<VV> Sliderules: betcha don't have one of these....

[John Beck]

The B-58 is a beautiful airplane.  I'm pretty sure its maximum speed was
closer to mach 2 than mach 3.  Hang on to that slide rule.  It's a piece
of history.  --J.B.

Phil Brandt wrote:
> 
> When I went through RF-4C RTU at Mt. Home in 1970, a classmate and friend who had been a B-58 DSO (third crew position) at Bunker Hill AFB, IN gave me his aluminum, B-58-logoed, fuel balance sliderule in a heavy leather case; still have it  Here they were, flying a state-of-the-art, Mach 3 airplane--IMO still one of the alltime best looking airframe designs--