Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 9/27/83; site hplabsb.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hplabsb!bl From: bl@hplabsb.UUCP (Bruce T. Lowerre) Newsgroups: net.aviation Subject: B-58 Message-ID: <2504@hplabsb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Sep-84 12:32:36 EDT Article-I.D.: hplabsb.2504 Posted: Wed Sep 12 12:32:36 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 00:37:53 EDT Organization: Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto CA Lines: 9 The B-58 went the way of the B-70 for essentially the same reason, ICBM's. By the time the plane reached its target, the war would have been over and done with for an hour! The B-58 had an interesting bombing approach. It would fly over its target, pull up into a vertical climb, release its single bomb (carried externally) and get the hell out. The cockpit arrangement of the B-58 in the movie "Fail Safe" shows side by side seating when in fact the three man crew of the B-58 sat tandem and could not see each other.