 Hustler!

[TuFun]

I made these videos to tribute my father, who was stationed a Pease AFB with the B-47's and Bunkerhill AFB, renamed to Grissom AFB with the B-58's.

I was to young to remember any experience at Pease, but at Bunkerhill, my dad would take me to his shop and look at the capsule ejection seats lined up on the racks.

When the base had open house, I remember a yellow P-51 Mustang flying aerobatics, and the best part was two B-58's taking off with eight after burners ablaze, was so loud, my ears rang for days. Also, as the two B-58's flew by, a KC135 would simulate a refueling with one of the B-58's. Good times.

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l40/TwFun/FSX%20Military%20Aviation/B-47ebmp.jpg

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l40/TwFun/FSX%20Military%20Aviation/2011-3-27_15-58-48-273BMP.jpg

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l40/TwFun/FSX%20Military%20Aviation/TB-584bmp.jpg

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l40/TwFun/FSX%20Military%20Aviation/TB-585bmp.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylb6hGIIbP4


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihYBmupj8nY

[Curtis P40]

What a nice tribute to your father. Being from central Indiana I've been to Grissom AFB quite a few times, starting with the Civil Air Patrol in the early 70's. To late for the B-58. At that time I think they had KC-135's and A-37's. Would loved to have seen the B-58's. I got to say that when those KC-135's took off fully loaded the whole base would shake. Wonder who was in that yellow P-51...Bob Hover perhaps?

[GB]

Excellent shots and videos !!

[Bone]

I lived at Pease AFB when I was a kid, too. I lived on base, on White Birch Drive. I overfly it all of the time. Here's a couple of shots. The first one is taken from offshore, and the other two were taken as I passed a few miles to the the north of Pease.

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj299/theBone11/NewEnglandCoast009.jpg

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj299/theBone11/NewEnglandPeaseAFB6-1.jpg

http://i275.photobucket.com/albums/jj299/theBone11/NewEnglandPeaseAFB7.jpg

[Sideshow]

Excellent videos and shots, thank you :applause: :salute:

[XLR8]

Cool videos!

[glennc]

Bunker Hill was my first permanent base. I arrived there in, I think, October, 1965. The B-58s and KC-135's were in their prime then. To us very young and slightly impolite GIs, the base was known as Blunder Hole - as in we blundered into that hole. I was a medic at the hospital. For the most part, it was a good assignment. And, that's where I learned to fly and earned my private certificate. The base Aero Club had C-150s and C-172s. I did a database search a couple years ago and found the two C-172s are still flying but neither of the C-150s. As an Aero Club pilot we had the option to fly the combat simulators when they weren't busy. I flew the B-58 a couple times and the KC-135 was where I learned you don't land the heavy stuff like a C-150. :icon_lol:

Has anyone heard about the TB-58 that was at the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston before Ike? What happened to it?

Glenn

[TuFun]

This newsletter dated April 2011

Tour of Lone Star Flight Museum

"There was a Vietnam vintage helicopter (that is where we last saw Rodney) and a B-58 Hustler."

No pictures, but I gather its still on display there.

link:
http://www.ghafi.org/newsletters/pdf/GHAFI_News_4.11.pdf

Pic of the damage to the wing after Ike.
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[TuFun]

B-58A

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l40/TwFun/FSX%20Military%20Aviation/2011-3-23_17-45-19-57BMP.jpg

http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l40/TwFun/FSX%20Military%20Aviation/2011-3-23_17-47-40-279BMP.jpg

[TuFun]

I lived at Pease AFB when I was a kid, too. I lived on base, on White Birch Drive. I overfly it all of the time. Here's a couple of shots. The first one is taken from offshore, and the other two were taken as I passed a few miles to the the north of Pease.


I remember the Portsmouth Traffic Circle, and I lived on Lafayette Rd near Breakfast Hill Rd.

My father was into C/L model airplanes, and his friend gave me a little C/L Piper to fly, Cox .020 Pee Wee engine. Was not good at it.

[glennc]

Tufun,

Thanks. She looks a little worse for the event but I'm happy she's still visible.

Glenn

[TuFun]

Inquired about the TB-58 at Lone Star... and received a reply stating that the B-58 has not been repaired.

[Bomber_12th]

Great screenshots and subject matter Ted, and it is great to see you posting here! I've always been fond of both of those cold war bombers.

The B-58 at the Lone Star Flight Museum, is actually on lone from the USAF Museum, so it would be interesting to find out how the responsibility and terms of its repairs goes about. At this time the LSFM has a number of aircraft 'projects' going on, both at the museum and contracted out.

[TuFun]

Thanks John... been coming here for years, just looking most of the time.
I'm more into military aircraft than tubeflyers. This site is tailored more to my tastes.

Since I've got FSX flying well and creating videos, I thought I would share them.

[centuryseries]

Good to see the Alphasim B-58 still being flown.

I must get round to the true FSX version again.

[olderndirt]

I remember a yellow P-51 Mustang flying aerobaticsSounds like the illustrious Bob Hoover in his 'Evergreen colors' mustang.

[TuFun]

I remember this stunt shown in the pic at the Bunkerhill AFB open house ... I said "WOW dad did you see that, his on one wheel."

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[SpitXIV]

Great Videos! I grew up around the time the Hustler was flying. My father built my brother and I a model of this
bomber when we were kids. :salute: