EagleRJ
Are we there yet?
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avbug said:No, it was a fuel tank, and the hustler is an impressive airplane sitting rotting as a static display, big or small. What a beautiful piece of work.
If you want to give your brain a workout, look at the nose gear on a B-58 (Hustler) and then look at the belly fuel tank. Yes, the nose gear retracts aft! I never knew how they got around that until I looked at the B-58 at Wright-Patt up close. Ingenious engineering!